Wolda - the worldwide logo design annual 2008

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.