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Annual Design Review Winners 2005
I.D. presents the results of the 2005 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, concepts and interactive. To see all 150 winners, check out the July/August issue. Consumer Products Jurors Andrea Ruggiero designs and develops visual identity systems, furniture, packaging, and commercial interiors. He received a BFA in product design from Parsons School of Design in New York and studied at the Domus Academy in Milan. From 1995 to 2001, he collaborated with a number of design studios in New York, including Boym Partners, Vignelli Associates, Arnell Group, Able Design, and the digital solutions firm Razorfish. In 2001, Ruggiero established his own multidisciplinary practice focused on delivering comprehensive design solutions to start-up ventures and mid-size companies. His work has been selected for the Good Design Award, the International Furniture Design Fair award in Japan, and twice for I.D.'s Annual Design Review. He teaches product design at Parsons and is a frequent contributor to the Color Association of the United States.
Laurene Leon Boym joined the New York-based firm Boym Partners Inc. in 1994 after receiving a master's degree in design from Pratt Institute. Her professional partnership with her husband, Constantin Boym, has produced, most recently, concepts and branded environments for Vitra Home and McDonald's, lighting for Flos SPA and Swarovski, and store displays for Herm¸s. The Vitra showroom at Merchandise Mart in Chicago won a Best of Category award in I.D.'s Annual Design Review 2000, and the studio has been the recipient of two National Design Awards. Boym products are in many major museum collections, and have been documented in the monographs Curious Boym (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) and America (Birkhäuser, 2005). A retrospective is on display at MUDAC in Lausanne, Switzerland, until September 2005. Boym teaches in the School of Visual Arts' MFA design program.
Originally from Athens, Georgia, David Weeks studied painting and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned a BFA in 1990. Since starting David Weeks Studio in Brooklyn in1996, he has designed products from desk lamps, sconces, and ceiling fixtures to floor lamps, elaborate chandeliers, mobiles, and custom retail, commercial, and residential projects. David Weeks Lighting won the Editors Choice award for best lighting at the 1999 International Contemporary Furniture Fair. In 2000, he launched a furniture line and began a new product company, Butter, with partner Lindsey Adelman. Their lighting products won an award from Blueprint magazine at the 100% Design show in London as well as the Editors Choice award for best lighting at the 2001 ICFF. Weeks lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Georgie Stout, partner in 2x4, and their son, Fenner.
Graphics Jurors Writer, curator, and graphic designer Ellen Lupton is director of the MFA program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She is also the curator of contemporary design at New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, each accompanied by a major publication, including the National Design Triennial series in 2000 and 2003, "Skin: Surface, Substance + Design," "Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age," "Mixing Messages," and "Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office." With J. Abbott Miller, Lupton coauthored Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design (Phaidon Press, 1999). Her most recent book is Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors and Students (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004).
Richard Baker is creative director of Life magazine. He has been art director for The Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Vibe, Us, and Premiere. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Baker designed his first publication at age 14 (it was a hand-drawn magazine called Super Rasta, and it was never published). He studied printmaking at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, and design at the School of Visual Arts, in New York City. In addition to magazines, he designed the books Studios by the Sea: Artists of Long Island's East End (Abrams, 2002) and Negro League Baseball (Abrams, 2005). Baker has won awards from the Society of Publication Designers, the Art Directors Clubs of New York and Boston, the Society for News Design, American Photography, and American Illustration.
Bonnie Siegler founded Number Seventeen, a multidisciplinary design firm working in television, film, print, products, and the Web, with partner Emily Oberman in 1993. The firm's current projects include the identity and advertising for Air America Radio (which recently won a silver Art Directors Club award), a book about the TV show Desperate Housewives, and the creative direction and design of the firm's fourth issue of the reinvented Colors magazine. Number Seventeen has designed logos and title sequences for Saturday Night Live, Will & Grace, Good Morning Miami, and The Isaac Mizrahi Show and helped invent Lucky magazine. Siegler serves on the national board of the AIGA and teaches Design for Television in the graduate program of the School of Visual Arts.
