Parsons has been a leader in art and design education since its founding 103 years ago in 1896. Career Development Panel discussion on career development in new media. Rita Armstrong has been a recruiter at RGA for over 12 years, recruiting product, architectural, and digital designers. She specializes in placing hi-level New Media Creatives with Interactive Agencies, Boutiques, Corporations, and Design consultancies, servicing the interactive community from Silicon Alley to Silicon Valley. Panelists will discuss the following issues and ways to make a smooth transition from academia to interactive producing, graphic design and illustration to web design creative management, and industrial design to interactive design.
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February 17 Design Entrepreneurship Panelists will discuss how they got started, challenges they faced, plans for the future, and their take on opportunities for new talent within their organizations as well as on their own. Panelists include Eric Rothfeld of Sun Apparel and others. The Internet has changed significantly in the past 6 months with consolidations, broadband, handheld content, and more measurement. Leaders from the industry talk about the changes and their plans for the near future. Recent legal decisions regarding writers' rights have again raised issues critical to creative content developers.