Isidro Ferrer
National Design and Illustration Prizes, Spain
Ferrer was qualified in Dramatic Arts and Scenography. He studied mime and pantomime at Jacques Lecoq's school in Paris. In 1989, he worked at the studio of the graphic designer Peret in Barcelona. After spending time in Zaragoza and Valencia, where he made story boards for an animated series, he established his own studio in Huesca in 1996. He combines his work as a graphic designer with intense work in the field of illustration, creating comics, animations for television, or publishing children's books and unclassifiable books. He has won various international awards for his work as a graphic designer and illustrator. He has published over 20 books.
His work has been the object of numerous individual exhibitions in Madrid, Gijon, Lisbon, Rouen, Rijeka, Bogota, Toulouse, Quito, Turin, Paris and Mexico D.F.
François Caspar
François Caspar, France
Communication designer since 1989, based in Paris, François Caspar creates in solo or coordinates a multi-disciplinary network of specialists such as copywriters, designers, developers, photographers. He has designed customized on- line/off-line overall visual communication for European and French local government bodies, companies, theaters and artists. He is a specialist of the theatre poster. Exhibitions &Publications François Caspar's posters have received awards and have been shown in 60 international exhibitions and belong to public and private collections as in Paris, Hamburg or New York. They have been published in specialized magazines or books such as Art and design, Etapes, Idea, Pixel Creation, Signes and New Masters of Poster Design. Commitment François Caspar is president and cofounder of the French Designers Alliance, the first multi-disciplinary professional organization of designers in France. He focuses on exchanges with European colleagues, design fee, rights and intellectual property issues. He has been consultant for institutions such as the Orsay museum or the French Ministry of Culture. Teaching He transmits his experience in visual communication and designers' rights and duties at design schools or in workshops in France and abroad, and he also has been member of juries for international design competitions.
Catelijne van Middelkoop
Strange Attractors, The Netherlands
Catelijne van Middelkoop (NL) is one of the partners of Strange Attractors Design, an international studio specializing in typography and (brand) communication for print, motion and interactive media. Since 2001 studio founders Ryan Pescatore Frisk (USA) and Van Middelkoop have collaborated with a range of cultural and commercial clients - including FontShop International, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo Lab, City Centre Offices in Berlin and The Oratai SoundSalon in New York - to produce design solutions and products which represent distinct messages and experiences.
Their work reflects their keen interest in the intertwining of culture, media, context, and experience. While they take a highly experimental approach to each of their wide-ranging design projects, their custom designed type and typography are hallmarks. Through lectures and workshops they encourage designers and design students to see, value, and reinvent the vernacular around them.
The work of Strange Attractors has been recognized by many including the Type Directors Club NY, The Art Directors Club NY, The Dutch Design Prizes and ID Magazine who named them one of the 'ID Forty 2006'.
Catelijne van Middelkoop is on the national board of directors of the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO), and has an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a Degree in Graphic & Typographic Design from The Royal Academy of Art and a Propaedeuse in Art History and Archeology from The University of Amsterdam. She also teaches design.
Ilona Gurjanova
LeArt, Estonia
Ilona Gurjanova is a graphic designer from Tallinn, Estonia. As an entrepreneur she has been offering graphic design and design management services to clients for 12 years. In 2004 she became the Project Manager for the Design Information Centre-Ministery of Economy and Communication of Estonia. She has been the main curator of several projects like: 2000 "Estonian Design in Focus" Design Museum- Helsinki (2000) and Stuttargt Design Centre Face2Face (2007), Museum of Applied Art and Design- Tallin,"Light. Things"-Berlin Estonian Embassy (2004), St-Etienne International Design Biennial, France,Tallinn (2000, 2002, 2004) e.t.c.
At the moment she has her own design company ([LeArt ]Design Management Ltd), and she's the Chairman of the Association of Estonian Designers. She is also working with the Estonian Design Information Centre project and she's the Estonian representative in international design organisations ICSID, BEDA.
