Graphic designer; senior art director, SpotCo

Education: BFA, School of Visual Arts

Professional experience: Senior art director, Rolling Stone; designer, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine

Awards and honors: AIGA; Art Directors Club; Type Directors Club; Society of Publication Designers; Cooper-Hewitt Design Archive, Library of Congress

Creative Director and President of Big Film Design (formerly Balsmeyer & Everett, Inc.)

Education: BFA, California Institute of the Arts

Professional Experience: Creator of title sequences and visual effects in collaboration with filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Joel & Ethan Coen, Harold Ramis, and Wayne Wang. Director of live action opening sequences for Sesame Street, Between the Lines and Shaft. Director of Photography and Visual Effects Supervisor on many films. Designer/Director at R/Greenberg Associates.

Jonathan Bell

Founder, Want Branding

Education: BA, Manchester Metropolitan University; MBA, Stern School of Business, New York University

Professional experience includes: Vice President, Interbrand

Clients include: Anguilla Tourist Board, Sprint, Zurich Financial Services, TeamEncounter, Nikon, Hankyu Hotels Group, Merrill Lynch, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Architectural Digest, Cadbury-Schweppes, Dell, Cablevision, XO Communications, Wal-Mart, Furniture.com, Enron, Duracell, Walt Disney, WingspanBank, Ziff-Davis, Nissan, MTV ects Supervisor on many films. Designer/Director at R/Greenberg Associates.

Principal, Boym Partners Inc.

Education: BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Pratt Institute

Professional experience: Smart Design, Inc.; Carbone Smolan

Clients include: Acme, Alessi, DMD/Droog Design, Flos, Swatch, Authentics, Vitra, Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Awards and honors include: Best of Category, ID Annual Design Awards; George Nelson Award, Interiors; Federal Design Achievement Award; Museum of Modern Art permanent design collection

Publications include: Curious Boym: Design Works

Education: Trinity College

Occupation: Owner/President, Buck House and The Gallery of Buck House

Professional Experience: Designer and illustrator of animated theme properties including Walt Disney Productions, Hanna-Barbera, United Features Syndicates, Bobs-Merrill and others. Instructor of French cuisine, Institute of Culinary Education, New York

Exhibitions Baltimore Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Bronx Museum and many private gall0eries

Publications: The New York Times, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, House and Garden, Metropolitan Home, House Beautiful, New York Sun, Art and Antiques Weekly

Founder and Chairman, Callaway Arts & Entertainment

Education: BA, cum laude, Harvard University

Professional experience includes: Director of Galleries, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France

Publications include: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings; Georgia O’Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers; Sex by Madonna; Miss Spider series including Miss Spider’s Tea Party; Madonna’s series of children’s books including The English Roses, Mr. Peabody’s Apples, Yakov and the Seven Thieves, The Adventures of Abdi, and Lotsa de Casha

Creative Director, Funny Garbage

Education: School of Visual Arts

Professional experience: Founding member, Funny Garbage

Clients include: Cartoon Network, Luaka Bop, Walt Disney, IFC, Nascar, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros.

Publications: Émigre, Mass Appeal, Adobe, Eye, IMG SRC 100 by Shift Productions, Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design

Exhibitions: "Chris Capuozzo Art Show," Funny Garbage Gallery, 2001; "Street Market," Dietch Projects, 2001; National Design Triennial, 2000; National Design Museum

Partner, Carbone Smolan Agency

Education: MFA, University of the Arts, Philadelphia

Professional experience: Signage and wayfinding systems developed for the Louvre; identity program for Sesame Workshop; international display system for Tiffany & Co., global prototype retail environment for HMV Record Stores; worldwide identity and display system for Christie's

Clients include: Morgan Stanley, Quick & Reilly, MoMA, High Museum, Hartford Stage, Woodruff Arts Center

Education: MID from Pratt Institute, 1988; BA Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1984.

