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Expert Judging Panel

Here is a list of the Doodle 4 Google 10 Expert Panel of Independent Judges who will help select the 40 Regional Finalists:

Michael Bierut, Partner, New York Office of the International Design Consultancy Pentagram

Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. Prior to joining Pentagram in 1990 as a Partner in the firm’s New York office, he worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as Vice President of graphic design. His clients at Pentagram have included The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Harley-Davidson, The Minnesota Children’s Museum, The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, Mohawk Paper Mills, Princeton University, the New York Jets, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Morgan Library and Museum. He has won hundreds of design awards and his work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal. He has served as President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is President Emeritus of AIGA National. He also serves as on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and New Yorkers for Parks. Michael was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003, and was awarded the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in 2006. In 2008, he was named winner in the Design Mind category of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art, and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He writes frequently about design and is the co-editor of the five-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic published by Allworth Press. His commentaries about graphic design in everyday life have been heard nationally on the Public Radio International program “Studio 360” and his appearance inHelvetica: A Documentary Film is considered by many that movie’s funniest moment. Michael is a co-founder of the weblog DesignObserver.com, and his book 79 Short Essays on Design was published in 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press.

Sarah Cunningham, Director of Arts Education, The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA)

Sarah Bainter Cunningham has been Director of Arts Education for the National Endowment for the Arts since September 2005. In that capacity, she provides national leadership in the field of arts education and oversees several national initiatives including NEA Jazz in the Schools, NEA Summer Schools in the Arts, and NEA Education Leaders Institute, as well as chairs the peer panel process for the review of more than 700 applications each year. She also assists in the development of educational materials for the Big Read, a program designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. From March 2004 until her appointment with the NEA, Dr. Cunningham was the director of the Education Assessment and Charter Accreditation Program at the American Academy for Liberal Education in Washington, DC where she supervised a program to assess and accredit liberal arts-oriented charter schools. From March 1999 to February 2004, Dr. Cunningham was the first academic dean and dean of students at the Oxbow School, a visual arts high school in Napa, California. She helped found the school, designing a curriculum that integrated the visual arts with academic courses, including a team-taught course with an instructor in digital art/photography that fully integrated English with Web design and photography, and digital art. She also managed the school’s professional development, admissions, student life, and curriculum decisions. Dr. Cunningham has held teaching positions at a variety of institutions including assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Maine (Orono), a Burke Teaching Fellow in Aesthetics at Vanderbilt University (Nashville), and philosophy instructor at Belmont University (Nashville). Her publications include articles in National Charter School Clearinghouse Newsletter and book reviews in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts and the Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Dr. Cunningham received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Kenyon College and her masters and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Steven Heller, Co-Founder of the School of Visual Arts, New York, Former Art Director for the New York Times

Steven Heller is the author, co-author or editor of over 100 books on graphic design, illustration and political art. He was an Art Director at The New York Times for 33 years and is a columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Heller is also the Co-founder and Co-chair of the MFA Design Department and Co-founder of the MFA Design Criticism Department at SVA. Heller is also the recipient of the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame Special Educators Award in 1996, The Pratt Institute Herschel Levitt Award in 2000, and the Society of Illustrators Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction in 2006. He is the Co-founder and Co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he lectures on the history of graphic design. Prior to this, he lectured for 14 years on the history of illustration in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual arts. He also was Director for ten years of SVA’s Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design symposiums. You can find out more about Steve at www.hellerbooks.com and http://blog.printmag.com/dailyheller/.

Ellen Lupton, Director of the Graphic Design Department, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002). She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), co-authored with her graduate students at MICA, explains design processes to a general audience. D.I.Y. Kids (October 2007), co-authored with Julia Lupton, is a design book for children illustrated with kids’ art. “It’s never too early,” they explain, “to talk to your child about design.” Her most recent book is Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips, 2008). She is the co-author with Abbott Miller of several books, including The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste (1992), Design Writing Research (1996), and Swarm (2006). Lupton is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest honors given to a graphic designer or design educator in the U.S. Ellen Lupton has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She has a regular column, “The El Word,” in Readymade magazine. Her editorial illustrations have been published in The New York Times. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen. Other exhibitions she has curated and co-curated include the National Design Triennial series (2000, 2003, 2006), Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005 (2006), Solos: New Design from Israel (2006), and Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), all at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Clement Mok, Former Creative Director, Apple

Clement Mok is a designer, digital pioneer, software publisher/developer, author, and design patent holder. Mok, a former creative director at Apple, founded multiple successful design-related businesses - Studio Archetype, CMCD and NetObjects. He was the Chief Creative Officer of Sapient, and the president of AIGA. Currently, he consults for Sapient and other Fortune 500 companies on a variety of design planning and user experience projects. Mok has been published internationally and has received hundreds of awards from professional organizations and publications including I.D. 40 most influential designers, AIGA Gold Medalist, and Chief Executive Magazine, which named him 1998's Tech 100 CEOs. He also serves on the advisory boards of numerous technology companies, colleges and non-profit organizations.

