Judges

Ingrid Chou is a seasoned designer who has been with MoMA for over 10 years. Currently, she is the Assistant Creative Director and specializes in interactive experiential design, including exhibition design, information design, and interactive educational design.

Ingrid holds a MFA from Yale University. In addition to her role at MoMA, she has served as guest speaker and guest critic at various schools in the tri-state area. Her exhibition and installation projects have won numerous awards, including AIGA, Type Director's Club, HOW, inHOWES, and Prints. Ingrid's work has been published internationally, most recently in Identity of Culture Institution 2013, Gestalten Publishers, Participatory Design 2012, Design 360°– Concept and Design, Sensation–Theme Promo & Campaign 2012, Sandu Publishing, and featured in BranD Magazine, 2012 by Sendpoint Books. Her work was reviewed in HyperAllergic 2011 and interviewed on Creativity 2010.

Partnering with the MoMA Educational Department, Ingrid realized the MoMA Art Lab, a series of interactive, educational physical spaces which successfully demonstrate Ingrid's belief that the designer's primary task is to make complex content digestible, accessible and fun. The Art Lab series also evolved into Ingrid's participation on a digital version called the MoMA Art Lab App which was featured in iPad Apps for Kids and elected one of the "10 Favorite Kid Apps." The Art Lab App was also nominated in USA Today as one of the top 5 apps for creative kids, was an App of the Day on Gizmodo.com, received a Parent's Choice Award and a HOW Interactive Design Merit award.

Born and raised in Barcelona, Matias went to art school and specialized in design. Matias’ design experience ranges from print, editorial, packaging, and identity design to online user experience, user interface, web, and mobile applications design.

Matias Corea is the Co-founder and Chief of Design at Behance. Behance was recently acquired by Adobe with the intention to bring the community and their products closer. Previously Matias led design for client projects ranging from Versace to Dolce & Gabbana. His work has earned a Type Director's Award for the magazine Influence and several Webby nominations and honoree awards, wining Best Cultural Blog for the last 2 years, as well as distinction as a finalist at the SXSW Interactive Awards for three years running.

Lernert Engelberts (1977) and Sander Plug (1969) are two highly talented Dutch artists based in Amsterdam. They create high-concept art films and installations, with simple but stunning art direction, all driven by their subtly dry, cheeky sense of humour.

They have created eye-catching installations for the windows at Selfridges, where they transformed large household objects into high fashion ladies' shoes. They have also produced remarkable editorial films for Fantastic Man and Nowness, the sassy music video ‘Elektrotechnique’, and their own personal projects, such as the ingenious documentary ‘How To Explain It To My Parents’. Their film 'Natural Beauty', commissioned by Nowness, has become an international phenomenon, receiving over a million hits on YouTube and being blogged by luminaries as unexpected as Perez Hilton and Oprah Winfrey.

Lernert & Sander push simplicity to its most aesthetically powerful limits and have been nominated for a number of prizes, winning a Dutch Design Award for Best Motion Design in 2011 for their film 'Elektrotechnique'. Both Lernert and Sander are currently living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Phoebe Glasfurd is the Creative Director and co-founder of Glasfurd & Walker, a boutique design studio specializing in brand creation, development and management. Established in 2007 the studio's work has been featured in numerous magazines and publications, won awards and has been exhibited internationally - including Wallpaper* Handmade's curated exhibition at Milan Design Week. Her goal is to continually push herself and her clients to collaboratively create unique and empowering work.

Peter has a Masters in Architecture from the School of Architecture in Aarhus and has worked with graphic design and new media for the past 18 years. The common thread in Peter's career has been working with the spacious dimension in design, whether it was architecture, set design, digital design or motion graphic.

Peter has been working for the Danish Broadcast Corporation for the last 8 years. He has, among other things, been responsible for the design and redesigning of 12 TV channel identities and redesign of www.dr.dk, Denmark's largest online news media. Peter has also worked with news design (news channel and news programs) and has a strong interest in information graphics. Several of these projects have been nominated for and won Promax Awards and Danish Design Awards.

Peter has also served as examiner and supervisor on several design education programs.

Inspired by a talent for design and technology, Mick Kanfi tapped into his entrepreneurial spirit and founded Twist Image in April 2000. Over the past ten years, he has touched all aspects of the agency – from project and operations management to creative and technical direction – helping successfully launch countless online marketing initiatives and major website redesigns. Mick is responsible for overseeing the Twist Image product, which is defined as the integration of breakthrough ideas across all disciplines.

Mike is a seasoned graphic design/ illustrator turned Web & UI designer. He's now been working in the creative industries for 15 years. Having just completed an arts degree, Mike started his career as a graphic designer for The Body Shop, founded by the late Dame Anita Roddick. During his time there he work on numerous product promotional and campaign based design projects which were featured in stores throughout the world. It was here where Mike honed his skills as a print based graphic deigned and Illustrator .

In 2008 Mike moved into the digital realm and started work for the events company, Carsonfied. Combining his graphic design and illustration skills with newly learned front-end development skills, Mike became known for creating web design that seamlessly married form and function. Mike now works for clients worldwide and has designed work for the likes of Twitter, Microsoft, Berocca & Mailchimp amongst others. You can view his work at http://mikekus.com

Harry Pearce has been a Pentagram partner since 2006, having co-founded Lippa Pearce to become one of the UK's most respected design agencies. His work touches many disciplines, from spatial design and identity to print, packaging and posters. Encompassing the public and private sectors, both local and global. His diverse clients include John Lewis Partnership, The Co-operative, Net-a-Porter, Royal Academy of Arts, the Science Museum, Saks Fifth Avenue, Pen International and the UN.

He is a member of the advisory board for Witness working with Peter Gabriel for the human rights charity for the last 19 years. In 2009 Harper Collins published his first book, a collection of typographic nonsense, Conundrums. He speaks across the globe, including AGIdeas in Australia, Design Indaba, South Africa, SemiPermanent, New Zealand and Design Yatra, India, as well as New York and Chicago, colleges, museums and the Typographic Circle in the UK. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International and also the Royal Mail’s Stamp Advisory Committee.

A published writer and award-winning motion designer and director/producer, Tina received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Arts and Graphic Design.

She currently leads NBCUniversal Digital Entertainment’s Video Production team in charge of original short-form content for such shows as Grimm, Parenthood, Parks & Recreation, Community, The Office, plus upcoming shows Smash and Awake.

Tina is the recipient of multiple awards; including 2 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, 12 Emmy nominations, the Panavision New Filmmaker Award plus 7 visual campaign design awards through the AIGA.

While transitioning her production skills into the new media platform, she continues directing and producing for independent film through her production company Liquid Filmworks.

Two of her most popular films, Gillery's Little Secret and In Twilight's Shadow, have both won film festival Jury and Audience Awards for their original storylines, creative visual style and high production value.

Before joining the NBCUniversal family, Tina was charged with creating and producing network marketing and branding identities within the entertainment industry for Disney/ABC, receiving exceptional regard for successfully launching on-air campaigns for The Academy Awards, prime-time Emmys, Hallmark Channel and The American Music Awards, to name just a few.