Orlando Arocena (mexifunk) is an artist and graphic designer who works in traditional and digital mediums. After graduating from Pratt Institute in 1994, he drew his way through Europe, worked across many ad agencies, and discovered he had a knack for digital commercial communications. With more than 30 years of experience delivering creative solutions for some of the world’s most recognizable brands, he has established himself as a non-conventional vector artist who explores cultural iconography, pop culture, and speculative narratives. His vector art has also been commissioned by Adobe to be the face of their Illustrator CC 2014. He is also the proud recipient of 11 Clio Awards in Excellence for Advertising Entertainment.

Presently he is a Global Brand Ambassador for ZbyHp.

In addition to commercial endeavors, he has exhibited his artwork at Miami Art Basel, The New York Armory Show, The U.S Embassy in Prague, The Museum of Western and Eastern Art Odessa Ukraine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, plus a multitude of official movie/pop-culture gallery events.

Orlando has officially collaborated with The Poster Posse, Adobe, Diageo North America, Disney Animation Studios, HP, Jose Cuervo Tequila, Marvel Entertainment, New York International Auto Show, Pepsico, HULU, Paramount, NETFLIX, Studio Canal, The U.S. Open Wacom, The Wall Street Journal, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures / Sony Home Entertainment, LIONSGATE FILMS MGM STUDIOS, SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES and a multitude of International Design Agencies.

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James Wamser is a member of the Customer Education team at Walsworth providing training and support for its customers. James is an Adobe Certified Expert. He teaches InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and chairs the Milwaukee InDesign User Group.

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Rob de Winter is an Adobe Certified Instructor, author, designer and photographer based in The Netherlands. Rob loves to share his passion for design and Adobe technology in energetic and passionate training sessions and in the books he writes. He’s a public speaker at the world’s largest conferences, like Adobe MAX, and he has trained thousands of graphic designers both with his training company DWM Trainingen and on his YouTube channel.

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Stephanie Horn, a Product Leader at Microsoft, spends her days focused on how people can increase their impact through great visuals, typography and motion. On the Designer team, she innovates on creation and editing experiences, and loves talking to users about easier ways to craft stunning content.

Kathryn Goldman is a copyright, trademark, and Internet law attorney. She helps creative professionals protect their work so they can profit from it. She believes sustainable businesses are built on properly protected creative assets. Kathryn has assisted countless artists, writers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs with the moves from early stage idea to startup essentials to scaling their businesses and ultimately to sale or wrap-up.

Kathryn runs the Creative Law Center website and membership program. The Creative Law Center provides innovative creatives with the affordable business and legal resources they need when evolving from artist to entrepreneur. The Creative Law Center offers understandable information, actionable strategies, and easy to use tools for the development of creative businesses.

Kathryn practices law in Baltimore, Maryland, USA with the firm of Goldman & Minton, P.C.

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