Wolda - the worldwide logo design annual

Dorte Krogh

Krogh&Co, Denmark

With +20 years of experience from the Danish design industry, Dorte Krogh has developed from a traditional graphic designer into a more strategic role: orchestrating the creative resources of Krogh&Co Design Agency and those of a selected network of specialists from other design-related companies. The typical jobs are within graphic design, branding and communication.

Dorte Krogh is a specialist in identity and branding, and her agency creates value adding and award winning (Eulda) design solutions for a wide range of larger Danish companies and organisations, i.e. Royal Copenhagen, Unomedical and the Danish Heart Foundation. Her work is represented in "Worldwide Identity" by Robert L. Peters.

As a board member of DD (The Association of Danish Designers), Dorte Krogh has made a significant difference in strengthening Danish design agencies by initiating a network of design agency managers (Danish Design Organisation).

Dorte Krogh is also a co-founder of DOT (Designers of Today), an organisation of designers, who through necessary and charitable work, create a new and different agenda for the designers role. The designers in DOT donate 5% of their professional work time to humanitarian purposes. Their first project was a 2000 hours donation to UNICEF Denmark in 2004.

Dorte Krogh has been a member of the jury in the "merket for god design"-prize in Norway.

Ginette Caron

Ginette Caron, Italy

Ginette Caron, Canadian from Montréal, after having worked for different branding agencies in her home town, opens in 1985 her own graphic design studio in Milan. She specializes in corporate identity projects, branding, exhibit design and art books for clients like Barilla, Bvlgari, Chase Manhattan Bank, Grand Théâtre de Provence, Fondazione Prada, Knoll, Moleskine, Natuzzi, San Carlo, Swatch and TV5. During her career, she also worked as in house design director for Prada Group and Benetton Group.

She was awarded with Red Dot Design Award, Design Merit Winner at ADC, Finalist at EDAward, Segnalazione at 50°Compasso d'Oro and Eulda Awards. Ginette Caron is regularly invited to give seminars and lectures. Among them: Université du Québec à Montréal, Venice University (IUAV), Libera Università di Bolzano and Grafika Day in Montréal (conference about environmental branding).  She participated at different exhibitions like «Poster Biennal» in Warsaw, «Moleskine Detour» at the Art Director’s Club in New York, «Milano Made in Design» in Toronto, "Red Dot Design Museum" in Essen. Her works have been published in several books and magazines.

Halim Choueiry

Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

Originally from Lebanon, Halim Choueiry is a design educator and practitioner based in Qatar. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts in Qatar. Having obtained a Bachelors and two Masters degrees, he is undertaking a PhD in Design at Brighton University in the United Kingdom, with his research focusing on the effect of visual information systems upon human memory structures. Halim also maintains a strenuous focus in research activities as a collaborator with the Center for Research in Design at VCUQ, mainly contributing in the development of The World Design Report and the Design Zone in Qatar.

In parallel, Halim applies his research findings through his own design studio, Cinnamon, which specialises in identifying cultural patterns, visual development of bilingual corporate identities, and the simultaneous typographic representation of Latin-based languages and Arabic.

Halim has extensive experience in judging for student competitions and advertising awards. His involvement in international events includes conducting design conferences, student workshops and chairing Creative Nights, an interactive meet up series held throughout the Arab countries.

David Coates

Ion Branding + Design, Canada

Upon graduation from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in 1988, David launched Ion Branding + Design with partner Rod Roodenburg. David is a past National President of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). In addition to numerous citations, he has been a featured speaker at events across Canada and four times judged the National Post Annual Report Awards in Toronto. David has received the Emily Award for lifetime career achievement - Emily Carr Institutes highest honour. In 2000 David was granted Fellowship status in the GDC for his contributions to Canadian graphic design.

Dave Holland

Brand union, South Africa

Previously the deputy creative director at Switch Design Group, Dave Hollland switched to The Brand Union in 2004 and has steadily earned the respect of his design peers through his ability to solve seemingly complex identity problems with simple, accessible solutions that are iconic, memorable and relevant.
Promoted to Creative Director, Holland's global outlook and international credentials prompted his transfer from Johannesburg to Tokyo.

