Bob Slote
500 Watts, A Design Studio
My Paintings, 500 Watts.com/paintings
bob@500watts.com

Please note: I am officially retired.

Armed with a Masters Degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bob worked several years as an Art Director with Benton & Bowles, a prominent Chicago Advertising firm.

After moving to San Francisco, he worked as a designer for companies such as Apple Computer, Clement Mok Designs, and Esprit de Corp. He founded Maus Haus, an award-winning design company focused on developing and designing interactive new media applications. Maus Haus was sold in 1997, after which Bob served as the Vice President of Design for The Interactive Bureau under Roger Black. He has also held positions as the Creative Director for Organic Online and other companies.

Bob has taught classes alongside April Grieman at the Academy of Art University and has conducted classes in the Multimedia Studies Program at San Francisco State University. Bob was an Adjunct Professor at California State University, East Bay. He has hosted numerous developer workshops and has been a speaker at various conferences, including the HOW Design Conference, MacWorld Expo, Seybold, WEB98/2000, COMDEX, Rick Tharp's THCTJHTBIPC conference in Park City, Builder.com, UDA/Edgewise, and Web Design World. Additionally, he has served as a judge for the New Media Invision Awards.

With over fifteen years of teaching experience, Bob taught Experience Design in the Graphic Design and New Media Departments at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has developed several online courses, including "Branding on the Web (Nature of Interaction)" taught both graduate and undergraduate classes and served as an advisor in the Graduate Department, mentoring students on their final thesis projects. Before retiring, Bob taught for five years at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB)

Teaching:
California State University, East Bay
Academy of Art College / San Francisco Multimedia/Design Courses
Academy of Art College / Typography in Motion Co-taught with April Greiman
Academy of Art College / Branding for the Web, Information Design, Graduate Advisor
San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program Multimedia/Design Courses
Others UDA/Edgewise NYC- Workshop on design Builder.com- New Orleans -Workshop on design
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Teaching Fellowship

Awards:
New York Art Directors Club/ CD-ROM
Gold Winner: International Cindy award
Winner: How Magazine International Design Competition/ CD-ROM
Winner: How Magazine International Design Competition/ wearable
Winner: Adobe Magazine design Competition/Website
Finalist: NewMedia Invision Awards/CD-ROM
Finalist: NewMedia Invision Awards/Web Site
Finalist: I-Magic Awards

Published:
HOW Design Magazine
Communications Arts
New Media magazine
SF Examiner
The Wall Street Journal
75th Annual NY Art Directors Club
Graphically Speaking (Design Book)
Adobe Magazine
Nautilus, a CD-ROM magazine
Macromedia's annual developer CD-ROM
Fawcett
PSD Magazine

Speaker:
HOW Design Conference, (San Francisco)
MacWorld Expo, (San Francisco, Boston)
Seybold (San Francisco, Boston)
WEB89/99/00/01 (Las Angeles, Austin, Boston, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle)
COMDEX (San Francisco)
C/net Builder.com (New Orleans)
UDA/Edgewise (San Francisco)
Web Design World (Las Angeles, Austin, Boston, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle)
The Design Conference, Park City Utah (TDCTJHTBIPC)
Thunderlizard (Judge)
New Media Invision Awards
Adaptive Path Workshops

Clients:
Apple Computer
Aramark
Academy of Art University
Adobe, Inc
Advance Micor Devices
Applied Communications
Autodesk
Bloo
CTA, California Teachers Association
Commerce One
ConSentry
CookExpress
Daily Wellness Company
Domaine Chandon
Drugstore.com
Flipside Studios
eBay
ELMA
Fair Isaac
Foot, Cone & Belding
Fox Networks
Franklin Tempelton Funds
Gallup Organization
Groundswell
Kikkoman
Kinectics
Levi
Logitech
Netscape
Netcontinuum
Oracle
Philips/Velo
Resource Consultanting Professionals
Novellus
San Francisco Design Center
San Francisco Opera
SFSU
Sega
Sprint
SRI, Stanford Research Institute
Sun Microsystems
Syquest Technology
Taligent
Tivo
Visa
Verizon
Webby Awards
Wheelworks

Education:
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A.
San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A
*Elizabeth Ford Foundation Award upon Graduation
University of Oregon