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Natalia Allen New York, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro www.nataliaallen.com www.schlossbergflynn.com Natalia Allen is a surfer, tri-athlete and linguist. Her work has received a score of distinctions including the coveted Designer of the Year Award, a title she shares with Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, and Badgley Mischka. The New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, New York Magazine, The BBC and Reuters were among the first to cover her unique story. In 2005, Natalia founded an influential design consultancy, where she specializes in the emerging areas of design and marketing for global clients, such as Quiksilver, Donna Karan, Dupont, Philips and Saks Fifth Avenue. Her creative designs and network are considered an essential catalyst between companies with a shared interest in the future of fashion. Design for the other 90%

Ayca Akin Pittsburgh, PA www.aycaakin.net Ayca Akin is wrapping up her degree as a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design. Before that, with her environmental policy background, she worked with nonprofits in almost every capacity. She realized that design thinking was lacking in social change strategies, so she went back to school to become a design thinker. Her graduate work is focused on designing for activism and making open source technologies more accessible to social change movements. Good For Nothing? Why Nonprofits, Designers, and Techies Can't Talk to Each Other

Carl Alviani Portland, OR www.flathed.com 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. "I Design Products... Like the Kind You Pick Up With Your Hands" Not Created Equal: A Long, (Loving) Plastics Primer Taking the Middle Ground: Massive design for the masses? Essay: "American Design," Anyone?

Elaine Ann Hong Kong, China www.kaizor.com Elaine Ann is the founder of Kaizor Innovation, a strategic innovation company based in Hong Kong, offering innovation strategies and design/user research to companies targeting to the emerging China market. Bi-cultural and bilingual, she has lived and worked in the U.S. for 12 years (for companies such as Fitch Worldwide, Razorfish, Henry Dreyfuss, and Philips Design.) Her company provides unique insights that bridge behavioral, cultural, social and political differences between markets. Elaine brings to Asia processes of new product innovation and user-centered design methodologies. The Top 10 Myths & Truths about Design in China

Paola Antonelli New York, NY, USA www.moma.org Paola Antonelli is a Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art. An architect by training, she has also worked as a writer (at Domus and Abitare, among others) and as an educator (UCLA School of Design, School of Visual Arts, and Harvard GSD). Her goal is to insistently promote designís understanding, until its positive influence on the world is fully acknowledged. She is currently working on the exhibition Safe: Design Takes on Risk, scheduled for 2005, on a book about foods from all over the world as examples of outstanding design, and on trying to get a Boeing 747 into the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Archived: Design and the Media (March 04)

Adam Berninger New York, NY, USA www.thehefttrade.com Adam Berninger is fairly tall and has blue eyes. He has good penmanship and holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design. Adam also heads The Heft Trade in New York City: a small, creative firm specializing in the design of publications, promotional materials, and websites. All We Ever Wanted

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. Putting the "Desi" in Design Ecodesign, Ecolabels and the Environment Perspective 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 Shopping for Innovation

Kate Bingaman Starkville, MS, USA www.obsessiveconsumption.com Kate Bingaman is an assistant professor of graphic design at Mississippi State University. She likes to take photos of the things she buys and places where people buy things. Attention Kmart Shoppers: The Closing of a beloved friend. 2002

Patrick Calello Roseland, NJ, USA www.automoblox.com Patrick Calello is a New Jersey native and a 1993 graduate of Carnegie Melon University. He and his wife, Susan, and daughter, Isabella, reside in Roseland, New Jersey. Pedal to the Mettle: The unbelievable, true story of Automoblox

Allan Chochinov New York, NY, USA Allan Chochinov is a New York-based designer and educator. He is a partner of Core77. A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design Those Who Can, Teach The best leads, anywhere: A new collection of essays by Ralph Caplan All You Ever Needed to Know You Learned in... Something for Nothing?