An active designer with a keen eye for corporate identity, Dave's most recent projects have included Coca-Cola's Minute Maid account, AstraZeneca's Omepral, Hino Trucks – global website design direction and De Beers, among others. His secondment in Japan also served an internal function – to help transform the Tokyo office's re-branding from Enterprise IG to The Brand Union.

In Johannesburg, Holland led the company's 2D design department, overseeing conceptual and visual design output across both corporate and consumer identity design projects. His African experience includes the re-branding of Standard Bank, Medihelp's identity refreshment, De Beers' internal values programme, as well as packaging and presence programmes for Castle Lager and Milk Stout. Further afield, he worked with the London office on a collaborative identity solution for Anahita, and has provided design solutions for Egyptian chemical manufacturer Kapci Coatings, Mauritian client Rogers, as well as Nigerian banks United Bank for Africa, Skye Bank and Intercontinental Bank.

Dave's colourful CV will shortly see him transferred to Singapore to head up the region's design team as Creative Director for SE Asia.
A keen traveller, Dave is constantly looking at unchartered territories to find his new inspirations. To this point, he is believes a bit more every day that identity and branding are becoming more strategically necessary for differentiation in our universally branded world, through unique visual storytelling.

Ruth Klotzel

Estudio Infinito, Brazil

Since graduating from Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Sao Paulo (School of Architecture and Urbanism, Sao Paulo University) in 1982, she has worked as a graphic designer on projects for public and private companies, and in the education sector. Ruth is head of the design office Estudio Infinito and is a teacher of Visual Communication, both at Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado (School of Architecture and Urbanism of Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation) and at Faculdade Senac de Comunicacao e Arte (Senac College of Communication and Arts). She was a co-founder in 1989 of the Associacao dos Designers Graficos in Brazil (ADG-Brazil). Aside from her own design practice and teaching activities, Ruth is also a lecturer and has participated in numerous juries, events and publications in Brazil and abroad.

Tommy Li

Tommy Li Design Workshop, Honk Kong

Tommy Li is the branding designer/consultant for the generation. He has been titled The most influential Graphic Designer in the coming decade by "Agosto", a design magazine in Japan.
 
Graduated from the School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tommy has been selected as a respectable individual in Artist of the Year Awards 1997, while ten years later, he was honored by his school as Outstanding PolyU Alumni. In 2007, he was presented "World Outstanding Chinese Award" by United World Chinese Association and the "Gold Pencil" award by The One Show in New York.  Tommy is one of the few designers who can carve out a triple career in mainland China, Hong Kong and Japan. 
 
Tommy Lis has brought remarkable success to his major clients MTR Corporation & Kowloon-canton Railway (West Rail Division), Maxims Caterers Limited, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited, Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Ltd. etc., and his recent achievements are bla bla bra, Prosays, and Da Dolce.  Tommy Li is a member of AGI since 2005 (a globally renowned alliance of designers, which limites its membership to 300 persons only).

Apex Lin Pang-Soong

National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong, director of the department of fine arts at National Taiwan Normal University, is actively involved in the field of communication design in several ways. He has initiated the Taiwan Image Poster Design Association, was treasurer of International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) from 2001 to 2003 and is also a jury member of international design competitions. He developed the corporate design of large companies in Taiwan and China and consults the Olympic research centre of Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts with regards to the image of the 2008 Olympic Games. Apex Lin received the Icograda Achievement Award in 2002 and was featured in the compendium "area. 100 graphic designers, 010 curators, 010 design classics" in 2003.

Ronald Shakespear

Shakespear Design, Argentina

Ronald Shakespear has been Chair Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Past President of ADG. He founded Diseño Shakespear in Argentina 50 years ago, now directed with his sons Lorenzo and Juan. Ronald has been International Jury for the Art Directors Club of New York ADC, 1990, Segd Design Awards DAP 2008 and many National and International Contests. Has also given seminars, lectures and workshops at 26 cities in the world. His last book "Señal de Diseño" was published in 2003.

