I.D. presents the results of the 2003 Annual Design Review, America’s largest and most prestigious juried design competition. The August issue features the year’s best designs in the following categories: consumer products, graphics, packaging, environments, furniture, equipment, and concepts. To see all the winners, check out the August 2003 issue.
Consumer Products : STUART CONSTANTINE
Stuart Constantine is a founding partner of Core77, a design enterprise in New York City that has been featured in Communication Arts, I.D., The Whole Earth Review, The New York Times, and on "The Today Show" and CNN, and won awards from I.D., Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club and The One Club for Art & Copy. A Connecticut native, he studied history at the University of Connecticut and industrial design at Pratt Institute. Prior to Core77, he worked for Lotus Development Corp. as a packaging designer and with the consulting firm Gartner. In addition to running Core77, which is currently working with Herman Miller on a variety of interactive design initiatives, Constantine runs Coroflot.com, a career and community Web site for creative professionals.
Consumer Products : JANET VILLANO
Janet Villano holds a master's degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute and a bachelor's degree in marketing. She has spent recent years freelancing and working as a senior designer at Ancona 2 in New York City. In these capacities she has designed products for Lectrix, World Kitchen (Ekco, Via, Cuisinart), J. Pomerantz, Colgate-Palmolive, Earthway, Boston Warehouse, Oxford Bath & Home, Emhart/Black & Decker, Symbol Technologies, Cambridge Silversmiths, Arrow Plastics and Barbara K. Villano is a founding member of the design collective Elseware and is co-chair of the IDSA's Housewares section. In her new post as a senior product designer at New York's Rockwell Group, she's helping launch a new design team to develop private-label merchandise for Meijer stores as part of a larger strategy to transform and develop the store's brand, look, and overall shopping experience. Villano has won several awards for her work, which has appeared in Graphis, Artbyte, Architectural Record online, Innovation, Intramuros and I.D.
Equipment : GADI AMIT
Gadi Amit co-founded San Francisco-based newdealdesign to help companies use product design as part of their brand and marketing strategy. Since the firm's inception, newdeal's emphasis on engaging top designers in the full design process has led to award-winning products such as the Palm Zire handheld. Before becoming president of newdeal, Amit was vice president of design at frogdesign's San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices, and he has extensive experience designing for the consumer-electronics, mobile, personal-computing, household-goods, and commercial and medical-technology industries. His work has been recognized by I.D. and IDSA/IDEA, and has won BusinessWeek's "Product of the Year" Good Design award and Japan's G-Mark award. Amit's projects have been featured in various design publications and exhibited at the Chicago Athenaeum, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and SFMOMA.
Equipment : MICHAEL WIKLUND
A vice president with American Institutes for Research in Concord, Mass., a human-factors consulting firm, Michael Wiklund has devoted his entire career to making devices such as heart monitors, cellular phones, digital cameras and wheelchairs more user-friendly. Wiklund studied human-factors engineering at Tufts University, where he currently teaches a graduate course in user interface design. He has co-authored the latest national and international standards for the design of safe, effective and error-resistant medical devices, and edited and contributed to Usability in Practice, a survey of user-centered approaches to design. Wiklund's book Medical Device and Equipment Design-Usability Engineering and Ergonomics was published by Interpharm Press in 1995. For the past decade, he has been a contributing editor of Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry, a medical trade journal.
