STL Design Week

Tremendousness hosts a creative interactive event in which attendees collaborate to create a shareable visual narrative. This story will highlight some things that each person loves about St. Louis. This could come to life as The Perfect Day in STL, Must-See Places, Hidden Gems, etc. We’ll facilitate small groups and teach everyone some core Visual Thinking techniques, including live sketching, visual frameworks, and strategic visual discovery exercises such as Empathy Maps.

Each group will brainstorm and prioritize ideas, and create sketches to present back to the group. At the end of the session we expect the collective effort to come together to become a “napkin sketch” for a final visual artifact promoting the best of the city we love! (deliverable is TBD but will be something like an infographic poster, map, or a deck of cards). Whatever the output, it will be full of everyone’s favorite things to do in STL, contributed by many different people through a fun, hands-on, creative process. Afterward, we will document the event, package the collective narrative, and make this “Session Capture” and its visual artifact available to (all) STL Design Week attendees.

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Speaker/Panelist 1
Drew Crowley (he/him)
Director | Live Sketching
Drew has been turning scribbles, doodles, and sketches into digestible and compelling visual communications for over a decade. He’s clocked thousands of hours standing at flip charts, whiteboards, and walls with clients ranging from the Department of Education to AT&T. Drew has a bachelor’s degree in English from Webster University.

Speaker/Panelist 2
Bill Keaggy (he/him)
Partner | Creative + Copy
Bill is a designer, photographer, artist, author, and co-founder of Tremendousness. He regularly impresses clients and coworkers alike with his balance of analytical and creative thinking, a skill evolved through his experience working in newsrooms, as a founding partner of XPLANE, and a career spent collaborating with educators, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies. Originally from Ohio, he earned a BFA from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication.

Speaker/Panelist 3
Susanne LeBlanc (she/her)
Director | Interactive + UX
As an analytical and versatile design strategist with skills in design systems, workshop facilitation, data visualization, and UX/UI, Susanne has created strategy, information visualizations, and user experiences for some of the world’s best known brands. She’s a proven collaborator who’s been part of design and management teams in industries ranging from tech start-up to international architecture. Susanne earned a BA in Art Theory & Practice and French from Northwestern University, with additional studies at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Université de Paris IV.

Speaker/Panelist 4
Scott Matthews (he/him)
Partner | Creative + Facilitation
Smart humor. Visual thinking. Creative agility. Scott taps them all to help clients Bain, Deloitte, and Adobe bring their stories to life in workshops, infographics, storyboards and animated videos. Prior to co- founding Tremendousness he built and managed design teams at XPLANE and Dachis Group. Scott earned a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Missouri - Columbia.

Speaker/Panelist 5
Chris Roettger ( she/her)
Partner | Creative + Illustration
Curiosity makes Chris a stronger communicator—and illustrator, problem solver, facilitator, beer label designer, competitive cyclist, and mother. From her first temp assignment at Anheuser-Busch to creative roles at XPLANE to helping co-found Tremendousness, Chris has exploited her inquisitive nature for the greater good. Time and again her clients are rewarded by her versatility and her passion for transforming the complex into something beautiful and compelling. Chris is a St. Louis native and earned her BA from WashU.

Speaker/Panelist 6
Darrick Hays
Director | Animation he/him
Darrick likes to make things move. Working primarily in After Effects, he utilizes a terrifying attention to detail and a punishing number of keyframes to push everything he does to 11; from video editing to motion graphics, from character animation to physics simulations—he’s up for trying anything once. And then usually another time, when the first time looks weird. Darrick graduated Magna cum Laude with a BFA in Graphic Design from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.