AAF Black Hills welcomes fellow Rapid City Native, Scott Thares. Join us as we explore how being born & raised in South Dakota influenced his career on graphic design, as well as how the Art of Wit influenced Wink’s inception, starting at 12 noon on September 22, 2020.

This is a FREE event for all, sponsored by AAF Black Hills & its corporate sponsor Black Hills Energy.

About the speaker:

Scott Thares (a Rapid City native) is the creative director at Wink—a Minneapolis based brand design company that creates solutions to impact both commerce and culture.

Since 2000, Wink has collaborated with savvy market leaders, shrewd challengers, and feisty upstarts across all product and service categories. Named as one of Time magazine’s Style and Design 100 for work with clients such as Target, Nike, MTV, American Eagle Outfitters, Johnsonville, Whole Foods, JCPenney, The Limited, Macy’s, Thymes and Scotts/Miracle Gro.

Wink’s work is also included in the permanent collection of The Chicago Athenaeum Museum, Library of Congress and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and has been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.