Graphics : JANET DEDONATO
Janet DeDonato is the managing principal of Methodologie, Inc., a Seattle-based brand and strategic communications firm that specializes in printed and online investor communications, brand strategy and corporate communications for a nationwide roster of clients. She divides her time between developing the strategic planning for investor communications projects and overseeing operational management and strategic planning for the firm. Her clients include Washington Mutual, Sun Microsystems, EMC, E*TRADE Financial and Beckman Coulter. Prior to founding Methodologie in 1988, DeDonato was vice president of design at Spangler Associates, a Seattle-based corporate communications firm. With more than 20 years of design experience, she has served on the national board of the AIGA and as a past president of AIGA/Seattle. Currently, she serves on AIGA/Seattle's advisory board. She has judged award competitions including the Mead Annual Report Show, and spoken at conferences held by the National Investor Relations Institute, how magazine and the AIGA. DeDonato studied graphic design at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Graphics : DANA LYTLE
Dana Lytle is creative director and co-founder of Planet Propaganda, a 14-year-old creative communications firm in Madison, Wis. Launched as a traditional graphic-design firm, Planet later became involved in advertising and active media design. With a fork-in-the-toaster approach to design, the firm has earned the affection of such clients as Gary Fisher Bikes, Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches, Blue Note Records, Appleton Papers, JanSport and Cha Cha Beauty Parlor & Haircut Lounge. Planet's work appears regularly =in Communication Arts, HOW, Print, Graphis and the Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood Association Newsletter. Lytle holds a degree in graphic design from Montana State University. When not designing, he spends his time rearranging his basement to make room for his vintage letterpress equipment. Although his heart belongs to print, Lytle also professes to love the smell of a freshly launched Web site.
Environments : JOHNSON CHOU
A graduate of the University of Waterloo's School of Architecture and a co-founder of Archive Inc. Gallery and Art Library, Johnson Chou is principal of Johnson Chou Inc., a Toronto-based multidisciplinary design practice formed in 1999 that encompasses architectural and industrial design, furniture and interiors, graphic identity and corporate communications. His recent furniture and industrial design work includes store fixtures for Bernstein Display in New York, lighting for Eurolite, home-office furniture for Skypad and a couch/bed/workstation for Nienkamper. Prior to establishing his firm, he worked at the Toronto offices of Arthur Erickson, Ernest Annau and Parkin. His architectural projects include an office and showroom space for Bernstein Display, a restaurant in Toronto, an office space for an ad agency and several clothing boutiques in Canada, including TNT BLU. His work has been featured in Azure, Architectural Record, FRAME, Hauser, Home and Architectural Trends Magazine, I.D. and Objekt. Additionally, the firm's work has been recognized by Canadian Interiors Magazine Best of Canada Award 2002 for TNT Woman, the Ontario Association of Architecture Awards 2002, the Arts Toronto Protégé Award 2001 and the Interior Design Show's Gold Award for Outstanding Booth Design in 2001.
Environments : MICHAEL MANFREDI
Born in Trieste, Italy, Michael Manfredi came to the United States to earn a bachelor's degree in architecture at the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in architecture from Cornell University. He was honored with the Paris Prize in 1975, an Eidlitz Award in 1979 and a Cornell University fellowship. After design stints at Richard Meier and Partners and Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, he established New York's Weiss/Manfredi Architects in 1989 with Marion Weiss. Manfredi has taught at Cornell, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. He was a trustee at the National Institute for Architectural Education and is a founding trustee of the Van Alen Institute. Weiss and Manfredi's award-winning built works include the Women's Memorial and Education Center at Arlington National Cemetery and Olympia Fields Park and Community Center. Most recently, they've acted as lead designers for the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park. Current projects include the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, N.Y., a new media library for the Robin Hood Foundation and the rowing complex for New York's 2012 Olympic Bid. Weiss/Manfredi's designs have been featured in I.D., The New York Times, Architecture, Architectural Record, Architectural Review, Praxis and Landscape Architecture, and in several books, including The Fractured Metropolis, Value in Art and Design Culture Now.
Furniture : RICHARD HOLBROOK
California-born Richard Holbrook has spent the last two decades designing desks, chairs and appliances for evolving workspaces. Holbrook Design in Pasadena, Calif., the independent consultancy he founded in 1985, has introduced designs for Yamaha Sports, Casablanca Fan, Tropitone Furniture, Dacor Appliances and Virco Manufacturing, and has conceived highly successful product lines for Herman Miller, Thermador and others. His Levity collection of interactive furniture for Herman Miller earned industry honors and was included in MOMA's 2001 Workspheres exhibit. In 2000, Holbrook reintroduced Holbrook Design as an incubator for venture-based design ideas, focusing on products for work environments. The inspiration for DNA-the partnership he formed with his long-time business adviser Michael Shannon in late 2001-was a desire to bring smart, sophisticated office furniture to small- and medium-sized businesses, including satellite and home offices. A graduate of Art Center College of Design, Holbrook began his career in the styling studios of Peugeot Automobiles in England and France.
