I.D. presents the results of the 2004 Annual Design Review, America's largest and most prestigious juried design competition. This 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 2004 issue.

Consumer Products Jurors

Phil Patton

I.D. contributing editor Phil Patton is the author, most recently, of Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object, which was published in June by Melcher Media. His other books include Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile (Simon & Schuster, 2002), Dreamland: Travels Inside Roswell and Area 51 (Millennium, 1998), and Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway (Simon & Schuster, 1987). Patton, whose writing focuses on automotive and technological innovations, served as a consulting curator for the Museum of Modern Art's 1999 exhibition "Different Roads: Automobiles for the New Century." He has taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has appeared as a commentator for CBS News, the History Channel, and several public television series. He writes regularly for The New York Times, Metropolis, and Wired.

Emmanuel Plat

Emmanuel Plat, buying and marketing director for The Terence Conran Shop New York, began his career with the company in 1992, when Sir Terence Conran opened his first store in rue de Bac, Paris. In 1999 he took up his current post in New York, where he has organized exhibits of the work of Philippe Starck, the Bouroullec brothers, Christophe Pillet, James Dyson, Karim Rashid, Jasper Morrison, and Konstantin Grcic, as well as the U.S. launches of of the Mini BMW and Vespa. Prior to his years with The Conran Shop, Plat, who graduated with a degree in history from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1987, lived in Barcelona, working as a freelance writer for various Spanish magazines. Before getting involved in the design industry, he worked for the French publisher Les Editions Rivages. A resident of New York for five years, he enjoys sailing, swimming, and kayaking in his free time.

Peter Rojas

Peter Rojas is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Engadget, a web magazine with daily coverage of gadgets and personal technology. A contributing editor at Cargo, Rojas also writes frequently on design and culture for such publications as Wired, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Money, Fortune, Salon, Slate, Vice, Surface, and Food and Wine. From 2002 until March of 2004, he was editorial director of Gizmodo, a weblog about cutting-edge consumer electronics. During his tenure, Gizmodo amassed a monthly readership of 350,000 and became one the most widely read and influential blogs on the Internet. Previously, Rojas served as technology editor of VMan, Visionaire's men's fashion magazine, as a columnist on

emerging technology for The Guardian, and as a features and news writer for Red Herring. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sussex (U.K.).

Graphics Jurors

Barbara deWilde

Barbara deWilde, a graphic designer who began her career in book publishing and music packaging, has recently established her own studio in New York. For the past four years, she served as design director of Martha Stewart Living magazine and, with The Hoefler Type Foundry, developed two new fonts for the publication's 2002 redesign. DeWilde's work for the book publishers Knopf, Scribner, Little Brown, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; the AIGA; and the Art Directors Club, and published in various books on design. Her contributions to magazine design have been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the American Society of Magazine Editors, AIGA 365, and American Photography. This summer her work was shown in "Against the Grain: Book Cover and Jacket Designs by Alvin Lustig, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Chip Kidd and Barbara deWilde," an exhibition at the Fordham University Lincoln Center gallery.

Steff Geissbuhler

In three decades as a partner and principal at Chermayeff & Geismar Inc., graphic designer Steff Geissbuhler has created corporate identities as well as print, Web, and architectural graphics for such clients as IBM, Merck, Time Warner, NBC, The New York Public Library, the University of Pennsylvania, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Crane Business Papers, the May Department Stores, the Union Pacific Corporation, Philip Morris, and Morgan Stanley, among many others. His work has been honored with the U.S. Federal Achievement Design Award, as well as with numerous awards from the AIGA and the Art Directors Clubs of New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. It has also been featured at many international poster biennials. Geissbuhler is a past president of AIGA's New York chapter and the current U.S. president of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. He has taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, where he served as chairman of the graphic design department from 1972 to 1974.

Luke Hayman

Luke Hayman is the design director of New York magazine. Until April 2004, he served as creative director of Travel + Leisure magazine, which received 14 Society of Publication Designers awards during his tenure. Prior to that, he was creative director at Brill Media Holdings and Media Central, where he was responsible for many publication and conference projects, including the redesign of Brill's Content. Hayman has also worked as a senior partner and associate creative director in Ogilvy & Mather's New York City Brand Integration Group, and as a senior designer at Design Writing Research, where he contributed to print and exhibition projects, including the redesign of Architecture and Guggenheim magazines. He was the design director for I.D. from 1997 to 1999. His work has been honored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the Society of Publication Designers, AIGA, Folio magazine, and the Art Directors Club of New York, which showcased his work in its "Young Guns II" exhibition in 1998.

