Thank You! This was the first year for Circles and it was fantastic. Lots of positive feedback from everyone who attended. I want to thank all the attendees, speakers and volunteers who helped make Circles 2012 a success. Photos will soon be available.
Cameron Moll is the founder of Authentic Jobs, a targeted job board for web and creative professionals. He's the co-author of the best-selling CSS Mastery (2006, 2009) and author of Mobile Web Design (2007), a self-published title.
Cameron's work or advice has been featured by HOW, Communication Arts, PRINT, Forrester Research, National Public Radio (NPR), and many others. One of his letterpress type posters, the most recent of which can be seen at ColosseoType.com, was the recipient of the HOW 2008 In-House Design Award.
Cameron resides in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife Suzanne and four sons.
With an eclectic design aesthetic, killer creative process, and big hair, Promise Tangeman Creative specializes in identifying personal style and brand through graphic design.
As an artistic fashion junky, Promise grew up loving the arts and expression and inevitably stumbled upon graphic design, seeing it as the "ART" of the future. She is the founder of Promise Tangeman Creative where she also serves as Art Director and Graphic Designer. Her work has been featured in: The Dr. Phil Show, Collide and Kontakt Magazines and her clients include, Jedidiah Clothing, Candace Cameron-Bure, Brooke White, Catalyst, Phil Wickham, Britt Nicole, and many fabulous others. Promise currently, resides in Arizona with husband Brian and her cutie puppy Parker.
Dan Mall is an award-winning designer from Philadelphia, an enthralled husband, and new dad. As the Founder & Design Director at SuperFriendly, Dan and his team defeat apathy and the forces of evil with heroic creative direction, design, & strategy. He's also co-founder of Typedia and swfIR, and sings/plays keyboard for contemporary-Christian band Four24. Dan was formerly Design Director at Big Spaceship, Interactive Director at Happy Cog, and a technical editor for A List Apart. He writes about design and other issues on Twitter and on his industry-recognized site, danielmall.com.
Artist, actor, writer, producer. Creative Director at Willow Creek Community Church.
Phil Coffman is the Creative Director at Element, a digital studio in Austin, TX, and the founder of Method & Craft. He is the husband to one amazing wife and father to two incredible kids.
Jonathan Moore is a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
Currently Jonathan is the founder and creative director of Style Hatch crafting fresh designs that inspire people to create, write, curate and show off their genius. Formerly he was the founder of New Ezra a digital culture agency and senior art director at both BLITZ Agency (2008-2009) and 2Advanced Studios (2004-2008).
Previous to being a Co-Founder and Creative Director at Church Media Group, Ismael is now the Creative Director at Oven Bits. He is constantly looking for innovative designs and ways of structuring and presenting the websites he creates to appeal to the specific and varied audiences that his clients reach. Loving variety and expression, he is passionate about a host of things, such as listening to and discovering music, watching movies, photography and spending time with his beautiful wife Laura and their two Chihuahuas. Ismael is also the man behind BBQWar, Album Art Collection, Key Art Designs and Great Bible Tales.
Joshua Blankenship is a graphic designer and sometimes writer living in Greenville, South Carolina. He loves Jesus, his wife, Levi's Jeans, good Tex-Mex, and 8oz glass bottle Coca-Cola Classic. On good days he love them roughly in that order.
Noah is a designer/developer and partner at Bold with a passion for clean, user focused design and details that help his design stand out in the crowd. Noah’s nine years in web have given him a breadth of understanding that helps shape his design and development sensibilities. He has worked for clients as large as Yahoo! and as small as the local shoe shop. Noah is driven by the challenge of designing away the problem and presenting the end-user with an intuitive interface that stays out of the way.
Kyle Steed is a simple dude. He loves to draw, design, and make things by hand. When not doing one of those things, he also enjoys cooking, eating, drinking scotch and documenting it all on Instagram. The desire to make work that’s both fun and meaningful is what he’s passionate about. He enjoys the simple things in life.
As founder of Create Etc, Evie spent over a decade designing brands, print graphics, and websites for churches and ministries. Currently, she oversees interface development for OpenChurch.com - a global Church platform offering ministry ideas and free downloadable resources. She currently resides in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with her husband and two little boys.
Kevin co-founded Iron to Iron, a design and development studio and serves as the principal designer there. He also occasionally writes about his work and design/business practice on encourageothers.com. Before that, however, he's Husband to Jen and Father to Rowan. He's also hopeful that he hasn't missed his opportunity to be an SNL cast member.
Kevin co-founded Iron to Iron, a design and development studio and serves as the principal designer there. He also occasionally writes about his work and design/business practice on encourageothers.com. Before that, however, he's Husband to Jen and Father to Rowan. He's also hopeful that he hasn't missed his opportunity to be an SNL cast member.
Circles Conference was born from the creative heart of Ismael Burciaga to give print and web designers—any and all creatives a non-technical conference to call home. We believe the group of speakers we have gathered this year will inspire you to be the best you.
