Leimei Julia Chiu
Executive Director, Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization,
Tokyo, Japan
Professor, Visual Communication Department, Musashino Art University
Leimei Julia Chiu has spent most of her adult life working to help designers and students of design promote their work across national and cultural barriers. Born in Taiwan, raised and educated in the USA and later in Japan, Leimei has acquired a diverse cultural and academic foundation. Leimei serves as Executive Director for the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO). Founded in 1969, JIDPO is a multi-disciplinary promotional institute representing Japan to forge collaborations amongst industries, academic institutions and governmental bodies from across the world. From 1997 through 2001, Leimei acted as Vice President of Icograda. A recipient of the Mainichi Design Award (jointly with the 2003 Icograda Congress ‘VISUALOUGUE’ Planning team) and Icograda President’s Award, she has served on numerous competition juries, including Red Dot Award, Brno Biennial, Design for Asia Award; and currently serves on the Jury of the Good Design Award, Japan’s only overall system for evaluating and promoting design.
Louis Gagnon
Co-founder, Paprika Montreal, Quebec
Louis Gagnon founded the Montreal-based Paprika design firm with Joanne Lefebvre in 1991. His work as creative director has always adhered to the same ideals: restraint, intelligence, balance and elegance. This unique style has been widely recognized in Quebec, Canada and beyond with over 400 national and international awards. The regularity of this recognition, even more than the sheer quantity of awards won, attests to Gagnon’s constant focus on the bare essentials of pure beauty. In fact, the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec has acquired nearly two dozen of his works at Paprika for its permanent collection. Paprika’s major clients include Cascades, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Periphere, Commissaires and Le Germain Hotels. For the past few years, Louis Gagnon has been sharing his taste for timeless design that sparks the imagination with students at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), where he teaches a course in graphic design.
Garth Walker
Mister Walker, Durban, South Africa
<<<<<<< .mineWalker founded Orange Juice Design in Durban in 1995. The agency, at which Walker serves as creative director, creates corporate identities, literature and packaging for many of South Africa's best known corporate and consumer brands. However, it is his interest in developing and encouraging a design language rooted in the African experience for which he is best known: since 1995, Orange Juice Design has published i-jusi (www.ijusi.co.za), allegedly Africa's only experimental graphics magazine. Recipient of more than 100 design awards, Walker has had his work published in over 80 magazines and books, and exhibited in 14 countries.
=======Garth founded Orange Juice Design, one of South Africa’s best known design studios in 1994. In late 2008 he’s again gone solo with Mister Walker, a small studio concentrating on a wide range of ‘interesting projects’ for large and small clients. Since 1995 Garth has published his studio magazine i-jusi, which aims to promote, educate and encourage a graphic design language rooted in the South African experience. Garth is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), British Design and Art Direction (D&AD), The St. Moritz Design Summit and The Type Directors Club (TDC). He is a founding Trustee of the South African Graphic Design Council (THINK). His work is in the collection of Museum of Modern Art, Biblioteque Nationale de France, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Smithsonian and a number of University collections in Europe, Australia, China, South Africa and the USA. He has exhibited, been an invited speaker, workshop host and student educator in some 25 countries on all 5 continents.
>>>>>>> .r657Tarek Atrissi
Tarek Atrissi Design Hilversum, The Netherlands
Born in Beirut, Tarek Atrissi has worked and studied in Lebanon, The Netherlands, Qatar, Dubai and the United States. He holds a BA in Graphic Design with distinction from the American University of Beirut; a Masters of Arts in Interactive Multimedia from the Utrecht School of the Arts in Holland; and an MFA in Design from the School of the Arts in New York.
Tarek is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer at international design events and universities- and teaches at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. His awards include the Type Director’s Club, two Adobe Design Achievement Awards, the Aquent Design Awards , The Dutch Design Award, and four IBDAA99 Awards. He is the co-author of “Visual Narratives from Arabia” published by Unesco in 2007. His Netherland’s based studio, Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com), gained a worldwide reputation for its focus on cross cultural design work and for developing a modern Arabic Graphic and Typographic design language.
Kyle Kim
Professor Visual Communication Design Hongik University
Kyle Hyunsuk Kim is a design educator and practitioner based in Seoul, Korea. He is currently a Professor at the School of Design, Hongik University and co-founder of design firm UM & Partners. He is an expert speaker, communications strategist, public speaker, consultant, and accomplished creative director/design manager with a focus on interactive design. Kyle joined Yahoo! International’s UED team as a creative director and designed event sites such as the official website of the FIFA World Cup 2002, the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 USA and FIFA World Cup Germany 2006. He is a currently committee member of the Korea Web Awards, a vice president of VIDAK (Visual Information Design Association in Korea), and a board member of the ADADA (Asia Digital Arts and Design Association).
Cristina Chiappini
Cristina Chiappini, born in Rome, Italy, in 1967, studied graphic design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. She started her own firm in 1989 and has since worked for national and international clients coming from the public sector and private sectors. Her consultancy operates in the fields of visual communication, branding, Web and interactive media design, film and television motion graphics (for RAI International, the global channel of the Italian public television). She has also been engaged in an intense teaching career in graphic design and interaction design at several universities: Sapienza University of Rome, IUAV University of Venice – UNIRSM University of the Republic of San Marino. Cristina Chiappini is a member of the Italian Design Council recently founded by the Italian Ministry of Culture and vice-president of AIAP – Association of Italian Graphic Designers.