Design domains/areas being addressed:
Information visualization
Culture and identity systems
Design process and strategies for business
Exploration and Imageries
Technology and design management
New media design
Illustration
Digital graphics
Packaging
Book designing
Typography and calligraphy
Creative Strategies
Design Curriculum
Identity designs/systems – flag
designing, logos, symbols,
Signage systems
Corporate design strategies
Design policy
Design management
Place branding

Design issues being Addressed:
Vernacular design language
Typography’s localization
Cross-cultural design
Design as creator of value for business
Design and globalization
Indigenous design networks
Design sustainability
Local identity and international design
Visual design in architecture
Visual design in advertising
Visual design in the arts

Among many other accolades, Greiman is a recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal for lifetime achievement.....(Wikipedia)

Massimo Vignelli (born 1931) is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to furniture design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife, Lella Vignelli. He believed that "If you can design one thing, you can design everything," and this is reflected in his broad range of work.

Massimo Vignelli has created work in a wide variety of areas, including interior design, environmental design, package design, graphic design, furniture design, and product design. His clients at Vignelli Associates have included high-profile companies such as IBM. He is also one of two founders of Unimark. He recently donated a large portion of his work to the Rochester Institute of Technology......(Wikipedia)

The list of awards won by them runs into several pages - including eight honorary doctorates, US presidential award, AIGA gold medal, etc.

Russell Kennedy
(Melbourne, Australia)

Russell is a Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator of Visual Communication at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is an academic and practitioner of both graphic design and filmmaking. Before joining Monash in 1994, he was the principal of Russell Kennedy Design, a corporate identity consultancy, and co-director of Onset Productions, a motion picture and documentary company.

Russell is a member of the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) and actively promotes a network interface between design education and industry. An international lecturer, Russell is often invited to assist other educational institutions within the Oceania/Asian region - he is currently an international examiner/moderator for both Temasek Design School, Singapore and Wanganui School of Design at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has been active in the development of the Icograda Education Network and the deployment and promotion of worldwide educational exchange initiatives.

Richard Grefé
(New York, United States)

Richard Grefé's experience is in the development of institutions that serve social purposes. His passion is design. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College in Economics, (where he also studied book design) and Stanford, where he received an MBA. While he began his career setting type by hand, he has since been a political analyst in Asia, a writer for Time magazine on business and the economy, a public policy and urban design consulting firm director, and a manager of strategic planning and legislative strategy for public broadcasting in Washington. He joined the AIGA in 1995. A humanist and internationalist, he has lived in Munich, Bristol (England), Lausanne, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, New York, San Francisco and Washington.

Halim Choueiry
(Doha, Qatar)
Originally from Lebanon, Halim Choueiry is a design educator and practitioner based in Qatar. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Having obtained a Bachelor's and two Master's degrees, he is undertaking a PhD in Design at Brighton University in the United Kingdom. Halim also runs his own design studio, Cinnamon, which specialises in cultural patterning identification, visual development of bilingual corporate identities, and the simultaneous typographic representation of Latin-based languages and Arabic.

In addition to design consultancy, Halim publishes Comma, a quarterly pan-Arab graphic design magazine. He has won several national and international design competitions and has extensive experience in judging for student competitions and advertising awards. His involvement in international events includes conducting design conferences and chairing Creative Nights, a workshop series held throughout the Arab countries. He is dedicated to bringing about changes in the approach and look of graphic design in the Middle East and the Gulf region.

Veejay Archary
(Johannesburg, South Africa)
Veejay is a founding partner of Herdbuoys McCann-Erickson, which was the first black advertising and design company to open a practice in South Africa in 1991.
He has created some of the more memorable design moments in South Africa's democratic history including the new corporate identity for the national carrier, South African Airways and the imagery and identity for the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a commission to deal with South Africa's turbulent past and voting system. He has also created the voting system for the new government, the ballot paper for the first democratic elections and designed all the voter education campaigns.

Ten of his anti-apartheid and 'How to Vote' posters are in the permanent display of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and his 'Dance Theatre of Harlem' poster is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute in New York.

He currently advises the South African government on design issues and creates all of the presidential inauguration imagery in addition to personally advising the First Lady on branding and design for all of the President's social projects.

David Berman
(Ottawa, Canada))
David Berman has over 20 years of experience in graphic design and communications and has worked extensively in the adaptation of printed materials for electronic distribution, including Web design and software interface development. As an expert speaker, graphic designer, communications strategist, public speaker, typographer and consultant, his professional work has brought him to over 10 countries in the past few years. His clients include IBM, the International Space Station, the Canadian Government, the World Bank, and the Aga Khan Foundation. David's work includes award-winning projects in the application of plain writing and design.

