I.D. presents the results of the 2002 Annual Design Review, America’s largest and most prestigious juried design competition. The August issue features 191 of the year's best designs in the following categories: consumer products, graphics, packaging, environments, furniture, equipment, concepts and student work. To see all the winners, check out the August 2002 issue.

2002 Jurors

With taxi-driver and meter-change collector aspirations on hold, PETE MCCRACKEN is one of the founding partners of Plazm Media in Portland, Ore., and director of Plazm Fonts. Plazm, founded in 1991 by a team of artists, functions as a creative resource aimed at building custom brands, advertising and retail marketing plans using custom typography. The firm publishes Plazm magazine and operates a type foundry. Its clients include Lucasfilm, MTV, Nike and adidas. McCracken led Plazm's design team in creating on-air type identities for MTV Networks and developed custom typographic signatures for Lucasfilm's Episode I-The Phantom Menace. In his spare time, McCracken likes to admire fuzzy logic's dichotomy, write and produce music and listen to his all-time favorite band, The Jackson 5.

TIM HALE is the senior vice president and image director of Dallas-based Fossil, a fashion accessories design/manufacturing label. In 1987, he joined Fossil to oversee the company's in-house design department. At Fossil, Hale was responsible for developing the concept of tin packages for Fossil watches; some of his packaging work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Architecture and Design in Chicago. Featured in Communication Arts, Print, HOW, Graphis and Graphic Design USA, Hale serves on the advisory board for two Dallas-based colleges and is on the HOW Design Conference advisory council. Hale, his wife and three children reside in Sherman, Texas. If he wasn't involved with the design world, Hale says he'd be training horses or singing.

HALEY JOHNSON is president and senior designer of the Haley Johnson Design Co. (HJDC) in Minneapolis. HJDC was established in 1992 and focuses on brand, packaging and product development. Johnson's work has appeared in both national and international design publications since 1986, and her designs have been accepted into the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Fur Kunst und Gewerbe Museums. Some of her clients include Blue Q, Target Stores, Turner Classic Movies and Peace Coffee. Johnson said she'd probably be "painting something" if she weren't a designer.

DAVID TURNER graduated in 1984 from St. Martin's School of Art in London, but not before spending a year at Leamington Technical College, where he says the entry requirement "was being able to spell your own name." In 1988, Turner set up Turner Studio in London before following his future wife, Ellen, to San Francisco and starting Turner Duckworth, a branding firm, with Bruce Duckworth in 1993. Turner heads up the firm's San Francisco office while Duck-worth runs the London office. Their work has been in Clios, Graphis, Print, Design Week, Communication Arts and I.D., among others, and Turner is the chairman of the Clios design jury. In his spare time, he likes to play jumping games with his daughters, Haley and Lily.

DON STAUFENBERG is the head of industrial design at the corporate headquarters for Fitch Americas in Columbus, Ohio. Fitch has been among the top-five product- design firms in the United States for the last five years and is the only creative consultancy to win three Design of the Decade awards from BusinessWeek magazine. Staufenberg has developed PDAs for Compaq, a DNA-based TB diagnostic for Beckton Dickinson, a water-purification unit for Amway and has overseen product development and color strategy for Owens-Corning. He joined Fitch in 1989, after working at Rubbermaid and Herman Miller. A graduate of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, he now resides in Columbus. In his spare time, Staufenberg likes to design and build furniture and take his two children to "all kinds of events."

STEVE RUSSAK works at Altitude Inc. in Boston. Russak is former partner and vice president of design operations at New York-based Smart Design and former chief operating officer of RefacDesign in Edgewater, N.J. While at Smart, Russak was on the original design team and served as program director for the OXO Good Grips product line. He has led new-product and strategy programs for a variety of clients, including A.T. Cross, Corning and Sunbeam. His work has received awards and recognition from IDSA/BusinessWeek and MOMA, and he chairs the design management section of IDSA. As busy as he is, Russak does have time for other activities. "If I'm not working, I'm cycling or trail running," he says. "I have more running shoes than Imelda Marcos has pumps."

