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Designer and Co-Founder
Precious
Christophe Stoll is running the design studio precious in Hamburg together with Johannes Schardt. They are developing design strategies, interactive concepts and visual languages for digital products. The customer portfolio comprises small start-ups as well as international brands. Furthermore, they are writing articles for design publications and run workshops tackling product innovation.
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Director of Marketing
Monotype Imaging
Julie is responsible for market development at Monotype Imaging and manages the Brand Perfect Tour World-Wide. She a marketing strategist who has worked in design and technology companies throughout her career bringing brands to life in print, Web and mobile media. ‘Bringing it all together’ in terms of communication, design and technology is Julie’s goal. She sees a need for brands and creatives to have more of a role in specifying the technological aspects of implementation in digital media to better fulfil customer expectations. Julie first experienced type as a child setting party invites in hot metal and hand printing them with her father who was in the newspaper industry.
Christophe Stoll
Designer and Co-Founder
Precious
Chuck Bigelow
Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology
Dan Rhatigan
Senior Type Designer
Monotype Imaging
Dennis Michael Dimos
Creative Director
Monotype Imaging
Doug Wilson
Film Director
Linotype: The Film
Johannes Schardt
Designer and Co-Founder
Precious
John Oswald
Service Design Lead
Fjord
Julie Strawson
Director of Marketing
Monotype Imaging
Lee Aldridge
Chief Brand Officer
Young & Rubicam Group
Paul Owen
Executive Creative Director
Landor Associates, New York
Rietje Gieskes
Associate Design Director
Landor Associates, New York
Steve Matteson
Creative Type Director
Monotype Imaging
Mike Lundgren
Partner, Director Innovation Strategy
VML
Jessie Wiley
John Wiley & Sons
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Scott Ewings
Managing Director
Fjord
Scott has a strong background in Creative Direction, Graphic Design and User Experience and has an excellent track record in designing customer experience propositions to drive business outcomes. Scott joined Fjord from Amdocs where he was Consulting Director. Prior to Amdocs, he spent two years in Sydney as GM Strategy & Planning for Vodafone. Before joining Vodafone Scott founded, developed and managed a number of boutique user experience consulting and development agencies.
Marina Willer
Executive Creative Director
Wolff Olins
Designer and film-maker Marina Willer is the leading creative director at Wolff Olins London. Originally from Brazil, she has been living and working in London for 15 years. Marina is best known for having designed the now world famous Tate logo, part of brand work which led UK culture to be reimagined in the eyes of the public. Marina was also the leading creative on identities like Southbank Centre, Schaulager, Macmillan Cancer support, Oi (the Braziliant Telecom), Beeline (which is now estimated to be the most valuable brand in Russia) and various international brands. Among her film projects, she made “Exposed” to introduce Richard Rogers’ exhibition in the Pompidou Centre and Design Museum. Others have been shown at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, ICA in London and won awards such as best short film in Sao Paulo film festival, with the film “Cartas da Mãe.” Marina has been a member of the jury at D&AD 4 times and is an external examiner at the Royal College of Art. Marina has an MA from the Royal College of Art.
Simon Manchipp
Creative Director & Co-Founder
SomeOne
Simon Manchipp is the Co-Founder & Executive Creative Director of SomeOne. Recent & current clients include Eurostar, O2, Braun, Universal Music, The Royal Opera House, Betfair, London 2012 Olympic Games & The Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Patrick Burgoyne
Editor
Creative Review
Patrick Burgoyne has been the editor of Creative Review magazine since 1999. Before joining the magazine (as Staff Writer) he worked in marketing, first for the Body Shop and later for the University of Westminster, whilst also moonlighting as a writer for magazines such as The Big Issue. He is also the author of several books on design and visual culture and has written for many publications, including The Guardian, The Independent, Scotland on Sunday, Arena and La Repubblica.
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Service Design Lead
Fjord
Konstantinos has more than a decade of experience in digital media, working as an interactive art director, designer and developer. His background stretches across the entire spectrum of digital, from hardware and software engineering to design and creative direction. He specialises in cross-platform service strategy with both a creative and implementation focused approach. Since joining Fjord in 2008, Konstantinos has significantly contributed to shaping and defining Fjord’s experience design offering. He has led teams to deliver game-changing solutions to most of Fjord’s key clients.
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Marketing Director
bemoko
Phillip Clement is responsible for bemoko’s business development of bemokoLive a powerful web development platform which makes it easy for developers to deliver true multi channel web experiences. An early pioneer of mobile and wireless data applications, he has been at the forefront of driving innovation, shaping the commercial mobile landscape and taking to market emerging products for some of the most respected brands in the industry including BT, Vodafone & Chrysalis. He has a deep understanding of mobile applications, the technology and the social impacts that drive them, having delivered solutions across the entire range of applications including retail, gaming social media and high security, which gives him a unique insight into future trends and growth markets.
Nadine Chahine
Brand Perfect Tour – speaker
Senior Type Designer
Linotype, a Monotype Imaging Company
Nadine Chahine is an award winning Lebanese type designer with a special interest in Arabic typography. She studied Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. During her study at Reading, she focused on the relationship of the Arabic and Latin scripts and the possibilities of creating a harmonious relationship between the two. She taught Arabic type design as a visiting lecturer at the American University in Dubai and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. In 2005 she joined Linotype, Germany, as the Arabic specialist and has been living in Germany since then. In September 2007 she started a PhD program at Leiden University and her focus is on legibility studies for the Arabic script. She has won the Dean’s Award for Creative Achievement from the American University of Beirut in 2000, and an Award for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club in New York in 2008. Her typefaces include: Frutiger® Arabic, Neue Helvetica® Arabic, Univers® Next Arabic, Palatino® Arabic, and Koufiya™.