David has worked to establish a code of ethics that embraces social responsibility for graphic designers throughout Canada. The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada ratified his draft nationally in May 2000. He served as President of the first elected board of the Association of Graphic Designers of Ontario, North America's first accredited graphic design organization, from 1997 to 1999. He led the development of the association's General Bylaw and Rules of Professional Conduct and authored Ontario's accreditation examination section on ethics and professional responsibility. He has served as the National Ethics Chair for Graphic Design in Canada since 2002.

Don Ryun Chang
(Seoul, South Korea)

Don Ryun Chang was born to diplomat parents and grew up on five continents - Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Africa. He was educated at the University of British Columbia in Canada, the Parsons School of Design, and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Don then worked for several organizations such as Nara Advertising, Design Focus in Korea, Steiner & Co. in Hong Kong, and was Creative Director for the Infinite Group. Don founded DC&A in 1991, which later became one of the leading identity companies in Asia, with corporate identity clients such as the Shilla Hotel, the Maeil Business Group, M.net Television, and brand identities such as Sunpower Battery, and Santa Fe Coffee. The company merged with Interbrand in July 1999 and has developed acclaimed identities for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Korea Telecom, and Shinhan Bank.

Don has received numerous international design awards from prestigious organisations such as the Brno and Warsaw Poster Biennale, and the Type Directors Club. Don lectures widely on branding and is currently Department Chair of Visual Communication Design at Hongik University in Seoul. He has served as a Vice President of the Visual Information Design Association of Korea (VIDAK) and was the Executive Organizing Director for the 2000 Icograda Millennium Congress in Seoul

Ruth Klotzel
(São Paulo, Brazil)

Born to European immigrant parents in São Paulo, Ruth spent several years of her childhood in Chicago and New York, and part of her adolescence in Italy. Since graduating from Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo (School of Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo University) in 1982, she has worked as a graphic designer on projects for public and private companies, and in the education sector. Ruth is head of the design office Estudio Infinito, and is a teacher of visual communication, both at Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (School of Architecture and Urbanism of Armando Álvares' Penteado Foundation) and at Faculdade Senac de Comunicação e Arte (Senac College of Communication and Arts). She was a co-founder in 1989 of the Associação dos Designers Gráfi cos in Brazil (ADG-Brazil), and has served four terms as its Director. Since 2003, she is also one of the directors of Mundaréu, a non-profit organisation aiming to create income-generation activities for people otherwise excluded from the formal job market - by training them to produce and sell handcrafted products in line with the principles of fair trade. Aside from her own design practice and teaching activities, Ruth has participated in numerous juries, events, and publications in Brazil and abroad and is active with events and committees of ADG-Brazil.

Lise Vejse Klint
(Copenhagen, Denmark)

Born in Denmark in 1965, Lise Vejse Klint is currently President of Danish Designers, Board Member of the Danish Art Foundation and Board Member of the Danish Design School. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture with a combined degree in Architecture and Graphic Design in 1993 and thus has a natural inclination to the interdisciplinary approach to design that has become such a focus of the design world today. Lise has extensive teaching and lecturing experience at the Royal Danish School of Library and Information Science, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and the University of Copenhagen. She opened her own design office, Trademarkers, in 1993.

Coming from a multidisciplinary national member organization, it is clear to her that the potential for a strong IDA structure is huge. Believing in the potential of design as a key strategic tool for innovation, she sees the need to consolidate the design process as a knowledge-based competence in order to get the attention of business and political bodies - and this, she believes, is a task best undertaken in cooperation with all international design organisations.

Omar Vulpinari
(Treviso, Italy)

Born in the Republic of San Marino in 1963 and raised in the United States. Today he lives in Treviso, Italy.

Since 1998 creative director of the Visual Communication Department at Fabrica, the Benetton research center on communication founded by Oliviero Toscani. Directing projects for United Nations, Witness, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, United Colors of Benetton, Coca-Cola, Alessi, Porsche, Vespa, The New Yorker, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Electa, Mediaset, Fox International. Fabrica's communication design work under his direction has been featured by major international press and exhibitions at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the National Museum of Arts and Traditions in Rome, the Vivid Gallery in Rotterdam, the GGG in Tokyo, the DDD Gallery in Osaka, the ZeroOne Design Center in Seoul. In 2006 it was featured in the exhibition 'Fabrica: Les Yeux Ouverts' at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Co-curator for Phaidon's Area and contributor to Steven Heller's Becoming a Graphic Designer for Wiley and The Education of a Graphic Designer for Allworth Press. His independent work has recently been selected by Taschen for the second edition of Design Now.

Omar teaches at the University of San Marino - University of Venice, where in 2006 he directed of the lecture series 'Graphic Design and Social Concern'. He is a frequent speaker, juror and workshop leader for major international design events organized by Icograda, AGI, ISTD, AIGA, JAGDA, Profile Intermedia, GraficEurope and numerous others.

He studied at the University of Bologna and the Albe Steiner Center in Ravenna.

Piyush Pandey
(Mumbai, India)

Piyush Pandey is the Group President and National Creative Director of Ogilvy and Mather India.

