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Veerjay Archary

Black. Brand, Strategy & Design, South Africa

Veejay is a founding member & director of the new Loerie Awards in South Africa. He was also a founder of THINK - the Communication Design Council of South Africa and served as its chairman for two years. He was also a Vice-President for ICOGRADA – the world body for professional communication design.

His poster design work is the permanent collection at the Havana National Museum Cuba, Apartheid Museum South Africa and the Smitsonian Institute in New York.

He has created some of the more memorable design moments in South Africa's democratic history, the new corporate identity for the national carrier, South African Airways. He has also created the voting system, the ballot paper and the Voter education – now used in more than 10 countries across the world.
He regularly judges both local and international Design and Advertising award shows. He has spoken at many international industry conferences across the globe.

He has a Design diploma from ML Sultan Technikon, now the Durban Institute of Technology, a marketing degree and an MBA the from University of South Africa and attended the AIGA-Business for Design Leaders at Harvard University.

In July 2005, he established Black, a strategic, branding & design consultancy. BLACK is one of the first 100% empowered, independent design & branding companies offering a suite of services within the African brand communications environment with offices in East Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa.

Fèlix Beltràn

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México DF, Mexico

Félix Beltrán was born in Havana in 1938 and is a mexican citizen. He studied at the School of Visual Arts, American Art School, and the Art Students League, New York. He was awarded scholarships from the New School for Social Research, Graphic Art Center-Pratt Institute, New York and from the Council of International Exchanges of Scholars, Washington DC. His works have been included in 456 collective exhibitions, 65 individual exhibitions and in the collections of 60 national and international museums. He has written 4 books and has received 132 awards in national and international events and an Honoris Cause Doctorate from the International University Foundation, Delaware. He has been on juries for 103 national and international competitions and appears in books like Whos Who in Graphic Arts, Zürich, Contemporary Designers, Chicago, Whos Who in Art, London, Whos Who in American Art, New York, Dizionario del Grafico, Milan, Encyclopedia of 20th Century Design, London and Whos Who in the World, New Jersey. He is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México DF. He is International Liaison in México of the Type Directors Club, New York and National Delegate of the Association Typographique Internationale, Paris and member of the Alliance Graphique lnternationale, Zürich.

Jason Fan

Signet Design Co, Taiwan

After gaining a Masters degree in Communication Design at Pratt Institute, New York, USA, Jason Fan returned to Taiwan in 1989 and started to serve as the deputy manager of graphic design section at the Sunrise Department Store, the fashion leader in Taipei at that time. In addition to this, Fan devoted his time to teaching at Taiwan major design schools and design promotion centers.
In 1991, he founded Signet Design Co., Ltd, combining local spirits with global vision. Since then, the company has been considered as a model of "little but elaborate" and "small but efficient" in Taiwan design industry. Between 2006 and 2008, Fan served as the president of Taiwan Graphic Design Association.
Now, he is the chief executive officer of Cultural & Creative Industries Center at National Taiwan Normal University, exploiting the academic resources to meet the needs of industrial transferring, and to promote Taiwan cultural and creative industries.
As a hard worker, Fan has received many design awards, including the golden prize of the 1st Taiwan National Graphic Design, the 1992 Judges Award of Graphic Design in China and 2002 Excellent Award of Hong Kong Designers Association. In particularly, he was awarded Preeminent Alumni of National Taiwan University of Arts in 2007.

Fraser Gardyne

gardyneHOLT, New Zealand

Graduating from Wellington Polytechnic School of Design in 1976, Frasers experience in design over the last three decades encompasses all forms of visual communication from his own practice as a designer, illustrator, photographer and art director to being the creative director his own practices, as well as part time teaching positions where time has allowed. Since 1985 Fraser has assisted in the formation and running of industry organisations representing and promoting design standards in New Zealand. He was elected President of the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) from 2004-06. Since 1994 he has been a judge in New Zealands premier print awards programme, the Pride in Print Awards, and for 2009 and 2010 he has been appointed Chief Judge. Fraser has served as graphics convener of New Zealands BeST Design Awards since 2003. In 2006 he formed gardyneHOLT with Michael Holt. Currently the gardyneHOLT team numbers around 20 with offices in Auckland and in 2008 opening in Bangkok with plans to launch in Shanghai in 2009. Outside work Frasers passions are his family and friends, elderly Citroens, alternative music, boutique beers, wine, golf and his vegetable garden.

Esen Karol

Bilgi University, Turkey

Esen Karol graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul and received her Masters degree in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, New York, where she studied with Fulbright scholarship. She has participated in a number of international exhibitions. Her first solo poster exhibition "48x68" took place at Pratt Manhattan, where she also taught as visiting lecturer in spring 2002. Her work has been published in magazines such as "C", "How" and "Step". Her posters are in the permanent collection of Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich. She gave lectures and/or conducted workshops at Monserrat College of Art, Massachusets College of Art and Design, Mimar Sinan University, Lebanese American University and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Conferences she was a speaker at include 9. Festivital-Shenkar; Icograda: Defining Design on a Changing Planet; 4. Münchner Typotag: Book 2.0; and Grafist 12. "Arredamento Mimarlik"—a prominent architecture magazine in Turkey—published her profile in April 2007 issue. She teaches "Typography" and "Publication Design" at Bilgi University, VCD Department and works in her one-person design studio "Esen Karol Design Ltd." in Istanbul. Founded in 1996, the studio concentrates on editorial design and corporate identity.

