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VCUQatar Announces Some More Educational Speakers for Mousharaka (4.2.2009)

VCUQatar announces Claudia Meyer-Newman, Dr. Ajanta Sen, Barbara Sudick, Frank Armstrong and Nicholas Vanderschantz as Educational Speakers and Qatar Tourism Authority as a Sponsor for Mousharaka

Doha, Qatar - Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar in partnership with Icograda is proud to announce the participation of Claudia Meyer-Newman, Dr. Ajanta Sen, Barbara Sudick, Frank Armstrong and Nicholas Vanderschantz as educational speakers for the Mousharaka conference. Mousharaka will take place at VCUQatar from 28 February to 5 March, 2009.

Designer, creative director, fine art photographer, and educator, Ms. Meyer-Newman has been an active member of the design and education community for the past 25 years and has received numerous awards, grants, and honors. She operates a successful studio that integrates her design practice with photography to produce work that is distributed internationally. Serving as Educational Director at AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists), she continues to support students in the AIGA Student Chapter at Cornish College of the Arts.

Dr. Ajanta Sen is the International Director of Solar Project, a networking technology experimentation with cross-cultural collaborative learning environments for children. Dr. Sen has a Ph.D in Development Planning from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, where she is based as a visiting faculty, researcher and consultant to industry. She has to her credit several international papers on design and technology and has been awarded a prestigious Senior Fellowship by the Government of India.

Barbara Sudick is the Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches collaborative interdisciplinary classes to graduate and post-graduate students in Communication Planning and Information Design and Human Computer Interaction. Her current research explores sustainability, a collaborative systems-based discipline. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University.

Frank Armstrong is a visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Typography, Interaction and Motion Design. His research and teaching integrates music, as an acoustic time-space system, with information design and typography. Mr. Armstrong has 20 years of experience as a design consultant and educator. He holds an MFA from Yale University and is a member of the AIGA and IIID (International Institute for Information Design).

Nicholas Vanderschantz is a lecturer in Computer Graphic Design in the Computer Science Department at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. His area of research focus has been in children's on-screen reading, specifically, how typographic spacing could best affect children's eye movements during reading. This area of exploration saw him graduate with a Masters in Computer Graphic Design from Wanganui School of Design in 2007.

VCUQatar is also proud to announce Qatar Tourism Authority as a sponsor for Mousharaka.

Launched in 2000, QTA's overall strategy is to bring Qatar to the world and the world to Qatar. They represent and promote Qatar as a quality tourism destination at international fairs, generate meetings and incentives and ensure overall coordinated tourism infrastructure development while working closely with other government ministries and committees, associations and the community of Qatar.

Mousharaka / The Icograda Design Week in Qatar, presented by VCUQatar, is composed of the Education Symposium and the Professional Conference, where prominent speakers will share perspectives on design and design collaborations. VCUQatar is also spearheading the creation of MEDEA - the Middle East Design Educators Association - a platform for educators charged with getting the most out of design. For more information about Mousharaka, featured speakers and events, and to register please visit www.mousharaka.com

About Icograda
Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations) is the world body for professional communication design. Founded in 1963 in London, UK, it is a voluntary assembly of organizations concerned with graphic design, visual communication, design management, promotion, education, research and journalism. Icograda promotes communication designers' vital role in society and commerce and unifies the voices of graphic designers and visual communicators worldwide. For more information please visit www.icograda.org.

About Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar:
Established in the US in 1838 and in Qatar in 1998 Virginia Commonwealth University offers students from all over the world the opportunity to earn Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in fashion, graphic and interior design. A team of highly skilled professors provide rigorous curricula that prepare students to assume leadership roles in the professional design field of their choice. VCUQatar regularly organizes and hosts exhibitions, gallery events, world-class conferences and holds an annual fashion show. VCUQatar is supported and funded by the Qatar Foundation. For more information please visit www.qatar.vcu.edu or call +974 492 7245.

About Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
Founded in 1995 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, and chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, Qatar Foundation is a private, non-profit organization committed to the principle that a nation's greatest natural resource is its people. The headquarters of Qatar Foundation are located within its flagship project, Education City, a fourteen million square-meter campus which hosts numerous progressive learning institutions and centers of research, including branch campuses of six of the world's leading universities, plus a cutting-edge research and development center. Qatar Foundation also works to enhance the quality of life in Qatar by investing in community health and development.

For more information please visit: www.qf.org.qa

VCUQatar Announces Some More Educational Speakers for Mousharaka Press Release as pdf-File 121 KB

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Images:
Claudia Meyer-Newman
Nicholas Vanderschantz
Barbara Sudick
Frank Armstrong
Dr. Ajanta Sen