He received the Silver Pencil Award in 1987, Golden Brain in 2006 and the Segd Fellow Award in 2008. Diseño Shakespear wayfinding and branding projects as the Buenos Aires Underground, City Hospitals, Buenos Aires Signage, have been published in most important books and publications in Usa, Italy, England, China, Spain, Germany, France, Japan, etc, and exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and the Triennale di Milano, ICCID (Italy). Mayor exhibitions were held at Centro Recoleta and National Fine Arts Museum (Buenos Aires). Last exhibition in Buenos Aires: 45th Anniversary of Diseño Shakespear at Centro Borges in 2005, Anthological Exhibit and workshop at Virginia Center for Architecture, AIA, (Richmond) 2006 and at The Katzen Arts Center (Washington DC) 2007. He has been lecturer at the Icograda Congress in Nice, Montreal and Sao Paulo and Visiting Professor at University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, Canada and International speaker at the Segd Conference, Hollywood 06.

Niko Spelbrink

Ography Design Consultancy, Australia

Niko Spelbrink was a founding partner of what is now Eden Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Now living and lecturing design in easy going Melbourne, Australia, he is a founding partner of Ography Design Consultancy.

Everything in the Netherlands is made by people, designed if you like, including the landscape. Every tree is planted and planned to be planted. In the Netherlands planning and perseverance is the idea. Add to this a sense of personal independence and a head for experimenting on about practically everything. A place made by people to suit great diversity: that is the Netherlands!

In easy going Melbourne all this is quite different, except maybe for this sense of personal independence. The environment is vast, unknown, beautiful and amazingly varied. Inspirational. The best is still to come.

Adrian Green

Microsoft, UK

Adrian Green was born in London in 1970. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and qualified with a BA (Hons) in 1994. After a brief stint at the agency Michael Peters where he concentrated on packaging and brand, he then set out on a freelance career working on a diverse range of projects from corporate identity to magazine layout. Adrian was ultimately lured to the exciting challenges and possibilities surrounding design for online. Adrian is currently User Experience Manager for MSN International working out of their London HQ. He heads up an in-house multi disciplinary design group that includes information architecture, content design and research. His ongoing quest is to provide solutions that are not only commercially focused but are also visually and interactively beautiful.

Julian Hubbard

Orange, UK

Julian qualified in Industrial Design and now has over 15 years experience in design, product development, telecoms and user interface industries. Based in London, he currently works as a Global UI Design Manager for Orange; part of the France Telecom Group and is responsible for user experience, UI and product development and usability for a number of key products which cover 8 major European markets totaling 60 million customers. For certain projects, this extends to emerging markets such as Egypt and Dominican Republic.

Prior to Orange, Julian ran the new product development area for a multi-national toy and consumer electronics corporation with specific responsibility for extension of the brand into new markets. This was possible due to his history of design and product development consultancy experience working for numerous clients in numerous sectors.

Julian has been described as a highly self-motivated, commercial, creative and committed product development specialist with a proven track record in mobile, product development and design environments, developing low, medium and high technology products. He has a dedicated and relentless desire to fully understand user’s needs to make their experience of using products as simple and effective as possible.

Andrew King

Landor, Spain

Andrew is a creative director at Landor. He joined the London office in 1994 where he rose to the role of creative director for the product branding department. After a brief period in Madrid, Landor invited him to lead the 50 strong studio in Paris which he did for over 4 years. Andrew has had broad experience in bringing brand strategy to life for corporate and FMCG clients alike. He has worked extensively for big FMCG clients such as Procter and Gamble and Pepsico International yet enjoys leading smaller institutional branding programs such as the Amercian University of Paris. He is now back in Landor Madrid helping to develop Landors presence in Spain.
Andrew is British and speaks fluent french and good spanish.

Yanta Lam

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (school of Design), China

Yanta LAM is Professor of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (School of Design). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers of United Kingdom (FCSD), Fellow of the Hong Kong Designers Association (FHKDA), and a member of The Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA). Lam is active in promoting design in Hong Kong and China and he holds various positions such as currently the Honorary Secretary of HKDA, Honorary Advisor of Industrial Designers Society of HK (IDSHK), Honorary Museum Advisor (Design) of Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the HKSAR, Senior Advisor of Guangdong Industrial Design Association and Advisor of Beijing Institute of Art and Design. He was the Hong Kong representative of China Industrial Design Association (CIDA) in late 1990s, and now the Executive Member of the Industrial Design Society of China (2006-2010).

