The conference for makers of the web.
The conference for makers of the web.
The conference for makers of the web.
October 1-3 // Little Rock, AR
Huge thanks to our amazing sponsors. Without their continued support year after year this event would not be possible. Hats off to all of you.
Made by Few is a community conference intended for networking and collaboration in the web and design community.
We value the participation of each member of the Made by Few community and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout the conference and at all conference events.
To make clear what is expected, all delegates/attendees, speakers, exhibitors, organizers and volunteers at any Made by Few event are required to conform to the following Code of Conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.
Made by Few is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.
All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks.
Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for Made by Few.
Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the conference without a refund at the sole discretion of the conference organizers.
Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly event for all.
If you want clarification of this code of conduct, please contact us.
Tobias van Schneider is an award-winning german designer, raised in Austria and currently living in New York City. He is building new products as Art Director & Lead Product Designer with Spotify USA. While being self-taught, Tobias is focused on branding and interactive design, keeping a multi-disciplinary approach to all of his projects.
Located in the mighty Pacific Northwest, the Draplin Design Co. proudly rolls up its sleeves on a number of projects related to the Print, Identity, Web Development, Illustration and Gocco Muscle categories. We make stuff for Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, Field Notes, Esquire, Nike, Wired, Timberline, Chunklet, Incase, Giro, Cobra Dogs, Burton Snowboards, Hughes Entertainment, Megafaun, Danava, Ford Motor Company, Woolrich and even the Obama Administration, if you can believe that. We pride ourselves on a high level of craftsmanship and quality that keeps us up late into the wet Portland night.
Randy J. Hunt is Creative Director at Etsy, where he leads a team of designers creating the end-to-end experience, both online and off. Etsy is a global commerce platform empowering independent creative business in nearly every country in the world. Etsy was honored with the National Design Award in 2014. Hunt feels strongly that designers must be able to build what they design, a perspective that fits naturally with Etsy’s culture of making and love of craftsmanship.
Elana Schlenker is an independent graphic designer and art director of branding, print, environmental, and interactive projects. She is also the publisher of Gratuitous Type, an occasional pamphlet of typographic smut, and the creator of Less Than 100, a traveling pop up shop for gender wage parity.
In 2013, Elana was named to Print magazine’s 20 Under 30 New Visual Artist list, and in 2015 the Center for Architecture selected her for their annual Graphic Design Shortlist. Previously, Elana worked as an art director at Condé Nast and senior designer at Princeton Architectural Press.
Harper Reed is a US-based technology engineer, innovator and entrepreneur.
As Chief Technology Officer at Barack Obama’s campaign in 2012, Harper was the man who was responsible for engineering perhaps the most sophisticated political campaign of all time. He was responsible for delivering Barack Obama’s online campaign and Get Out The Vote program.
His previous positions have included CTO of Threadless and consulting with large companies like Rackspace and Sandbox Industries. Harper has also developed a number of community based apps in Chicago.
Christian Rudder is one of the founders of OKCupid, one of the largest dating sites in the world, which was sold to IAC in 2011. He still runs it day-to-day, while also heading a small data-mining team that scours the digital universe for meaningful trends on important sites.
Christian got his start as the Creative Director for SparkNotes which was sold to Barnes & Noble in 2001. He is also the author of Dataclysm and his research efforts have been featured in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and were the subject of a New Yorker feature.
Ash Huang is an independent designer, writer and illustrator. She has worked with Pinterest, Dropbox, Designer Fund, Sequoia Capital, Aether, Twitter and more. In between writing novels, troubleshooting her letterpress and driving there and back again, you’ll find her making things in San Francisco.
Kyle is the proprietor of Power and Light Press, a letterpress studio based in Silver City, New Mexico. Kyle takes great pride in the pursuit of fine craftsmanship, but she works just as hard to hone a juvenile, sometimes inappropriate sense of humor. She specializes in hand-printed greeting cards and occasionally does custom work such as business cards, posters, music packaging, invitations, and stationery.
Jason Scott is Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine, millions of books, thousands of movies and untold hours of music. It is also the home to the Internet Arcade and vintage software collections. Jason is also a documentary filmmaker, roustabout, and mascot of Archive Team, the rowdiest horde of archivists this side of the Taneleer Tivan.
