Brand Perfect Tour – speaker

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.

Brand Perfect Tour – speaker

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

Brand Perfect Tour – speaker

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.

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.

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.

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™.