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Eric Ludlum is a founding partner of Core77 and is currently residing in Portland.

Michael DiTullo is Creative Director at the global innovation firm, frog design, where he works with clients like Intel, JBL, Honda, and Braun. Prior, Michael spent almost a decade at Nike, working on iconic products under their Nike, Jordan and Converse brands. He regularly speaks at design conferences, schools, and corporations on the value of design. Michael is a prolific creative and an unfailing advocate for our industry as a whole who frequently speaks at conferences and universities. DiTullo has been a core77 contributor since 2003, moderating our discussion forums (as Yo), producing design events, blogging, and producing a series of "5 minute" sketch videos.

Postcards from Palm Springs: Modern Gems in the Desert
Last Man Standing: 80 years of Teague Design
Portland UNKL Offsite Event

Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, and Chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Allan lectures around the world and at professional conferences including IDSA, AIGA and IxDA, has been a guest critic at various design schools in including Yale University, IIT, Carnegie Mellon, Ravensbourne, RMIT, University of Minnesota, Emily Carr, and RISD. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Compost Modern, and Winterhouse, and is a frequent design competition juror. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, and The One Club.

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

Aart van Bezooyen is a Dutch optimist and motivator for materials in design. He lives and works in Hamburg where he founded Material Stories to bridge the gap between the materials industry and the world of design.

He contributes to international design magazines and teaches materials at design universities across Europe. Material Stories is where Aart inspires and enables the best use of materials to make design more competitive, creative and sustainable.

Currently, Aart and his partner Paula Raché are traveling around the world with a focus on sustainability. You can follow their project at www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.net

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

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.

Al Dean has been working as a technology writer for the past six years and currently holds the post of Technology Editor on the UK's leading Product Development Technology magazine, MCAD, and is Editor of Prototype, a new quarterly focussing on the Rapid Prototyping and Direct Manufacturing industries. He is also regular contributor to CADserver.co.uk, one of the world's leading providers of CAD and product development technology related web-content. He has contributed his work to numerous publications, including CGI, New Design, IPMatters.com, and Journal for the Institute of Engineering Designers.

IDEO on Digital Design Tools

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

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 value.

Putting the "Desi" in Design
Ecodesign, Ecolabels and the Environment
Shopping for Innovation
Seismic Shift - Changes in the global design industry
While You Were Out

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.

Stuart Constantine is a founding partner of Core77, a design enterprise based in New York City. He studied History at the University of Connecticut and Industrial Design at Pratt Institute. He has over fifteen years of consulting experience in the design and technology sectors. Prior to his involvement with Core77 he worked as a designer at Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a director at Gartner, an IT consulting company in Connecticut. He currently resides in Connecticut with his wife, three young children, a collection of guitars, and a dog.

Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting. In the past 15 years Steve has interviewed families eating breakfast, rock musicians, credit-default swap traders, and radiologists. His work has informed the development of music gear, wine packaging, medical information systems, corporate intranets, videoconferencing systems, and iPod accessories. Steve is an accomplished presenter who speaks about culture, innovation, and design at companies like eBay, Adobe, Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, and Dolby Laboratories. He has a graduate degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Guelph and is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Groceries in his home.

Design with Personality
Spark:03
The More. The Merrier
Total Recall: Looking Back at 2004?
Shopping for Innovation

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, European communications coordinator for the World Wide Fund for Nature (or WWF), marketing director of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (USA) and chief press officer of Antwerp 93, Cultural Capital of Europe (Belgium).

Paola Zini: An Interview with the Director of Torino World Design Capital

hipstomp is a NYC-based blogger, photo studio manager, DIYer, dog owner and sewing machine repairperson who secretly yearns for the country life.

Xanthe is an artist and designer living in upstate New York. She teaches design and creative methods in the Saunders College of Business and in the Center for Student Innovation at RIT.