Stephanie Norby, Director, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, Smithsonian
*(shared judging with Michelle Smith)

Stephanie L. Norby is the Director of the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. As Director of the Center, she leads the Smithsonian’s effort to foster partnerships between museums and schools. Norby, who grew up in Los Angeles, worked in the Kansas City, Missouri School District from 1986 until 1998, serving as Director of Curriculum, Professional Development and Assessment in her most recent position. She also worked in the museum community as a curator and planned public programs, including permanent and traveling exhibits, tours and lecture series, for the Johnson County Museum System in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. She arrived at the Smithsonian in 1998. She received her bachelor of science degree from the University of California at Davis and a master’s of history degree at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She also attended graduate school at the University of California Long Beach in education at the University of Kansas in museum studies.

Caroline Payson, Director of Education, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, NY

Caroline Payson currently serves as the Director of Education at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Payson has an extensive background in arts education, and was formerly Director of Educational Services at Maryland Public Television, where she oversaw a $10 million grant to create “Thinkport,” an online, interactive education super-site for the state of Maryland. She has also led a number of education initiatives using interactive and web-based resources to improve reading instruction, distance learning courses and school curricula. Payson, a former Chair of the Liberal Studies Department of Parsons School of Design, holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins’ Writing Seminars program and a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College.

Michelle Smith, Director, Publications and Media, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
*(shared judging with Stephanie Norby)

Michelle Smith is Director of Publications and Media at the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, where she oversees the creative direction, development, and production of print publications, websites and distance-learning broadcasts, and a variety of public relations materials for educators and the general public. She directs the Webby-award-winning SmithsonianEducation.org, which represents the Smithsonian’s 19 museums and 9 research centers, presenting features, information, and services for educators, families, and children. Michelle has also directed the development of online student activity sites such as “Apollo 11: Walking on the Moon.” For more than twenty years she has published materials for instructional and informational purposes that include teachers’ guides such as the periodical Smithsonian in Your Classroom and resource guides and directories. Michelle has also worked as an editor at Smithsonian Institution Press, the Institute for International Economics, and EEI Marketing Communications. She has a Master’s degree in English from Pennsylvania State University.

Lucille Tenazas, Henry Wolf Professor, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons, The New School For Design, New York

Lucille Tenazas is an educator and graphic designer based in New York. In July 2008, she was appointed the first Henry Wolf Professor at Parsons, The New School for Design where she is developing graduate studies in Communication Design with an emphasis on design, craft and technology. Previously, she was the Founding Chair of the MFA program in Design at California College of the Arts where she taught for 20 years. The program she developed was characterized by an interdisciplinary focus, with a critical emphasis on bridging theory and practice and moving beyond the traditional aspects of design education. She is the founder and principal of Tenazas Design, a communication graphics and design firm working primarily on projects for cultural, educational and non-profit organizations as well as city, state, and Federal agencies. The firm was based in San Francisco for 20 years but relocated to New York in 2006, returning to the city where she originally began her practice in 1982. Among her clients have been the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stanford University Art Museum, the San Francisco International Airport, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rizzoli International and Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art. Lucille’s work has been featured in many publications and exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including a 1996 retrospective of her work from the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has lectured and taught extensively here and abroad and she has participated on juries for numerous design competitions. From 1996-98, she was the National President of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), presiding over the organization during a period when the role of design was undergoing a conceptual realignment in the aftermath of rapidly evolving technological advancement. In 2002, she was awarded the prestigious National Design Award for Communication Design by the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum and was honored in 1995 as one of the ID Forty, ID Magazine’s selection of America’s leading design innovators. Lucille has an international reputation in the field of graphic design, both in academia and in the professional arena. Her interest in design education has led her to conduct workshops with students in design programs throughout the country and abroad, among them the Cooper Union in New York, Maine Summer Institute for Graphic Design,, Ravensbourne School of Design in London, Mimar Sinan Uiniversity in Istanbul, Turkey, Wellington Polytechnic in New Zealand and Ecole Comunication Visuelle in Paris. She has also been a visiting critic at North Carolina State University, Rhode Island School of Design, California Institute of the Arts and Yale University.

Sven Travis, Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York

Sven Travis is Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York. He has taught and administered at Parsons for more than twenty years, serving as faculty in Parsons Product Design Department (Textile Design), as Parsons Director of Advanced Computing, as Chair of Parsons Digital Design Department (which he founded), as Director of Parsons Center for New Design, and as New School Associate Provost for Technology R&D. He founded the BFA and MFA programs in Design and Technology, within which he currently (very happily) teaches. Travis spearheads several current Parsons research projects, including ENGINE (a social technology platform), SALTED/UNSALTED (a virtual fabrication laboratory built on game consoles), the Parsons/Tsinghua University collaboration in Beijing, China, YACHT CLUB (a new media collaboration), the Parsons collaboration with eArts Festival in Shanghai, FASHIONABLE TECHNOLOGY (athletic, wearable and textile digital interfaces), and SpyLab, a research collective focused on anonymous international data collection. In addition, Travis is a very funky dancer, tells many bad jokes, and is the mastermind behind the annual Parsons Ski Trip.