The Awards

An Assistant Professor of Media Design at the School of Art, Media & Technology at Parsons the New School for Design, David Carroll has taught more than 40 studio courses to nearly 500 students since 2001 as a full-time faculty member of the BFA and MFA Design & Technology degree programs. Carroll's pedagogical style blends the art school studio critique model with creative technology development and traditional critical discourse. His primary research includes interaction design, especially related to desktop and mobile contexts.

Recently, Carroll founded the Center for Mobile Creativity at Parsons as a research and development facility to support application design for mobile devices and situations in partnership with the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto. During the summer of 2008, Carroll exhibited his mobile media installation "1000 Cellphones" at the Synthetic Times: 2008 media art exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. The artwork playfully visualizes discovered Bluetooth devices on video monitors by interpreting each device's identification number as a unique color, reminding us of the tracking devices we carry around. "1000 Cellphones" runs on a custom Bluejacking server and visualizes the real-time data with an ActionScript 3.0 application.

Carroll's presence in China began as a visiting scholar to the Academy of Art and Design at Tsinghua University during the summer of 2007, where he conducted a special project workshop designing a mobile visitors' guide for the 2008 Olympiad with Flash Lite on Nokia devices.

Carroll's preferred learning environments for creative technology include the Adobe Creative Suite, especially Flash, Device Central, and Flex, as well as Flash Media Server. Carroll also employs Processing to teach interaction and computation fundamentals. As the authorized agent of Apple's iPhone Developer University program at the New School, Carroll provides curricula, support and infrastructure to faculty and students working in the Cocoa Touch SDK.

Carroll's students were finalists of the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards in the Mobile Design category.

Richard Doust is a senior tutor in graphic design at the Royal College of Art in London. He currently is developing new media as well as virtual and online learning initiatives at the RCA and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He also teaches and supervises the work of graduate research students. Doust, who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom, continues to practice as a graphic designer. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Art and the Royal Society of Arts.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Bryony Gomez-Palacio is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. She is co-founder of UnderConsideration—a graphic design firm and publishing enterprise all rolled into one—where she manages the behind-the-scenes of the online network compromised of Brand New, FPO, Quipsologies and the soon to be re-launched Design Encyclopedia. Bryony has co-authored four books with her husband and partner, Armin Vit—their most recent efforts being Graphic Design, Referenced and the self-published Flaunt. Most recently, they conceived and presented the Brand New Conference in New York City and the upcoming 2010 Brand New Awards. Bryony enjoys conducting workshops and lecturing when not tending to her two young daughters.

Jean-Benoit Lévy is a visual communicator who has been active since 1983 in Switzerland after his studies at the Basel School of Design with teachers such as Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann. Jean-Benoit is now living and working in San Francisco.
Jean-Benoit is a highly creative individual designer whose journey started in Basel, Switzerland and led him to San Francisco, California. From logo to corporate identities, from postage stamp to coin design, from street posters to book design, from private projects or for clients assignments, his professional experience is wide. His work has been awarded in international competitions and published in books and magazines.
Jean-Benoit received his green card in 2001 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008. Since 1991 Jean-Benoit has taught regularly, including courses at San Jose State University and Academy of Art University. He also lectures about his work in various schools in Europe, Japan, and USA. I n 1988 he opened his studio “A N D”. T his studio, located in Basel have been active in Switzeralnd until 2006. He is a member of AI GA and AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale ).
Born in 1959 in Switzerland, Jean-Benoit speaks French, German and English. He is married and father of one boy.
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Brian Lucid is a designer, educator, and consultant whose personal and professional work spans from traditional communications in static and temporal media to algorithmic design and physical/digital interfaces.

He holds the position of Professor of Graphic Design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts where he also serves as one of the core faculty members of the Dynamic Media Institute, a graduate program focused upon design research at the intersection of technology and communication.

At MassArt he teaches courses across the graphic design curriculum, and has developed innovative curriculum in the areas of typography, visual systems, information design, interaction design, user experience, and service design. Recently, he has been writing curricula introducing visual thinkers (and the math-adverse) to computer programming for creative applications.

Brian speaks at national and international conferences dealing with dynamic media, information design, and design education. He was the co-organizer of the 2008 AIGA design education conference entitled Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design in the Age of Dynamic Media, the first AIGA education conference specifically focused upon dynamic media.

Recent writings appear in The Education of the Graphic Designer, 2nd Edition (edited by Steven Heller. Published by Allworth Press), Teaching Motion Design (edited by Michael Dooley and Steven Heller. Published by Allworth Press), The Language of Dynamic Media and The Experience of Dynamic Media (both edited by Jan Kubasiewicz. Published by the Dynamic Media Institute).

