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October 1, 2007

2008 SEGD Design Awards Program Jury Announced

Washington, DC - SEGD (the Society for Environmental Graphic Design) is pleased to announce the jury for its 2008 SEGD Design Awards Program.

SEGD’s annual design competition honors the best in environmental graphic design. Projects include themed environments, wayfinding & signage, placemaking projects, mapping, public art, identity programs, architectural graphics, exhibits, and retail; also included are student work and un-built projects. Images from winning entries from previous years may be viewed on the Design Awards page of www.segd.org.

Winners in the program will be announced at the awards presentation in Austin, TX, in late May at the 2008 SEGD Annual Conference & Expo. Winning projects will be exhibited at the same event. Program entries must be submitted no later than January 31, 2008; late entries will be accepted through February 14, 2008.

Chair
David Vanden-Eynden is co-founder and principal of Calori & Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants in New York City, specializing in the planning and design of signage, wayfinding, and identity programs. He was instrumental in developing their techniques for conceptualizing, detailing, and documenting the physical components of sign programs, and coordinates the details of large-scale signage projects. Notable C&VE projects include the Amtrak Acela Specialty Station Signage; Connect 12 Pedestrian Bridge System Signage Program, Hong Kong; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH; ABC Broadcasting Headquarters, New York; The Landmark Tower, Abu Dhabi, UAE; Crate & Barrel World Headquarters, Northbrook, IL; Virginia Beach Convention Center; and One Raffles Link and One Raffles Quay, Singapore. CV&E’s work has received numerous awards; has been featured in national and international periodicals and books; and has been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York’s Municipal Arts Society, and the AIGA National Design Gallery.

Jurors
Sandro Franchini established the in-house graphic design department for Crate & Barrel in 1988. His group has grown to over forty-five associates and is currently responsible for creative brand direction, design, and implementation of all corporate identity materials, private label packaging, catalogs, web site, environmental graphics, advertising, and photography for both the Crate & Barrel and CB2 brands. Previously, he was a principal of Franchini and Cabana Design Consultants in New York City and also held senior positions at Arnell/Bickford Associates, Bonnell Design Associates, and Vignelli Associates. Sandro began his career as a designer with Grafica Foto Publicità, a multi-disciplinary design firm near Venice, Italy. Born in Rome and raised in Chicago, Sandro earned his B.A. from Connecticut College and studied at the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Kelly Kolar is principal of Kolar Design, a Cincinnati-based visual communication and architectural graphic design firm that specializes in creating integrated environments. She has guided the firm in a wide range of collaborative environmental design projects for clients such as the Cities of Columbus and Cincinnati, the University of Cincinnati, and Procter & Gamble. Her firm’s work is featured in several books, including Urban Identities, Designing & Planning Environmental Graphics, and City Signs. Kelly is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, where she also serves as an adjunct professor. Her work has been reviewed in Print, Metropolis, Publish, the AIGA Annual, and Print Casebook. Kelly recently contributed to Wayfinding: Designing and Implementing Graphic Navigational Systems. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Tali Krakowsky, director of experience design for Imaginary Forces, has been extensively involved for the last five years in concept development and management of the division and its projects in the New York and Los Angeles offices. She has a B.A. in communication design and an M.A. from UCLA’s School of Architecture. Tali has had a leading role in a range of projects for Imaginary Forces, including immersive environments for Airbus, BMW, IBM, MoMA, and the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. She worked on the World Trade Center redesign competition, an installation for the Netherlands Architecture Institute, and MoMA’s Tall Buildings exhibition as part of the design consortium United Architects. Tali has published several articles on design, architecture, and innovation through collaboration, and has been teaching a class on experience design at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Merritt Price is an exhibition design manager at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where he is responsible for experience design including special exhibitions, education spaces, galleries, and wayfinding systems. Previously, Merritt served as design manager for the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada’s pre-eminent art museum. He led a design team at Gottschalk + Ash/Keith Muller Ltd. in the creation of a wayfinding system for the largest underground pedestrian pathway in the world. In his early career, he worked for Adamson Industrial Design in association with the architect Moshe Safdie to design museum furnishings for the new National Gallery of Canada. Merritt graduated as an associate of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto in industrial design. He has been a faculty member at his alma mater, at Otis College in Los Angeles, and UCLA extension.

Ronald Shakespear is head professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He founded Diseño Shakespear 48 years ago, which he now directs with his sons and daughter. Their graphic work has been exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, at the Triennale di Milano, ICCID, and Icograda Helsinski. Major exhibitions were held at the National Fine Arts Museum in Buenos Aires, the Branch House of the Virginia Center for Architecture AIA, and the Katzen Arts Center in Washington DC. Ronald has spoken at seminars, lectures, and workshops around the world, including Icograda, Niza, Icograda Montreal, and Icograda Sao Paulo. His mega projects of urban signage and wayfinding include Buenos Aires Signage System, city hospitals, Buenos Aires Underground Signage, Tren de la Costa, and Temaikèn Zoo. His last book Señal de Diseño: Memory of a Practice, was published in 2003.

Robert C. Whitlock is an architect with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, where he focuses on international work with significant expertise in Asia. Current work includes Wheelock Square, AZIA Center in the Pudong District of Shanghai, and the CSCEC Tower (all in Shanghai) and an office complex for Shui On in their Tai Ping Qiao development. Projects for which he has served as the senior designer include the Regent Square in Sydney, 118 Gloucester Road in Hong Kong, Menara Mulpha in Malaysia, the Orchard Building in Singapore, Pidemco in Singapore, and The Residence in Indonesia. Robert was the senior designer for the SMART (Site for Medically Advanced Research and Therapeutics) Ambulatory Care Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He has seen the completion of two award-winning projects, the SGX Center in Singapore and the Espirito Santo Plaza in Miami. Robert received his B.S. from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.

SEGD is an international non-profit educational foundation providing resources for design specialists in the field of environmental graphic design. The organization has been instrumental in defining and raising the profile of the field as well as recognizing its professionals. SEGD members are leading designers of directional and attraction systems, destination graphics, identity programs, exhibits, and themed environments. Environmental Graphic Design embraces many design disciplines including graphic, architectural, interior, landscape, and industrial design, all concerned with the visual aspects of wayfinding, communicating identity and information, and shaping the idea of place.

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