Alistair Hamilton, IDSA

recently joined Microsoft as the Creative Director of the Mobile Communications Business. He was previously Vice President of Innovation & Design of Motorola's Enterprise Group developing handheld computers, data capture and RFID solutions targeted at making work more mobile. In previous positions at Motorola, Symbol and NCR Alistair has been fortunate to work with great designers and thinkers and has developed a deep knowledge of design and innovation management in often turbulent corporate environments.

Alistair enjoys being involved in design education, and has been active in the Industrial Designers Society of America where he has served as a juror for the IDEA Awards, hosted conferences focused on innovation, and conceived and underwrote the online Innovation Index to increase access to the periodical's body of knowledge. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design degree from Carleton University and an M.A. in Environmental Studies from Antioch University.

Rinat Aruh

is co-founder of aruliden, a brand strategy and design consultancy, working with companies to merge the gaps with marketing and design to create powerful products and brand platforms. With her non-traditional approach to design and marketing, Rinat has led and collaborated on diverse projects for retail environments, mobile communications, automotive launches and consumer packaging as well as internet start-ups.

Before Gap Inc. hired her to work on a new brand initiative as Vice President of Marketing, she was the Global Strategy Manager for MINI Lifestyle at BMW Group in Munich, where she was responsible for product development and brand extensions as well as new business strategies. Rinat also worked on the MINI brand during its US launch at BMW of North America spearheading a number of initiatives that brought MINI to the forefront of the design world. Her fashion experience extends to the women's ready-to-wear label, MaxMara, where she held various positions in the US market. Rinat holds a B.S.B.A. in marketing from Boston University in Massachusetts.

Sudhir Bhatia

is a designer armed with the curious mind of a researcher. This curiosity has taken him deep into the space of mapping user needs to technology solutions. Over the past two years Sudhir has consulted for technology companies in Design Research and Design, developing solutions based on his investigations into user needs in Asia. He divides his time between his studios in NYC, and Mumbai, India. Prior to consulting he worked for Symbol Technologies Inc. for more than 12 years, starting as a mechanical engineer and eventually becoming Director of Design Research.

He has been teaching at Pratt Institute as a visiting professor for two years, and at the Indian Institute of Technology’s ID Department in Mumbai, where he continues to conduct design workshops. He holds 12 patents and several design awards. Sudhir was born in Bombay, India and holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering plus a Minor in Fine Arts from the University of Rochester and a Masters in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.

Cameron Campbell

recently joined BillingsJackson Design as lead Design Strategist for the Workshop Collective, a network of design and business talent that acts as a catalyst for clients accelerating the development of new product ideas to the market. Previously, Cameron was the Strategic Design Lead for Herman Miller Research and Development. At Herman Miller she worked with multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, designers, advanced business leads and engineers to synthesize user needs, business factors research, future trends, company branding, etc. to help chart paths and relationships for ongoing innovation in design and product development.

Cameron has been involved in the design industry for more than 10 years and has worked for the top design firms in the world including Apple Computers, fuseproject, Method, IDEO, and MetaDesign London/San Francisco. Her clients have included Adobe, Macromedia, Nike, BMW/MINI, Birkenstock, Herman Miller, Intel/Artmuseum.net, Toshiba, Gilbert and George, Barclays Global Investors, and Sony.

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Don Carr, IDSA

sees Design as both the cause and solution to many of our greatest challenges. As program coordinator for Industrial and Interaction Design at Syracuse University, he's helped shape a new vision for the program. Together with Liza Lamb, he's also principle of Carr&Lamb Design. His work has been recognized by IDSA, the Cooper Hewitt, and ID Magazine. He holds numerous patents for his innovative product concepts and he's lectured at multiple venues. Don is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and he holds an undergraduate degree from RIT.

Why be a juror? In a era where shared goals would appear to be in short supply, Design is one of the few common threads that brings us together as a society. Serving as a juror for the IDEA is itself a wonderful act of Design. We need to acknowledge and celebrate the efforts of our peers and the important work they do. The products they create and their impact should be held up to a wider audience. Lending my support to IDSA in this effort is truly an honor.

Mark Dziersk, FIDSA

has recently joined Brandimage (formerly laga), a design and innovation partner to the world's leading companies, as VP, Industrial Design. Dziersk is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America, of which he is a 20-year member and has held several leadership positions including president of the organization. He has also served various council and board positions for the Association of Professional Design Firms.

Throughout his distinguished career, Dziersk has earned over 100 U.S. product design and engineering patents and garnered numerous awards, among them the Industrial Design Excellence Award, ID Magazine's Annual Design Review Design Distinction, and the Appliance Manufacturer's Excellence in Design. Dziersk is a frequent commentator on design trends, innovation and the strategic value of design in the national media and as a lecturer at events, conferences and universities worldwide. Currently, he is an adjunct professor for the Master of Product Development Program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and was a founding member of the Design Council of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

J. Ryan Eder, IDSA

graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning in 2006. Currently employed with Priority Designs in Columbus, OH, Ryan swept the 2007 IDEA Awards, winning the coveted Best in Show and People's Choice Awards for his Gold IDEA Award-winning concept "The Access," a universal design for fitness equipment.