In the academic sector, Lam is honored to have been invited to serve as the Honorary/Guest Professor in several design educational Institutions of PRC and Korea, namely: Guangdong University of Technology (2006-2008), Nanjing University Aeronautics & Astronautics, Dongseo University of Busan (South Korea), Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shunde Polytechnic, and Dalian Institute of Technology. In recent years, he participated in establishing the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) and served as a member in the 1st Board of Directors (2002 – 2004). He was an invited juror in the first "iF" China Design Award (2003), and an invited juror in the first "China Red Star Design Award" 2006.

Janice Luvera

Genworth Financial, USA

Janice Luvera may best be known by this line spoken on The Apprentice: "Im a little nervous about tomorrow, I hope its not going to be a disaster.” It earned her the unofficial title of "That Genworth Lady."

Janice has served in a number of key roles in addition to nationally recognized television personality. Currently, she is Director of Advertising. In her Brand role shes has led Genworths efforts in developing a new house-style print system, brand guidelines, and photography library as well as launched a new advertising campaign featuring Centenarians. Additionally, Janice was the Executive Director of the Genworth Center for Financial Learning. As CFL leader she remade the Center into a Brand-centric website before it retired in 2004.

Prior to this, she was Vice President, Advertising for GE Capital and helped launch the GE Financial Network including a key role in the guerrilla marketing campaign "The Wallet" which was recognized as one of five "GE Best Practices" in 2000.

Before GE and Genworth, Janices career was all about pizza as the Director of Advertising & Marketing for Dominos Pizza in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Janice went to school at the University of Michigan where she graduated with a BA in Communications. She has also done work at the Pratt Institute in NY in art and fashion design.

Michelle Paolino

Hasbro Inc., USA

Michelle Paolino is a Global Brand Leader for Hasbro, Inc., a toy and game company in Rhode Island. Currently on assignment in the girls division, she looks after a "tween" brand, from concept to retail shelves, and everything in between.

She holds a Masters in Business from Northeastern University in Boston and a Bachelor of Arts in History from University of California, Los Angeles. Michelle has more than 10 years of experience in product development and marketing, for such companies as Procter & Gamble, The Walt Disney Company and Bandai America.

Vincenzo Perri

Lippincott, Hong Kong

Vincenzo Perri is a partner at Lippincott and the creative director for Asia. He specializes in corporate identity and branding and has over 17 years of professional experience encompassing various design disciplines and communication media, from print and web design to environmental graphics and interior design.

Prior to joining Lippincott, Vincenzo was assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. Before that he was creative director at Landor Associates Hong Kong, responsible for overseeing all aspects of the creative development for many leading corporations in Asia. Before Landor, he was associate creative director at Steiner & Co. and senior designer at Conran Design Pacific.

Vincenzo is a graduate of the ISIA in Urbino Italy, where he specialized in Graphic Design and Visual Communication.

Toby Prosser

FreemantleMedia Enterprises, UK

Toby Prosser is Creative Director of FremantleMedia Enterprises, the ancillary rights exploitation division of FremantleMedia, one of the worlds largest independent television producers and distributors.

As Creative Director, he is responsible for the creative development and execution of FremantleMedia and third party brands across a range of marketing, merchandising and licensing uses.

Pierre Jean Richard

FNAC, France

Pierre Jean Richard, Concepts and Design Director for Fnac stores is a globe trotter who, after living in Sweden and the United States, is the "bondsman" of the concept and the brand image of FNAC worldwide inside the group PPR. Formerly, he worked for several Design agencies and set up his own company.

This passionate of prospective and new technologies is a speaker in Architecture and Design Business Schools and is a member of the French Institute of Design. He also participates in reflection groups on the future of society and consumerism.

Ross Sleight

Virgin Games, UK

Ross is Strategy Director at Virgin Games, helping to develop the gaming and gambling business for the Virgin group which includes Casino, Poker, Bingo and PC Games, both core and casual.

Ross has worked extensively in advertising, marketing and digital for the past 15 years, and has advised the UK Cabinet Office on how to support open Government online, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the heads of the UK major music labels as to how customers will consume music in a digital age, and has worked with clients in numerous sectors including British Airways, MVC, Channel 4, Sega, Ocado and Universal Television concentrating on how value can be created through identifying, understanding and meeting customer needs, particularly through digital channels.