James Conley New York, NY, USA www.idea.northwestern.edu James Conley serves as a Clinical Professor at both the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He is a member the Kellogg Center for Research in Technology & Innovation and serves as a faculty fellow at the NU Institute of Design Engineering and Application (IDEA). Beyond Kellogg, he teaches and does research in Asia (Keio Business School), Europe (WHU), Canada (Schulich School, York U.), and the Middle East (Recannati School, Tel Aviv U.). Beyond academia, he invents, acquires and licenses his portfolio of patented inventions around the globe. This professional practice informs and guides his academic research. At home, he is happily married to his kindergarten classmate Sally and they have 5 children. Trademarks, Not Patents: The real competitive advantage of the Apple iPod

Ian Curry Brooklyn, NY, USA www.idea.northwestern.edu 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

Al Dean London, England www.cadserver.co.uk 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

Andre Dettler New York, NY, USA A product himself of Pratt Institute, Andre has currently returned with new international experiences. His emphasis is in conceptual product design with aims of continuing to be involved in the team environment. "The goal is to take everyone with you, being recognized for it is just the bonus..." Reflections on designlab Siemens mobile, Term 3: "Communication and Architecture

Caroline Dobuzinskis Ottawa, ON, Canada Caroline Dobuzinskis first discovered design in the form of a Herman Miller vintage shell formica chair left in a university classroom. Caroline now lives and writes about arts and culture in Vancouver. Dead Malls Massive Change at Vancouver Art Gallery

Deanna Asta Dumbrys New York, NY, USA Deanna holds an interior/environmental design degree from the University of Cincinnati. She's fond of kitsch, Brooklyn and astroturf. She is currently the 4th wheel on the Core77 team. Tokion Magazine's Creativity Now Conference, New York City Clogger

Todd Falkowsky Toronto, ON, Canada www.hypergraphia.ca Todd Falkowsky is an internationally known product designer, writer and design educator. His education includes an Architecture degree from the Netherlands and a Masters from the prestigious Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. He has won numerous awards, exhibited globally and the press has extensively covered his work. This year he has relocated his studio from Milan to Toronto and has been busy teaching design at OCAD and managing his clients. Northern Design Report

Mike Flanagan Bresslergroup, Philadelphia www.bresslergroup.com Mike Flanagan is Director of Marketing at Bresslergroup. He joined Bresslergroup in 1997 to help inform the design and development process with practical marketing, branding and positioning input. His background includes strategic planning, research design and specification, public relations and product promotion. Mike has been invited to present at events including 2006 About What For conference, IDSA national and district conferences, Product Development Management Association events, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University among others. He has also recently authored or contributed to articles in CORE 77, Innovation, and Appliance Magazine. More Brain, Less Storm

William Gordon Brooklyn, NY WilliamFaxonGordon.com William Gordon is an internationally recognized, award winning independent industrial designer through his company Faxon|Gordon, based in Brooklyn, NY. William's currently designs products for many large manufacturers and small brands. Before going on his own William worked for Kohler Co. designing kitchen bath and home products. He was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and has since lived in many diverse places such as New York, Copenhagen, Manila, and Sheboygan Falls, WI. 16 Manufacturers, 175 Products, 7 Weeks: Reflections on a mission to Manila

Steven Heller New York, NY, USA www.hellerbooks.com 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

Kevin Henry Chicago, IL, USA Kevin Henry coordinates the product design program at Columbia College Chicago. He is an industrial designer, curator, and writer interested in the intersection of design and the rest of the world. He co-chairs the Design For The Majority professional section of the IDSA along with Leslie Speer and Glen Lewis. He is currently writing a book for the British Publisher Laurence King on design visualization. He has received an IDEA and Good Design award. Parallel Universes: Making Do and Getting By + Thoughtless Acts

Dan Hill London, England Dan Hill is Technology & Design Manager at BBC Radio & Music Interactive in London, UK. He has a blog covering many aspects of design at www.cityofsound.com. Insanely great, or just good enough?

Human Beans London, England www.humanbeans.co.uk Human Beans are Mickaîl Charbonnel and Chris Vanstone. The duo met whilst studying product design at Central Saint Martins and have been working together ever since. Their work focuses on developing concepts for products and services including schools, cameras and sms services. Human Beans' "fictional products" have been published and exhibited internationally; they've been writing for Core since 2002. Protein is Good For You! Our Summer Holidays—Swiss Expo 02 Doors of Perception. Flow Droog at the Design Museum Trial & Error—Beyond Imagination What use are people anyway?

