We’re proud to introduce a number of the judges for 2024’s Innovation by Design Awards. Innovation by Design honors one of the best initiatives and concepts throughout the design spectrum, as represented by our stellar group of jurors, who come from a number of the world’s most fun design-led firms. Learn on to fulfill them. And keep in mind to apply for the Innovation by Design Awards by Feb 23.
Ti Chang
Cofounder and Artistic Director, CRAVE
Ti Chang is an American industrial designer whose pioneering work in pleasure merchandise has elevated a brand new definition of luxurious in intimacy merchandise. She is the cofounder of CRAVE and the visionary behind pleasure jewellery, adornments that encourage sensual empowerment and cultural conversations. She is finest identified for the design of Vesper vibrator necklace in 2014, one of the crucial celebrated and iconic pleasure merchandise, as seen on A-list celebrities and fierce people. Ti’s design imaginative and prescient has received worldwide design awards and has led CRAVE to mainstream partnerships with the likes of Nordstrom, Goop, and Ulta Magnificence, together with a collaboration with Saint Laurent. Ti is a classically educated industrial designer with an M.A. in Design Merchandise from the Royal School of Artwork in London and a B.S. in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Expertise.
[Photo: Ohad Kab]
Eran Chen
Founder and Government Director, ODA
Since establishing ODA in 2007, Eran Chen has earned a popularity for mold-breaking designs that can ship a greater city future. Having accomplished greater than 50 buildings in simply over a decade, he has develop into one of the crucial prolific architects in New York. Chen’s work has been broadly printed around the globe and acknowledged by the AIA, the Society of American Registered Architects, and others. Along with visitor lecturing globally, Eran can also be an Adjunct Professor at each Columbia College and New York College. His current initiatives embrace the renovation of the previous Postkantoor in Rotterdam, an city plan in Chicago, and the conversion of a defunct parking storage right into a public park and sophistication A workplace constructing in Buenos Aires. His writings on structure have been printed in Unboxing New York and ODA’s forthcoming e-book ODA: Office of Design and Architecture (Rizzoli) will likely be launched this spring, that includes notable initiatives from his portfolio of labor and the agency’s vary in structure, from residences to buildings to neighborhoods.
Brian Collins
Cofounder and Chief Artistic Officer, COLLINS
Brian Collins is cofounder of COLLINS, the enterprise transformation firm primarily based in San Francisco and New York Metropolis. The corporate began with two laptops, 4 desks, and an thought: Design just isn’t what they’d make. Design is what they’d make attainable. Since then, the corporate has received Company of the 12 months honors over the previous 5 years from AdAge (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023)—together with enterprise transformation company of the 12 months—and D&AD (2021). Their work on reimagining The Institute of Design at The Illinois Institute of Expertise (The New Bauhaus) simply received finest work of the 12 months from Design Week in London. Earlier than launching COLLINS in 2008 with Leland Maschmeyer, Brian led the design and model innovation division at Ogilvy Worldwide for over a decade. Brian is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Massachusetts School of Artwork and Design. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the ArtCenter School of Design and granted the Luminary Prize from Bell Labs. He was most not too long ago elected a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Marcus Engman
Artistic Director at Ingka Group, IKEA Retail
Marcus Engman has intensive expertise from working inside IKEA, as Communication and Inside Supervisor, Advertising Supervisor, and Head of Design. In his present function, he spearheads initiatives like Atelier100, IKEA Pageant, and IKEA at Milan Design Week, and the model’s partnership with Annie Leibovitz.
Sharon Gauci
Government Director of Design, International Buick & GMC
Sharon Gauci, a local Australian, is an skilled design chief who has held a wide range of totally different international roles. Previous to her present appointment, Gauci was the Government Director of Industrial Design at Normal Motors. In June 2020, Sharon joined GM’s Sustainability Workplace, the place she was one among seven govt leaders working throughout the group to implement methods supporting GM’s Zero Emissions imaginative and prescient. In her present function, Gauci is liable for main studios to create the visible expression and design methods for Buick, GMC, and GMC Hummer vans, vehicles, crossovers, and SUVs throughout all of GM’s markets. Gauci is the primary recipient of Good Design Australia’s inaugural Girls in Design Award in 2019, the primary feminine keynote speaker at WardsAuto Inside Convention in 2018, and the primary feminine to be included as a core choose for the Australian Design Awards in 2005, on the time a 50 12 months award program. She graduated with a bachelor’s diploma in Industrial Design in 1993 from Swinburne College in Melbourne. In 2021, she commenced service as a Board of Trustees member for PRATT Institute, a world chief in increased training located in New York Metropolis.
Mara Hoffman
President and Artistic Director, Mara Hoffman
Mara Hoffman based her label in 2000 after graduating from Parsons Faculty of Design in New York Metropolis. Fifteen years later, the model dedicated itself to implementing extra sustainable and accountable practices whereas remaining dedicated to presenting colourful collections impressed by and in celebration of ladies. In an effort to foster aware consumption habits, the model maintains an open dialog about its method and encourages shoppers to reevaluate the connection society has with clothes. The corporate continues to deal with sustainable supplies, processes, and manufacturing with a view to enhance and prolong every garment’s life, and is a vocal and lively advocate in in search of racial and social justice for the sake of a extra equitable society.