From 2005–2007 Brian sat on the steering committee for the AIGA Design Educators Community, and previously served for three years on the board of directors of the fourth largest AIGA Chapter in the United States.

Recent clients range from design agencies to cultural organizations to corporations, including Adobe Systems, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Barbarian Group, Upromise, Proximity Lab, The Education Development Center (EDC), Trinity Communications, and Solidworks.

Brian holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

McAllister currently manages the creative computing environment at OCAD, from student and faculty computing to leading innovative web development.

As a practicing artist, McAllister creates video, audio, interactive and photographic works, some of which have been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. McAllister's videos and photographs have been shown at the International Biennale of Contemporary Art (Prague), the CONTACT Festival of Photography (Toronto), the imagineNATIVE media arts + film festival (Toronto), Century Gallery (London) and Sis Boom Bah (Toronto) in Out and About, GARDENfresh (Chicago), Oxo Tower (London) in Response/Ability and at FotoFestival Naarden (Netherlands). McAllister holds a Master's degree in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

Find out more about Andrew McAllister at www.andrewmcallister.ca/

Mike Patterson is an animator and director of music videos, commercials, and blended media projects. He began his career in 1985 by animating the epic MTV hit, Take On Me for A-Ha. Teaming up with his wife Candace Reckinger, they directed a string of MTV hits that include, Suzanne Vega's "Luka", Sting's "Be Still My Beating Heart" and Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract", which won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video.

As a director at Rhythm & Hues Studios, he worked extensively with blending live action with animation and visual effects. Specializing in combining live action performance with animated characters and fx, his work has received numerous awards including Clios and appearances on the Superbowl. A DGA veteran since 1993, he continues to direct and design commercials internationally.

Patterson studied animation with Jules Engel at CalArts where he produced his Student Academy Award winning animated film "Commuter". In fall of 2006, Commuter was added into the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection along with seven Patterson-Reckinger music video clips.

Mike and Candace recently directed and produced the animated visualization of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for the gala opening of Frank Gehry's New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida. “Pictures” was a collaboration with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the New World Symphony, and 11 USC animation students and recent grads. The 35-minute program was projected onto the hall’s 5 huge screens spanning 250 feet of projection space. The work premiered January 2011. http://www.adobe.com/education/resources/articles/usc-creates-five-screens.html

In April 2011, Mike produced the live outdoor visual music event, "Rhythms + Visions - Expanded + Live" on the Cinematic Arts campus. It featured performances by cutting edge international VJ's and live musicians. as well as multi-screen installations and stereoscopic architectural mapping. The second installment of this live event is being held in April of next year.

This May, Mike and Candace directed and edited a fully animated music video for Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra’s hit, “Mr. Blue Sky”. A team of USC animation artists collaborated on the project.

Stacie Rohrbach is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. She teaches studio- and seminar-based communication design courses at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Her research investigates the ways people perceive and process information and how their ability to learn may be improved by translating complex, abstract information into concrete, experiential forms. Rohrbach also studies design pedagogy in professional and general education settings and explores the relationships that exist between print and dynamic media.
Prior to her current academic appointment that began in 2003, Rohrbach worked professionally in both print and digital media and conducted her graduate studies from 2001-2003. As an art director and designer for Partners Design from 1997-2001, Rohrbach developed identity systems, corporate standards manuals, interactive websites, and product packaging. She was also a designer and researcher for North Carolina State’s Extension and Engagement program in 2002, and a designer for Landesberg Design Associates from 1996-1997. Rohrbach is a member of the AIGA Design Educators Community Steering committee since 2007 and currently serves as its vice-chair. She is also the faculty advisor for Carnegie Mellon’s AIGA student chapter.
Stacie Rohrbach earned a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon
University in 1996 and a Master of Graphic Design degree from North
Carolina State University in 2003 under the advisement of Professor
Meredith Davis.

Since 2006, he has led the creative vision and strategy for global branding, advertising, and design of major NYC initiatives, campaigns, services, products, and programs. Willy also serves as graduate thesis advisor at the School of Visual Arts in both the MFA Interaction Design and MFA Designer as Entrepreneur programs, adjunct at New York University's Center for Advanced Digital Applications, President of AIGA/NY and advisory board member to SXSW Interactive. Willy received his MFA from Yale University and AB from Dartmouth College. Follow him @wwong or www.willywong.com