David Berman has over 25 years of experience in design and strategic communications. His award-winning client list has included IBM, the International Space Station, Health Canada, Inter Pares, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Sierra Club, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Canada’s three largest Web sites. He has had a longtime passion for plain design and accessible design, producing special projects for Justice Canada, Ontario Soil and Crop Association, and the Ontario Literacy Coalition.

David provides motivation and techniques for applying strategy, design, ethics, and creative branding and communications to business problems. As a strategist, designer, and typographer since 1984, he has worked to establish codes of ethical practice that embrace social responsibility for designers throughout Canada and the world.

Along the way, he served as the first elected president of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (North America’s first certifying body for graphic designers) from 1997 to 1999. He drafted the association’s constitution and Rules of Professional Conduct, as well as the section of the accreditation exam on ethics and professional responsibility. In 1999, he was named a Fellow of the Society of Graphic Design of Canada, the country’s top honor in the profession, and was elected national ethics chair in 2000, a role he continues in today. David is in his second term on the board of Icograda, the world body for communication design. He is also a professional member of GDC, AIGA, IFPA, and a Friend of iedd.

Perhaps his greatest professional passion is as an expert speaker: he lectures at conferences about the role professionals can play in improving the human condition and the global environment. David’s speaking and professional development work has brought him to 20 countries.

Please visit www.davidberman.com/about for more about David, or to book him for speaking engagements.