Bryan Hynecek www.ignition.com Bryan Hynecek is Director of Design at Ignition, where he has shaped his personal vision of design since joining the firm in 1998. Currently, he is responsible for the supervision of the industrial design staff and the implementation of the overall design philosophy of the company. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Texas. The Future of "User-Designed"

Raymond Jepson Montreal, Canada 914.qc.ca Raymond Jepson is a Montréal based product designer, active in both IDSA and ADIQ. He is currently working in the lighting industry at Bazz Lighting. He has freelanced designing products from many categories, including ice skates for CCM, and car audio equipment. He graduated from Arizona State University. When he doesn't have a pen in hand, he can be found underneath the hood of cars, such as his restored 1974 Porsche 914. Transportation Discussion Moderator Consumer Products Discussion Moderator

Natalie Jeremijenko San Diego, CA, USA www.xdesign.ucsd.edu Jeremijenko interests are in experimental design and technical innovation. She has recently moved from the Faculty of Engineering at Yale to the Visual Art Dept at UCSD. Opinion: Rich Gold

Deb Johnson New York, NY, USA pratt.edu incubator.pratt.edu 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.

Joseph Dennis Kelly II Philadelphia, PA, USA Philadelphia-based journalist Joseph Dennis Kelly II specializes in covering architecture and design. A graduate of the University of the Arts and the Home & Design editor of Philadelphia Style magazine, his work has appeared in I.D. (International Design), Metropolis (forthcoming), Architectural Record, Architecture, World Architecture, Interior Design and Clear. He also provides strategic writing and editing services to clients working internationally in the architectural and design fields. From the Trenches: Marketing a Design Firm Part 1: Green Desire Part 2: Making the Leap Part 3: Beyond Guerrilla: Survivor Marketing Part 4: Principled Expansion

David Kemp Burlington, VT USA www.jdk.com David Kemp is Marketing Director and CFO of Jager Di Paola Kemp Design (JDK), a brand design firm in Burlington, VT. David has been involved in design on the business side for more than 25 years, first as co-owner of a studio in New York City, Harmon Kemp, then joining Creative Director Michael Jager in 1989 in JDK. Earlier he worked in journalism as Public Relations Manager at Dow Jones & Co. and a reporter and columnist at the Boston Globe and other publications. David has A.B. and M.B.A. degrees from Dartmouth College. The New Game in Design: Collaboration and the creation of the Xbox 360

Tim Kennedy New York, NY Smartdesignworldwide.com Tim Kennedy is New York based designer now working as a Director of Industrial Design at Smart Design's New York office. He studied design at the College for Creative Studies and RISD and then worked with Niels Diffrient and Henry Dreyfuss Associates before joining Smart. His design work has included contract and residential furniture, aircraft interior and vehicle design, and consumer, medical, and industrial product design. He holds numerous design and utility patents, and has received 23 International Design Awards including four IDEA Gold awards. Catching Heat: Smart Design builds a better moustrap. Literally.

Amos Klausner San Francisco, CA, USA Amos Klausner is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa, California. Bombing Modernism Behind the Curve: Blobjects and Beyond—The New Fluidity in Design The New Strength of Style Frank Gehry's Attack of the Clones Slipping Into Smart Fabrics Undesigning America Barcelona Postcard

Scott Klinker Bloomfield Hills, MI www.scottklinker.com Product designer and educator Scott Klinker heads the graduate 3D design program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where he also received his MFA in 1996. He has worked in-house for IDEO (Palo Alto) and Sony/Ericsson and later chaired the design program at the Kanazawa International Design Institute in Japan. He currently runs Scott Klinker Product Design developing licensed designs for contract furniture, household goods and toys. In 2006, he was featured as one of Newsweek's annual 'Design Dozen' selection of best new designers. He has also organized exhibitions to promote design in Kanazawa, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Milan. Beyond Fashion: Reviving Experimental Design

Dirk Knemeyer San Jose, CA www.involutionstudios.com www.knemeyer.com Dirk is a principal of Involution Studios, a software services company based in the heart of Silicon Valley. He is also the President of the User Experience Network (UXnet), the only industry non-profit explicitly dedicated to the entirety of the user experience industry. Previously, Dirk was the Chief Design Officer at Thread Information Design and has participated on the Boards of nine different companies and non-profit organizations. He has given presentations and keynotes all around the world and has published more than 100 articles on business and design-related topics. Upping The Ante Understanding business & design through casino poker (pt.4) Upping The Ante Understanding business & design through casino poker (pt.3) Upping The Ante Understanding business & design through casino poker (pt.2) Upping The Ante Understanding business & design through casino poker (pt.1)

Donald Lehman Chicago, IL, USA 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, Blu Dot, RoadWired, and Hefty. Don is currently an industrial designer with Ignite USA in Chicago. The Student Life Clogger