Ross has previously helped found and develop companies specializing in digital and relationship building for marketing agencies DDB (Online Magic now Agency.com, BMP interAction now Tribal DDB) and Chime Communications (Heresy), and has run his own start up company, Fingertips which created a personalized entertainment schedule for customers.

Runa De Felice

Architecture Student, Italy

Runa De Felice, 24 years old, Italian Diploma in Architecture Student. Runa is also currently working part time in an Architecture office in central London where the projects are mostly Transport Infrastructure. Her expertise is varied, from making decisions about design features and spatial planning, choosing interior materials to producing 3d models and images. Born in South Africa, Runa has variously lived in The Netherlands, Italy and The United Kingdom at one time or another.

Clara de Los Arcos Diez

Visual Anthropologist, Spain

Clara De Los Arcos Diez is a Spanish visual anthropologist who has lived and worked in Spain, the Netherlands and the UK. She has recently exhibited photography in the UK encompassing the themes of inner city poverty and hunger, and is also interested in concepts of vision and aesthetics, home, community and gender.

Arlene de Vera

Member Services and Development Officer, Philippines

Arlene is the Member Services and Development Officer of Consumers International based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Office. She dreamt of becoming a journalist but found a niche in development work. For the last 10 years, she has been involved in socio-economic and environmental projects in the Philippines handling communications, project design, administration, and documentation. She finished Bachelor of Arts major in Journalism and took up Master of Arts major in Urban and Regional Planning. She is also a wife, a mother, and a sister.

Andrew Deak

International Relations & Development, Editor, Canada

Educated in the Netherlands, Canada and the UK, Andrew maintains an interest in multiple areas of international relations and development studies. Currently, he is pursuing a dual degree in both common and civil law at McGill University.

Outside of his academics, Andrew has worked as an editor for a number of student publications. He has been involved with housing and food cooperative, and is an avid vegetarian cook.

Elizabeth Dessie

First Aid Administrator, Ethiopia

Born and raised in Ethiopia and educated in the Czech Republic, Elizabeth has always been interested in multiple areas of International Relations and Development. Currently working as First Aid Administrator at the British Red Cross, Elizabeth is also studying towards a degree in IR, Peace and Conflict Studies at London Metropolitan University. Outside of the school and work environment, Elizabeth has been an active volunteer numerously engaged in NGO projects supporting street children in Ethiopia. Elizabeth enjoys traveling, sports, music and spending time with family and friends.

Lola Fadumiyo

Member Service Officer, Africa

Lola Fadumiyo is the MSO West and Central Africa for Consumers International where her role entails supporting and strengthening Consumer organisations in the region. She graduated from the University of Reading where she studied for the MSc. in Applied Development Studies. She has also worked with the sub-regional organisation in West Africa (ECOWAS) in the area of promoting regional integration and assisting in various project implementations.

Valerie Hilfer

MA of International Business and Management, The Netherlands

Valerie spent most of her youth growing up in the Netherlands. After graduating from her Business Marketing degree in the UK, she went on to complete her MA in International Business and Management in Spain and France. Since then she has worked within the apparel sector in Sydney, having spent time in Bolivia thereafter being part of local social development projects.

Vitor Pavao

Biomedical Sciences, Brazil

Vitor Pavao, 25, now lives in São Paulo, Brazil, where he works at a local private hospital. He graduated in Biomedical Sciences with a minor in International Relations from a small liberal arts college in Virginia, USA, where he lived for 5 years. Vitor loves traveling and has visited many countries, either to compliment his studies, or to visit friends. Personal interests include photography and DJing at clubs in and around his native São Paulo.

Adrian Rios Ortiz

Audio-Visual Communicator, Chile

Adrián Rios Ortiz, 32 years old, Chilean audio-visual communicator. Currently he is the short cuts Director of the programme Passions of the National Television of Chile (TVN), main national channel. He has made audio visual reports on social issues, music video clips and fiction short films.

Nicola Sarti

Marketing Reporter and Researcher, Italy

Nicola Sarti is an Italian marketing reporter and researcher living and working in London for Xtreme Information. After a number of years working in music promotion in Italy, Nicola moved to the UK to work for the TV division of legendary nightclub Ministry of Sound. His main areas of interest are new media, advertising and design.