Equipment Jurors

Mark Dziersk

A 10-year veteran of Herbst LaZar Bell, which BusinessWeek magazine named one of the top 10 design firms in the country, Mark Dziersk is currently president of design in the firm's Chicago branch. He oversees all aspects of industrial design management, including product and packaging design, program budgets, client contact, and human factors research. An instructor at Northwestern University, he holds over 50 U.S. product patents, and has won gold IDEAs for instrumentation and concept exploration, silver and bronze IDEAs for consumer products and packaging, and Best of Category and Design Distinction awards from I.D. He has also been honored with the Appliance Manufacturer's Excellence in Design award and numerous Good Design Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. In 2000 he was nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. A past president of IDSA, Dziersk became a fellow of IDSA in 2001, and in 2003 he was appointed executive editor of the association's quarly journal, Innovation.

Richard Penney

Richard Penney teaches at Parsons School of Design and serves on the advisory boards of several other New York-area design schools. He worked for five years with the late Henry Dreyfuss, designing, establishing ergonomic criteria, and managing award-winning programs for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Bankers Trust, and AMF. In the late 1960s he established his own firm, Richard Penney Industrial Design, which created products, work environments, furniture, architectural environments, and visual communications for such clients as Condé Nast, ITT, N.V. Philips, 3M, and Sperry Rand. In 1984, Penney restructured his practice as a consultancy, The Richard Penney Group, and began advising companies, including Steelcase, Knoll, Morgan Stanley, and Sony, on design, research, strategic planning, and marketing. His work has been published in I.D., The New York Times, Interiors, Domus, Architectural Record, Metropolis, and many books on design and architecture, and it has been honored with awards from IDSA, ASID, AIA, and IBD.

RitaSue Siegel

For over 25 years, RitaSue Siegel, president of RitaSue Siegel Resources, has led a team of seasoned recruiters who find senior product, communications, and environmental design professionals for companies that consider design a core competency. Rockwell Group, Microsoft, PalmOne, LVMH, Polo Ralph Lauren, Siegel & Gale, Procter & Gamble, and the Design Council, London, are among her many clients. Siegel has undergraduate and graduate degrees in industrial design from Pratt Institute, where she serves on the board of the Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund. She speaks frequently at design schools around the world as well as at national and regional conferences for AIGA, IDSA, and the Design Management Institute, of which she is a former board member. She is the author of Getting an Industrial Design Job (downloadable from ritasue.com or www.idsa.org) and American Graphic Design, Thirty Years of Imagery (McGraw-Hill, 1985), and has served on the board of the Architectural League of New York and as an IDEA competition juror.

Environment Jurors

Deborah Berke

An award-winning architect and urban planner, Deborah Berke founded her eponymous 20-person, Manhattan-based firm in 1982. Among her recent projects are the Yale University School of Art (2000), the master plan for Temple University's school of art building (2002), and a number of artist's studios. Her current projects include apartments for New York University faculty housing, a photo studio in Manhattan, and an arts building at Marlboro College. She is an adjunct professor at Yale and the co-editor of Architecture of the Everyday (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997). Currently serving as the advisory board chair at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, Berke is a founding trustee of the Design Trust for Public Space. A native of New York City, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.

Michael Gabellini

Michael Gabellini founded Gabellini Associates, a New York-based design firm, in 1991, after a six-year stint at Kohn Pederson Fox Architects. He has designed boutiques and showrooms for Jil Sander, Giorgio Armani, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Among his gallery and museum commissions are projects for the Guggenheim, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Marian Goodman Gallery. Gabellini is currently working on a hotel in San Francisco and ongoing collaborations with several furniture manufacturers. His historic restoration work for such landmarks as the Fifth Avenue facade of Rockefeller Center has been commended by landmark commissions in the U.S. and abroad. His proposal for the redefinition of Piazza Isola in Verona, Italy, won first place in the Contemporary Architecture in the Historic City competition and a Progressive Architecture award.

