- Ernie Schenck
Ernie Schenck is one of the most highly awarded and influential names in advertising and has worked as a writer, creative director and freelance creative consultant for some of the most prestigious ad agencies in the United States. Twice, he has been named to the AdWeek All Star Creative Team. An Emmy Award nominee, he has won every major award in the business and is one of the only American creative people ever to be named Print Copywriter of the Year in Great Britain.
- Raph Koster
Raphael "Raph" Koster (7 September 1971-) is an American entrepreneur, game designer, and author of "A Theory of Fun for Game Design". Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of "Ultima Online" and the creative director behind "Star Wars Galaxies". Since July 2006, he has been working as the founder and president of Areae on an unannounced product.
- Ken Lobb
Ken Lobb is a video game designer. He worked for Nintendo in the early 1990s on such video games as "Donkey Kong Country" and "Great Greed", but his "masterpiece" was "GoldenEye 007" for the Nintendo 64, hailed as one of the best shooters of all time. The game included a gun (based on the Vz 61) named after him, the Klobb, short for Kenneth Lobb. This is widely considered the very worst gun in the game. He also worked on "Perfect Dark".
- Matt Mihaly
Matt Mihaly / Matthew Mihaly (b. June 21, 1972) is an American CEO and Creative Director of Iron Realms Entertainment and is known for pioneering the sale of virtual assets in online games.
- Fred Seibert
Fred Seibert (born 1951) is a television and movie producer, and an entertainment executive who has held leading positions with MTV Networks and Hanna-Barbera. Seibert was MTV's first creative director and helped develop its on-air visual identity, creating hundreds of station IDs for the channel. He also commissioned and approved the mutating MTV logo, despite network executives objections to a logo that did not remain constant.
- Andy Budd
Andy Budd Andy Budd is an internationally renowned user experience designer and web standards expert. Andy is a regular speaker at major design conferences and recently spoke at @media 2006 in London, and Webmaster Jam in Dallas, Texas. Andy is also the driving force behind our annual d.Construct web development conference. Andy wrote the best selling book, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions .
- Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison is an American comic book artist and writer, and co-founder of Bongo Comics (along with Matt Groening and Steve and Cindy Vance). He currently serves as creative director of the company.
- Michael Carrington
Michael Carrington is currently the Creative Director of the BBC digitial childrens television channel, CBeebies. This includes the channel itself, as well as branded output on BBC One and BBC Two, radio programming on BBC7 and content on the CBeebies website. Carrington is a member of the BBC Children's Board and serves on the Advisory Committee for Showcomotion as well as being a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
- Brian Reynolds
Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is a well known computer strategy game designer, formerly of MicroProse and Firaxis Games. He now runs his own game development company, Big Huge Games where he is CEO and creative director, and has been chairman of the International Game Developers Association. He has played a major part in designing a number of multi-million selling games including "Civilization II" and "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri".
- Max Lenderman
Max Lenderman is creative director at GMR Marketing LLC, the largest “live” marketing company in North America. He previously co-founded Gearwerx Experiental Marketing, Canada’s premiere experiential marketing agency, with offices in Montreal and Toronto. His book called "Experience the Message: How Experiential Marketing is Changing the Brand World" is published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and Carroll & Graf in the United States.
- Jim Riswold
Jim Riswold (born 1957 in Seattle, Washington) was the creative director for Portland, Oregon based advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy. He created the advertising campaigns such as the Mars Blackmon (Spike Lee) & Michael Jordan commercials for Nike. He also created the Bo Knows campaign for Nike featuring Bo Jackson, and Tiger Woods juggling golf balls with his club. He retired from Wieden+Kennedy after being diagnosed with leukemia.
- Sandra Choi
Sandra Choi is the Creative Director and designer of Jimmy Choo Ltd. She is the niece of Mr Jimmy Choo. Choi was born on the Isle of Wight and lived in Hong Kong before moving to London in 1991 to study at the world famous St. Martins School of Art. It was at this time that Sandra began her successful career as a shoe designer by working as an intern for Jimmy Choo in his London couture workshop whilst at the same time studying for her degree.
- Ed Evangelista
Ed Evangelista was a judge for the first season of the Simon Cowel reality television show American Inventor on ABC. He is an Executive Creative Director in media and advertising. Ed is well known for his breakthrough work for Debeers diamonds. The successful launches of the three stone and right hand rings have been considered by many as sheer communication perfection. He has since become a consultant, entrepreneur and a significant player in branded entertainment.