Giorgia Lupi
Associate, Pentagram
Giorgia Lupi is an info designer and accomplice on the worldwide design consultancy Pentagram. In her follow, she challenges the impersonality of knowledge, designing partaking visible narratives that reconnect numbers to what they stand for: tales, folks, concepts. Lupi was born in Italy and acquired her Doctorate in Design at Politecnico di Milano, the place she targeted on info mapping. In 2011, she cofounded Accurat, an acclaimed data-driven analysis, design, and innovation agency with places of work in Milan and New York. Her work is a part of the everlasting collections of the Museum of Trendy Artwork and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and her TED discuss on her humanistic method to information has over a million views. She has printed two books, Pricey Knowledge (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), exploring the small print of each day life by hand-drawn visible information; and Observe, Accumulate, Draw! A Visible Journal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), a guided journal for accumulating visible information.
Ali Mize
Senior Director of ESG, Belonging, & Company Philanthropy, Neiman Marcus Group
Ali Mize leads Neiman Marcus Group’s 2025 ESG technique to revolutionize luxurious experiences by advancing sustainable services and products, cultivating a tradition of Belonging, and main with love in its communities. She holds a Grasp of Worldwide Enterprise diploma from Tufts College’s Fletcher Faculty of Regulation & Diplomacy and the Fundamentals in Sustainability Accounting (FSA) credential from the IFRS Basis.
Lara Marrero
Retail & Shopper Expertise Chief, Technique Director, and Principal, Gensler
Lara joined the Gensler group in 2002 and has greater than 20 years of expertise spanning retail, hospitality, and way of life and leisure experiences. As a world chief of Gensler’s Retail & Shopper Expertise follow and a Technique Director, Lara brings insights that lead to progressive and highly effective methods that generate engagement amongst manufacturers, locations, and folks. With an training that spans psychology, promoting, advertising and marketing, and cultural anthropology, she has honed her capacity to translate complicated international shopper traits into comprehensible, workable, and worthwhile outcomes for her purchasers, together with Microsoft, Harrods, C&A, John Lewis, and HB Reavis. She has been acknowledged as as a High Retail Influencer of 2022 by Rethink Retail and was named one among design:retail journal’s 40 underneath 40 in 2017. Lara is taken into account a number one voice on the way forward for retail and is a sought-after speaker at influential retail business occasions and with main publications and nationwide media.
Ivy Ross
VP of Design for the {Hardware} group, Google
Ivy Ross is the Vice President of Design for the {Hardware} group at Google. Over the previous six years, she and her group have launched 50+ merchandise successful over 240 international design awards. This assortment of {hardware} established a brand new Google design aesthetic that’s tactile, colourful, and daring. A winner of a Nationwide Endowment for the Arts grant, Ivy’s progressive steel work in jewellery is within the everlasting collections of 12 worldwide museums. Ivy has held govt positions starting from head of product design and growth to CMO and presidencies of a number of firms, together with Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Bausch & Lomb, and Hole. Most not too long ago, Ivy coauthored with Susan Magsamen Your Mind on Artwork: How the Arts Remodel Us.
[Photo: Matthew Brookes]
Todd Snyder
Founder and Artistic Director, Todd Snyder
Since launching his eponymous label in 2011, Todd Snyder has infused his love for New York Metropolis into the DNA of the Todd Snyder model, redefining how fashionable American males can current themselves to the world in fashionable, surprising methods. From bespoke tailoring to progressive capsule collections, Todd’s creations present that good type might be attainable and even playful. He resides on the reducing fringe of vogue retail and is at all times searching for surprising methods to push inventive boundaries, as seen by progressive capsule collections and limited-edition designs with manufacturers together with Champion, New Steadiness, Timex, Moscot, Moby’s, and FJ Firm. Todd serves as a mentor for the subsequent technology of designers at his alma mater, Iowa State College the place he works carefully with rising expertise by the label’s strong internship program.
Dori Tunstall
Design anthropologist, writer, educator
Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall is a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated writer, visionary organizational design chief, marketing consultant, and coach. Because the writer of Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook and Lead Government Officer of Dori Tunstall, Inc., she writes on “World Builders,” the creatives who construct the worlds of movie and tv and the way they’re serving to to reenvision a extra culturally simply world.
Forest Younger
Government design chief and educator
Forest Younger is an govt design chief and educator. Most not too long ago, at Rivian, his function dictated the evolution and expression of the Rivian model throughout its folks, merchandise, and providers, whereby his group targeted on frequently refining the elements of design, content material creation, model expertise, and digital design supply throughout each shopper and industrial areas. Previous to Rivian, Forest was the primary Chief Artistic Officer at Wolff Olins. There, he led design ahead initiatives for the world’s most influential firms and cultural establishments, primarily based in New York Metropolis. Earlier than becoming a member of Wolff Olins, Forest was the Government Artistic Director at West, main design throughout a portfolio of early stage firms alongside Allison Johnson. Forest is a Senior Critic in graphic design on the Yale Faculty of Artwork, the place he’s additionally a distinguished MFA alumnus, and recipient of the Mark Whistler Prize; he beforehand served as a MFA Thesis Critic at RISD. Forest has additionally maintained a non-public design atelier, Younger Studio, for 20 years to tackle multidimensional initiatives
Zipeng Zhu is a Chinese language-born artist, designer, artwork director, illustrator, and animator in New York Metropolis who desires to make day by day a razzle-dazzle musical. His purchasers embrace Apple, Adidas, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, New York Occasions, The New Yorker, CNN, MTV, and Samsung. He was one of many Artwork Administrators Membership Younger Weapons 13 winners and has been acknowledged as Print journal’s New Visible Artist and The One Present Younger Ones. His work has been exhibited all around the world together with New York, Barcelona, Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing, and different main museums and establishments. Now he runs his inventive follow Dazzle Studio and present store Dazzle Provide to push dazzle to the subsequent stage.