Professional experience: Allan Chochinov is a partner at Core77, a New York-based design network supporting the global design community through both online and offline initiatives. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website, Coroflot.com design job and portfolio site, and DesignDirectory.com design firm database. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. (Projects included work for Herman Miller, Johnson & Johnson, Federal Express, Kodak, A.C. Nielsen, Oral-B, Crunch Fitness and others.) He teaches in the graduate department at New York's Pratt Institute, and at the School of Visual Arts.

Clients: Core77 clients include AIGA, DesignObserver, Businessweek, How Magazine, I.D. Magazine, Print Magazine, Art Directors Club, as well as myriad design firms, schools, recruiters, and manufacturers around the globe.

Awards: Named on numerous design and utility patents; awards from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, and The One Club.

Books include: Before & After Series

Senior partner, executive creative director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Education: Parsons School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art

Clients include: American Express, Motorola, AT&T, Mattel, IBM, The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Levi Strauss & Co., Jaguar, MTV, Janus Funds, Amazon.com, Walt Disney Company

Awards and honors include: AIGA; Best of Show, ID; Graphis; Communication Arts; 100 Show; Print; Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, Creativity

Creative Director, Doyle Partners Education: B.A., The Cooper Union

Professional Experience: Creator, Spy magazine; Art Director, M&Co; Associate Art Director, Rolling Stone magazine and Esquire.

Clients: the World Financial Center, Manhattan; Wamsutta sheets; the Edison Project, the Metropolitan Transit Authority in Grand Central Terminal, Barnes & Noble, Martha Stewart Everyday products for Kmart, Champion International, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Awards: Augustus St. Gaudens award from his alma mater, Cooper Union.

Education: Skidmore College, School of Visual Arts.

Occupation: Principal, Louise Fili Ltd.

Professional experience: Senior Designer, Herb Lubalin, 1976-1978. Designer of over 2,000 book jackets as Art Director of Pantheon Books, 1976-1978.

Collections: Library of Congress, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Musee des Arts Decoratifs

Awards & Honors: Gold and Silver Medals, New York Art Directors Club and The Society of Illustrators; Premio Grafico, Bologna Book Fair; three James Beard award nominations

Publications: Co-author of Italian Art Deco, Dutch Moderne, Streamline, Cover Story, British Modern, Deco Espana, German Modern, French Modern, and Typology published by Chronicle Books.

President and creative director, Milton Glaser, Inc.; board member, School of Visual Arts; trustee, Cooper Union. Formerly, co-founder, president, Push Pin Studios; co-founder, president, creative director, New York magazine; vice president, co-chair, AIGA; president, International Design Conference, Aspen

Education: Cooper Union; Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy

One-person exhibitions include: Lincoln Center Gallery; Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union; Suntory Museum, Japan; Nuages Gallery, Italy; Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University; Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Boston. European traveling exhibition: Barcelona, Venice, Bologna and Paris

Environmental and industrial design clients include: Alessi, Milan; Rainbow Room. Over 300 posters for clients, including Carnegie Hall, World Health Organization, Lincoln Center

Awards and honors include: Hall of Fame, Art Directors Club; Illustrators Hall of Fame, Society of Illustrators; Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators; Fulbright Scholarship; honorary fellow, Society of Arts, England; St. Gaudens Medal, Cooper Union; Masters Series Award, School of Visual Arts. Honorary doctorates: Moore College of Art; Philadelphia Museum School; School of Visual Arts; Minneapolis Institute of Fine Art; Queens College; Royal College of Art, London.