Barbara Flanagan

is an American designer and writer trained as an architect at Yale's School of Architecture. Author of Bare Necessities (Workman: Fall, 2008) and The Houseboat Book (Rizzoli), Flanagan has written for a score of publications including The New York Times, Metropolis, and I.D., where she is a contributing editor.

Her more recent career in product design stems from the architectural projects she designed/contracted while working with manufacturers, inventing new applications for their building materials. Flanagan has designed products for MoMA Retail, a division of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and will launch her own brand of products next year. In all her work, at all scales, she has lobbied for the rise of humor, surprise, and ingenuity in daily life. Her design studio, Flanagan, is based in Bethlehem, PA, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Thomas Garvey

is Associate Professor and Director of the School of Industrial Design at Carleton University in Ottawa. He specializes in product development and design for extreme and minimal environments. His interest in small-scale living spaces grew out of his work in New York on space station interiors and led to doctoral studies at the University of Tokyo on the topic of housing and urban density. He became involved in hospital patient room design several years ago after joining the Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture (GUPHA). The international organization looks at how to address the increasingly complex changes happening in hospitals worldwide, due to expanding and ageing populations.

Garvey and his teams have garnered numerous awards and their prototypes have been presented at conferences and exhibits around the world, gathering praise from both the design and healthcare worlds. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Carleton University, a M.Sc. in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. in Architectural Planning from the University of Tokyo.

Andrew Hartman, IDSA

is creative director, new business, Philips Design, where since early 2005 Andrew has been responsible for the delivery of world-class design solutions to clients external to Philips. This involves the direction of multi-disciplinary design/research teams that identify customer needs and desires and translate them into tangible design qualities leading to optimal products and interfaces within the context a particular brand. Andrew's purpose-built teams are often commissioned to create vision and inspire positive change within an organization through design. Recent projects by Andrew's team have earned iF awards for the Bosch Communication Systems for the Interpreter Desk and for the Wireless Access Point.

Andrew holds a B.E.D. in Product Design from NC State University, and went on to earn postgraduate certification from Domus Academy in Milan, Italy.

Peter Haythornthwaite, IDSA

is a graduate of the University of Auckland and the University of Illinois (earning a BFA and MFA in Design, respectively), and a former designer at Henry Dreyfuss Associates. Returning to New Zealand he taught both industrial and graphic design at The University of Auckland. Between 1979 and 2000 he was principal designer of PeterHaythornthwaiteDesign, arguably New Zealand’s most respected multi-disciplinary consultancy. He has a high entrepreneurial focus and in 1980 he formed, with his wife Carol, artifakts, a design-based office accessory manufacturer, selling its products through design stores (including MOMA), in Europe, the USA and Japan.

A recipient of many national and international awards for product, graphic and environmental design, his work has been extensively published and exhibited. In 2003 he was recipient of the John Britten Design Award for outstanding achievement in design.

Peter is principal of the design consultancy peterhaythornthwaite//creativelab, and adjunct-professor of design at the University of Victoria, Wellington.

Jean-Jacques L'Hénaff, IDSA

is the vice-president of industrial design for Audiovox Electronics, where he and his team lead the development of new products and product categories for brands such as Audiovox, Advent, Acoustic Research and RCA. Prior to joining Audiovox in 2005, Jean-Jacques L'Hénaff was vice president for corporate design at Terk Technologies. He created the Terk ID team in 1999 and later managed branding, marketing communication and product design.

He previously worked at Arnell Group and Henry Dreyfuss Associates, where his perspective on design spanned from private aircraft interior and medical devices to retail environments. L'Hénaff is a graduate in product and transportation design from Ecole Supérieure de Design Industriel in Paris, and has completed courses at Harvard Business School in Branding and Marketing.

Liza Lamb

co-founder of Carr+Lamb, has been inspiring product development for over 12 years with the studio's influential style of pattern through color and form. Carr+Lamb's signature modern style for home and office have appeared on bedding, upholstery fabric, carpet and rugs, stationery, fashion and mobile computing products. The long list of collaborators includes Target, Crane, Della Robbia, Motorola, Shaw Rugs, Knoll, Crate and Barrel, Donghia, MOMA, Garnet Hill, Nike, Sunbury Textiles, Designtex and Tahari. Her digitally printed "Woo" textiles collection was awarded Editor's Choice for Textiles at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in NYC. Prior to forming Carr+Lamb, Liza designed and developed textiles for the automotive industry as Design Director for Collins and Aikman. She also collaborated with Opal in Germany on a collection of special edition automotive ;textiles for the EU market. She has design degrees from North America and the U.K.