Emptying a Space to Let Something In
Enlightened Innovation
Sustainable Answers: Taking no prisoners with Tom Seager

Ian Curry first got his hands dirty in design on a Chandler & Price letterpress. Shortly thereafter he moved into the more abstract realms of digital media, and has often looked back.

Ian has done interactive design work for the U.N., Eyebeam R&D, and a range of interesting companies while recently at frog Design's studio in New York. He intermittently teaches undergraduate courses in interaction design at Pratt and Parsons. Currently an interaction designer at Local Projects, he is working to reduce the number of broken-seeming interactive exhibits at area museums. If you walk by his apartment in Brooklyn, you are likely to hear him learning to play the cello.

You can reach Ian at ian[at]heavy-meta[dot]com.

Asking the Beautiful Question: Design and engineering

Alissa Walker writes about design for publications like Good, Fast Company, I.D., and ReadyMade, and is the assistant editor of the California Architect's Newspaper. She can be found on your iPod as the associate producer of the KCRW show "DnA: Design and Architecture." Alissa lives in Hollywood, where she throws ice cream socials, tends to her drought-tolerant gardens, and relishes life in LA without a car. Her new blog, Gelatobaby, offers commentary on design, Los Angeles, food, travel, and Star Wars, and every so often, gelato.

Kevin runs Plan, a London-based consultancy. After a grounding in engineering, marketing, academia, product design and design management, Kevin set up the trailblazing strategy team at Seymourpowell. Then in 2004, he founded Plan, to help companies think and act more strategically about the design of their products.

Never short of an opinion or three, Kevin makes time to write and speak on design strategy and its relationship with business and society.

Deb Johnson, is the Academic Director of Sustainability at Pratt Institute and is leading the development of Pratt's new Center for Sustainable Design Studies and Research. She is founder and executive director of the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable/Social Enterprise.

She is heads Greenmatter, a green design consultancy and sustainable design think tank. Greenmatter brings designers together to collaborate with people working to change the world.

http://incubator.pratt.edu

Brit Leissler studied design at the KISD in Cologne as well as the CCA in San Francisco and has worked in communication & interface design for various companies in Germany and Switzerland before coming to London in 2005. Here she graduated 2007 from the Royal College of Art with a master degree in product design. Since then she has been busily engaged in establishing her own London based »Shoot the Stylist!« design studio, and has undertaken design consultancy and commissioned work for the BBC, Vodafone, Lago S.p.A. and other companies, as well as working on self-initiated projects. Using an eclectic alchemy of different mediums and disciplines, she seeks to place Art & Commerce in bed together to create beautiful subversive children, her work being highly conceptual with a strong playful and emotional flavor.

When taking a break from the design world she writes, sings and composes quirky electronic pop from the tough to the romantic (her current project being »Happy Trigger«) and spreads her own brand of creative karma around the world. Brit travels a lot, loves all forms of eccentricity, joins up the dots, gets into interesting conversations with all kinds of weird and wonderful people, and as a hardcore digital camera gunslinger shoots everything that moves and grooves. She doesn't eat animals, is hot for cheese, loves the Kensington Squirrels, her boyfriend Chrisly and life enhancing ideas.

Lisa is dedicated to promoting the American contemporary design scene. She keeps herself busy as the co-founder of the Object Design League, an association of independent designers in Chicago, and design practice Smith&Linder, both co-founded with Caroline Linder. She also teaches foundation research studios at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Designer, creative director, illustrator, idea shaper.
I also post as Craighton Berman.

Tad Toulis is the Creative Director of Teague's Seattle-based Design Studio. Prior to joining Teague, Tad worked at Lunar Design, Motorola's Advanced Concepts Group and Samsung's LA LAB. He was also a founding member of designRAW, a San Francisco-based design collective. Tad is a frequent speaker and lecturer at universities, conferences and design symposiums. His work has received numerous awards of distinction and has appeared in publications across the globe.

Helen Walters is a design writer and editor, currently working as an editor and researcher at Doblin, a member of the Monitor Group. Until July 2010, she was editor of innovation and design at Bloomberg BusinessWeek. She's the author of five design-related books and also contributing editor to British design magazine, Creative Review. She tweets.

