Eulda :: The European Logo Design Annual 2007

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.