Richard Boynton

partner and co-founder

Wink

Richard Boynton is a partner and co-founder of Wink. Established in 2000 with Scott Thares, the Minneapolis-based design firm works with clients both large and small on strategic brand design and development projects. In 2007, Wink was named as one of the Style and Design 100 by Time magazine. Boynton is a graduate of Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. His work has garnered recognition from AIGA, the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, I.D., Graphis, The One Show, Print and the Type Directors Club; and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and his wife Anne’s blog.

Joshua C. Chen

principal and creative director

Chen Design Associates

Joshua C. Chen is principal and creative director of Chen Design Associates, a creative communications agency in San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized and featured internationally by leading design organizations and publications, including AIGA, the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, Graphis, HOW, Print, STEP and the Type Directors Club. Chen has over seventeen years of professional experience in the fields of design, broad-casting, journalism and music. He is also author of three award-winning books, most recently Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design (HOW Books). Chen’s book Peace: 100 Ideas (CDA Press) was featured on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts and in dwell and Metropolis.

Graham Clifford

type director/graphic designer

Graham Clifford is a second-generation type director/graphic designer. He was trained by his father before working for some of London’s best advertising agencies, including Collett Dickenson Pearce and Gold Greenlees Trott. He relocated to New York City in 1989 and plied his craft at Chiat\Day and Ogilvy. In 1993 he opened his own design consultancy collaborating with ad agencies and directly with clients on projects including advertising, logo design, brand identity and packaging. Awards include the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, The One Show, The One Show Design, the Type Directors Club and a silver pencil at D&AD. He is currently secretary/treasurer of the Type Directors Club.

David Drummond

founder and principal

Salamander Hill Design

David Drummond is founder and principal of Salamander Hill Design, based in Elgin, Québec, Canada. After graduating from York University with a degree in design, he started working at Taylor and Browning Design Associates in Toronto. He then moved to Montréal to work as a senior designer at Graphème, part of the Cossette Group, specializing in corporate communications and package design. Salamander Hill Design, founded in 2002, produces projects that include posters, book covers, promotional materials, packaging and identity development. Their work has appeared in AIGA, Communication Arts and Print magazine’s Regional Design Annual.

Sonia Greteman

president and creative director

Greteman Group

Sonia Greteman is president and creative director of Greteman Group, a branding agency located in the Air Capital of the World, Wichita, Kansas. Since founding the firm in 1989, its concept-oriented creative has garnered numerous awards, including national gold ADDYs, Pro-Comms and Webbys; recognition in AR100, Communication Arts, Graphic DesignUSA, Graphis, HOW, Novum and Print, and inclusion in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent collection. Greteman’s personal achievements include a special governor’s appointment, an advertising lifetime-achievement and marketer of the year awards.

Jeri Heiden

co-creative director

SMOG Design

Jeri Heiden is co-creative director at SMOG Design, Inc, a Los Angeles design studio, specializing in visual communication tailored for the entertainment and publishing industries; including imaging, identity, packaging and print. Formerly senior vice president/creative director at A&M Records, and vice president of creative services at Warner Bros. Records, Heiden has art directed and designed over 300 album campaigns and has received 3 Grammy nominations for her album package design. Heiden attended Pepperdine University and Art Center College of Design. She lives and works in Silverlake, California, with her husband John (the founder of SMOG) and their two dogs, Jack and Ripley.

Bradford Lawton

creative director and principal

The Bradford Lawton Design Group

Bradford Lawton is creative director and principal of The Bradford Lawton Design Group based in San Antonio, Texas. Following formal training in the fine arts, he worked as a freelance illustrator and designer. Moving to Stockholm, Sweden in 1982, Lawton worked as a senior art director for the ad agency Ide Och Resultat. In 1985 he returned to Texas and formed The Bradford Lawton Design Group. They have been recognized in numerous national and international design competitions and publications, including AAF, the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, DSVC, Graphis, HOW, the Mead 60 and Print. Lawton is also a frequent lecturer on the creative process and design.

Pum Lefebure

a co-founder and creative director

Design Army

Pum Lefebure is a co-founder and creative director at Design Army in Washington, DC. Not only does she oversee all creative coming through the firm’s doors, she’s responsible for setting the creative vision behind each project. Since opening in 2003, Design Army’s work has been featured in Communication Arts, Coupe, Graphis, HOW, Novum, Print and STEP. Additionally, the work has garnered numerous industry awards from the AIGA 365, AR100, American Advertising Federation, the Art Directors Club, The One Show and the Type Directors Club.

Art Lofgreen

Partner

Catapult Strategic Design

Art Lofgreen is one of three partners at Catapult Strategic Design in Phoenix, Arizona. Lofgreen’s logos and brand identities have garnered numerous design awards and have been featured in pres-tigious publications such as Communication Arts, Graphis, Print and in the New York Art Director’s Annual. Born in Arizona, Lofgreen studied fine art and design at Arizona State University. He began his career in 1982 at CYMA Software designing pack-aging, bro-chures and print advertising. In 1991, he joined SGL Design as a principal owner which later merged with Duke Marketing Communications in 1999 to form Catapult Strategic Design.