Marc Alt is a design leader who has dedicated his career to connecting design, technology and ecology. An advocate of open innovation, he has launched numerous projects, conferences and organizatio... more ⇒
Allison Arieff is Editor at Large for GOOD, and a Contributing Columnist for the New York Times’ Opinionator blog. She writes and consults on issues related to media, food, design and sustain... more ⇒
What John does best is help companies, and their people, find the courage, and the sense of humor to consider whole new, wrong ways of bringing their stories, ideas, and innovations out into the wo... more ⇒
Throughout her career, Joan Bodensteiner has been a strong advocate for and a leader in creating strategies that leverage the power of community and social marketing to grow businesses, increase cu... more ⇒
As Creative Director, John Bricker leads Gensler’s Brand Design studio, an integrated group of multidisciplinary designers and strategists whose award-winning work is based on a deep platform of sy... more ⇒
John’s career began in the early 1980s as a Professor of Art, Film History and Popular Culture at Yale University, Williams College and elsewhere. During this period, he published numerous articles... more ⇒
Valerie Casey is a globally recognized designer and innovator. She specializes in helping organizations—from Fortune 100 companies to governments and start-ups—address cultural, economic, and envir... more ⇒
Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is editor in chief of Core77.com, Coroflot.com, and Design... more ⇒
Elan is one of the founding members of Chris Hacker’s Global Strategic Design Office at Johnson & Johnson. The group’s mission is to re-imagine the company’s brands, create new ones, uncover ne... more ⇒
William Drenttel is a graphic designer, publisher and design leader. He works in partnership with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse, a design studio in Falls Village, Connecticut, focused on publishin... more ⇒
Sonya Dufner is the Director of Workplace at the New York office of Perkins+Will, working with many global clients to develop workplace solutions, planning and design guidelines, real estate strate... more ⇒
Michael Etter is an artist, educator, and activist who works in – and at the intersection of – graphic arts and publishing, media communications, and grassroots organizing. Michael’s work reflects ... more ⇒
Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program and co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism and MFA in Interaction Design programs at the School of Visual Arts, New York. For ... more ⇒
DK Holland is a strategist, writer, creative director who turned her attention to the effective branding of social and environmental causes after developing award-winning programs that included bra... more ⇒
Tim Leberecht is the Chief Marketing Officer at frog design, the global innovation firm that has helped Apple, GE, HP, Sony, and many other leading brands create and bring to market groundbreaking ... more ⇒
For the past fourteen years, Gabriela has been collaborating with teams of designers on projects ranging from books to exhibitions for AIGA, the professional association for design. Prior to joinin... more ⇒
As a high-school sophomore, David Orlowski wrote term papers for seniors: $20 for an A, with a discount for lower grades. They all got A’s. Since then he has originated and improved content and cop... more ⇒
John Peterson is the Founder and President of Public Architecture, a national nonprofit organization that is mobilizing designers to use their skills and expertise to drive social change. He is als... more ⇒
Michele Ronsen credits her father with her inspiration to be a designer. “When I was three years old, he pointed to a rotating McDonald’s sign and asked me to draw a picture of how the inside worke... more ⇒
Sam Shelton is a designer, educator, and business strategist. He is a founding partner of KINETIK, a design firm in Washington, DC. Since 1988, Sam’s strong belief in the power of design as a strat... more ⇒
Laura Shore is senior vice president of communications and innovation strategy for Mohawk Fine Papers, where she responsible for e-commerce and branding. In more than 20 years with Mohawk, she and ... more ⇒
Joshua To is a founder and managing director at Hattery, an early-stage venture capital fund and ideas and innovation lab that helps build products and organizations that promise to make remarkable... more ⇒
Alice Twemlow is a British-born writer and educator based in New York. She is chair and co-founder of the Design Criticism MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and also a PhD c... more ⇒
Pamela Williams is a founding partner of Williams and House, an award-winning strategic communications practice, best known nationally for its work in the world of design. The unique practice provi... more ⇒
Maurice Woods graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a BFA and MFA in Visual Communication Design. He played basketball as an undergraduate and professionally worldwide for 7 ... more ⇒
