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American Express Hosts Business of Design Webcasts

The discussion will feature architecture and design luminaries including Michael Graves, Barbara Barry, Kenneth Brown, and Cecil Hayes.

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 11/8/2007 12:00:00 AM

Open, the small business arm of American Express, is offering a unique online opportunity to participate in a panel discussion with architecture and design heavyweights including Michael Graves, Barbara Barry, Kenneth Brown, and Cecil Hayes. The webcast forum, Inside the Entrepreneurial Mind: The Business of Design, which made its debut November 7, will re-air November 14 and November 28 at 8pm.

Panelists will dish on their business experiences and the future of the industry. Directly after each rebroadcast, at 9pm, featured panelists will be available for discussions and a question and answer period via a live web chat. Cecil Hayes, one of the first well-known African-American interior designers, and Barbara Barry, the industry powerhouse behind lines for such companies as Kravet and Ann Sacks, will be available for viewers on November 14. Michael Graves, the design legend known for, among other things, his namesake Target product line, will be available on November 28. Marketing expert and author Seth Godin chatted with viewers on November 7. Each event will be moderated by Open president Susan Sobbott.

Inside the Entrepreneurial Mind is a series of forums offering small business owners insight and advice from successful niche-specific industry titans. Over 800,000 viewers tuned into the last Open forum webcast series this past summer.