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Marc Alt
Marc Alt is president and creative director of Marc Alt + Partners, a design and brand strategy firm specializing in environmental strategy, innovation and sustainability. Marc works with select companies in a wide range of industries on developing green strategy and communications. He has spoken at a variety of industry events and to private companies, including GE, Bloomberg LP, Estee Lauder, Liz Claiborne, Lippincott, Neenah Paper, AIGA, GAA and the PSFK Trends Conference and is quoted frequently in media. As an advocate of business transformation, Marc develops environmental conferences, including Grow, the first conference dedicated to the intersection of design, sustainability and commerce, and Greener Gadgets, a conference exploring the challenges, possibilities and trends in the greening of the $170 billion consumer electronics industry. He is also involved with a number of initiatives that are helping designers and companies come together to accelerate understanding of sustainable design principles. Marc serves on the advisory board and is Vice President of the The Designers Accord and is founding co-chair of the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design. Marc previously served on the board of the NY Chapter of AIGA, The Professional Association for Design.
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Ilise Benun
Ilise Benun is an author, national speaker and co-founder of Marketing Mentor. She is the author of Stop Pushing Me Around: A Workplace Guide for the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive, Designing Web Sites for Every Audience and The Art of Self Promotion. She is also co-author of Public Relations for Dummies, 2nd Edition. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Inc. Magazine, Essence and Working Woman, plus all the major design publications, including HOW, Dynamic Graphics and more. Ilise has conducted workshops and given presentations for national and international trade organizations, including American Marketing Association, International Association of Business Leaders, Business Marketing Association, the National Association of Women Business Owners, AIGA, Graphic Artists Guild and the HOW Design Conference.
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Louise Fili
Louise Fili is principal of Louise Fili Ltd, specializing in food packaging and restaurant identities. Formerly senior designer for Herb Lubalin, Fili was art director of Pantheon Books from 1978 to 1989, where she designed over 2000 book jackets. She has received awards from every major design competition, including Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators, the Premio Grafico from the Bologna Book Fair, and three James Beard nominations. In 2004 she was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame. Fili has taught and lectured on graphic design and typography and her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts design grant to study the work of W.A. Dwiggins, and is co-author, with Steven Heller, of Italian Art Deco, Dutch Moderne, Streamline, Cover Story, British Modern, Deco Espana, German Modern, French Modern, Typology, Design Conoisseur, Counter Culture, Stylepedia, and Euro Deco. She recently wrote and designed A Civilized Shopper's Guide to Florence.
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Steff Geissbuhler
Steff Geissbuhler is one of the world’s leading designers of logos and corporate identity programs. For more than 30 years, as one of three partners at the former firm of Chermayeff & Geismar Inc., and now as the co-founder of C&G Partners, he has created identities for clients as diverse as NBC, Time Warner, National Public Radio, Telemundo, Conrad Hotels, Voice of America, Barneys New York, MercyCorps and the National Parks of New York Harbor. He is known for establishing close working relationships with his clients; many, including Crane Business Papers, Irwin Financial and Hypertherm, perpetually seek his advice and counsel. In addition to creating brand identity symbols, logotypes, and programs, Mr. Geissbuhler is known for graphics and illustrations that express the character of large organizations. He designed the award-winning architectural graphics for the IBM building in New York City and the complete sign system for the University of Pennsylvania, as well as publications and print programs for such corporations as Mobil, Philip Morris and Morgan Stanley. In 2005, he was awarded the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Graphic Design, the most distinguished honor in the field of communication design. Steff has served on the faculty at The Cooper Union, and as a visiting critic at the Yale University School of Art & Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Maine College of Art and Kent State University. He frequently lectures at design conferences, schools and universities.
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Lee Jacobson
Lee Jacobson is a brand, marketing and communications strategist and, at heart, a problem solver focused on getting results for his clients. He has over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing successful projects that help clients achieve their most significant opportunities. He works with public, private and not-for-profit organizations to help them articulate and express their value in ways that are compelling and tangible to key audiences – from strategy to marketing programs and organizational alignment. Lee was VP of The Watt Group, Managing Director of Bruce Mau Design, VP of a major U.S. Brand consulting firm and Senior Brand Strategist at Ove Design and Communications. In these roles he planned, developed, implemented and managed programs for a wide variety of private and public sector clients in the areas of; retail and consumer package good, not-for-profit organizations in education and health care, energy, telecommunications, financial services, public transportation, technology (IT and biotech), B2B products and professional services. Lee has an undergraduate degree from Brandeis and a Masters in architecture and urban planning from MIT. For six years he wrote a regular column in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business on design and business.
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Rick Poyner
Rick Poynor was the founding editor of Eye magazine, which he edited from 1990 to 1997. He has been a contributing editor and columnist for Print magazine in New York since 2000, and he has written about design, media and visual culture for I.D., Metropolis, Blueprint, Icon, Frieze, Adbusters, Creative Review, Harvard Design Magazine, The Guardian, Financial Times, and many other publications. In 2003, he was a co-founder of Design Observer, which rapidly became a leading weblog for design discussion. Poynor’s books include No More Rules (2003), a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism, and three essay collections, Design Without Boundaries (1998), Obey the Giant (2001) and Designing Pornotopia (2006). His latest book is Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice (2008), a monograph about the radical Dutch designer. In 2004, Poynor was curator of “Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties” at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. From 1994 to 1999, he was a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London and since 2006 he has been a research fellow at the college. He has lectured widely about design matters in Europe, the US, Australia and China.
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Masamichi Udagawa
Masamichi graduated from Chiba University in Japan, then joined the Yamaha Product Design Laboratory in 1987. There he designed electronic musical instruments, including the award winning YS200 synthesizer. After receiving his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1991, he worked at Emilio Ambasz Design Group. From 1992 to 1995 Masamichi was a senior designer at Apple Computer Industrial Design Group. In 1997 he co-founded Antenna Design. Antenna’s mission is to make the experience of objects and environments more meaningful and exciting. Antenna’s projects range from public to commercial, from applied to exploratory. Among Antenna’s best known projects are the design of New York City subway cars and ticket vending machines, JetBlue check-in kiosks, an installation in the windows of Bloomingadale’s activated by passersby. Antenna’s user-centered design approach helps understand human behavior, which is particularly important when designing the unfamiliar, elicited by new technology. Masamichi is the recipient of numerous design awards. Most recently, he was awarded the Muriel Cooper Award for outstanding achievements in advancing design, technology and communication.
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Brett Wickens
Brett Wickens, an internationally renowned branding consultant, designer and writer, is responsible for leading the creative team at MetaDesign to deliver the highest quality solutions for our clients. Brett has advised businesses including Adobe, Apple, Intel, Microsoft and Sony. Prior to joining MetaDesign, Brett was VP, Global Creative Director at Sapient (formerly Studio Archetype), where he led several key design projects for major clients and lead the firm’s 500-person global creative team. From 1990-93, Brett was associate partner at Pentagram Design in London, one of the world’s top 10 design firms. From 1982-90, he was a founding partner in the critically acclaimed British design studio Peter Saville Associates, where he designed seminal works for artists such as Peter Gabriel and Paul McCartney, fashion designers such as Yohji Yamamoto and Jil Sander, and institutions such as Centre Georges Pompidou and London’s Natural History Museum. Brett studied design at the Ontario College of Art and typography at the London College of Printing.
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