Packaging Jurors Marc Gobé is chairman, chief executive officer, and executive creative director of Desgrippes Gobé and Associates. One of the world's top ten brand image creation firms, DGA specializes in identity, product, packaging, retail, and Web design and over the past 25 years has created breakthrough brand design strategies for Coca-Cola, IBM, Victoria's Secret, Ann Taylor, Sears, Godiva, Saks, Reebok, Versace, Lancôme, Starbucks, and Gillette. Gobé served on the board of the Brand Design Association and was recently invited to join the IBM Marketing Advisory Board. His design work and writing have appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Brandweek, Women's Wear Daily, Harper's Bazaar, and The Economist. He has won awards from I.D., Interiors, Graphis, VM+SD, the New York Art Directors Club, and Clio. He speaks regularly on marketing and design at Columbia University and at conferences worldwide.
New York-based Debbie Millman is a managing partner and president of the design division at Sterling Group, one of the country's leading brand identity firms. In her 10 years with Sterling, she has worked with such clients as Gillette, Unilever, Kraft, MTV, the NBA, Nestle, Pepsi, and Campbell's. Prior to working at Sterling, Millman was a senior vice president at the brand consultancy Interbrand, and the director of marketing at Frankfurt Balkind, an entertainment communications and advertising agency. For 12 years, she was the creative director for Emmis Broadcasting's Hot 97, where she helped transform the image of the radio station. She writes frequently for Print magazine and for the design blog Speak Up and hosts Design Matters, a weekly Internet talk radio show focusing on design. A frequent lecturer, she is a board member of the New York chapter of the AIGA and a mentor at the High School of Art & Design.
Alex Grossman is a design director at Richardson Sadeki in New York, where he leads diverse projects, from large-scale packaging and branding to integrated identities for major national hospitality, beauty, and lifestyle brands. Prada, Bliss, Starwood, Virgin Atlantic, Milk Studios, Fred Segal, 60 Thompson, and Skinklinic are among the firm's clients. A self-taught designer, Grossman studied art at Columbia University and has won numerous awards for his photography. At Richardson Sadeki, his recent projects include comprehensive packaging identities for Paul Labrecque, Bathhouse Spa, and Sei, a new brand of water launching this fall. Prior to joining Richardson Sadeki, Grossman was a founding partner of FADA Design, an integrated design firm specializing in hospitality identity and brand development.
Enviroments Jurors Markus Dochantschi founded New York-based studioMDA in 2002 after working with Arata Isozaki and Fumihiko Maki in Tokyo and then as director at the Pritzker Prize-winning firm Zaha Hadid Architects. StudioMDA's most recent projects include a renovation of the Bass Klausner town house in New York and the design of the Gund Shapiro residence in New York, and a private residence in Zapallar, Chile. The office is currently working on projects in New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Chile, Peru, and Switzerland. Dochantschi is the editor of Zaha Hadid, Space for Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (Lars Müller Publishers, 2004) and has taught with Zaha Hadid, Stephan Behnisch, and Gerald Hines at the Yale School of Architecture. His projects have been featured in The New York Times, Oculus, and Architectural Design, among other publications.
Architect Lisa Mahar opened Kid O, a children's design store in New York, last year. She and her husband, fellow architect Morris Adjmi, designed the minimalist shop, which sells products that encourage creativity and independence. Previously, Mahar was a partner and cofounder of MA Architects. During her 10 years at the firm, she translated corporate brands and cultures into distinctive retail spaces for clients such as Sony, Nike, and Levi Strauss & Co. Mahar researches and writes on American vernacular design, and her 1993 book, Grain Elevators, won the AIA International Book Award. American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66 (Monacelli Press, 2003), a look at the history of hotel signs, has received numerous design awards. She is the recipient of Design Arts awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts and has received design awards from I.D., Print, and the New York Art Directors Club.