Piyush Pandey has been named the most influential man in Indian advertising three years in a row by The Economic Times, India's premier business paper. Under his leadership, O&M India has won a dozen Lions. And, in 2004, he became the first Asian to be the president of the Cannes jury. A Hong Kong-based media group voted Mr Pandey Asia's Creative Person of the Year in 2002, and O&M India is ranked among the most creative of its offices worldwide.

Mr Pandey is credited with developing a new style of Indian advertising, which is earthy, visual-led and celebrates the Indian vernacular.

Dashrath Patel
(Ahmedabad, India)

Dashrath Patel, a leading Indian artist and designer, has worked and moved among
some of the 'giants' of contemporary art. He was first given a camera by
Henri-Cartier Bresson, studied architecture with Buckminster Fuller,
worked musically with John Cage and worked in design and design-education
with Charles and Ray Eames, to name but a few. He was part of the faculty who established theNational Institute of Design in Ahmedabad . He spent 19 years at NID during which time he designed and coordinated a series of Festivals of India. These were large-scale exhibition installations aimed at projecting India's profile abroad. Patel then went to Sewapuri, which is a rural design school based upon Gandhian principles, where he has concentrated on teaching design workshops. (source: www.tajmahalfilm.com)

Sudarshan Dheer
(Mumbai, India)

Sudarshan Dheer is the well known, prolific and outstanding graphic designer from India. He established his own design workshop Graphic Communication Concepts in 1973 to specialise in corporate communication projects on: Corporate Identity Programmes, Corporate Literature, Corporate Packaging and Signage Systems. Sudarshan Dheer is the editor of the book ‘Symbols, Logos and Trademarks: 1,500 Outstanding Designs from India’. He has several international and national awards for his work and achievements.

Dr. B V Doshi
(Ahmedabad, India)

Dr Balkrishna Doshi, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects was born in Pune in 1927. After initial study at the J J School of Architecture, Bombay, he worked for four years with Le Corbusier as senior designer (1951-54) in Paris and four more years in India to supervise his projects in Ahmedabad. His office Vastu-Shilpa (environmental design) was established in 1955.

Dr. Doshi has been a member of the jury for several international and national competitions including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Apart from his international fame as an architect, Dr Doshi is equally known as educator and institution builder. He has been the founder-Director of School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (1962-72), founder Director of School of Planning (1972-79), founder dean of Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (1972-81), founder member of Visual Arts Centre, Ahmedabad and first founder Director of Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad. Dr Doshi has been instrumental in establishing the internationally known research institute Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design. The institute has done pioneering work in low cost housing and city planning. As an academician, Dr Doshi has been visiting the U.S.A. and Europe since 1958 and has held important chairs in American Universities. [citation needed]

In 1976, the Government of India awarded Doshi with the Padma Shri, a national civilian honour.
(Wikipedia)

Prof R K Joshi
(Mumbai, India)

Prof. Joshi, Designer, Artist, Calligrapher, Poet has been involved in multi-lingual communication activities as an Art director of FCB-Ulka Advertising for last 35 years. As head of Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, he initiated academic and research projects in promoting Indian languages and scripts in the field of design and computer technology. At present he is working as a Visiting Design Specialist at National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) in the area of language technology and type design.

Dr. Jan Blom
(Helsinki, Finland)

Jan Blom is the Principal Scientist at Software and Application Technologies Laboratory Nokia Research Center, Helsinki.

Jan Blom has a background in cognitive science and psychology. He received his PhD from the University of York, UK, on user implications of personalised UIs. He now works as user researcher in the Mobile HCI group, Nokia Research Center. He uses a wide range of research methods, ranging from ethnographic techniques exploring social phenomena to mobile field trials and experimental setups. Jan's research topics at Nokia have mostly included mobile social software and personal information management.

Naresh Gupta
(N Delhi, India)

Naresh Gupta ia the Senior Vice President at Print and Classic Publishing Solutions Business Unit and Managing Director at India Research and Development for Adobe.

As senior vice president of the Print and Classic Publishing Solutions Business Unit, Naresh Gupta oversees product marketing and development for Adobe's standalone print, web publishing and e-learning tools such as Adobe® PostScript®, Macromedia® Contribute™ and Macromedia Captivate™ software.

Gupta is also managing director of Adobe's India research and development center. He established Adobe's Noida campus in 1997, and he later integrated a second campus of operation in Bangalore through Adobe's 2005 acquisition of Macromedia. Under Gupta's leadership, the India operation has grown to be Adobe's largest R&D center outside the United States, providing a valuable hub for product innovation and filing for numerous technology patents.

Gupta has been widely published as a computer science expert in the areas of shape, motion and AI research. He received a B. Tech in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he was named a Gold Medalist. He holds master's and doctorate degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Ph.D. thesis, "Recovering Shape and Motion from a Sequence of Images," was nominated for the ACM Distinguished Dissertation award.