SPEAKERS
PHIL HAMLETT, Director MFA Program, The Academy of Art, San Francisco
Phil Hamlett has over twenty-three years of experience in a wide variety of design and communications roles. Currently, he is the Graduate Director at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, the largest private art and design school in the country. His students emerge from the MFA Program as advanced design practitioners and go on to acquire positions at the highest levels of the profession.
Prior to the Academy, Phil was communications director at Turner & Associates in San Francisco, and in a previous life, a principal and director of creative services for EAI/Atlanta. Regardless of where he is found, Phil is adept at identifying creative challenges, distilling core objectives and then facilitating the development of the key messages, conceptual frameworks and communications vehicles best suited to address those challenges.
As the driving force behind the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design, the founder of Compostmodern, and one of the principle architects of The Living Principles, he sets the agenda for sustainable business practice within the design community at large.