Bill Taylor kicks it off right...
With the conference's focus on Design Business, it was appropriate that the first speaker of the day was Bill Taylor, a great businessman himself, and President of the full service design consultancy, Kaleidoscope. It was refreshing to listen to...

CIA Students...ROCK!
While my blogging partner in crime, Yanni, may be biased, I am not. I normally hate anyone under the age of 25 who attends art school in Cleveland. But thanks to their efforts the sign-in table was a silky...

I have no idea if you'll find this interesting...
After taking a cab out to the Cleveland Institute of Art this morning, I decided that I had missed out on a city's greatest experience: its mass transit system. With some time to kill before lunch and the conference...

CIA to be investigated...
Sorry for the played out title. I'm finished playing up the CIA, ha-it's-a-government-agency thing, but I just sat through a bunch of speakers and I'm out of brain cells. I'll be swinging back over to campus on Sunday after...

You want "Mc" with that?
After the Claxton talk this morning I headed off across the CIA campus to meet up with another blogger covering the conference. The directions I was given were as follows: "Take a right at the McGehry building, left on...

Thomas Mulready (Coolest Man in Cleveland?)
My first session. Thomas Mulready discusses his creation, Cool Cleveland Truth is, Thomas is one of the Coolest people in Cleveland. Why? because he really cares about Cleveland. This is a guy, who is really trying to make a...

Registration
Just got the conference. Alas, I had to teach so I missed most of the day. The Cleveland Institute of Art students were most helpful in getting me going. (Note: I am a CIA professor, so I might be...

Claxton Speaks, CIA Listens
Bruce Claxton, Senior Director of Design Integration at Motorola, spoke to a room full of excited attendees this morning at the Cleveland Institute of Art. It was the first in a series of lectures at the CIA entitled Making...

Rascal to the Rescue
If you're in Cleveland, and it's after midnight, and you're jonesing for some good eats, I MUST recommend you put in an order to Rascal House Pizza. Granted, I don't think there were too many options at that hour,...

Introduction
Hi all, I'm Yianni. I'm the second person covering the Cleveland conference. Unlike Nate, I live in Cleveland, so it is just a matter of finishing work, jumping in my car and heading to the conference. Weather in Cleveland has...

Core77 in Cleveland
Okay, so I'm here in Cleveland. After a 3 hour flight to Newark from Fort Lauderdale, and another 1 hour jump from Newark, I have arrived. And it's just a tiny bit windy. And that's a tiny bit of...

Who's got questions?
I'm Nate. I'll be covering the Mideast Conference. If there's anything you readers want to know, drop me a line. My goal is to make this as interactive as possible. Questions can be addressed to me, to a headlining speaker,...

Headline Speakers
MIDEAST : Headliners Robert Brunner, Pentagram Bruce Claxton, Motorola Bill Taylor, Kaleidoscope Patrick Calello, Automoblox Chris Rockwell, Lextant MIDWEST : Headliners Karim Rashid, Karim Rashid Inc. Jim Wicks, Motorola Bruce Nussbaum, Business Week Stefan Andren, Nike Velma Velazquez, IDEO NORTHEAST...