Gregg Pasquarelli cofounded firm SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli in 1997. The New York architectural firm was named a 2002 finalist for the National Design Awards and was awarded the 2001 Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the 2001 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York. Pasquarelli attended the master of architecture program at Columbia University from which he graduated in 1994. Following that, he was a designer, project manager, and site architect at the office of Greg Lynn FORM. Pasquarelli is currently Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia. He serves on the board of directors for the Architectural League of New York and the International Design Conference in Aspen, and is a Young Leader's Fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Furniture Jurors David Revere McFadden is chief curator and vice president for programs and collections at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. He is also president of the International Council of Museums' Decorative Arts and Design Committee. He has served as executive director of the Millicent Rogers Museum of Northern New Mexico in Taos and from 1978 to 1995 was curator of decorative arts and assistant director for collections and research at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. McFadden has organized over 100 exhibitions on decorative arts, design, and craft. These include "Scandinavian Modern 1880-1980," the first American exhibition to survey modern design from all five Nordic countries; "Hair," a landmark exploration of the visual and design history of human hair; and "Structure and Style: Modernism in Dutch Applied Arts 1880-1930," the first American exhibition devoted to Dutch applied arts from that half century. He is a three-time recipient of the Presidential Design Award for Excellence.
Ted Boerner, founder and creative director of Ted Boerner Inc., grew up in rural Wisconsin and earned his BFA in theater design from the University of West Virginia, continuing in the field as a graduate student at New York University. In the mid-1980s Boerner moved to San Francisco and began work as a designer, opening his furniture studio in 1988. Within a year, he had created custom furnishings for the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon, and the Manhattan Hotel in Tokyo. His debut at New York's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in 1993 has led to commissions from major commercial clients such as Northwest Airlines, Celebrity Cruise Lines, Condˇ Nast's corporate offices, and Nike. Ted Boerner Inc., based in San Francisco, has produced exclusive collections for Directions, Brownstone, and Design Within Reach, and in 2004 opened its first showroom in New York; the studio's work is also carried in showrooms across the U.S.
Rosanne Somerson is a professor and head of the furniture design department at Rhode Island School of Design, where she received her BFA in industrial design. She has run Somerson Furniture Studio since 1978 in addition to serving as a principal in DEZCO Furniture Design LLC. Somerson's work is included in private, corporate, and museum collections, notably the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, Huntsville Museum of Art, and RISD's Museum of Art. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Women of Design International Competition, and the James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Craft Educators Award. She was selected for the "Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000" exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture.
Equipment Jurors Founder of the firm A2 (formerly Ancona2), Bruce Ancona designs and develops housewares, consumer electronics, and major appliances. He also consults on areas ranging from strategy and product planning to design and manufacturing and has had extensive experience designing, sourcing, and manufacturing products in China over the past 20 years. With offices in New York and Zhuhai, China, A2 holds more than 200 U.S. patents and has won many design awards, including silver and gold IDEAs, an iF Top Ten, Good Design Awards, and a place in Time Magazine's Top 10 Designs of the Year list. A2's work has been profiled in Graphis, The New York Times, Living Etc., BusinessWeek, and on NPR and has been collected and exhibited at MoMA, London's Design Museum, and the "New Century Design" exhibit in Guangzhou, China.
Debera Johnson is chair of the industrial design program at Pratt Institute. She is responsible for developing programs and curricula with an interest in sustainable and ethical design, strategic innovation, and entrepreneurship. Ongoing projects include the Design Incubator, a one-year program that supports recent graduates starting up their own design consultancies; and Design Narratives: The Relationship of Culture, Design and Visionary Action, a travel program for designers and design students to countries undergoing dynamic change. Johnson is researching and writing the catalog for "Corvettes to Cuisinart: Six Decades of Design," an exhibition about the work of alumni of Pratt's industrial design program. She has been a professor of design at Pratt since 1988.
Bibi Seck is a partner in the New York product design firm Birsel + Seck. Born in Paris, he spent his formative years in London and Dakar, Senegal. He received his master's degree in industrial design in 1990 from Paris's Ecole de Création et de Design. Seck was senior designer at Renault for 12 years, leading teams to develop award-winning automotive designs by applying new materials and breakthrough manufacturing technologies. He has taught at Strate Collˇge School of Design and Management, Université Technologique de Compiègne, and Pratt Institute. With partner Ayse Birsel, Seck has designed consumer electronics, automotive interiors and components, furnishings, home products, environments, and retail systems.
