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	Carl Alviani Portland, OR www.flathed.com view all posts Carl Alviani is a freelance industrial designer and design journalist, after spending his rowdy youth as a structural engineer, Peace Corps Volunteer, high school science teacher, materials researcher and art furniture builder, in roughly that order. He's since moved to Portland, Oregon, where he indulges to excess in the legendary local beer and produce, commutes on his Bianchi 9-speed, writes about design, and works on projects large and small, for clients as diverse as Intel, White's Electronics, The Chamberlain Group, and . He can be reached at carl [dot] alviani [at] gmail [dot] com. Not Created Equal: A Long, (Loving) Plastics Primer Taking the Middle Ground: Massive design for the masses? Essay: "American Design," Anyone?
	Emilie Baltz New York, NY, USA www.emilielucie.blogspot.com Emilie Baltz is an international freelance designer and photographer. Her professional credits include work for the Vitra Design Museum, the IDSA, Wired Magazine, Time Out New York, The Royal College of Art, Oxford University Press, Pratt Institute, and the restoration of a medieval French chateau. Emilie is attracted to the frozen moments at the ends of forks. Emilie Baltz...on Coffee \| WATCH NOW \|
	Niti Bhan San Francisco, CA, USA view all posts Niti Bhan focuses on offering strategic insight for growth opportunities and revenue generation in the rapidly evolving interstitial space between design and business. Her 15 years of experience include employers such McCann Erickson Worldwide, Hewlett Packard India, The Second City and most recently, the Institute of Design. She is an engineer and an MBA whose most significant achievement in the field of design has been dropping out of two graduate design programs on two continents in two centuries - the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and the Institute of Design, Chicago. Her areas of interest are business intelligence and trends, business strategy as well as creating a compelling user case for design as force for increasing shareholder value. Perspective Putting the "Desi" in Design Shopping for Innovation Seismic Shift - Changes in the global design industry While You Were Out Why Grad School? Assembling a Competitive Application for Graduate Studies
	Rob Blinn New York, NY, USA view all posts Robert took a meandering path to find design bliss. After spending an entire childhood making mashed potato skyscrapers and drawing on every surface in sight, he inexplicably majored in mathematics and economics at Brown and then followed with a five year stint in investment banking on Wall Street. With a series of stuffy jobs under his belt, he finally revisited his childhood passions, receiving a Masters in Industrial Design. He has been sketching, consulting, writing and talking ceaselessly about design ever since.
	Arnold Van Bezooyen Hamburg, Germany www.vanbezooyen.com view all posts Arnold van Bezooyen an independent Industrial Designer who is in it for the process. This 'Dutch Designer' enjoyed life and work in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany where he is currently based. Trained as a design all-rounder he received his M.Sc. degree from the Delft University of Technology. After a two year work period at PARK advanced design management he now conducts materialinnovation by exploring the role and potential of new materials in design, so called Material Stories. His private life is more about 'no-tech' as in enjoying good friends, his guitar, and live Jazz. Orient-Orientation Materials Clogger Delft University of Technology PARK Advanced Design Management Material Stories
	Tasos Calantzis Pretoria, South Africa view all posts Tasos is an industrial designer and managing director of Readymade, consulting on design and business innovation to companies like Motorola, Philips and Body Glove. Tasos is an itinerant panelist, teacher and guest speaker. Readymade
	Allan Chochinov New York, NY, USA view all posts Allan Chochinov is a New York-based designer and educator. He is a partner of Core77. Something for Nothing? All You Ever Needed to Know You Learned in... Ralph Caplan's By Design James Dyson and a Cleaner America
	Jeannie Choe Brooklyn, NY, USA thedesigncan.com view all posts Jeannie is a true jack-of-all trades, looks forward to a day gone swimmingly, and finds joy in all things awesome. Brilliant art, rocking the renegade music scene, conjuring up haute designs, other people's hot designs, tasty salad, trashy magazines and unicorns are some of the many things she is passionate about. Studio Bullitts D.I.Y. ID: Indie Designers on the Rise
	Stuart Constantine New York, NY, USA view all posts Stuart Constantine is a founding partner of Core77. He studied History at the University of Connecticut and Industrial Design at Pratt Institute. He currently resides in Connecticut with his wife, three young children, a collection of guitars, and a sailboat.
