Coletta Perry
Coletta Perry is Avatar DPS’s CEO as well as their lead solutions designer. She has been automating production processes since the early 80’s. As is currently the case with Avatar, her former typesetting company, the Copyfitters, built an enviable reputation for knowing how to handle the most difficult jobs. It also pioneered the use of the earliest data-to-typography hardware and software along with a programming language that made it possible to create in-place pages at a time when others were still cutting and pasting.
Coletta was a very early adopter of desktop publishing – having worked with Ventura Publisher, PageMaker, Quark, FrameMaker and a few others that have faded into oblivion… and, of course, InDesign.
Avatar DPS has helped hundreds of organizations of all sizes successfully adopt data-to-design processes over the last 20 years. Coletta’s long experience and thorough understanding of both sides of the equation — the data AND the design — give her and her team critical advantages when connecting the dots to create powerful solutions for their clients.
Coletta’s sessions:
Bevi Chagnon
Half designer and half geek, Bevi Chagnon is 100% percent teacher when the topic is accessible documents. She’s a prolific writer on melding accessibility into graphic design, website development, publishing, digital media, and cross-media technologies.
Bevi is accomplished in many design disciplines (magazine art director, graphic designer, web developer, digital media developer, photographer, and architect) and has mastered many of today’s computer technologies.
If it involves communication in any format — traditional and digital, MS Office to Adobe Creative Suite — she’s a master.
Bevi is a technologist and information architect to fellow designers, publishers, government agencies, education K–higher ed, and enterprises, and guides them to make their published content gorgeous, successful, and accessible. She loves her job!
She is a U.S. global delegate to the International Standards Organization (ISO) for PDF standards, including PDF/UA (universal accessibility). Through this volunteer work, she contributes to the development of accessibility standards that are used worldwide for documents. She has also is a former contributor to the WCAG guidelines for web accessibility, the original “web standards” that pre-dates WCAG, and EPUB standards.
You can catch Bevi on public accessibility forums, as well as on Adobe’s user forums where she is an Adobe Community Professional.
Kevin Callahan
Kevin Callahan is the owner of BNGO Books, a New York City–based print and digital design and production studio. His long experience with new and evolving technology—where big expectations meet real-world possibilities—gives him great perspective on creating ebooks of every variety. Along with his course on Lynda.com, Creating Fixed Layout eBooks for the Kindle, Kevin teaches design and technology and writes on ebook matters for a variety of publications. He is part of the vibrant #eprdctn community, where knowledge and experience are generously shared. You can follow him @BNGObooks, and visit his website at BNGObooks.com.
Kevin’s sessions:
Claudia McCue
Claudia is the author of the book Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Cloud, and the presenter for a number of print-related Lynda.com courses.
After more than 20 years in real-world print production, she now teaches creatives and production professionals how to use Adobe products without hurting themselves (or their printers). Claudia is a Certified Technical Trainer, and an Adobe Certified Expert for Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, and InDesign.
She has delivered training for a wide range of clients, including Aflac, the Centers For Disease Control, The Home Depot, Lowe’s Home Improvement, MTV Networks, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
When not chained to the keyboard, she can be found riding country backroads on her motorcycle. She swears it’s the best possible cure for writer’s block. You can find her on her website, or @claudiamccue
Claudia’s sessions:
Roberto Blake
Roberto Blake is a Creative Entrepreneur with a background in design and advertising and is the owner of Create Awesome Media.
When working with clients Roberto helps them develop content marketing strategies for video and social media the prioritize both creative and conversions.
Currently his creative education based YouTube channel helps over 200,000 creatives, with tutorials, guides and career advice. He has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post and Advanced Photoshop Magazine. He is currently a contributor to CreativePro and How Design.
Roberto’s sessions:
John McWade
John McWade is a senior staff author at Lynda.com at LinkedIn, where he creates educational video courses in the field of graphic design. A designer, teacher, and author, Mr. McWade in 1985 created PageLab, the world’s first desktop publishing studio, and in 1990 he founded Before & After magazine to teach graphic design to desktop publishers. Before & After taught a generation of designers and was known for its simple beauty, clarity of instruction, and especially its emphasis on design not as decoration but an essential form of communication. Mr. McWade’s formative background is in printing and publication design, with a specialty in typography. He has authored three books — Before & After Page Design, Graphics for Business, and How to Design Cool Stuff.
John’s sessions:
Laura Brady
Laura Brady is an ebook developer and the principal of Brady Type, an ebook design and conversion studio. She consults on workflow, tools, specifications, and production best practices with a special focus on accessibility. In her spare time she helps plan ebookcraft and follows the Blue Jays. She also probably tweets too much. You can connect with her in any of these places: website, LinkedIn profile, Facebook page, and on Twitter.
Laura session:
Diane Burns
Long on the bleeding edge of design and publishing technology, Diane Burns is an author, trainer and consultant. She is founder of San Francisco-based TransPacific Digital, a leading print and digital localization company. An Adobe Community Professional and an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign, she provides custom training and consulting services to a wide variety of corporations and publishing companies. She is the author of several InDesign courses for Lynda.com, including Publish Online with InDesign and Creating Animations with Adobe InDesign CC. For more information, visit dianeburns.com.
Diane’s sessions:
Laura Coyle
In her 25-year career, Laura Coyle has illustrated for major brands, including Target, Hallmark, Hasbro, Amazon, Disney, and Papyrus — all while creating in Adobe Illustrator. As an instructor, she loves making Illustrator accessible and teaching you the “why” behind her techniques.
From her studio in Atlanta, Laura teaches at her online Illustrator community and presents monthly tutorials at Pattern Observer’s Textile Design Lab. On Laura’s YouTube channel, you’ll find tips on working between Adobe Fresco, Express, and Illustrator, with a playlist of tutorials especially for working with Illustrator on the iPad. Laura has been a speaker for Wacom, CreativePro Week, and Adobe MAX.
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