She has previously participated as a judge in Lithuanian Design Award "Lithuanian Seat" and Lithuanian Best Interiors, Estonian Best Design, Architecture and Interior Design for magazine RUUM, Estonian Design Award "Bruno" whilst has written Articles for local and foreign newspapers and magazines.
Aled Phillips
Departures, United Kingdom
Born in Wales in 1973, graduated 21 years later with a Graphic Design; Typography Degree from Exeter. He spent several years in London, working as a designer for companies such as The Partners, Lewis Moberly & Radley Yeldar.
In 2002, set up Departures in Cardiff, where the studio has been working with a variety of arts based and corporate clients on branding, print and digital projects.
He is also a member of the D&AD.
Barbro Ohlson Smith
Ohlsonsmith Design, Sweden
Born in Sweden in 1963, Barbro graduated with a BA honours degree in graphic design from Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design in 1989. She then joined the London-based Design Consultancy CDT, Carroll, Dempsey & Thirkell.
Since 1996 Barbro has been based in Stockholm, Sweden, where she has worked as Head of Graphic Design and Creative Director for Swedish Television's Channel TV4 and as Lecturer and Head of the Department of Art Direction at Berghs School of Communication. She has also served as President of the Art Directors Club of Europe, ADCE, during 2000-2002.
Barbro now runs the design agency Ohlsonsmith, specialising in graphic design and visual branding. She also devotes time to design through lecturing, writing, judging and as board member of The Swedish Association of Designers (Sveriges designer).
Henrique Cayatte
Henrique Cayatte Studio, Portugal
President of CPD - Portuguese Design Centre (since July 2004). Guest professor at the University of Aveiro. In 1991 founded the Henrique Cayatte Studio, where he has been working on cultural, education and scientific design, illustration and editorial production, signage and as a multi-discipline and multimedia graphic advisor.
Founder, general designer, graphic editor and illustrator of newspaper Público, until 2000. Was consultant for the general design of EXPO '98, on the detail plan. Co-author of the signs and communication system for EXPO '98 and for the Redevelopment Area.
Designed Egoísta magazine and the daily newspapers Diário de Notícias and O Jogo.
Commissioner and author of the overall design for several exhibitions, such as Cassiano Branco e o Eden - Lisbon 1991 project; Liberdade e Cidadania - Cem Anos Portugueses (Portuguese 20th century); Engenho e Obra - Engenharia Portuguesa no séc. XX; 1990-2004 - Arquitectura e Design de Portugal, at the Milan Triennial.
Author of the overall design for the Portuguese pavilions of EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany and EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan.
Author of the overall design for the new Portuguese Electronic Passport and the National Identity Card.
Winner of the CPD's 1999 National Design Award.
3 APEX awards (USA) with the design of Egoísta magazine.
Co-winner of the 2003 Dibner Award (USA) for outstanding museum design and interpretation, with the exhibition Engenho e Obra.
Winner of the CPD's National Design Award 2003 - Sena da Silva Award (for career achievement).
Zuzana Ledenická
Studio Najbrt, Czech Republic
Zuzana Lednická was born in 1974 in Hradec Králové. She studied graphic design at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 1995 she began working with the graphic designer Aleš Najbrt and she is currently Art Director and a partner in Studio Najbrt. She specializes in corporate design and she designs the visual styles for new design hotels in Prague, working in collaboration with the hotel architects. She also works on cultural projects, such as theatre and film posters, art publications, and exhibition projects promoting contemporary Czech design abroad. She is a member of Typodesign Club.
Tim Oeyen
Oeyenenwinters, Belgium
Member of the graphic design duo 'Oeyen en Winters', Antwerp (Belgium): a couple of designers who have assignments in very different areas; magazines, furniture designers, books, signing for shops and food-concepts, art-galleries.
Winners of the prestigeous 'Henry Van The Velde Award, young talent 2004', reached out by Design Flanders. The jury described their style as ' very clear, colorfull, communicative, with typographical emphasis'.