Concepts Jurors Susan Sellers is founding partner and creative director at 2x4 in New York and a lecturer at Yale University School of Art. At 2x4, she leads diverse projects from large-scale identity and branding programs to exhibition and set design for major cultural institutions nationwide. Recent projects include comprehensive positioning for the Museo Picasso Málaga and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, exhibition design for the Addison Gallery of American Art, and several book projects with the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Berlin. She has been a visiting design critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ohio State University School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, and SCI-Arc. Her articles have appeared in a number of journals including Eye, Design Issues, and Visible Language. 2x4 was featured in a solo exhibition at SFMOMA in Spring 2005 as a part of the museum's Design Series.
David Rockwell, chief executive officer of the Rockwell Group in New York, founded the firm in 1984 and today has a 160-person office with over 200 built projects to its credit. Characterized by rich materials, innovative narrative, and a sense of theater, recent projects include the Mohegan Sun casinos, New York's Chambers and W hotels, the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, set designs for the Broadway musical "Hairspray" and the film Team America: World Police, and dozens of restaurants, including Nobu, Town, Rosa Mexicano, Pod, and Cafe Gray at the Time Warner Center in New York. Rockwell was honored with a lifetime achievement award from Interiors magazine and was awarded the Presidential Design Award for the Grand Central Terminal renovation. He serves as chairman of the board of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) and is a board member of the Public Theater and City Meals on Wheels.
Sheila Kennedy is a principal at Boston-based Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. (KVA), an interdisciplinary design practice that explores new relationships between architecture, digital technology, and emerging public needs. In 2000, Kennedy established MATx, a materials research unit that works collaboratively with business leaders, industrial manufacturers, engineers, and public agencies to create design concepts, products, and building systems that advance the implementation of energy-efficient digital technologies. An associate professor in architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Kennedy served as director of the school's M Arch II Program from 1991 to 1995. Her firm has received AIA National Design Excellence Awards, the Public Work Award of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Industrial Design Excellence Awards from IDSA. A monograph of Kennedy's work, Material Misuse, was published by the Architectural Association of London (2001).
Interactive Jurors Mark Tribe is an artist, curator, and educator interested in the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art. He is assistant professor of modern culture and media studies at Brown University, and has taught at Columbia University, Williams College, and the School of Visual Arts. In 1996, he founded Rhizome.org, an online platform for the international new media art community, where he served as executive editor until 2003. Tribe now chairs the Rhizome.org board of directors and also serves on the boards of the New Museum of Contemporary Art and ISEA, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. Currently, he is working on a curatorial project for inSite_05 in Tijuana and San Diego, and a book on new media art for Taschen. He received an MFA in visual art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in visual art from Brown University.
Architect and designer Allen Sayegh is the founder of INVIVIA, Inc., a design firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His recent design work includes a body-centric, interactive space for the Einstein Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, an interactive urban installation for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, a dynamic mapping system for downtown Beirut, Lebanon, and an interactive retail space in Turin, Italy. His work has appeared in The New York Times, I.D., Wired, and Axis and has received awards from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design and the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council. Sayegh is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches digital media and interactive environments.
Jessica Helfand is a partner, with William Drenttel, in Winterhouse, a design studio in northwest Connecticut. She is a founding editor of Design Observer, the online forum for design criticism and commentary. A contributing editor and columnist for Print, I.D., and Eye magazines, she has written for numerous national publications, including The Los Angeles Times Book Review and The New Republic. Helfand is the author of several books on design theory and cultural criticism, including Paul Rand: American Modernist (William Drenttel Editions, 1998), Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media and Visual Culture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001) and Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002). She received her BA in architectural theory and her MFA in graphic design, both from Yale University, where she is currently thesis critic in the School of Art.
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