WEB
Jason Kottke
Jason Kottke designs, codes, and writes for the web live from New York City, with a special interest in clear, simple, user-centered design, microcontent, and the writable web.
Jason has maintained the popular and influential weblog kottke.org since March 1998, writing about web technology, photography, media, network science, design, the writable web, and rip/mix/burn culture. In 1999, he designed the Silkscreen typeface and made it freely available for personal or corporate use. It has been used for web projects by MTV, Herman Miller, Sephora, Adobe, Volvo, and Britney Spears.
A professional web designer since 1996, Jason has done design work for Moreover.com, 3M, Susan Orlean, Charles Schwab, Target Corporation, E*Trade, and The University of Minnesota. Jason and his work have been featured in The New Yorker, ID Magazine, Graphics International, The New York Times, Forbes, and Brill's Content.
Jason has spoken at Seybold, NetMedia, and SXSW conferences on weblogs, online journalism, simplicity in design, and microcontent as well as serving on the Advisory Board for SXSW since 2000.
Doug Lloyd
Doug Lloyd is a founding partner of Flat, a
multi-disciplinary design firm founded in 1996 and based in NYC. Flat
designs for print, interactive, broadcast and environmental based media
for clients in industry, entertainment, education, politics and the
arts. Recent clients include AIGA, Morgan Stanley, Knoll, Reuters, Van
Alen Institute, New York City Marathon, Creative Time, and New York
State Council on the Arts. Doug has taught at New York University,
Parsons School of Design, University of the Arts, and Yale University.
His work has been profiled in Print, Metropolis, I.D., How, and
numerous books. In his free time Doug is teaching himself architecture
by building a house.
Malia Simonds
Administrative Director
Public Art Fund
Mark Vevle
As the Director of Marketing and Communications, Mark works to get out the word about LMCC�s myriad of programs and services. He�s new to New York from Los Angeles where he first completed the Masters in Public Art Studies program at the University of Southern California, then worked at the Getty Research Institute�s scholar in residence program. Before he left LA, Mark was part of the Hollywood Design Review Committee that helps implement urban planning and architectural design guidelines for Hollywood�s Business Improvement District. And, he�s the founder and principal designer of Plane Group; a design collective that works to elevate the design of non-profit�s marketing ephemera. His undergraduate degree was in Studio Art and Communications from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.
Ben Whine
Ben Whine relocated from Tate, London to New York in November 2001 to join the development team at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. He is now their Associate Development Director.
Ben received his B.A. in Art History from the University of Birmingham and his M.A. in Museum Studies and Art Curatorship from the University of Leicester. His expertise is in building bridges between contemporary art museums and committed individual and corporate constituents. At Tate he held the post of Patrons Manager, and was responsible for relaunching their higher-level membership programs parallel to the opening of Tate Modern in 2000 and Tate Britain in 2001. Ben currently designs, manages, and programs the New Museum's many membership schemes, as well as the volunteer program, annual fund and the Museum's very successful travel program.
PRINT
Donna David
Donna David has been an independent graphic design consultant in New York
City for over 15 years. Her projects include the design of interactive
multimedia, web sites, printed materials and architectural signage. A
partial list of her clients include: IBM-TJ Watson Research Center, Art &
Auction Magazine, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, VIACOM, Lawrence
Wolfson Design. Her work has been featured in Print magazine and The Art
Director's Club Annual.
She is currently a full time faculty member in the Communication Design
department at the Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY in New York City. She
teaches graphic design for print and interactive projects. She holds a BS in
Industrial Design from the Ohio State University and a MFA in Design and
Technology from Parsons School of Design.
Myrna Davis
MYRNA DAVIS is Executive Director of the Art Directors Club, Inc., a membership organization of creative professionals working in advertising, design and interactive media around the world with a gallery and offices in midtown New York. Ms. Davis oversees the organization's prestigious Annual Awards competition, exhibition and resource book, The Art Directors Annual, now in its 84th year; programs including the Young Guns bienniale, Hall of Fame, speaker evenings, student workshops, scholarships; and other exhibitions and events. A graduate of Barnard, she also attended Cooper Union and has worked on projects with artists, architects and designers, among them George Nelson, Push Pin Studios, and Milton Glaser, and as a partner with her husband, Paul Davis, developing books, magazines and exhibitions. She was a trustee of the Hampton Day School and founding co-chair of the Sag Harbor Preservation Commission.
Andrea Dezso
Andrea Dezso is an artist, designer, writer and educator. She has extensive experience designing for non-profit organizations, cultural institutions and businesses. She is Full Time Faculty at Parsons School of Design in the Design & Technology MFA program, and an artist represented by the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City. Andrea's illustrations have appeared in the New York Times Book Review. She is a contributor to Print Magazine. Her fiction was published in November 2003 in McSweeney's Issue #12. Andrea holds an MFA in Visual Communication and a BFA in Graphic Design & Typography from the Hungarian University of Design.
She lives in New York City.
