District5 Panelists

With DCWEEK rapidly approaching, I anxiously await the day where I’ll be face to face with what will hopefully be a gigantic pool of young professionals eager to listen and learn. The panel has definitely consumed every minute outside the 9–5. The payoff, five phenomenal speakers—the most hip and talented creatives in the District! Each panelist will share their view on what creativity means to them. Together they bring a hullabaloo of experience in art + design. Take a moment to read about DC’s finest—5 people you’ll want to meet!

Saturday June 19, 2010 from 1:00pm–3:00pm
UMC Conference Facility
900 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20001

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JIM DARLING
Freelance Designer & Photographer

Jim is a freelance graphic designer, photographer, and writer. He’s a former five-year board member of AIGA-DC and remains active in the DC design community; and a frequent contributer to FullBleed, the online magazine of the Art Director’s Club of Metro Washington.

He also holds a part time position with Bethesda Systems, a local consumer electronics and home automation company where he manages their design and social media marketing needs. After many years as a print designer at a number of associations and PR firms in the DC area Jim has recently been pursuing his passion for portrait photography.

His work has been featured on local blogs We Love DC, DCist, and ReadySetDC, and has been exhibited in the DCist Exposed Photography Show in both 2009 and 2010, and is currently a part of the Portraits of DC exhibit on display at Social in Columbia Heights.

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PHILIPPA P. B. HUGHES
Founder, Pink Line Project

Philippa P. B. Hughes created the Pink Line Project to inspire creativity in everyone, build community and connectivity, and open portals to contemporary and emerging art for the culturally curious. Philippa also runs a consolidated and searchable calendar of all things cool and creative in DC and writes a widely read blog that highlights the best of DC’s creative scene. Philippa is active in the arts community through her extensive involvement and collaboration with emerging artists and arts organizations throughout the city including The Phillips Collection, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Cultural Development Corporation, Taffety Punk Theatre Company, DC51, Art Table, Ten Miles Square, Workbook, and many others. Philippa began collecting art as a teenager and continues to build a collection that reflects her broad and eclectic taste. She left law practice to pursue her creative interests and to evangelize the power of art to transform lives.
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SVETLANA LEGETIC
Founder, Brightest Young Things

Svetlana Legetic was born at the very beginning of the 80s in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. She has been educated in Serbia, England and finally, Savannah, Georgia where she got her Masters Degree in Architecture in 2003. She soon after moved to DC, worked in urban revitalization and hospitality design projects and in 2006 realized her myspace blog, mainly containing photos and things to do in DC, was too popular for it’s own (private) good so she took the site public. That site is now www.BrightestYoungThings.com, the biggest independently owned cultural website in DC, with 80+ contributors, 100 000 individual readers a month and a daily series of articles dedicated to all things good in the nation’s capital. She likes her life. A lot.
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JEFF WONG
Creative Director, Clearspring & AddThis

Jeff is a gentleman of contrasts: kind, focused, team player, prankster, and fiercely competitive at whatever he’s doing. Whether it’s shooting zombies on xbox, playing volleyball or growing startups like AddThis.com (chances are you’ve seen that orange plus that lets you share a page), he does it all with gracious flair. In Jeff’s past life, he studied industrial design and worked for a design agency in Richmond. Jeff’s newest passion is playing Plants vs Zombies on the iPad, and shares successful zombie killing tactics on his blog: jeffwongdesign.blogspot.com

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SPONSORS

As if hearing about these guys isn’t sweet enough, don’t forget to grab a treat from Georgetown Cupcake (provided by Bremmer & Goris), enter for a chance to win a copy of CS5 or grab some Adobe branded goodies!