Lindroth + Newick New Haven, CT, USA www.newickarchitects.com Linda Lindroth and Craig Newick are an artist/architect collaborative team investigating relationships between art and architecture and experiential space. Their work has won numerous awards, grant and prizes and has been widely presented. The Bunker

Nico Macdonald London, England www.spy.co.uk www.spy.co.uk Nico Macdonald is a London-based writer on design, technology and business. He is author of What is Web Design? (RotoVision, 2003). He is currently programming a conference on service design and the new roles of design in business, and recently founded the Innovation Reading Circle and Innovation Forum. Further writing can be found at writing.spy.co.uk Institute of Design Strategy Conference 2007 Competitiveness Summit '06

Steven MacGregor Barcelona, Spain www.spmacg.net www.macstrongtours.co.uk Steven is a freelance researcher, teacher and consultant in the areas of business innovation and business in society. Beating the most frequent path between Catalonia, the Basque Country, Brussels and Scotland, he builds on 8 years design + engineering education from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. An international duathlete, he directs a sports tours company in Girona and likes to spend his spare time running and cycling up and down big hills. Corporate Social Responsiblity Reinventing the Wheel

Xanthe Matychak Ithaca, New York failure-is-impossible.blogspot.com @xanthm 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

Kevin McCullagh London, England www.plan.bz Kevin is a director of Plan, a product strategy consultancy based in London. His background spans design, marketing, engineering and academia. While at Plan and in his previous position was Director of Foresight at the product design consultancy Seymour Powell, he has consulted to design, marketing and corporate strategy departments of brands including: Ford, HP, Nokia, Orange, Samsung, Shell, Strategos, Unilever and Yamaha. Kevin also writes, speaks and broadcasts on design, technology and society. Riding the Flux Beware the Backlash

Peter Merholz San Francisco, CA Adaptive Path Peter Merholz is President and one of the founders of Adaptive Path. For more than six years, Peter has been instrumental in developing Adaptive Path's ability to provide world-class consulting, training and public events. He is an internationally recognized thought leader on user experience. He's keynoted such conferences as the IA Summit; About, With, and For and SIGCHI.nl. His blogs and his essays demonstrate his foresight on issues of information architecture, organizational change and product strategy. Experience IS the Product

Victoria Milne Williamsburg, VA Sixcents 'We work hard to make designs that look obvious' is the motto of Victoria Milne's company, 6¢ Design. The firm's domain is the design of home furnishings, with non-product consulting on projects for Boeing, Material Connexion, and Nissan USA. She has also written about design widely, with contributing editor roles at dwell and Blueprint, and Editor-in-Chief status at Glass magazine. She is currently involved with the City of New York's Department of Design and Construction, where she worked on policy for the Design Excellence program. As Director of Creative Services there, she runs the graphics and Percent for Art programs. She is currently developing a new tessere for blown glass.

Blake Moore Williamsburg, VA Blake Moore is a former principal designer with Girth Design. He lives and works in Williamsburg. Firstop: Williamsburg Design

Stephanie Munson Chicago, IL, USA 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. Design Education Today: 2005 Eastman/IDSA National Education Conference We Got Sick of Hearing About Design & China, So we Got on a Plane and Went There Cultural Construct: Travel photos from Cuba

Bob Parks Brattleboro, VT, USA Bob Parks writes about industrial design, consumer technologies, and the outdoors for such magazines as Business 2.0, Outside, and Wired. He lives with his wife, Eileen, and son and daughter, Archer and Lucy, in Brattleboro, Vermont. Interview: Roy Thompson, senior Designer at Continuum Interview: Aurelie Tu, designer at Nike

Justin Petro Austin, TX, USA www.designedge.com A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Justin works at Design Edge and oversees Research and Communication. There he solves strategic business problems with user-centric design solutions. Justin has worked with Dell, Trilogy, Maya, Siemens, and Merrill Lynch, been awarded patents in both hardware and software design, and lectured at leading design schools. Art vs. Design (Museums in the Middle)

Emily Pilloton California www.projecthdesign.com Emily Pilloton is the founder of Project H Design, a charitable organization which supports, inspires, and delivers humanitarian and life improving product design solutions. She champions new models of design academics as the key to more socially conscious industrial design and implements programs that use good design to enable communities and transform economies. Trained in architecture with degrees from UC Berkeley and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she writes for print and online publications including ID, GOOD Magazine and ReadyMade, and is the Senior Editor of Inhabitat.com. She also teaches industrial design at the California College of Arts, and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Art. When she isn't traveling or emailing, Emily enjoys baking cupcakes and playing trivia board games.

