Looking for a speaker for your next conference, chapter, college or corporate event? Check out the info below and some of the various topics:

Need advice on how to collaborate with clients, vendors, and other designers to expand upon your design and business?

Designer Sobriety - The 12 Steps You Need to Know

Life Kerning™ - Where Life and Creativity Meet

Contact mail@rule29.com for talk availability, we’d love to discuss these (and more) topics.

Justin Ahrens

As founder and principal of Rule29, Justin Ahrens infuses his strategic creative firm’s credo of “making creative matter” into every project. With clients ranging from non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 corporations, Justin strives to continuously expand the boundaries of R29’s design, collaborative approach and creativity to deliver unequaled results. His passion for his profession is evidenced by Justin’s involvement in design community organizations. Having served several years on the HOW Conference Advisory Board and more recently on the Create Magazine Advisory Board, Justin is also a member of the STA and AIGA having held AIGA board positions in Arizona and Chicago. Other work being done is Justin’s and Rule29’s involvement with Life in Abundance and their work in the slums of Northeast Africa. To make creative matter in the world both in the US and in Africa is a core benefit to being a creative from the R29 perspective. Justin’s award-winning work resulted in being chosen by Graphic Design USA as one of the top designers to watch in 2004. His work can be seen in leading industry publications and books including Communication Arts, HOW, PRINT, Graphis, Create, Rockport Publishers and STEP.

Talk Specialties: Collaboration, Making Creative Matter, From School To Design Firm Owner, Designer Sobriety, Build A Community, Running Your Firm, Design for the Greater Good, What To Do When Things Aren’t Working Out, Life Kerning™

Recent talks

06.07.10
HOW Design Conference

06.09.09
SBA Association

03.05.09
I Love Design - AIGA Jackson

01.22.09
Peoria Ad Club

10.14.08
Create Chaos Conference

07.15.08
Entrenuity Business Conference

05.21.08
HOW Design Conference

11.26.07
Judson University

08.25.07
AIGA Spark Visual Voltage

10.16.06
GASC/PIA/GATF Conference

04.10.06
SEEK Design Conference

03.22.06
Kent State University

10.21.05
Columbia College

06.14.05
HOW Design Conference

04.05.05
Illinois Wesleyan University

03.31.05
Bradley University