Furniture : KAREN WOLF
As president of the U.S. division of Topdeq Corp., a leading mail-order distributor of contemporary European office furniture and accessories, Karen Wolf manages the first venture of Topdeq Holding GmbH outside of Europe. In addition to overseeing everything from sales and marketing to finance and purchasing, Wolf is on the Topdeq Operating Committee, which establishes the strategy and direction for the company worldwide. Prior to joining Topdeq in 2000, Wolf spent 18 years at Steelcase, where she served most recently as president of Steelcase Intl., leading sales, marketing, operations and distribution around the globe. She established manufacturing joint ventures in Colombia and Thailand, opened new markets in South Africa and Central America and acquired a Brazilian company for Steelcase. Wolf earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1982 from Michigan State University, graduating first in her class, and a master's in management from Aquinas College. She volunteers with the Ronald McDonald House in her spare time.
Packaging :
VALERIE AURILIO
Valerie Aurilio is a designer in the Brand Identity Community and the Cincinnati Beauty Care Team at Landor Associates' Cincinnati office. A Michigan native, she received her bachelor's degree in graphic design from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Aurilio worked briefly at Landor's Tokyo office, collaborating with the corporate identity team on such projects as TV Tokyo, Sigma Gaming and the Nagano Olympics. While employed at Philips Design Group in Atlanta, she worked on print collateral, print promotion and packaging for consumer electronics. After a stint with Andrea Barash Design in New York, Aurilio returned to Landor, where she now serves as lead designer for several P&G brands. Other clients include Farm Rich Frozen Foods, Always, Safeguard, Cognis and the American College of Cardiology.
Packaging : WILL MILLER
Tennessee native Will Miller graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B.F.A. before heading to New York City, where he spent seven years in packaging design and branding at Peterson Blyth, ListerButler and Image Communications. Clients included Kelloggs, Johnson & Johnson and others. Miller later moved to Connecticut to work with King Casey in New Canaan on packaging design for Toro, Colgate, NEC and Norelco. Later stints as creative director at the Toronto firm Design Partners and at Chase Design in Skaneateles, N.Y., included work for Eveready, Continental Baking Co., Thomson Consumer Electronics and Keith Clark. For the past 10 years, Miller has been a senior designer at Deskey Integrated Branding in Cincinnati. He is active in several professional organizations, including the Packaging Design Council, the AIGA and the Cincinnati Art Directors Club.
Concepts : ROBERT PROBST
A native of Freiburg, Germany, Robert Probst earned a bachelor of design degree in 1972 from the University of Essen in Germany followed by a master's degree from the College of Design in Basel, Switzerland. He has been a professor of graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning for 25 years, and was named director of the School of Design in 2001. His professional experience includes work in 2D graphics, promotional and identity design, exhibition design, architectural signage and environmental design. He began his professional career in the renowned studio for visual communication of Otl Aicher in Germany. Probst's award-winning work has been featured in numerous publications and resides in the permanent collections of the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York and The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. He serves on the Society for Environmental Graphic Design's board of directors and as president of its Education Foundation. In 1996, Probst was named Fellow of the SEGD, and in 1997 he was elected as a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Concepts : DUANE SMITH
Product designer Duane Smith received a bachelor of industrial design in 1996 from Carleton University in Ottawa and has also studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. A native of Newfoundland, he worked as a design consultant at various North American firms before beginning his own venture with partner Stéfane Barbeau. In 1999, they co-founded Vessel, a housewares design and distribution company, whose products he would like to see at garage sales in 30 years. Smith is also a founding member of Release1, a design collaborative that explores design as a cultural activity independent of commercial forces. His firm's work has earned Industrial Excellence Awards, Medical Design Excellence Awards and Virtu Awards, and has been featured in I.D., The New York Times, Adbusters, Real Simple and Wired.