Steve Portigal Montara, CA, USA www.portigal.com Steve is a consultant who uses ethnography and other qualitative research techniques to help his clients discover and act on new insights about how their customers work, play, shop, entertain, eat, and live their lives around products and services. He writes FreshMeat, a semi-regular email column about the relationships between business, culture, technology, products, and consumers. Design Research: Practice Noticing Stuff and Telling Stories Letter from Asia Shopping for Innovation Design with Personality Spark:03 The More. The Merrier Total Recall: Looking Back at 2004? Clogger

Tom Reynolds New York, NY, USA Thomas F. Reynolds is a museum administrator who most recently worked for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. He was also an assistant to counsel for enforcement at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Art vs. Design (Museums in the Middle)

Aylin Sayek Istanbul, Turkey Aylin Sayek was born in Ankara, Turkey, and studied ID at METU and Marketing Communications at Emerson College, Boston, MA. She spent two years in NYC, interned at Core77, and moved back to Turkey. She now works as a journalist and design writer for several magazines and newspapers, including Milliyet and Maison Francaise. ICFF 2002: Return to the Chairs! ICFF 2003

Lillian Shieh + Rich Radka Brooklyn, NY, USA www.sr-sr.com Lillian and Rich are partners in Shieh + Radka, a consultancy / lab specializing in product development and strategy for the home. Their work in design planning and ethnographic research helps clients like Verizon Wireless and HP to develop innovative, desirable product solutions. Industry Snapshot

Sally Slevin Sally Slevin has more than 20 years of marketing experience in such areas as software, telecommunications, financial services, interactive TV and product development. Currently, she is director of marketing and business development at E-M Designs. Sally's articles on technology have been published in Database Trends, AS/400 Technology, CiscoWorld and AS/400 Systems Management. Designed for Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas at Burning Man

Joey Stein New York, NY, USA Joseph Stein holds the position of Embedded Interaction Designer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In this capacity he has created new forms of environmental and sculptural interactives, carving inventive landscapes for the visitor experience. These highly acclaimed, award-winning exhibits have included projects such as Mutation Station and Shackleton Sextant Interactive. In addition to his work at the museum, he has taught the masters course in Physical Computing at New York University and lectured at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has spoken about his work at numerous conferences and public gatherings, including the lab at Interval Research and the computer conference, SIGGRAPH. This past winter he held a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico. The Zoology of Physical Computing

Lisa M. Sundbeck Lisa Sundbeck received her B.S. in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University. She lives in New York City and is currently working on her Master of Architecture at Columbia University. Current fascinations involve concepts of a digital habitat and emerging theories of Transarchitecture. Smart Environments

Cordy Swope Munich, Germany www.normal-life.com Cordy Swope is a design strategist and cofounder of normal life, an international product development company. He has directed award-winning programs in consumer understanding for corporations in a wide variety of industries. He can also roll a half dollar on the fingers of his right hand. Simple or Simplistic My Holiday Gift to Core77 Visionary Stupidity The Imagination Market Built for Comfort—Not for Speed Success and the Design of Morality

Brianna Sylver Chicago, IL www.sylverconsulting.com Brianna is the president of Sylver Consulting, a product innovation firm that assists organizations in finding opportunity sweet spots between their customers' needs, business objectives and innovation capabilities. In addition, she offers her expertise as an adjunct faculty professor at the Institute of Design, IIT in Chicago, IL. Instituting Innovation: Tell-all advice from 4 leading practitioners Classroom Case Study: Drug Marketing What does "Innovation" really mean?

