Wolda - the worldwide logo design annual 2008

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

Dave Holland is Creative Director at the Brand Union Japan, delivering brand strategy, corporate identity, packaging, naming, visual language and retail and environmental design for clients that include Sankyo, Nissan, J:COM, Jupiter TV, Boeing, Canon and Jaxa.

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.