Laurence Madrelle

LM, Communiquer, France

Right now in Paris the limits of the city are being pushed beyond the circular road surrounding it: the big challenge of the new century. This is where Laurence Madrelle likes to spend her design time. The subjects go from the fight against aids to urban project or the Ministery of culture, Laurence designs exclusively for the public domain in France. The studio she created in1987, LM communiquer, is in Paris near Bastille. The team of five is composed of designers from european schools. They design visual identities for institutions, communication and sign systems for urban development projects in order to give a better reading of the city to the citizen. She chose not to do it alone: writers, philosophers, illustrators, architects, multi-media developers… join the team on specific projects. Teaching, lectures, workshops and jurys around the world and in France are part of her "design way of life" which started in the UK and later in USA in Providence, Rhode Island with Malcolm Grear in the seventies. Laurence has been an associate professor at the National School of Architecture "de la ville et des territoires" for more than ten years. Member of the Alliance graphique internationale (AGI) and the international president in 2003-2006.

Santiago Pujol

Informational Designer, Cuba

After graduating in 1976 as Informational Designer from the Higher Institute for Industrial Design in Havana, Santiago Pujol worked for a state-run design agency and later at the National Office for Industrial Design, where he led the Design Promotion Department.

Back to his country in 1992 from a prakticum in a German advertising agency, he decided to run a solo career. Since then he has worked for many governmental offices as well as for foreign enterprises like Bayer (Germany), Bagó (Argentina) and Meliá (Spain).

Besides winning some national design prizes, Santiago has served as judge for many design competitions. He has also lectured nationally and internationally (Brazil, Argentina and Chile). Two of his logos were included in "Worldwide Identity", a book by Robert L. Peters. His teaching history includes courses of graphic design for industrial design students, creativity workshops, and tutoring diploma works of Graphic Design students.

At present his design work is mainly aimed at scientific enterprises, tourism agencies and music recording studios.

Paula Scher

Pentagram Design, USA

Paula Scher began her graphic design career as a record cover art director at both Atlantic and CBS Records in the 1970s and in 1991 she joined Pentagram as a partner. She has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, packaging and publication designs for a wide range of clients, drawing from what Tom Wolfe has called the "big closet" of art and design history, classic and pop iconography, literature, music and film to create images that speak to contemporary audiences with emotional impact and appeal. Paula is a recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and the AIGA Medal, she holds honorary doctorates from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and she is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, as well as many other institutions. Her teaching career includes over two decades at the School of Visual Arts, along with positions at the Cooper Union, Yale University and the Tyler School of Art. In 2002 Princeton Architectural Press published her career monograph Make It Bigger.

Henry Steiner

Steiner&Co, Hong Kong

Henry Steiners experience and reputation are international. Born in Vienna and raised in New York, he was educated at Yale - where he studied with Paul Rand - and at the Sorbonne.

Steiner&Co., founded in Hong Kong in 1964, is one of the worlds leading branding design consultancies. The companys scope is comprehensive, encompassing corporate identity programmes, corporate literature, architectural graphics, book and magazine design and banknotes. Clients include EF Education First, Hong Kong Jockey Club, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and Ssangyong. He has created several series of banknotes for Hong Kong as well as coins for the Singapore Mint.

He was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria for design achievement and an honorary Doctorate by Hong Kong Baptist University. He is honorary professor at the University of Hong Kongs School of Architecture and at Hong Kong Polytechnic Universitys School of Design. Past president of Alliance Graphique Internationale.

He is co-author of Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace (Thames & Hudson 1995). A monograph, Henry Steiner: Designers Life, in Chinese, was published in 1999.

Yarom Vardimon

Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel

Born in Israel, Studied in England at the LCP (University of the Arts), Chelsea College of Art and the University of Westminster, and has been a Professor of Visual Communications since 1980. He was in charge of the submission of the undergraduate program and Masters Degree design programs to the Council of Higher Education in Israel; has been Head of Graphic Design at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem; Head of The Design Workshop at the Tel Aviv University School of Architecture, and Presently, he is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Design at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan. His clients include leading Israeli industries, banks, medical centers, academic institutions and museums. Distinctions in design include: Laureate of the Israel Prize , Recipient of the Icograda Design Excellence Award , Fellow of the International Design Conference, Aspen, USA, Honorary Member of the Art Directors Club of New York, Recipient of the Design Excellence Award – International Design Conference, Mexico. Yarom was also elected to AGI in 1982, Board Member and Director of New Media 2000-2003, Past President, GDAI and Past Vice President, ICOGRADA. He has judged many international design events and has won numerous design prizes and awards. His work is represented at major international exhibitions and permanent collections of museums in Europe, The United States, Japan and Israel.