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Editor
Pitch
Sonoo is the Editor of Pitch, an online publication for brand owners and marketing services agencies, that she launched last year. Formerly, deputy editor Marketing Week. She joined Marketing Week in 2000 as a reporter.
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Director, UI Technologies
Monotype Imaging
Ken Soohoo is director of UI technologies for Monotype Imaging. He is responsible for overseeing the design and development of integrating fonts and font technologies with the SpectraWorks’ embedded GUI development tools to allow OEMs to more effectively differentiate their offerings, reduce time to market and expand their products’ appeal in markets across the globe. In 1996, Soohoo co-founded Planetweb and was its president and chief executive officer. Here, he was responsible for Planetweb’s flagship product SpectraWorks’ software, a hardware- and OS-independent suite of technologies for developing embedded graphical user interfaces quickly and inexpensively. With a background in software engineering and programming, Mr. Soohoo has been a thought leader and hands-on developer in home entertainment since creating his first video game on an Atari system at age 16. Mr Soohoo is credited with five US patents, three with Planetweb. Mr Soohoo has spoken at major industry events including CES, Comdex, Digital Hollywood, E3 and Agenda.
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Senior Type Designer
Monotype Imaging
Daniel Rhatigan is a senior type designer at Monotype Imaging, based in the UK. He worked as a designer and typographer in Boston and New York for 15 years before coming to study at the University of Reading, and then research and design non-Latin typeface families, concentrating on Indic scripts. He also lectures on typography and branding in the Netherlands and the UK.
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Founder
Barnbrook
Jonathan Barnbrook is a graphic designer, type designer and motion graphics director. Most well known for his collaborations with David Bowie, Damien Hirst and Adbusters. He runs his own studio ‘Barnbrook’ and his font company ‘Virusfonts’ based in London as well as releasing fonts through Californian font company ‘Emigre’. He teaches and exhibits widely, his contribution to graphic design was rewarded with a major retrospective at the Design Museum in London in 2007.
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Neil Christie
Managing Director
Wieden + Kennedy
Neil has worked in advertising for over 25 years. He has spent the last seven of those as Managing Director of Wieden + Kennedy London. W+K is an independent, creatively driven agency whose clients include Nike, Nokia, Honda, Coca-Cola, Levi’s and P&G. The agency was named #1 most innovative company in marketing and advertising 2011 by Fast Company, Campaign Network of the Year 2010, Adweek Agency of the Year 2010, Advertising Age Agency of the Year 2010, Creativity Agency of the Year 2010, Creative Review Agency of the Year 2011, Webbys Agency of the Year 2011 and was voted the UK’s #1 digital agency in 2010 (Pitch / YouGov survey). According to figures published in Campaign magazine in December 2010, W+K was the fastest growing agency in the UK Top 20 in the preceding year, jumping from number 20 to number 12.
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Associate Design Director
Landor Associates, New York
In 2006, Rietje Gieskes rejoined the New York office of Landor Associates as an Associate Design Director, specializing in corporate identity, brand identity and packaged goods. Her previous work experience includes four years at both Landor and Interbrand. She has completed successful programs for a wide range of internationally known brands and clients, including Leviton, Advertising Educational Foundation, Verizon, Jane Goodall, Gatorade, Aquafina, Pepsi, Tropicana, Entenmann’s, Kraft, Royal Ahold supermarkets, Starbucks, Novartis, Schering-Plough, John Wiley & Sons, Smirnoff and Verbatim. Her responsibilities include managing a team of highly talented designers as they move from project brief to final implementation, as well as managing relevant external design resources (illustrators, hand letterers, photographers) and presenting finished work to clients. Rietje (pronounced re-cha) was born in Enschede, The Netherlands. She received a BFA from Syracuse University with a major in Communications Design. She resides in New York City, and in her free time, she writes and illustrates children’s books and greeting cards.
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Service Design Lead
Fjord
John’s background is in customer experience and business improvement within large multinational companies keen to improve their overall business performance. John is Fjord London’s Business Design Lead with responsibility for ensuring commercial viability and organisational feasibility of design initiatives, as well as business transformation associated with new product launches. John joined Fjord from Amdocs where we was Consulting Manager, and prior to that he worked for Accenture in their Communications and High Tech practice
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Associate Design Director
Landor Associates, New York
In 2006, Rietje Gieskes rejoined the New York office of Landor Associates as an Associate Design Director, specializing in corporate identity, brand identity and packaged goods. Her previous work experience includes four years at both Landor and Interbrand. She has completed successful programs for a wide range of internationally known brands and clients, including Leviton, Advertising Educational Foundation, Verizon, Jane Goodall, Gatorade, Aquafina, Pepsi, Tropicana, Entenmann’s, Kraft, Royal Ahold supermarkets, Starbucks, Novartis, Schering-Plough, John Wiley & Sons, Smirnoff and Verbatim. Her responsibilities include managing a team of highly talented designers as they move from project brief to final implementation, as well as managing relevant external design resources (illustrators, hand letterers, photographers) and presenting finished work to clients. Rietje (pronounced re-cha) was born in Enschede, The Netherlands. She received a BFA from Syracuse University with a major in Communications Design. She resides in New York City, and in her free time, she writes and illustrates children’s books and greeting cards.
Brand Perfect Tour – speaker
Think Tank & Design Master Classes
Get INVOLVED!
Brought to you by
John Oswald
Service Design Lead
Fjord
John’s background is in customer experience and business improvement within large multinational companies keen to improve their overall business performance. John is Fjord London’s Business Design Lead with responsibility for ensuring commercial viability and organisational feasibility of design initiatives, as well as business transformation associated with new product launches. John joined Fjord from Amdocs where we were Consulting Manager, and prior to that he worked for Accenture in their Communications and High Tech practice
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Designer and Co-Founder
Precious
Johannes Schardt is running the design studio precious in Hamburg together with Christophe Stoll. 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.