KEVIN FARNHAM founded Method in 1998 with the belief that business communications should be consistent, immersive and highly functional—regardless of the medium. As Method’s CEO for 9 years, he was responsible for organizational growth. During his tenure, the firm expanded from San Francisco to New York and gained a client roster of over 150 companies including Gucci, CNN, Nike, MoMA and Sony.

Prior to founding Method, Farnham worked at MetaDesign, where he was a leader in the firm’s evolution into cross-platform brand work. Before joining MetaDesign, Farnham was one of the first employees at the interactive agency Organic. There he was responsible for designing some of the web’s first commercially oriented websites. Farnham stays involved in the design community through his work judging local and international design competitions, and through speaking engagements about design, user experience and convergent technologies.
www.method.com

CHERYL TOWLER WEESE is creative director and founding partner at Studio Blue, a design firm that works with museums, universities and other organizations that serve the public. She began her design discipleship at age 9, when she learned to proofread galleys at her parents’ weekly newspaper. Weese completed college in fits and starts, preferring to study or work in a different country each year. This love of culture and language is integral to her design sensibility, and she strives to develop a new visual language with each new engagement. The studio’s work has won over 70 national and international awards, including recognition from AIGA, the American Center for Design, the Society of Publication Designers and the Type Directors Club; the work has been published in books and magazines including Novum, Eye and I.D. Weese has taught and lectured on design at numerous universities and conferences, and has juried numerous design competitions, including AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers competition, which she chaired in 2004 and 2005. She has served on the national board of the AIGA, where she continues to be involved in leadership that shapes the design profession.
www.studioblue.us

YANG KIM changes minds. Kim, the creative director at People Design, is the firm’s top visual communicator, always able to find fresh, startling ways of seeing and showing. Her ability to understand and interpret the needs and desires of the firm’s clients saves time and consistently brings home the bacon and jump-starts engines, without ever resorting to a single cliché. First as a student at Carnegie Mellon University, and consistently throughout her career, Kim’s work has been recognized by her peers for its clarity, distinctiveness, humanity and charm. Her no-nonsense style, her wit and her devotion to her work have built long-standing relationships with clients whose businesses have grown to rely on her influence. With an extensive list of design awards and publications to her name, Kim has made her mark on contemporary graphic design, now serving as lecturer and judge to the world’s most prestigious graphic arts organizations and schools. Her broad experience includes designing everything from identity systems and complex corporate product literature programs to kicky little cocktail napkins. Among her favorite and most demanding clients and projects now are son Bruno, daughter Toki and the home she and Kevin (Budelmann, People Design president) make for them.
yang@peopledesign.com | www.peopledesign.com