Davin Stowell, IDSA | Smart Design

IDEA 2011 Jury Chair

Davin is the founder and CEO of Smart Design, a multi-disciplinary design consultancy. Over the last 30 years, Davin has established Smart Design as one of the world's premier design firms focused on consumer products, services, and experiences. An expert in strategic consumer product design and planning, Davin has steered the design directions for a broad range of clients including: OXO, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Gillette, and World Kitchen.

Ed Mangum is a young designer at Astro Studios, a San Francisco based design firm that specializes in product design, branding, and strategy. Ed is driven by a deep desire to learn and connect with society through design. He prides himself on working in an amazingly collaborative work environment that consistently produce award winning products and brands for companies such as Samsung, Kodak, Microsoft, Nike, HP and Astro Gaming.

is President/CEO of Teague where he dedicates his time to positioning Teague for future success; striking a careful balance between building the Teague brand, and safeguarding the legacy. During his four years in this position, he’s established and strengthened Teague’s partnerships with some of the world's leading brands including Hewlett-Packard, Nike, The Boeing Company, Starbucks, Panasonic, LG, Samsung, Rockwell Collins and Microsoft among others.
 

is a user experience designer who specializes in information architecture, design research, interaction design, and product development. Her clients include Philips Medical Systems, Polaroid, IBM, Eastman Kodak, First Union, QVC, and Staples. She was a member of Philips’ PageWriter Cardiograph product design team that recently recieved a 2010 iF award. Isabel previously received a Communications Arts Interactive award for her work with IBM.

is the co-founder of the progressive industrial design studio Mike and Maaike. Formed as a design laboratory, the San Francisco studio focuses on experimentation, authenticity, substance and good. In the past five years, Mike and Maaike have amassed a diverse roster of clients/collaborators including Google, Belkin, Xbox, Steelcase, Council, and the City of San Francisco. These collaborations have resulted in successful and award-winning projects marked by strong conceptual narratives, critical thinking, and optimism.

Sandrine is a native of south of France and graduated with honors from ENSCI - Les Ateliers in 1996. She remained in Paris for several years, working for Philippe STARCK on the 7-Eleven Japan stationary line, GoodGoods catalog and Alessi homeware. In 1998, she created her own consultancy, collaborating with companies such as Alcatel, Thomson Multimedia, Salomon and L’Oréal.

has been creating and leading Global Design teams around the World for the last 20 years – he is passionate about using design to deliver brand value across every touchpoint of the user experience. Sean has been delivering brand and design value for brands such as Electrolux, Rutgerson, Assa Abloy and iitala while living and working in the UK, Italy and Sweden before arriving to the US where he is now building a multi-faceted Global Design team for Hewlett Packard across the US, Asia and Europe.

is a Creative Manager for Merchandise at Starbucks Coffee Company, and a founder of Seattle based Alkemi Design. Fumi is an art director, conceptual thinker and trend researcher in addition to being an artist with a background in both illustration and fine art. At Starbucks, Fumi led and collaborated on developing seasonal and core retail experience, as well as being responsible for global merchandise direction and design. She managed design for global consumer products and global in-store art in her previous role at the company.

is a graduate of Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (class of 1987). He has spent most of his international career as an in-house designer; Cebe, Tefal, Philips. He worked as senior designer and design manager in numerous product sectors; spectacles, sports goggles, domestic appliances, lighting and electronics, and managed more than a hundred different product programs.