Bill Mak, IDSA

is an interaction design professional, an innovation entrepreneur, and chair of the IDSA Interaction Design Professional Interest Section. Bill works within IMI Studios, a global design collaborative that guides business leaders on envisioning and creating the future.

Prior to 2007, Bill contributed to a wide range of products at Microsoft, including desktop and online emerging technologies, proudly concluding an entertaining and intense 12 year run with tabletPC and Windows Vista.

Jane Savage, IDSA

developed a passion for sustainable design while earning a BFA degree with a major in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Since graduating in 1991, she worked in the kids footwear industry in Boston and New York, and answered the call to Nike in 1997. In her 10 years at Nike her positions included Design Director of Kids Footwear and Design Manager of Women's Sport Performance Footwear until her recent appointment as Director of Category Integration to help lead the Nike Considered Design movement. Jane feels a great sense of purpose working with Nike. She feels with Nike's global reach to the people of the planet, sustainability and responsibility should be in the consciousness of every Nike employee getting product to market. She feels that when Nike commits to people, a great impact can be made which will lead other industries. "Nike can affect change. Here is an opportunity to connect the mandates of my industrial design education to my professional practice. I want to help. I want to make a difference."

Rob Tannen, PhD, IDSA

is Director of Research for Bresslergroup,an award-winning product design and development firm. Rob provides expertise in design research, human factors and usability to support product definition and refinement.

Prior to Bresslergroup, he was Director of Human Factors at Electronic Ink, and held positions at Siemens Medical Solutions and the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rob is creator and editor of DesigningforHumans, IDSA's online reference for human factors and usability. He earned a BA in Cognitive Science from Vassar College and MA and PhD degrees in Human Factors from the University of Cincinnati.

Philip Thompson, IDSA

began his professional career in 1991 working on a variety of freelance projects in London. In 1992 he joined Electrolux's Design Center in the United Kingdom where he held a number of positions including Sustainable Design Manager. In 2000 Philip moved to the U.S. to join Whirlpool's Global Consumer Design team and to manage the development and deployment of Visual Brand Languages across multiple product categories. In 2004 he was appointed US Design Director with broad responsibilities for the multi-disciplinary team. In 2007 Philip moved to Italy to take on his current assignment as Director of Global Design Strategy.

Philip is a graduate in Industrial Design, receiving a bachelors degree from Teesside University and a master's from the Royal College of Art. Philip has received a number of international design awards and collaborated on programs with universities including Cranfield, Teesside, Northwestern, Art Center College of Design in California and the Royal College of Art, and has lectured in both the UK and the US.

Andrew Valentine, IDSA

is a senior Industrial Design student at Virginia Tech, using a school research grant to test and develop experimental snowboard composites. He has received many awards including the IDSA Undergraduate Scholarship, 2008 Southern District Student Merit Award, and Outstanding Senior Award for the entire College of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech. His range of internship experiences have not only helped him to develop as a designer, but also taught him invaluable communication skills to effectively collaborate with engineering, marketing and other contributing departments. During his most recent internship in Salzburg, Austria with the design consultancy Kiska, he developed multiple projects for industry-leading companies while gaining a better understanding of cultural trends.

He is the first student to participate on the IDEA Awards Jury.

Frank von Holzhausen, IDSA

is one of the founding partners of Group Four, Inc., which opened its doors in 1972. Over thirty-six years and countless patents and design awards later, Group 4 continues to benefit from Frank's role as Chief Design Officer, providing leadership to all phases of new product development, from initial evaluation of market opportunities through research and product, package and merchandising design development to liaison with manufacturers to assure successful final production and placement. In addition to possessing a Bachelor of Industrial Design degree from Syracuse University, Frank is a recognized industry leader, having served as President of APDF and as a member of IDSA and AIGA. Under Frank's guidance Group 4's clients have consistently won or held on to highly coveted placement at retail.

Some of the world's most respected corporations have benefited from Frank's unique combination of business savvy with keen design insight, resulting in prestigious awards such as IDEA, I.D. Annual Design Review, GOOD DESIGN, DuPont Packaging Awards and press mentions from the likes of The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and many others.

Glen Walter, IDSA

is a co-founder and the managing member of (ELEVEN), a Boston-based product development studio. (ELEVEN) has gained international recognition by developing product visions for corporations such as Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Motorola, OXO, Maytag, Pepsi, Burton Snowboards, Herman Miller, Polycom, STX Lacrosse, Symbol Technologies, McIntosh Labs, and Bauer Nike Hockey to name a few.

Working with extraordinary designers and engineers, Walter has garnered an array of patents and design awards while successfully licensing a wide range of innovative consumer products. Walter has been extensively published and is a popular guest lecturer. He has presented at MIT, Harvard, Babson College, NYU, Syracuse University, the Design Management Institute, IDSA, APDF, Pira Int. and as a special guest to the Government of Ireland. He is a graduate of Syracuse University.