‘Creative Session’

Join us for an interactive session with Anh and Hoang Nguyen, two brothers who followed in their parents' footsteps after they left Vietnam in search of a better life. Drawn to San Francisco by a shared belief in the power of possibilities, they have built careers as designers at the intersection of creativity, innovation, and the human stories that inspire them.

Both brothers are alumni of the California College of the Arts (CCA), with Hoang graduating in 2004 and Anh in 2006. While at CCA, they started a club aimed at fostering collaboration among students, encouraging them to learn from one another and improve their skills. They named the club "Creative Session" to reflect its purpose.

Alongside Alumni Gabe Lamb, graduating in 2008. Associate Creative Director at Apple, leading a team of designers who create many of the physical experiences Apple customers encounter around new products in retail environments, installations, and launches.

Moderated by Shu Bertrand, BFA Industrial Design Chair.

Get to know our guest speakers:

Get to know Anh and Hoang Nguyen here.

Gabe Lamb is an Associate Creative Director at Apple, leading a team of designers who create many of the physical experiences Apple customers encounter around new products in retail environments, installations and launches. Before joining Apple, Lamb was a principal designer at Native Design, helping establish the London agency’s first US-based industrial design practice. Prior to that, he was an industrial designer and creative lead at fuseproject, where he led projects such as Jawbone’s category-defining Jambox line of wireless speakers, SodaStream Source and Play carbonation appliances, Briggo Coffee automated kiosk and a number of large-scale design week installations, retail environments and packaging designs.

Lamb’s work has been awarded with IDEA Gold, Silver and Bronze, Red Dot, iF, Good Design, IDA Silver and Bronze, and featured or awarded by publications including Wallpaper, Dezeen, Fast Company, Wired, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, Surface and even appeared in a banned Super Bowl ad (SodaStream Source).

In prior lives, Lamb also worked extensively in politics and has a BS in anthropology in addition to his industrial design BFA (2008).