Eileen is a Trustee of The Design Council for Wales and chairs the education panel. She is also Chair of Governors of Eveline Lowe Primary School in London. This year she will be a Noted Scholar at UBC in Canada and a Visiting Scholar at Maquarie University in Australia.

Prior to establishing Blaich associates in 1992, Blaich served for 12 years as the senior managing director of design for Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands. During this period Philips design won over 500 international design awards and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Pompideau museum, as well as many others. In 1999 Blaich was elected chairman of the board of Teague Design the oldest industrial design firm in the US.

Blaich is the author of “Product Design and Corporate Strategy” and “New and Notable Product Design”. His commitment to the deployment of design as a corporate core competency and his ability to communicate its benefit to the broader business has earned him worldwide recognition.

As mayor, he commissioned AIA and CNU award-winning public works of architecture and urban design and appointed numerous architects and designers to important civic positions in the public life of Charlottesville.

Nell received her Masters in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1998. Soon after Nell established Design Directions, a free series of design education programs at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Design Directions continues to provide opportunities for over 500 students per year to work with professional designers on issues relevant to their daily lives. Nell is currently completing her dissertation for her Ph.D. in Education at New York University.

In the short period that has passed, Marc Ecko Enterprises (www.marceckoenterprises.com) has grown to include 12 separate *ecko unltd. apparel and accessories lines, and a recently launched video game in conjunction with Atari. Over the years, he has dedicated himself to a number of socially conscious initiatives, including significant work with underprivileged youth domestically and internationally, and a dedicated role in reversing the plight of the world's rhino population. As a venture philanthropist, Marc recently founded Sweat Equity Enterprises, an innovative nonprofit design and entrepreneurship program for underserved New York City youth.

An amateur jazz trumpeter and avid collector of 19th century cornets, Eldredge has turned his evolutionary approach to cornet history. A critic of gene-centered theories of evolution, Eldredge's most recent venture is the development of an alternative account to the gene-based notions of “evolutionary psychology” to explain why human beings behave as they do. He lives with his wife and 400 cornets in Ridgewood, New Jersey—but retires to the Adirondack Mountains to hike, think and write as often as possible.

Prior to frog, Robert led the Research & Development team at Organic where he worked on wireless applications for key clients such as Lucent Technologies, Federated and the Museum of the Moving Image. Other work experience includes @radicalmedia, Microsoft Research and Edwin Schlossberg Inc. He is an adjunct professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program where he teaches a foundation course in Interaction Design. He has worked in user experience design for interactive media since 1994, including exhibition and kiosk design, CD-ROM, Web, broadband and wireless applications. His interactive work has been included in ID magazine, Wired magazine, the Wall Street Journal and presented at SIGGRAPH and DUX.

In June of ‘05 Adam completed his graduate work in Product Design at Stanford. Over the last 7 years Adam has thoroughly enjoyed mixing it up with creative teams at Boston University, The Xtracycle Access Foundation, ApproTEC, DEKA Research and Development, Stanford University, International Development Enterprises, and IDEO.

Hugh’s focus on the intersection of story and design comes from extensive experience in film and theater, combined with a dozen years working in interaction design. Hugh is a former Director of User Experience for Sapient Corporation and Director of Content Strategy at iXL, and is an award winning performance and media artist. He is currently on the Advisory Board for the American Institute of Graphic Arts Colorado Chapter, and is the principal of Hugh Graham Creative. Hugh is also an active digital storyteller, and is pursuing this interest through “Mile High Stories,” a collection of stories about the City of Denver.

As creative director for his firm, his work focuses on connecting people with communications that appeal to the senses. The culture created at o2 ignites all aspects of communications and constantly challenges traditional boundaries.

o2 creative solutions, with studios in Detroit and Los Angeles, has gained wide recognition for their experience design-based projects as it relates to commerce, hospitality and communications.

Hettie has worked with the National Endowment for the Arts' “Architects in Schools” program, the Guggenheim Museum's “Learning through the Arts” program and the New York Foundation for the Arts' “Artist-in-Residence” program. She has been the director of education at The Scientific Center in Kuwait, a curriculum consultant to the New York City Board of Education, and has consulted and taught at various museums.

For the last several years, Hettie has worked with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum on the development of its community-based design-education program.

Prior to o2, Jody spent several years with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago working towards a city-wide sustainable design project to educate and promote responsible urban dwelling in the city of Chicago. She has conducted global research projects focused on the relationship between science and art. Bridging the gap between fine art and scientific experimentation by working with artists and scientists throughout the world to understand how to effectively communicate issues of ecology and sustainable design by means of art and science.

Currently Margeigh is working on an exhibition with the Exploratorium for the International Society for Electronic Arts, which features a collection of art/science projects based on geo-annotation technologies.

Margeigh began her design career as an architect, she has lectured on media theory and aesthetic philosophy at California College of Arts [CCA] in San Francisco. She lives with her husband and three children in a salt marsh preserve in Marin County.

Over the last two decades Sergio has worked with various universities; most recently at the University of Texas Austin, where the programs of the BASIC Initiative are now based to establish service-learning programs in support of economically and socially marginalized communities. His work received many awards including national design awards from Mexico, Canada, and India. Cuba, and UNESCO as well as the National Design Award, an award given annually to leading designers by the Smithsonian and the White House Millennium Project.

Jim is one of the founding core faculty of The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Together with Prof. David Kelley, he teaches the d-School’s course on Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, in which teams of Engineering and Business students design products and implementation plans for citizens of developing countries.

Rainier has traveled to all seven Continents, including the extensive expeditions throughout Africa, Antarctica and New Guinea. He has photographed global culture and conflict, famine, and war. Most recently Rainier traveled to Indonesia to document the Tsunami disaster. Rainier's photography has been seen in many of today’s leading publications. He has won awards for his photography, including the prestigious Lowell Thomas Award given by the Explorers Club for adventure stories.

Worldstudio is unique because of its synergistic relationship with Worldstudio Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers scholarships and mentoring programs in the fine and applied arts, for which Randall serves as President. The first non-profit in the U.S. devoted exclusively to encouraging social responsibility in the design and arts professions, Worldstudio Foundation dares young artists to dream – of new lives, new careers and new solutions for the world in which we live.

In addition to lecturing on design and social responsibility at schools and industry conferences, Randall has taught at Parson’s School of Design and Hartford University.

As the principal designer and founder of Harry Teague Architects, Harry’s work is distinguished by freshness of design approach, incentive planning strategies, and attention to the craft of construction. His diverse practice includes architectural design, site planning, industrial design and community facilitation.

Harry’s work has been included in several exhibitions of contemporary western architecture and architectural detailing. His work has received numerous design awards and has been published in over 50 books and magazines. He has lectured and taught nationally and served on a number of professional design award juries. Harry Teague strives to produce architecture for our time, architecture that has a positive effect on society, and architecture that elevates the human spirit.

Currently Thackara is the program director of Designs of the time (Dott), a new biennial that launches in Northeast England in 2007.

Elliot has been involved in school reform for more than 30 years as a teacher, principal, administrator, video producer and writer. His work spans across school design, pedagogy, learning environments, and education reform. Elliot’s interests lie in the field of how schools can connect with communities to understand tacit and disciplinary learning both in and outside of school.

At Thayer High School in Winchester, NH, his professional development programs won an “Innovations in State and Local Government Award” from the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has been selected as the educator to watch in Rhode Island. His dissertation on Innovative Pedagogy and New Facilities won the merit award from DesignShare, the international forum for innovative schools. Elliot lives in sunny San Diego with his wife and five dogs.