Alex Terzich Brooklyn, NY www.altproject.com Flickr Alex Terzich is trained as an architect and currently works with Front, Inc., a specialist façade consulting practice based in New York City. He's a former associate with the architecture firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis and has taught architecture and design courses at the University of Minnesota and Princeton University. Transversing Design Now - A review of the 3rd Cooper-Hewitt Triennial

Bruce M. Tharp Holland, MI, USA Bruce M. Tharp is a Designed Objects professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He and his wife Stephanie (an Industrial Design professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago) also have a design studio, materious. In addition to a PhD and MA in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago, Bruce also holds a Master of Industrial Design degree from Pratt Institute and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University. Presently he is working on a book with his wife entitled Discursive Desi Thoughts from Gravity Free 2007: Chicago Design Education Today: 2005 Eastman/IDSA National Education Conference We Got Sick of Hearing About Design & China, So we Got on a Plane and Went There 2003 IDSA National Education Conference Archived: Design Research (January 04) Cultural Construct: Travel photos from Cuba Clogger

Alice Twemlow Brooklyn, NY Alice Twemlow is chair of a new MFA program in design criticism at the School of Visual Arts. She is also a PhD candidate in design history through a program run by the Royal College of Arts and the V&A Museum. Alice writes about design for magazines including Eye, ID, Print, and Design Observer. She is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision, 2006) and has recently written the introduction for Jonathan Barnbrook's monograph, Barnbrook Bible (Booth Clibborn, 2007). Dreaming of a City: A Letter from Berlin

Camille Utterback Brooklyn, NY, USA www.camilleutterback.com Camille Utterback has exhibited her award-winning interactive video installations at festivals and galleries internationally. Notable accolades include a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002-2003) and inclusion in the 'TR100 top 100 innovators of the year under 35' by MIT's Technology Review (2002). Utterback holds a BA in Art from Williams College, and a Masters degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to creating her own artwork, Utterback develops installations for commercial and museum settings via her company Creative Nerve, and teaches at the Parsons School of Design. Designing Systems for Human Interaction, Not Human-Computer Interaction

Tucker Viemeister Tucker Viemeister is President of Springtime-USA, a partnership with the young Dutch industrial design company. Their clients include Heineken, Nike, Kate Spade and Coca-Cola. A Pratt graduate, Tucker helped found some important design organizations: Razorfish's physical design capability, frogdesign's New York office, Smart Design (he helped design OXO "GoodGrips"). He is VP of the Architectural League of New York, Chair of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund, and Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America. He produced and designed "Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow." He teaches at NYU's ITP. Opinion: Emotional (vs.) Intelligence

Stuart Walker Calgary, AB, Canada Stuart Walker is Associate Dean (Academic) and Professor of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at Kingston University, UK. He holds a PhD (Leeds) in engineering, and the MDes(RCA) and Diploma of Imperial College in Industrial Design Engineering. His writings on sustainability and product design have been presented and published internationally, and his experimental design work has been exhibited in Toronto, Calgary and at the Design Museum, London. Northern Design Report

Jessica Walters Jessica Walters is a consultant who uses experiential learning and self-awareness to help her clients tap into their own creativity and be more innovative at work and play. Nouvelle Cuisine Revisited

Gudrun Wanek Graz, Austria www.neversleep.org In 2003, Gudrun Wanek received a MA in Interaction and Media Design from the University of Applied Arts FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria. She is working with the objective of crossing disciplines and mediums in an attempt to tangle conventional boundries of live video performance, design, interactive media, photography and architecture. Form Divorces, Then Kills, Function

Amy Westervelt San Francisco, CA, USA Amy Westervelt is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. Form Divorces, Then Kills, Function

Ian White New York, NY, USA Ian White is a design and business strategist. He currently serves as founder of Urban Mapping, which created the award-winning Dynamap. White is also Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design. Letter from the Front Lines

Danae Willson The Great Northwest Danae Willson, Yogini, is a certified yoga teacher whose first love and commitment is to the design industry. For more than two decades her agency brought about significant and influential initiatives, programs and projects in and around NY, the US and internationally. As a professor she tutored fleets of up-and-coming designers and design leaders. She spoke, she wrote, she judged, she won awards, she founded and directed a design center, led a national design-trade association and, she is Core77’s founding fairy god mother. Design is 9/10ths of the Law

Tobias Wong New York, NY, USA Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Tobias Wong creates in New York. After studying art and architecture, he graduated in sculpture from The Cooper Union. Wong treats design as a medium rather than a discipline to show how it embraces the aesthetics traditionally relegated to the fine arts. He's coined the term "paraconceptual" to describe his dismantling of the hierarchies between "art" and "design". In Wong's hands, both can an have often similar goals. An interview with New York designer.....Tobias Wong

Andrew Zolli New York, NY, USA www.zpluspartners.com Andrew Zolli is a forecaster, design strategist and author who specializes in helping people and institutions see, understand and act upon complex change. He runs Z + Partners, a design and futures research think tank. Pixelvision: A Meditation