	Michael DiTullo Hillsboro, OR, USA www.michaelditullo.com Yo, or Michael DiTullo as his mom calls him, is a designer at a small Oregon based company called Nike, where he has worked on a wide variety of innovative products. Michael is currently Design Director of Converse's Portland studio. He has also worked in the Brand Jordan and Sport Culture divisions and collaborates with Timing, Vision, Bags and Apparel whenever possible. Prior to joining Nike, Michael was a designer at Evo Design where clients included Burton, Timex, Hasbro, VTech, Samsonite, Kodak, and Chantal among others. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Cleveland Institute of Art. Michael has won numerous design awards, freelances for a small list of international clients, has lectured on design theory at universities, conferences and corporations, can sketch an '82 Fire Bird from memory, and geeks out on design way more than anyone should. Discussion Boards Admin Postcards from Palm Springs: Modern Gems in the Desert Last Man Standing: 80 years of Teague Design Portland UNKL Offsite Event
	Michael Doyle Royal Oak, MI, USA www.burnlab.net view all posts Trained at CCS in Detroit, Doyle has spent the last 10+ years working in and lecturing about experiential and communication design. He was the first place winner of Archinect's Communication Booth design competition in 2001, served as Graphics Chair for the 2003 IDSA National Conference and is on the board of for the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. He is a news editor for Archinect.com and Computerlove.net, and director of Burnlab.net.
	Donald Lehman Chicago, IL, USA www.donald-lehman.com view all posts Don Lehman has contributed to Core since 2001, posting design news to the Clogger and authoring his column, "The Student Life". A co-founder of the Thought at Work student design conference, he has also worked for Benza, Blu Dot, RoadWired, and Hefty. Don is currently an industrial designer with Ignite USA in Chicago. The Student Life
	Eric Ludlum Portland, OR view all posts Eric Ludlum is a founding partner of Core77 and is currently residing in Portland.
	Xanthe Matychak Ithaca, New York view all posts Xanthe is a designer and writer living in upstate New York. She teaches industrial design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Emptying a Space to Let Something In Enlightened Innovation Sustainable Answers: Taking no prisoners with Tom Seager
	Rain Noe New York, NY, USA www.hipstomp.com view all posts N. Rain Noe is an NYC-based freelance writer, designer, photographer, and magazine editor. He enjoys writing, travel, and persecuting robots.
	Steve Portigal Montara, CA, USA www.portigal.com view all posts Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that helps organizations discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. In addition to regularly speaking at design and marketing events, Steve has taught Design Research at the California College of Art, and is known for his blog, All This ChittahChattah. He is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Grocery Products in his home. Design with Personality Spark:03 The More. The Merrier Total Recall: Looking Back at 2004? Shopping for Innovation
	Glen Jackson Taylor New York, NY, USA www.default.com.au view all posts Glen is a caffeine fueled, photo taking, streaming music, sushi loving Australian obsessed with collecting airline safety cards and has only destroyed one laptop in 7 years of riding to work every day. With formal training in both Industrial Design and Interactive Media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, he was the online art director at lomography.com for almost 5 years before joining the team at Core77.
	Bruce M. Tharp Holland, MI, USA view all posts Bruce M. Tharp is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago and works for Haworth's thinktank, the Ideation Group, helping to bridge the gap between research and design solutions. In addition to an MA in Anthropology, he holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University and an MID from Pratt Institute. 2003 IDSA National Education Conference Archived: Design Research (January 04) Cultural Construct: Travel photos from Cuba
	Mark Vanderbeeken Turin, Italy www.experientia.com www.experientia.com/blog view all posts Mark Vanderbeeken is a senior partner at Experientia, an international experience design consultancy, based in Turin, Italy. He is also the author of the successful experience design blog Putting People First. Mark is a specialist in visioning, identity development and strategic communications and worked in Italy, Denmark, the USA and Belgium. He was communications manager of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Ivrea, Italy), European communications coordinator for the World Wide Fund for Nature (or WWF, Copenhagen, Denmark), marketing director of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (New York, USA) and chief press officer of Antwerp 93, Cultural Capital of Europe (Antwerp, Belgium). Paola Zini: An Interview with the Director of Torino World Design Capital
	David Womack Brooklyn, NY Adobe ThinkTank The Desk of David Womack view all posts David writes about robots, the "Internet", and the occasional monkey for publications including Metropolis, The Guardian, Salon.com, and Eye magazine. He is the editor-in-chief of Adobe ThinkTank, an online journal covering trends in design and technology and consults for Adobe on a variety of issues. He is currently working with the Japan Society on several projects designed to foster creative exchange between Tokyo and New York. David is the co-author, with Steve Heller, of the forthcoming book Becoming a Digital Designer.