Together they restyled several magazines. For one of them, the Belgian lifestyle magazine Weekend-Knack, Tim Oeyen still works as consultant.
Tim Oeyen teaches typography at the 'Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Sint-Lucas' Antwerp (Belgium).
Ela Skrzypek
Studio Bakalie - Branding, Poland
Born in Warsaw in 1973. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
In 2000 received a scholarship of the Italian Government in Turin, Italy.
2000-2002 collaborated with various branding and graphic design studios in Italy
From 2000 heads her own (with Magda Malczynska) design studio 'BAKALIE' - www.studiobakalie.pl which specializes in branding of products and services. The Studio is also known from its involvement in artistic projects which link applied arts and multimedia, as well as numerous identifications of exhibitions and festivals - e.g. the experimental visual identity of the NOVA POLSKA 70-80 project on the occasion of the Polish Season in France.
In 2004, Ela was one of the founders of the Association of Designers of Applied
Graphics (STGU.pl), at present the paramount Polish organization embracing graphic
artists and designers.
Since 2006, she has been its President and has been actively representing Polish
designers on the international stage, among others, through the participation in
the Creative Entrepreneurs Conference in Tirana or the BEDA convention in Wienna
and judging in Polish and International design competitions.
In 2005 she was representing Poland for the International Young Design Entrepreneur of Year 2005 competition, organized by British Council in cooperation with 100% Design from London.
Clients
Gavin Drake
Quark, UK
Gavin Drake holds a degree in Physics and Business Studies from DeMontfort University, Leicester and more recently qualified with his Professional Postgraduate Diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
He has been in marketing for more than 12 years, working with customers, the media, channel partners and technology vendors across Europe and the United States.
Currently Gavin works for Quark, the global software company best known for its flagship page layout software, QuarkXPress 7. As European marketing director Gavin heads up the European marketing team driving all marketing activities across Europe.
Moira Duff
Schlumberger, UK
Moira Duff is Marketing Services Manager at Schlumberger, the world's leading oilfield services company. Based in London, Duff oversees marketing communications activities for several Schlumberger business segments as well as those of regional centres in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Duff joined Schlumberger in 1997 and has held a range of marketing and communications positions during her career with the company. Prior to joining Schlumberger she spent 7 years with Ocean Group plc, latterly as Public Relations Manager in its waste management division.
Duff graduated from the University of Dundee with an Honours Degree in Political Science and European Studies.
Wayne Rosemin
Addison, Spain
Responsible for European expansion and, later, as Chief Executive Officer of Addison España, he is responsible for the founding the office in Spain. He has more than 20 years experience working in Spain and is in charge of the strategy and supervision of brand consultancy projects.
In 1994 via a management buyout bought the company and its independence from the Group. The company started with 3 employees and nowadays it counts with the support of over 40 professionals.
His international professional experience has converted Addison into a multidisciplinary firm, which has a definitive British style and works within all the fields related to the brand creation.
Speaks Spanish, Catalan, French and English.
Valérie Hudelot
Disneyland Resort, France
Valérie Hudelot, Director of Visual Identity at Disneyland Resort Paris, is responsible for window displays and merchandising for 50 shops in 2 theme parks, 6 hÔtels and the Disney Village. She has been employed by Disney for the last 2 years.
She began to work with design agencies as an interior designer and later went on, as a stylist, to create and sell her own line of feminine fashion, Interior architect and followed studies of stylist-designer. She began to work with design agencies and then she created and sold her own feminine fashion line among the young stylist designers.
She became familiar with merchandising and distribution in Hong Kong where she lived 2 years. Upon return to France, she put her newly acquired skills to work at the "Printemps" and "BH V" department stores where she stayed for 5 years.
Barbara Gozdzikowska
Avon, Poland
Barbara Gozdzikowska comes from Poland, Warsaw.
