DANA ARNET
is a senior partner with VSA Partners in Chicago. Together with his colleagues, Arnett helps lead a wide range of creative engagements that strategically position brands, products, and corporate vision for a wide range of clients, including Harley-Davidson, IBM, Time Warner, and Cingular Wireless.
www.vsapartners.com

STEPHEN DOYLE
is creative director at New York City’s Doyle Partners, known for typographic hijinks and unswerving chromatic acuity. Making words into ideas, infusing humanity into the digital process, and using humor when all else fails are the hallmarks of this small studio. It seems Doyle’s fellow judges and the elite staff of STEP found him an even more effective partner on the dance floor than in the judging suites at the Wisconsin resort where the competition was held.
www.doylepartners.com

NOREEN MORIOKA
is a partner at AdamsMorioka in Los Angeles. The firm’s work has been globally recognized by every major competition and design publication. Morioka is a past president of AIGA/LA and chair of the AIGA National President’s Council. AdamsMorioka’s book, Logo Design Workbook, was published in 2004.
www.adamsmorioka.com

BROWN JOHNSON
is the executive creative director, Preschool TV at Nickelodeon Networks. Her successful kids’ programs, Blue’s Clues and Dora the Explorer, have changed the way kids watch television with their highly interactive content, pairing educational material with great design. Johnson partners with graphic designers in all aspects of media—TV, print, web design, magazine, packaging, and books.
www.nick.com

RICK VALICENTI
is the founder and design director of Thirst, a firm devoted to art with function. Valicenti, a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale), was awarded the 2004 AIGA Chicago Chapter Fellow. A 356-page monograph on Thirst work, Emotion as Promotion, will be published by Monacelli Press in 2005. For the past decade, Valicenti has contributed his time and energy to college and high-school students in the form of workshops, personal critiques, and conversations about design and professional practice.
www.3st.com

web judges:

JAMES BAKER
is the founder and creative director of WDDG, an internationally known and highly awarded interactive firm in New York City. His work has been recognized with awards from Cannes Lions, The Clios, The ADC, The E≈es, The One Show, Communication Arts, Macromedia, and FlashForward. In 2003 Baker founded Inferno Games, which creates games for console and video game systems.
www.wddg.com

BRENDAN DAWES
is creative director with UK interactive design group Magnetic North. His portfolio of work includes projects for Disney, Golden Wonder, Benetton, Fox Kids, Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola/Schweppes, and the BBC. On www.brendandawes.com he explores the fusion of art, technology, and interactive design, and he also maintains projects such as www.saulbass.net.
www.magneticnorth.co.uk

ROBERT HODGIN
is a founding partner and creative director at The Barbarian Group. He has many years experience developing interactive content for high-profile clients such as Nike, Volkswagen, Saturn, and HP. He also maintains a personal site, www.flight404.com, which has received numerous awards and was recently recognized by ARS Electronica in the category “Net Vision.”
www.barbariangroup.com