DK Holland
Writer, strategist, and art director DK Holland has been developing award-winning programs that include branding, licensing, promotion, and product development for companies such as Mattel and Citicorp for thirty years. She was, until 2001, a partner in the Pushpin Group, an internationally acclaimed design and illustration firm based in New York City. Currently the principal of DK Holland, llc, a communications consultancy that works exclusively with nonprofits, her clients include the Coro New York Leadership Center, the Literacy Assistance Center, and Sisters of Charity New York. DK serves on the board of directors of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance, which she is in the process of re-branding, and is an editor of Communications Arts magazine and the author/art director of a dozen books on graphic design. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Perry Lowe
Perry Lowe coordinates Eyebeam's communications efforts including marketing, public relations and web presence. He came to Eyebeam in the Winter of 2001 from the auction house Sotheby's where he'd worked in the Sotheby's Institute and the Decorative Arts Department. Previously Perry has worked at the Carnegie Museum of Art during the Carnegie International 1999/2000, SITE Santa Fe during their 1999 biennial, Looking for a Place and at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery. Perry has a BA in Art History from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Master of Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Wesley Miller
Wesley Miller is the Assistant Curator for �Art:21�Art in the Twenty-First Century�, the Emmy-nominated, award-winning documentary television series on contemporary art and artists, broadcasted on PBS. His responsibilities for Art21 include selecting artists to film, pre- to post-production on the television series, editing books for Abrams, producing an educational website, and developing new multimedia ventures for Art21. A veteran of nonprofit art organizations, before joining Art21 in 1999 Wesley worked in museum education at the Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, and in public relations, marketing, and development at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. An artist in addition to his work for Art21, Wesley holds a BA in Philosophy and Art from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. His first museum exhibition, a public project titled "P.S.", was installed at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. Wesley has also been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2001 and at the Pilchuck Glass School in 2003.
MULTIMEDIA
Ellen Goetz
Ellen Goetz is the Director of Resource Development at Common Ground Community, a New York City non-profit housing and community development organization dedicated to solving homelessness. Prior to joining Common Ground, she was one of the founding staff members of the Center for Reproductive Rights. A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, Ms. Goetz was the Center for Reproductive Rights Development Director for eight years, before becoming Managing Director in 2001. During her tenure, the organization grew from a budget of $1.3 million to over $7.7 million. Ms. Goetz is the former Legal Assistant to the Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project (RFP) and a Staff Attorney at the Legal Aid Society. She was also a Legal Fellow and consultant for the Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU, as well as a consultant at the Volunteer Lawyers Project in Boston, MA.
W. Bradford Paley
W. Bradford Paley creates visual displays with the goal of making
readable, clear, and engaging expressions of complex data.
He did his first computer graphics in 1973, founded Digital Image
Design Incorporated (didi.com) in 1982, and started doing financial
& statistical data visualization in 1986. He has exhibited at the Museum
of Modern Art; he created TextArc.org; he is in the ARTPORT collection of
the Whitney Museum of American Art; has received multiple grants and awards
for both art and design, and his designs are at work every day in the hands
of brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He is an adjunct
associate professor at Columbia University, and is director of Information
Esthetics: a fledgling interdisciplinary group exploring the creation and
interpretation of data representations that are both readable and
esthetically satisfying.
Michael Pollock
The Cyrano Project is a brand new nonprofit organization whose mission is to help nonprofits to tell their stories eloquently and effectively. It will bring the knowledge, talents and resources of professional communicators to the service of the nonprofit community.
The Cyrano Project is the brainchild of Michael Pollock, President of Pollock|Spark, a management and strategic consultancy that works with creative businesses to help them focus their vision and grow. Since his early film training in London, Michael has been working with visionary creative people to make entertaining, compelling and persuasive film and marketing messages. He has built and managed TV production and creative teams at global advertising and marketing agencies. He has been Head of Production at J Walter Thompson and TBWA, and Creative Director for the American Express website at marketing agency Digitas. He has started and run elite high-end design and film-editing boutiques and produced award-winning national television campaigns for the American Red Cross and UNICEF as well as for American Express, IBM and many other Fortune 500 clients. In 2001, Michael received New York University's Certificate in nonprofit Arts Administration. He graduated from Bristol University in England, where he was President of the internationally recognized Operatic Society. He served, for a very short time, as a dresser for the Men's Chorus of the Sadler's Wells Opera in London.
Mariana Saddakni
Mariana Saddakni is a senior art director with over 13 years of experience leading award-winning design projects. She has extensive experience in interactive multimedia, new media, information architecture and print design with broad expertise in designing for multiple industries including non-profit educational and cultural institutions.
Mariana has designed and developed successful large-scale interactive experiences for a number of prestigious clients such as AOL, MTV, Estee Lauder, MasterCard, Gartner, Kaplan, Sotheby's, the Wall Street Journal and the network of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals. Her interactive work has received numerous industry awards from The Art Directors Club, ID Magazine, One Show, Venice Arts Festival, NY Festival, IDEA, Museums and the Web, WebAward Competition, and eHealthcare Leadership. Her work has been featured, in ID Magazine and BusinessWeek Magazine among others, and exhibited internationally.
Mariana is currently working as an independent senior creative consultant in New York City. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires and, an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
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