- Andrew Walsh
Andrew Hugh Walsh AM is an Australian festival director. He has directed numerous ceremonies and public events. He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne. Among his career highlights, Walsh directed the 2004 Athens Olympics Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony, the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, and the 2003 Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony. On June 12, 2006, in the Queen's Birthday honours list, …
- Ray Manzarek
Raymond Daniel Manzarek or Manczarek (b. February 12, 1939, Chicago, Illinois) is an American musician, singer, producer, movie director, writer, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, and the Doors of the 21st Century (renamed Riders on the Storm) since 2001.
- Vincent Waller
Vincent Waller is a artist and animator. He was Writer and Director for Ren and Stimpy (during the Spumco era of the show), directing the popular episodes Rubber Nipple Salesman and Big Baby Scam. He produced and directed shorts for Fred Siebert's Oh Yeah Cartoons, including What is Funny?, Hey Look an adaptation of Harvey Kurtzman comic, and Pete Patrick Private Investigator Featuring Pete Patrick and his pal Persian Puss.
- Matty Rich
Matty Rich, born Matthew Statisfield Richardson (November 6, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York City), is a film director and screenwriter who broke into the film world with the 1991 film "Straight Out of Brooklyn" which was financed by credit cards and donations. Rich also plays a major character in the film. The low-budget independent film grossed $2.7 million dollars at the box office and only cost $450,000 to make. Rich was only 19 years old at the time.
- Cris Judd
Cristan Lee Judd (born August 15, 1969, in Abilene, Texas) is an American actor and choreographer, but is probably best known for his failed marriage to Jennifer Lopez. Before Hollywood, Cris spent his early years growing up on Air Force bases in Angeles City in the Philippines and Hawaii. The Air Force then moved his family to Niceville Florida, where he spent his high school years. While in Florida, Cris, an avid athlete, spent a lot of time surfing and golfing.
- Jim Krueger
Jim Krueger is a comics writer. He graduated Marquette University with a degree in Journalism. He won two Addy Awards during his first year as a copywriter. A year later he became a creative director at Marvel Comics and has since become a freelance comic book writer/property creator. His original works include "The Foot Soldiers", "Alphabet Supes", "The Clock Maker" and the soon-to-be-released "The Last Straw Man".
- Will Meugniot
Will Meugniot is an American writer, storyboard and comics artist, film producer and director.
- Hardy Lebel
Hardy LeBel is a video game designer on several titles including Pac Man World, Oni, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. Games Credited Dungeon Siege II (2005), Microsoft Game Studios SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs (2005), SCEA SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs - Fireteam Bravo (2005), Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. Halo 2 (2004), Microsoft Game Studios Sudeki (2004), Microsoft Game Studios Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), Microsoft Game Studios Oni (2001), …
- Peter Pek
Peter Pek <small>MCSD</small>; is a brand strategist, writer, columnist, editor, publisher, designer, creative director, public speaker and television personality from Malaysia. He is best known as the creative director of "New Nation", a British tabloid; the editor-in-chief of "Food & Beverage" magazine; publisher of Malaysian "Superbrands"; and for his work in branding.
- Achim Schwarze
Achim Schwarze (born 1958) is a German author, his works include self-help books and are influenced by black humour and anarchism.
- Guy Whitmore
Guy Whitmore is a composer specializing in video game music, notable for creating the soundtracks to "Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza", "Russian Squares", "Shivers", and "No One Lives Forever". He is the co-founder of a music production company called Music Design Network, and a founding member of the Seattle Composers Alliance. Guy Whitmore has specialized in creating "adaptive music" for video games, using techniques such as cross-fading, …
- Sean Healy
Sean Healy is an Australian writer and event organiser originally from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia where he was a founder of the arts and media collective Octapod and the electrofringe digital media festival. He is now based in Melbourne. He is a widely published writer under the pseudonym Jean Poole - a name under which he is also produces work as a VJ.
- J. D. Frazer
J. D. Frazer (born 1965), pen name Illiad, is the artist and writer of the webcomic "User Friendly". The strip debuted in November, 1997, and is considered to be one of the first major webcomics. It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet Service Provider, and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers, self-styled geeks, and other technophiles.
- Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone became Creative Director in April 2002. Previously he served as Chairman of Eidos' Board of Directors from October 1995 to April 2002. From May 1994 to October 1995, Mr. Livingstone was Managing Director of Domark. Since 1982, he has authored and co-authored the "Fighting Fantasy" series of interactive game books, which have sold in excess of 15 million copies worldwide.