Barbara is the Vice President of Brand Marketing Europe.
Academic qualifications includes Masters Degree in economy. She has 12 years of marketing experience at Avon Cosmetics at various marketing positions.
From 2002 to 2004 Marketing VP for Central and Estern Europe, responsible for marketing stategy for 18 CEE markets and from 2005 - onwards - Marketing VP Brand Marketing Europe.
Juste de Nin
Armand Basi, Spain
Creative Director of Armand Basi, Juste de Nin arrives in fashion in the 70's. Illustrator and designer of humour in his first youth, he has his first contact with the textile world in Basi (Barcelona), company with family bonds, where Juste -far for remaining in the company as a pure experience- he was implied enthusiastically, fascinated by the creative possibilities that offered the world of fashion. The activity, at that time, was the production and distribution of Lacoste for the Spanish market.
With a base already solid about the textile knowledge, adding his creative imagination, Juste de Nin heads, with a structured team, two challenges that would obtain a proven success:
1. Starting from 1978, a significant part of Lacoste in Spain is conceived from Basi, keeping in mind the idiosyncrasy, colours and tastes of a markedly Mediterranean market. The initiative consolidated the brand in this market of a very clear way.
2. In 1987 the brand Armand Basi is created; with a creative and commercial team completely separated from that of Lacoste. At the moment Armand Basi also includes lines of fragrances, footwear, leather goods, timewear, jewelry, eyewear, homewear. The most recent initiative is the "agreement", with Ferran Adrià, it is the creation of a collection between fashion and kitchen: "Ferran Adrià by Armand Basi".
Juste de Nin never took away pencils from his life. For this in 2004 he presented his first graphic novel -in comic format- of 320 pages ELS NINS: memories in pencil of a Catalan family. Today, in March 2007, he presents his second book Montecristo 1941, (240 pages) a free version of the classic by Dumas setted in the Barcelona after the Civil War.
Fashion and Pencil, Pencil and Fashion, they constitute his life.
In 2003 Juste de Nin is awarded by the president of Catalonia with the Gaudí medal for his creative merits.
Matts Johansen
Telefonica o2, Czech Republic
Fresh thinking, commercial instinct and an unstoppable amount of energy has put Matts Johansen one of the youngest guns amongst the executives of the Telefonica Group. He holds the position as Senior Director in Telefonica o2 Czech Republic, responsible for all marketing, product and channel activities in the Business Division of the company. Telefonica 02 Czech Republic is a results of a resent merger between the biggest fixed and mobile operator in the country. His challenges includes a total re branding, development of the company towards a possition as the biggest ICT player in the market, introduction of fixed and mobile converged products and a complete P&L responsibility of 700 million euros.
Before moving to the Czech Republic Matts worked as a management consultant for 7 years. His work have been rewarded the Don Pepper and Martha Rogers 1to1 Innovator Award in 2002 and 2003, and have been studied and discussed in several business schools in Europe and US. He studied economics and management in Oslo and at Columbia University in US, but his passion lays with marketing. Matts is also co-founder and chairman of Tacky, Europe's biggest and most respected media company focusing on boarders and urban youth. He is a passionate skate- and snowboarder himself, and surfs the streets and mountains as often as he can. Matts was born in 1976 in Sweden and grew up in Norway. He is married to Kathrine and have a three year old son, Mikkel.
Chris Robbins
Vodafone, Czech Republic
Chris is the CMO for Vodafone Czech Republic, formerly known as Oskar, the 3rd entrant to the Czech mobile market that created new levels of communication, retail execution and brand building in the market. Oh yeah, and gained a lot of customers! Vodafone CZ is doing something that everyone talks about, but no one has done: Reinventing the mobile industry by only doing what's right for the customer. Our recent Christmas campaign was considered the best marketing campaign in any industry in the last 30 years! And it focused on providing a value to all customers - new and existing - with no trick, catches or fine print… only what's right for the customer.