BRETT LOVELADY launched ASTRO Studios, which has offices in San Francisco and San Clemente, Calif., in 1994 to "connect pure creative horsepower to new business opportunities." Lovelady has designed and directed programs for companies such as Nike, Compaq, Sony, HP and Motorola. He won Business-Week's Design of the Decade Awards for the Nike Triax sport watch series and for Kensington SmartSockets. Before founding ASTRO, Lovelady was vice president of design at both Lunar Design in Palo Alto, Calif., and frogdesign in Sunnyvale, Calif. He graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and says he gets a continuing education on "the mean streets of Silicon Valley."

GLENN POLINSKY is the design director at Modo Inc., a Beaverton, Ore.-based company that specializes in the design and production of mobile furniture for the medical industry. He has led design efforts for high-profile clients such as Allergan, Philips, Augustine Medical and GE Medical Systems since joining Modo in 2000. Previously, Polinsky founded and directed In Form, a manufacturer of contemporary home products, whose clients included the Guggenheim, MOMA, Starbucks and Crate & Barrel. Polinsky's designs have won a variety of awards, including I.D. Magazine awards and first prize in Limn's Workspace Competition in 1988. When not working at Modo, or at his other full-time job as father of three boys, Polinsky likes to listen to jazz ("not the Kenny G variety," he's careful to note).

A former cartoon character (Captain Caveman) for a Paramount Studios amusement park (where he met his wife, a balloon girl), STEVE McGOWAN is now the vice president and creative director at FRCH Design Worldwide in Cincinnati. At FRCH, McGowan has worked with the Discovery Channel to create stores that combine shopping with education and a multi-sensory experience; developed brand-image strategies and designs for a new prototype with Starbucks; and concepted and designed Disney environments that combine storytelling, show control and multi-story experiences. He's also on the professional critic panel at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning. McGowan covets hotel-room keys (he says he has hundreds), adores his family and is totally freaked out by mimes.

As part of New York-based BOYM Partners Inc. since 1995, LAURENE LEON BOYM says she's doing exactly what she has wanted to do since she was 7 years old, adding that in her next life, she'd do the same. Boym has taken part in the designs of tableware for Authentics, watches for Swatch and exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Her designs are also in MOMA's permanent collection. Boym helped found the Association of Women Industrial Designers and teaches product design at Parsons School of Design in New York. In her spare time, Boym says she likes to study Thai kickboxing, always followed by the consumption of "significant" amounts of chocolate. She also has a son, Bobby.

ROB FORBES is the head of design at and founder of Design Within Reach, which launched in 1999. A San Francisco-based catalog, Internet and studio retailer, Design Within Reach offers classic and modern furniture, lighting and accoutrements for designers. Forbes is an accomplished artist and has exhibited his work nationally in solo and group exhibitions. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant in 1981 and is currently on the board of directors for SFJAZZ and the International Design Conference at Aspen. Forbes also lectures at design conferences worldwide. Forbes says he spends a lot of his spare time around salt water: rowing, fishing, swimming and relaxing.

A former drummer for a new-wave band, which he left to pursue his career in design, CHRISTOPHER DEAM is a San Francisco-based designer and architect who works in furniture design, architecture, interiors and product design. In 1991, he started his architecture and design studio, CCD, and began building and distributing his own furniture designs. In 2000, he licensed the majority of his designs to other companies and now designs for manufacturers and selected architectural commissions. Deam's work has been published internationally and has been awarded the Good Design Award, the 2000 ICFF Editor's Award and the 1997 ICFF Editor's Award for Best Furniture. Deam balances his time between his design studio, teaching, his family and surfing.

DAWN BARRETT is the dean of the architecture and design division of Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I. This division includes approximately 900 undergraduate and graduate students in the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, graphic design, apparel design and furniture design. Previously, Barrett was head of the department of design at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, a post-graduate "werkplaats" and research center for fine art, design and theory in Maastricht, Netherlands. Barrett is a published writer and has done curatorial work for museums. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and earned her master's degree in design from the School of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.

New York-based STEPHEN BURKS is a multidisciplinary designer and design director on projects that range from graphics and packaging to consumer environments, furniture and industrial design. He has developed concepts, products and furniture for Clinique, Seagrams, Cappellini and Swatch. Burks exhibited his brand of products, Readymade, and his furniture collections at the 1997 Milan Furniture Fair, 1998's ICFF and Zero in 2000 as part of offsite. Burks studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, product design at iit's Institute of Design and attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture in New York. "If I wasn't a designer," Burks says, "I'd be creatively traveling the world partying my ass off."