Curator of exhibitions, Museum of Arts and Design

Education: BA, magna cum laude, Swarthmore College

Professional experience: Director, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology; curator of exhibitions, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design

Curatorial works include: "Weaving Tradition: Carol Cassidy and Woven Silks of Laos"; "Fleur on Flair: A Magazine and its Legacy"; "Hello Again: Recycling for the Real World"; "Judith Leiber, The Artful Handling"; "Moon Over Pearls, Gene Moore's Tiffany Windows and Beyond"; "From Printed Line to Woven Flower, Exploring Textile Design"; "Dreams on Paper: Home Sewing in America"; "Shoes, A Lexicon of Style"; "The Catalan Spirit: Gaudí and his Contemporaries"; "L’Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989"; "The Intimate World of Alexander Calder"; "The Power of Maps"

Designer/Artist

Education: BFA, London College of Printing a Graphic Art; MFA, Yale University School of Art and Architecture

Professional Experience: Designer of books, posters, exhibitions; teaches at FIT; taught at Cooper Union, University of the Arts, RISD and Yale

Clients: United Nations, MTA, Bank of America, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, University of Virginia, Getty Museum

Publications: Make Your Own Museum, Signs and Spaces, Baseline; 2 full length articles in IDEA magazine, Japan

Awards and Honors: Winner, World's Most Memorable Poster 1999/2000; Bronze medal from BRNO 1970/1972; Czechoslovakia International Graphic Design Exhibit; have been included in this years Warsaw Poster Biennale

Others: Posters in MoMA Collection; work shown in the Modern Poster, MoMA 1988; work in collection of Library of Congress, National Archives, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, the Biblotheque National de France

Founder and CEO, Bakunin Brothers; owner, co-founder, Area Inc.

Education: BA, Hebrew University; MA, MEd, Columbia University; New York University

Professional experience: CEO, Joe Boxer Corporation; CEO, Phat Fashions LLC; videographer, Parliamentarians of Global Action; owner, CEO, Overseas Marketing Ltd.; owner, CEO, Kavec Holdings, Ltd.

Author, Illustrator

Education: New York University

Professional Experience: CEO, Vice president and secretary, M&Co; art associate, National Lampoon

Clients include: Museum of Modern Art, Kate Spade, Ralph Pucci, Mark Morris Dance Group, Isaac Mizrahi, Vitra, The New Yorker, The New York Times

Books include: Max Makes a Million; Fireboat; What Pete Ate from A-Z; (un)FASHION with Tibor Kalman

Exhibitions include: Ginza Gallery, Tokyo; Children’s Museum of Manhattan; Julie Saul Gallery; Armory Show; Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA

Designer, Typographer, Author, Performer

Education: BA, Queens College; MFA, Yale University

Books and plays authored and designed: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America; The Portrait Series: a quartet of men: Brother Blue, Charlie, Nicky D. from L.I.C., Claude; FRENCH FRIES; versations; I mean you know; GRRRHHH: a study of social patterns; TYPE DREAMS; A Tattle Tale; Denial of the Fittest; The Whole K’ Cuffin World; Social Security; the life and times of Eugene Soloman; The Search for IT and Other Pronouns

Collections include: Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Jean Brown Archive; Franklin Furnace Archive; Yale Art of the Book Room; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Sackner Collection

Awards and honors include: National Endowment of the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; New York State Foundation for the Arts; Ford Foundation; Puffin Foundation; AIGA; Prix Ars Electronica; Type Directors Club; Rockefellers Foundation; Innovative Use of Archives Award; NY Book Best of the Best Award; Media That Matters Award

Links: www.WarrenLehrer.com

Trademark attorney, The Martinez Group

Education: BFA, Pratt Institute; JD, Hofstra University

Professional experience: Design patent examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office; design production director, The Schechter Group; design production director, Landor Associates

Publications include: Regular contributor, ID, Print

Chair, 3-D design program, Advertising and Graphic Design department, School of Visual Arts; 3-D designer and illustrator; principal, O’Callaghan & Co—Art for the Film Industry

Education: BFA, School of Visual Arts

Clients include: MTV Networks, Toyota, Warner Brothers Records, A&E Networks, The History Channel, ABC Pictures

Publications: People, US, Graphis, Playboy New York, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times

Curatorial work includes: "Skeleton," Whitney Museum of American Art; "What Makes Them Tick?" Art Directors Club; "YUGO Next," traveling exhibition; "The Turn of the Century: A Carousel," traveling exhibition to Grand Central Terminal, Union Station, Washington DC, and Union Station, Chicago

Vice-president and publisher, children's books, calendars and stationery, Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc.; senior editor, general publishing, Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc.