Prior to Vodafone, Chris worked in a few of the wonderful cities in Canada, including the ski cities of Vancouver and Calgary, and the beautiful city of Toronto. At Rogers Wireless in Canada, Chris was in a variety of management roles in Finance, Strategy and Marketing and participated in building the company into the 2nd largest mobile operator in Canada. Chris has an MBA in International Business from Canada as well as a degree in Finance. In addition to only doing what's right for customers, he spends most of his free time skiing, biking, cooking or just playing billiards with friends.
Patrick Le Quèment
Renault, France
Patrick le Quément is currently Renault's Senior Vice President Corporate Design and Chairman of Renault and Nissan's Joint Design Policy Group.
He was born in Marseille in the South of France. He would stay in Britain until 1966, in which year he graduated from the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design with a BA in Product Design Engineering under his belt. His first job was as an automobile designer with Simca, where he only remained for one year, harbouring, in fact, a burning desire to try his hand as a freelance. He returned to auto design, with Ford, a company that would be home for 17 years, working by turns in the UK, Germany and the United States as well as carrying out projects in Brazil, Australia and Japan. In 1969, whilst working as senior designer, Uwe Bahnsen, a Design Director in Ford of Europe, suggested he follow a two year post graduate course in Business Administration at Danbury Management Centre, University of Essex.
Thus, in January 1988, under his drive and vision, appeared and moved forward the Direction of Renault Corporate Design, replacing the former Renault Style function. As 1994 drew to a close, Patrick le Quément was appointed to also take charge of Quality, in addition to his Corporate Design responsibilities. At the start of 1999, in the wake of the signing of the deal with Nissan Motors, Louis Schweitzer, Chairman and CEO of Renault, asked him to focus his energies once more exclusively on Design, both within Renault and Nissan, the latter having to be rendered more creative in as short a time frame as possible.
Patrick le Quément has received numerous awards. Three of them deserve a special mention: the French Grand Prix National for Industrial Design (1992), the award of Doctor of the University of Central England (1996) and the award of Knight of the "Ordre National" of the French Legion of Honour (1998); Patrick le Quément has become a reference in terms of creative management and prospective. In 2002, he was voted by his peers "European Car Designer of the Year" in special recognition for his audacious and innovating Design. In the same year, the Raymond Loewy Foundation named him "Lucky Strike Designer Award" in recognition for his lifetime contribution to Design. He was awarded in Madrid in 2004 "Personality of the Decade" by Car and Driver, a publication of Hachette/Filippachi Group.
Petra Van Der Linden
ARC International, France
Petra Van Der Linden is 46 years old and is Dutch. She is a Creative Director and currently works as a Visual Identity and Packaging Design Manager at ARC International in France, world's leader of 'Arts de la Table', a glass- and dinner- and decoware Manufacturer representing the following Brands: Cristal d'Arques, Mikasa Gastronomy Collections, Mikasa Oenology, Luminarc, Salviati, Mikasa and Studio Nova.
She has been working in Paris since 25 years in international
Advertising / Design Agencies.
In the past she worked as a Concept Generator / Art Director in teams for
budgets as IBM, Otis, Kodak, Montesanto, EDF-GDF, Otis, Kodak, Alcatel,
DHL etc. and as a Designer Art-Director on budgets as KENZO, Lise
Charmel, DMC, Cartier, Nivea, Mustela, Danone, DMC, Fuji…
In Agencies as and freelance projects for: Ogilvy One/Ogilvy Mather,
(Rapp Collins/DDB) now Louis XIV, Publicis, Saatchi&Saatchi, Australie,
EURO RSCG, Concept Group, Atelier ABC (Cartier), DDB, Walter J.Thomson
etc.
Public
Bjarne Pedersen
Head of Policy and Advocacy, Denmark
Bjarne Pedersen is the Head of Policy and Advocacy at Consumers International where he is responsible for leading and managing the CI Policy and Advocacy team worldwide. Academic qualifications includes a MSc in Human Nutrition, as well as a Masters in International Environment Policy. Bjarne Pedersen is also responsible for the various CI programmes related to such as Sustainable Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility and Food Safety.
