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| Carl Alviani / NorthEast |
 New York, NY www.alvianistudios.com Carl Alviani is a freelance product designer and design researcher, with a background in teaching, a degree in engineering, and another degree in Industrial Design. He currently divides his time between writing, CAD monkeying and making custom seats out of scrap industrial hosing and seatbelts for superfabulous department store Barney's New York. [ view posts ] |
| Mardis Bagley / Southern |
 Houston, TX www.mardisbagley.com Mardis Bagley worked for several years as a Graphic Designer and Art Director. At the sight of the oncoming dot bomb, he did what all good designers should of done... take the money and run. After "slacking" in Austin, TX for about a year he returned to school to pursue his passion. He is now reincarnated as a Junior in ID at the University of Houston. [ view posts ] |
| Craig Berman / MidWest |
 Chicago, IL www.fueledbycoffee.com Craig Berman is an industrial designer living in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago. He likes independent music, new urbanism, street photography, dynamic information, public transportation, progressive thought, massive change, subtle differences, and black coffee. He cuts, copies, and pastes his life at fueledbycoffee.com [ view posts ] |
| Kris Krug / Western |
 Vancouver, BC www.kriskrug.com www.eventblogging.com Kris is a designer, writer, photographer, and webmonkey based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is currently writing 'Bit Torrent for Dummies' and working with Bryght to bring to market a hosted content management system based on open source Drupal. [ view posts ] |
| Donald Lehman / MidWest |
 Chicago, IL www.donald-lehman.com 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 Design, Blu Dot, and RoadWired. Don graduated from RIT in May 2004 and is presently an industrial designer with Pactiv. [ view posts ] |
| Nate Lynch / MidEast & Southern |
 Fort Lauderdale, FL www.thenate.com Nate Lynch is a freelance product designer based in South Florida. He has worked to provide fresh product solutions for clients including HP, BlackBerry, Motorola, and Target. He can solve your problems, design related or otherwise. He wears flip-flops 298 days a year. [ view posts ] |
| Stephanie Munson / Western |
 Chicago, IL Stephanie Munson is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she teaches industrial design and interactive product design studios. She holds an MID from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. [ view posts ] |
| Ko. / MidWest |
 Chicago, IL www.pirateclown.com J. Whiteman, the designer of the Adidas 1, has credited him as "possibly the most passionate designer you'll ever meet". Craig Vogel, FIDSA, has described him as "a positive dynamite". The Girl Scouts in his "Inventions and Inquiries" course have questioned his sanity. Ko is possibly the biggest name to come out of Japan and is known for continually casting magical fairy dust over the design community. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University and currently resides in Chicago. His recent projects include designing new search methods for the web, illustrating children's books, and the Bingo Factory, an art/design gallery due open this summer. [ view posts ] |
| Holly Taylor / NorthEast |
 Brooklyn, NY Long-time-reader first-time-blogger, Holly holds an MID from Pratt Institute in addition to a BA in East Asian Studies and an MA in International Political Economy from Columbia University. She recently discovered that wrestling a cat for control of the keyboard makes work more fun. [ view posts ] |
| Bruce Tharp / Western |
 Holland, MI 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. [ view posts ] |
| Yianni Yessios / MidEast |
 Cleveland, OH www.yessios.com Yianni Yessios is a Greek American artist who explores the intersection of technology and society. His work uses technology itself to criticize its effects on human beings. In his most recent works, he has looked at the effects of databases on people and how clock design affects our understanding of time. In Homo Indicium, he uses database software, a web interface and a barcode scanner to criticize the use of the vasts amount of data collected by various institutions throughout the world. In O Axronos he offers alternative clock designs to question how people understand the nature of time, and how this understanding is affected by the design of clocks. Yianni is currently an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He teaches programming, 3D animation, robotics, web design, and a seminar for students majoring in digital arts. Ioannis is an accomplished web designer and programmer. He also has experience as theatrical performer, especially as a mime. These skills along with his Greek heritagae and American upbringing greatly influence the nature of his work. [ view posts ] |
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