Steven heller is a senior art director of the New York Times and the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts. He recently co-founded (with Alice Twemlow) the MFA in Design Criticism at SVA. He is the editor of VOICE: The AIGA Journal of Design and The Nose (with Seymour Chwast). He is contributing editor to PRINT, ID, Eye, Baseline and a contributor to Metropolis, the New York Times Book Review, Varoom, and Grafik. He has edited, co-edited or authored over 100 books on design an popular culture, including "Paul Rand," "Merz to Emigre: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Tweniteh Century," "Stylepedia: A Gude to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks and Conceits," "Euro Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars," "Anatomy of Design," "Design Literacy Second Edition," "The Education of a Photographer," "The Graphic Design Reader," "Graphic Wit: The Art of Humor in Design," and "Teaching Illustration." He is currently completing "Iron Fists: Branding the Totalitarian State" for Phaidon Press and is working on a biography of Alvin Lustig. His website is Hellerbooks.com.

Dorm Drop-Off: Making a Nightmare into a Dream

Andy Polaine co-founded the award-winning new-media collective Antirom in London working with clients such as the BBC, Levis and The Science Museum as well exhibiting several interactive installations and performances around the world. He was a producer at Razorfish in the UK before moving to Australia where he started the interactive department of visual effects company, Animal Logic. He was Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Head of the School of Media Arts at The University of New South Wales, Sydney before moving to Germany. Officially Dr Polaine with a PhD in interactivity and play from UTS, Sydney, Andy is now a Lecturer and Research Fellow in Service Design at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. Alongside his academic work Andy continues to work as a interaction designer, service design research and writer. His own blog is Playpen and he is also the Editor and founder of The Designer's Review of Books

I'm a multidisciplinary graphic designer and writer living in New York City. My projects have involved designing identities, motion graphics, web sites, exhibition graphics, publications, as well as copywriting and art directing. I look for projects that challenge my thinking and form-making skills, but I'm especially interested in collaborating with non-profits and civic organizations that need help to address complex social problems in ways that might spur lasting social change.

Willem Van Lancker is a product designer (UX) at Google with a passion for ethnography, maps, data visualization, and producing delightful user experiences.

Willem came to Google from IDEO where he worked as a communication designer focusing on understanding business systems and organizations through visual communication. Previous to IDEO, Willem worked for Apple, where he designed user interfaces for products including iPhone and iPad, and adidas, where he created new brand identities for various major league sports teams respectively.

Willem is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a degree in Graphic Design. While at RISD, Willem teamed with a small group of Brown and RISD students to create A Better World by Design, a now-annual three-day conference encouraging social and environmental impact within educational policy. He also served as a researcher and core member for RISD’s Strategic Plan, charting a new course for RISD’s academic programs and student life initiatives focused on how students of different disciplines can innovate through collaboration.

When he is not working on new innovations for Google, Willem can be found writing, sailing, playing squash (both the sport and the gourd), following English (and American) football, and occasionally regretting the decision to eat that bacon-wrapped hotdog from a food-cart in the Mission District.

Sam is a nomadic, creative all-rounder from Scotland.

Sam has studied a spectrum of design disciplines in Glasgow, Cologne and Helsinki, as well as working at Sony R&D in Tokyo.

Kara has a graduate degree in Design and her research is presented as a case study in IDEO's Human-Centered Design Toolkit.

She is a graduate member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and has joined the Designer's Accord.

She has worked as a design researcher at Emily Carr University with a focus on design and health care. She teaches design courses while also working on various projects in design, writing and photography. Most recently, this included a project in Rwanda where she is collaborating with a nutrition professor on the development of a food fortification system for rural communities.

