Jan Lorenc
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Jan Lorenc is a Polish-American designer and author. Born in Jaśliska, Poland in 1954, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 8. He formed Lorenc Design in 1978 in Chicago, IL and later moved it to Atlanta in 1981. He renamed the firm Lorenc+Yoo Design with partner Chung Youl Yoo in 1998.
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[edit] Biography
Jan Lorenc has three children with Barbara Lorenc: Richard, Julia and Paul. He resides in Roswell, GA.
Lorenc is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT; 1977, 1979) with a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Design and Visual Communication respectively, as well as a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech; 1994) with a M.S. in Architecture.
Lorenc has been the recipient of many awards and honorary positions in his field including one of the "Monuments to the Profession of Environmental Graphic Design" by the SEGD (1998), First Place in the ICSC awards, a seat on the GA Tech ID Advisory Board in the School of Architecture, and many featured speaking positions for such groups as the AIA and Auburn University. He has also sat on many design competition juries, both domestically and internationally.
[edit] Work
Lorenc's firm, Lorenc+Yoo Design, boasts an impressive skill set including specialists in industrial design, exhibition design architectural design, furniture design, interior design, environmental graphics. The firm identifies its work as "environmental communication design," a body of work that includes museums and visitors centers, trade show exhibits, theme park design, signage, retail spaces, furniture, for organizations including Mayo Clinic, Coca-Cola, North Carolina State University, Georgia-Pacific, Haworth Furniture Company, General Motors, Bank of America, General Mills and Sony-Ericsson. This array of work is almost typically coordinated with a project team including project managers, writers, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic design firms, marketing professionals and others that are searching for a "holistic, integrated message."
Lorenc+Yoo Design is located in historic Mill Village in Roswell, GA and has collaborative associations with Journey Communications Inc of Philadelphia where they handle their trade show exhibits, and with Box&Cox of Seoul, Korea with whom they handle their Asian opportunities and are currently working in Korea and Japan. The company is also collaborating with the firm HQ Creative in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The firm is intent to keep its team small and to grow through associations across the cournty and around the globe. Lorenc+Yoo Design has work in many markets across the US and in Asia.
In 2007, Jan Lorenc coauthored a textbook on the practice of exhibition design entitled, "What Is Exhibition Design?" Coauthored with designers Lee Skolnick and Craig Berger, the book was published by Rotovision, UK. It is currently in its second English printing and is being printed in Chinese, Korean, Polish and Russian.
[edit] Acclaim
Lorenc and his firm's work has been published in several American and international publications, including Exhibitor Magazine, I.D. Magazine, Archi Volta Quarterly (Poland), VM+SD, Space (Korea) and Interiors and Sources.