Chryssi Tzanetou
Senior Development Officer at Consumers International, Greece
Chryssi Tzanetou comes from Greece. She first visited the UK 8 years ago to do a MSc in International Development with a specialisation in micro-credit and since then she has been working in the NGO sector mainly in the areas of fundraising and organisational development.
Diggory Orr-Ewing
Documentary Producer, UK
Born and raised in Bristol, South-West England and involved in the TV world since a young age. Having designed, scripted and presented his own programmes from a young teenager through to young adult he moved to London in 2000 and has since refined his skills while climbing laboriously up the TV flagpole and has just completed a Documentary for Channel 4.
Working on programmes ranging from daytime format, evening prime-time through to observational documentaries and docu-dramas, he has tried a little bit of everything but found the ultimate calling in the casting, scripting, filming and organising of one of Channel 4s upcoming new documentaries that are concentrating on the British Character and its historical context due out soon.
Interests are somewhat surrounded by design in its various forms with a serious trainer and Levis Jeans addiction, a love of comics and graphic novels and more than my fair share of retro 'junk' around the house… Beautiful to me!
Flora Hevesi
Freelance Journalist, Hungary
Flora Hevesi is a freelance journalist working for numerous papers and television channels in Hungary. She studied media and communications at the University of Szeged, and television journalism at the University of Drama, Film and Television in Budapest. She holds a masters degree in media and globalisation from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In her articles, she frequently covers issues connected to media theory, human rights, environmentalism and globalisation. As a volunteer, she has been chair of Amnesty International Hungary since 2003.
Ruchira Joshi
MA of Oriental and African Studies, India
Ruchira completed her MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and maintains a keen interest in women's movements in South Asia and in development in post-conflict areas. Personal interests include dance, cooking, travelling and photography.
Hubert Linders
Information Adviser, The Netherlands
Hubert Linders, Dutch, with a university career in astronomy, finished "long ago". Since then he has always worked in the field of information such as publishing information, processing information, searching for information and reporting to receivers of information. Currently he works for an international NGO, Consumers International as information adviser. What he does is improving the information processes in the Santiago office and maintaining several websites. He has been asked to develop websites as well.
When publishing scientific journals and now, with website activities, he comes more into contact with designs and esthetics of products. This is why he is delighted to participate as a public judge as it will show him logos designed, based on a story by a company or organization and probably bring him ideas as well.
Marion Lovell-Jones
Adviser at the Citizens Advice Bureau, UK
Marion Lovell-Jones lives in Bristol in the UK. She is 56 years old and is a retired teacher. Currently she works as an Adviser with the Citizens Advice Bureau where good communication of information is essential for their clients. She feels good visual information which conveys ideas and concepts clearly and in an easily recognisable way is a crucial element for effective communication. With these thoughts in mind, she welcomes the opportunity to help with the judging of new Logos.
Rosalchen Whitecross
Advocate of the High Court, South Africa
Rosalchen hails from South Africa where she is admitted as an Advocate of the High Court. On completion of her legal training she promptly entered the publishing world, which led to editing websites. Since then she has entered the NGO sector and now works on the Consumers International website. She dabbles in photography, and some of her photographs have been used as artwork for music EP and LP covers.
Mike Ford
Actors Agent, UK
Mike, 30, is an actors' agent based in London and Bristol. He manages and supports stage and screen actors internationally, after graduating from Manchester Metropolitian and spending several years acting himself. He is also invovled in several independant productions, working with emerging film and theatre talent.
Boris Wolf
Bookseller, France
Boris Wolf is a French national. He was trained as a bookseller but is now helping national consumer organisations develop their capacity. He likes to travel and has an interest for all things foreign. Cooking and watching movies rank top on his list of favourite activities.