Matt Brown is a designer from the Chemical City (Midland, MI) and works at IDEO in Boston. He studied Industrial Design at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and got his Masters in Interaction Design from the Umeå Institute of Design in Umeå, Sweden. He likes railroad tracks, talking about new ideas, and funny/awkward moments. He can't play the piano but collects synths anyway and has released a couple of records with his band Fracula.

His work deals a lot with fiction, humor, and people. A good example of this would be his piece on Dogpiling and Candles. You can see Matt's work on his website, and read more on his blog.

Don Norman claims his goals in life are to make a significant difference, but to have fun while doing so. He is both a businessperson (VP at Apple, Executive at HP and a startup) and an academic (Harvard, UC San Diego, Northwestern, KAIST). As co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group he serves on company boards and helps companies make products more enjoyable, understandable, and profitable. He is an IDEO Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He gives frequent keynotes and is known for his many books including "The Design of Everyday Things," "Emotional Design," and in October, "Living with Complexity," which argues against simplicity.

Venessa Miemis is a futurist, digital ethnographer, and modern day philosopher. Her superpowers include: pattern recognition, intuition, and the ability to distill complexity. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Media Studies at the New School in NYC. The focus of her graduate work is on facilitating trust-building, generative dialogue, and open collaboration in networked environments. Her blog, Emergent by Design, probes the potential impacts of social technologies on human behavior, thought processes, and the evolution of consciousness.

Ingrid Fetell is a designer, researcher, and writer whose work explores the emotional relationships between people and things. She writes the blog Aesthetics of Joy, and is working on a book of the same name, which draws on insights from neuroscience and psychology to suggest ways that design can lead the way to happier, healthier, and more sustainable lives. This allows her indulge her twin passions for delightfully designed objects and jargon-filled scientific studies. She also writes the Design and the Mind blog on the Psychology Today website.

Frank Bonomo can help you advertise with Core77. Send him an email or give him a call to shoot the shit. When he's not processing insertion orders he's performing live comedy on NYC stages.

Bill Moggridge is the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Bill designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.

Ben is a Director of User Experience at Method in San Francisco. He has worked as a designer in teams both large and small, in-house and at consultancies, and from startups to corporate behemoths. His work has grown since its beginnings on the web to include projects that span mobile, brand, application, strategy, product, and service design. Prior to Method, Ben spent time at Adaptive Path, IDEO, Twitter, Samsung’s London-based design studio, pioneering service design and innovation consultancy live|work, and digital full service agency Oyster Partners (now LBi.)

Ben is also an educator, most recently teaching service design and advising MFA students at SVA in New York City.

Shai Akram met Andrew Haythornthwaite while studying at the Royal College of Art, the two now run their own design practice and are also members of the Okay Studio collective. Her projects cover creative direction and design for interiors, events, and furniture/product ranges. Shai’s work is a combination of practice and theory, translating research and ideology into objects and visual language. Her work has been exhibited internationally and projects have taken her to China, New Zealand and Italy- although Shai loves to travel, she secretly wishes she would stay in one place long enough to have a cat.

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Tiffany Chu is a designer and blogger based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With a background in architecture and comparative media studies from MIT, Tiffany has a broad span of design experience including work for Pixar Animation Studios, h2o architectes in Paris, The New Orleans Office of Recovery, design/build in Cambodia, and field research on street vendors in Vietnam. By day, she currently works as an associate at the design and innovation consultancy, Continuum. By night, she dilly-dallies in internet culture, cartography, hot yoga, and dreams up design-entrepreneurial schemes.

The Creative World at Work

LinYee Yuan is the Managing Editor of Core77. Hailing from the Lone Star State, LinYee is a Brooklyn-based dreamer and troublemaker with opinions about the things that matter most in life: food, cooking, and eating. She loves late night dinners, Oski the cat, and her Weber smokey mountain cooker.