Joan Ockman

Joan Ockman directs the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, where she also teaches architectural history, theory, and design. Her award-winning book Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology (Rizzoli, 1993) is now in its third edition. Most recently, she edited Out of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention (Prestel Verlag, 2002). A contributing editor at Architecture, member of the editorial advisory board of The Architect's Newspaper, and correspondent for Casabella, she currently serves as content editor of the website of Project Rebirth, a time-lapse documentation of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. Last year she was honored by the AIA for distinguished achievement as an allied professional who has had "a beneficial influence on, or advanced the architectural profession."

Packaging Jurors

Carol Bokuniewicz

A founding partner of M&Co., Carol Bokuniewicz collaborated with Tibor Kalman on the company's groundbreaking corporate identity programs, marketing projects, album covers, product design, magazine design, and books. In 1985, she established Anda, Bokuniewicz & Scotti, the first all-woman ad agency in New York; among its clients were Sam & Libby, Aerosoles, CBS, The 92 Street Y, Scalamandré Silks, and Mikasa. She now runs her own firm, Carol Bokuniewicz Design, whose projects range from promoting magazines to selling cars, re-branding companies, and designing restaurant and residential interiors. Bokuniewicz is represented in the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Ken Carbone

Ken Carbone is a founding principal of the Carbone Smolan Agency in New York. Among his accomplishments in brand identity, print communications, exhibitions, and environmental graphics are a signage and way-finding system for the Louvre, an identity program for Sesame Workshop, and a worldwide identity and display system for Christie's. He has worked with several top financial firms, including Morgan Stanley and Quick & Reilly, and many celebrated cultural institutions, among them the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the High Museum in Atlanta, and most recently, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Carbone lectures frequently about the role of strategic design and communications in business. Complementing his design career, he has been an avid guitarist for 35 years.

Allison Williams

Allison Williams and her partner, J. Phillips Williams, founded the New York City-based design: mw in 1993. The company specializes in collateral, packaging, and interactive work. Current projects include brand identity, print collateral, and an e-commerce site for West Elm, and packaging and collateral for Marc Jacobs fragrances. Design: mw has done extensive work for Takashimaya New York including catalogs and packaging programs. The firm has received numerous awards, including a Gold Clio, Best of Category awards in design and packaging from I.D., the Deutscher prize for communication design, and Red Dot's "Best of the Best" award. In addition to her studio work, Williams is a visiting critic at Yale University. She frequently lectures and judges competitions throughout the United States.

Concepts Jurors

Janet Abrams

Since 2000, Janet Abrams has been the director of the Design Institute, an interdisciplinary think tank at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis that commissions, publishes, and implements innovative design ideas for the public realm. Prior to her appointment at the Institute, she worked variously in her native London, as well as in New York, Chicago, and Amsterdam, as a design critic, editor, and conference producer. A former writer at large for I.D., her most recent editorial project is Else/where: Mapping, a 200-page anthology on mapping of territories, networks, and ideas, co-edited with Design Institute senior editor Peter Hall and published by the Design Institute in 2004. An enthusiastic traveler, Abrams is always on the lookout for opportunities to extend her collection of international laundry detergent packaging, preferably purchased in-situ.

Mark Robbins

Mark Robbins's work encompasses photography, installation, and site-specific projects that explore social and political forces acting on the built environment. He has exhibited internationally and has several pieces in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Robbins established his own architectural practice in 1986 after working for SOM and Polshek and Partners. In 1993 he became curator of architecture at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Between 1999 and 2002, he served as design director at the NEA, where he tripled the available funding for the design disciplines and established a publication series. In 2002-2003 he won a visual arts fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Among his other awards are the Rome Prize and two artist fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Edwin Schlossberg

Edwin Schlossberg, a designer, artist, and writer, is the founder and principal designer of ESI Design, a firm specializing in interactive exhibition and experiential design. Among his many acclaimed projects is The Learning Environment at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, one of the first hands-on educational environments in the U.S. Schlossberg has won numerous design awards—most recently, the 2004 National Arts Club Medal of Honor—and written 11 books, including Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century (Ballantine Books, 1998). Currently, he is working on Reuters at Three Times Square, one of the largest LED signs in the world, and the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island. Schlossberg's artwork has been the subject of numerous one-man shows and is in museum collections around the world.