The student chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Department of Art and Design will host the first annual UWSP nowHERE Design Conference, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-26, at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

The presentations by visiting artists Lizzie Finn, Julie Hirschfeld and Stefanie Barth are open to the public without charge.

London-based designer and illustrator Finn will present at 7:30 p.m., Friday, in Room 227 Collins Classroom Center. She is a graphic designer and illustrator from London. Her clients have included Silas, Moloko, Channel 4, Nokia, Orange and Vitra. Magazine credits include: Dazed & Confused, Grafik, British & Japanese Vogue, Form (Germany) and Relax (Japan). Finn has collaborated closely with UK fashion label Silas since its launch, designing fabric prints, T-shirts and catalogues for them. Her work has been published in leading design publications worldwide. She has exhibited in London, New York, Venice, Stockholm and Tokyo and is associate lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Hirschfeld and Barth of Stiletto nyc design, New York, will present at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, in Michelsen Hall of the Noel Fine Arts Center.

Stiletto nyc is the design studio of Hirschfeld and Barth who met at VH1 in the graphics department five years ago. They quickly realized that they shared a similar aesthetic vision. Together they started Stiletto, a design company with projects spanning motion graphics, live action and print design.

They have worked with such clients as  MTV, Nike, Samsung, German music television channel VIVA, USA Networks, the Gap, RCA Records, HBO, RES  magazine, a digital lifestyle and filmmaking publication, Sundance Channel and Rick's Picks, a newly founded pickle  company.

Hirschfeld and Barth continue to seek out projects in new fields having already put their designs to clothing, commercials, shop designs and corporate identities. More information is available at www.stilettonyc.com.

Barth who was born in Esslingen a. Neckar, Germany, graduated from the HfG (Hochschule fuer Gestaltung) Offenbach, Germany, and worked as freelance graphic designer in Frankfurt from 1994 until the stiletto office was founded in 1999.

Hirschfeld graduated in 1994 from Cornell University with a BFA in painting and a BA in Russian studies. Before forming stiletto, she worked as a senior designer in the VH1 on-air design department.