- Jett Loe
Jett Loe is an American television director and artist. He currently lives in Belfast where he takes on a variety of artistic projects such as his weekly podcast, Letter To America. Very little is known of Loe's past, and in Letter To America he is deliberately secretive about his personal history. Loe has mentioned on his podcast that he has changed his name and spouse several times throughout his life and that he has on multiple occasions been arrested and jailed.
- Mike Hollands
William Michael "Mike" Hollands is the creative director and founder of Melbourne based animation house Act3animation. His best known directorial work, the tragicomedy "Piñata", was a nominee at the 2005 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France, the 2005 AFI Awards, for Best Short Animation, and won Vancouver's Vidfest 2005. He is also connected to Deakin University through their motion capture studio, "Motion.Lab", …
- Desmond Mullen
Desmond Mullen (born on August 1 1966) is an American producer, director, actor, and writer. He is best known as the Narrator and the voice of the puppet Pig in the "Busy Little Engine" series of DVDs. His wife, Helena Mullen, is a producer whose credits include "Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol". <br><br> Mullen started off as a Sound Designer in Off-Broadway theater but later moved on to television, …
- Donna Gregory
Donna Gregory is an award-winning producer and writer and has more than 21 years of experience as an on camera news reporter and anchor at TV stations in Illinois, Oklahoma and North Carolina. She is a freelance anchor and reporter for NBC News and MSNBC. Gregory occasionally anchors MSNBC Live, and recently covered Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Hurricane Wilma from Florida. Gregory is based out of North Carolina.
- Tom Hilpert
The Rev. Theodore "Tom" Hilpert (born 1969) is a U.S.-born author, pastor and corporate president. He is the author of "Galedor", a science fiction novel published in the United States in 2001, and "Surviving Seminary", a non-fiction guide for budding pastors and theologians. He has written for several magazines, and his non-fiction work has been read on at least four different continents. He is currently the Creative Director of Rebel Planet Creations, …
- Stephen Dando-Collins
Stephen Dando-Collins is an Australian novelist, with novels centered around Antiquity. He worked in advertising in Australia and Britain as a graphic designer, copywriter, creative director, and senior advertising agency executive. An independent marketing consultant for some years, he ran the Australian operations of an American market research company before moving to Noosa Heads, where he now writes full time.
- Damian Stephens
Damian Stephens (born November 1, 1969 in Oxford, England) is a music producer and user experience designer. Stephens has produced Techno and Hip Hop since 1991. Currently living in South Africa, Stephens is founder and CEO of PioneerUnit Records and Director of User Experience Design at Travelstart, an online travel agency established by Swedish entrepreneur Stephan Ekbergh. As a music producer, his production credits include Pro Kid, Trusenz, KONFAB, Ben Sharpa, …
- Ben Kamprath
Building better experiences through engaging design. We make it curve with style...
- Meltem Çolak Özmine
Meltem Çolak Özmine (1972) is a Turkish female mountaineer and one of the four woman summiters of Mount Everest from Turkey. She was born on May 29, 1972 in Ankara, Turkey. Meltem was educated in fine arts at the Hacettepe University, Ankara, and graduated with a BA degree in graphic design. Currently, she is working as creative director. Meltem was a member of the Turkish expedtion team comprising of six men and four women, who climbed all Mount Everest in 2006.
- Rick Lecoat
Rick Lecoat is a Graphic Designer and the Creative Director of London, UK based Design Studio Shark Attack. Born in Jersey in 1969, Rick moved to London to study at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Although he designs prolifically for the TV, music and publishing industries, Rick is best known for his innovative album covers.
- Susan Kare
Susan Kare User Interface Graphics is a digital design practice in San Francisco, California. According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Susan Kare is "a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Since 1983, Kare has designed thousands of icons for the world's leading software companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style."
- Mike Pondsmith
Michael A. "Maximum Mike" Pondsmith is a roleplaying game and video game designer. He is best known for his work with R. Talsorian Games and more recently with Microsoft in their Xbox division. In 2006 he was inducted into the Origins Awards Hall of Fame, along with Jolly R. Blackburn, Rodger MacGowan, Dennis Mize (posthumously), Aaron Allston, and the game Star Fleet Battles. He has a wife, Lisa, and a son, Cody.
- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.