Marina Garcia-Vasquez is New York-based writer and editor of lifestyle and culture content. Her current focus is on art, architecture, and design. She obsesses over typography, McCobb chairs, Italo Calvino, urban landscape, and poetry. She is the NY correspondent for the Australian Inside Magazine. Here for Core77, she will devote herself to emerging Mexican and Latin American designers. Aside from this reportage, she is fully vested in promoting Mexican culture in New York City through Mexnthecity.com. Follow her @MarinaGarciaVas and @Mexnthecity. Her blogs and website: www.mg-v.com, pairsofchairs.wordpress, mexnthecity.com

Manager: Design and Operations of Hand-Eye Supply Store and co-Curator of the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club. Musical instrument collector and builder.

World-wide event coverage by the ever present Core77 team.

Ray is a Brooklyn-based writer, sometime artist and creative generalist. Aside from design, his interests include art, music, biking, urbanism, food, patterns, maps, coffee, shoes and em-dashes—seriously, he includes at least one in every post he writes.

Kenzan is the product of sculptors and bookkeepers. An upbringing telling of his approach to design: the hands-on formation of good ideas into solutions through considered assessment and judgement. Kenzan's experience as a lighting designer, small business owner, and good neighbor has provided him a means to explore and understand the multi-faceted world of design. Both a thinker and a do'er, Kenzan finds opportunity at every step of the process to create beautiful and effective design solutions, no matter the challenge.

Joann Plockova writes about design, ideas, solutions and various other topics of interest from her base in Prague. Her work has been featured in newspapers, magazines and online publications both in the Czech Republic and abroad. She is from the U.S. and previously worked as a copywriter.

Ilyssa Shapiro is a industrial design student at the University of the Arts and design intern for the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability in Philadelphia. Her work explores how design can intervene in our complex relationship with nature through engineering empathy into objects and the experiences they provoke.

Victoria Kirk is a senior digital strategist at Ogilvy, helping businesses create experiences that delight consumers. She has a Bachelor's (with honors) from New York University and holds a Masters of Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. As a researcher, ethnographer, strategist and a designer, she has worked with organisations large and small to convert digital and cultural insights into tangible action. Her clients include large multi-nationals (Unilever, British Gas, Nestle) as well as educational and social enterprises (the Museum of Arts and Design, the Pratt Institute, Tilonia.com, the Barefoot College). A native New Yorker, she has lived and worked in India and is now based in London, where she is an active member of the sustainable design community, serves as board member and advisor to several social enterprises, produces documentary film and photography projects, and waits with cautious curiosity for the coming of the 2012 Olympics.

Dave Seliger is a junior at Dartmouth College studying Engineering and Studio Art. He is pursuing a career in emergency management. On campus, Dave is co-captain of the Dartmouth College Fencing Team. On Core77, he covers everything from police technology to DJing to urban geography.

I also post as fueledbycoffee."

While leading RKS as CEO, Ravi Sawhney has helped generate more than 150 patents and over 95 design awards on behalf of his diverse list of international clients. Sawhney invented the reliable Psycho-Aesthetics design methodology, co-authored the 2010 release of Predictable Magic (Wharton School Publishing), is a Fellow in the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), holds a Ph.D (Hon.) from the Academy of Art University San Francisco, and is the innovator and former jury Chair for IDSA’s Catalyst Case Study program. He is also a popular speaker and editorial contributor on the topics of design, innovation and management.

Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners.

Panthea Lee is co-founder and principal of Reboot, a service design firm working in the fields of governance and international development. At Reboot, she leads a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, development experts, and policy strategists to improve social outcomes globally, working for organizations such as the World Bank and the American Civil Liberties Union. Panthea has led projects in over 20 countries including Afghanistan, China, Sudan, and Tunisia. Before founding Reboot, she was with UNICEF Innovation.

Panthea speaks frequently on new approaches in international development, and has lectured at Columbia University, McGill University, NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and Pop!Tech’s social innovation program.

An Xiao Mina is an American designer strategist and researcher who recently worked on the Gwangju Design Biennale’s Un-Named Design exhibition. She focuses on the role of social media and communications technologies in building communities and empowering individuals. Find her on Twitter here.