Education: Wake Forest University

Professional experience: Editorial staff, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.; Buena Vista Publishing

Awards and honors for books edited: Caldecott Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Society of Illustrators gold and silver medals, The New York Times Best Illustrated, The Boston Globe Horn Book Award, Art Directors Club, AIGA 50 Best Books, ALA Notable Books, Parenting Reading Magic Award, Parent’s Choice Silver Medal, the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval, Michael L. Printz Honor Book

Graphic designer, founder, Sagmeister Inc.

Education: MS, Pratt Institute; MFA, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Professional experience: M&Co; creative director, Leo Burnett Hong Kong; art director, Sagmeister Graphics; designer, Schauspielhaus Vienna; designer, ETC., Vienna

Clients include: Rolling Stone, David Byrne, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Pat Metheny, Muir Conelius Moore, Parham Santana

Publications include: The New York Times, Rolling Stone

Television credits include: Entertainment Weekly, The Tonight Show with David Letterman, Good Morning America

Awards and honors include: Over 200 design awards, including: The One Show; Art Directors Club; Communication Arts; D&AD; Grand Prix, Moscow Art Directors Club Hall of Fame

Experimental Filmmaker

Education: BA, Bard College; American Film Institute

Films include: Whiplash, a film by Warren Sonbert, completed after the filmmaker's death; Yours; Trigger Happy; Bang Bang; Turkish Traffic; Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Collections include: Museum of Modern Art, Academy Film Archives, Pacific Film Archives

Group exhibitions include: Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum

Jeff Scher : Milk of Amnesia
05-06-04 to 06-19-04 at the Maya Stebdhal gallery.

Education: Ph.D. in Science and Literature, Columbia University

Occupation: President, ESI Design

Professional experience: Designer for interactive, participatory experiences beginning in 1977 with the nation’s first hands-on learning environment for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Publishes books frequently on the subject of interactive design including Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century. Served on the Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation and is a member of the Board of Directors of New York City Outward Bound and the John F. Kennedy Library.

Graphic designer; art director; partner/founder, Number Seventeen, New York

Education: BFA, Carnegie-Mellon University

Clients include: Worldwide Pants, Condé Nast Publications, Saturday Night Live, Mercer Hotel, Herman Miller, Hyperion Books, MTV, NBC, Nickelodeon.

Awards and exhibitions include: Type Director’s Club; Art Directors Club; Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Typography & the Moving Image; ID; Metropolitan Home, Design 100

Proprietor, Open

Education: BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

Professional experience: Art director, COlors magazine; senior designer, M&Co

Clients include: American Museum of Moving Image, art:21, Bravo, EarthAction, MTV, The Nation, Nick at Nite, PBS, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Trio, Wieden + Kennedy

Awards and honors include: American Center for Design, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association, Society of Publication Designers, Tokyo Type Directors' Club, Type Directors Club

Publications include: Creative Review (UK), Critique, Communication Arts, Eye (UK), Grafik (UK), How, IdN (Hong Kong), I.D., Metropolis, +81 (Japan), Print, STEP Inside Design

Writer; creative director; president, Young Vienne, Inc.

Education: Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Professional experience includes: Contributing editor, House & Garden; creative director, Cato Gobe; director of business development, Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, NY; founding art director, Parenting; founding editorial director, Mode; art director, Interiors, Image, Self

Author: The Art of Doing Nothing; The Art of Imperfection; The Art of Growing Up; The Art of Expecting; Something to be Desired, a Collection of Essays on Design; Chip Kidd, a Monograph

Books edited and co-edited: Fresh Dialogue Three; Fresh Dialogue Four; New Voices in Graphic Design; Citizen Designer; Perspectives on Design Responsibility

Publications include: Martha Stewart Living, Town & Country, House & Garden, InStyle, Mirabella, Redbook, Spa Finder, Metropolis, Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, Eye, American Photo, AIGA Journal