Sean is the Lifestyle Ambassador and Co-founder of SSF. Sean learned his first lessons in respecting people and the environment from his grandmother, Rosie, while growing up on a small family farm in Nebraska. As the son of a zoological park administrator, Sean learned first-hand the art and science of preserving biological and cultural diversity from an early age. [...]
Adam is responsible for overseeing many of frog's strategy engagements for product, digital and brand clients. He combines a background in industrial design, interaction design, and sociology and has a broad range of experience in both consulting and corporate settings. Clients have included DaimlerChrysler, HP, Microsoft, Motorola, Oral-B, Sun Microsystems, Vodafone, and Yahoo. [...]
Sophia is an environmental consultant with WSP Environment & Energy. She works with clients on sustainability issues related to their products and carbon footprint. Educated as an engineer and designer, her green design training began at IDEO and continued at Apple. She is also the co-founder of two chapters of o2, an international network of designers dedicated to sustainable design.
Arunas Oslapas spends most of his academic months experimenting and learning design principles with his passionate university students as they collectively attempt to understand the profession of industrial design and sustainability. In the summer he weaves recycled metal baskets which he sells at fine art shows and galleries throughout the northwest. [...]
Marc Stoiber has been building brands for 20 years.
He began his career as a copywriter at Grey Hong Kong. After this, he moved to BBDO Germany, then helped launch an ad agency in Calgary, Canada.
He joined Palmer Jarvis Vancouver in 1996. In Stoiber's 5 years at the agency, it won Canadian Agency Of The Year 4 times. [...]
Phil Berry runs Sustainable Product Works, LLC. The foundation of SPW is Phil’s 25 years working to improve business performance and environmental performance. The goal of the work is to help clients create meaningful innovations, better designs for products and services, and improved supply chains.
From 1999 through 2007, Phil was Director of Footwear Sustainability at Nike. [...]
Richard’s diverse background and multi-disciplinary perspective help Smart Design fuse innovative Engineering, Industrial Design and Research to produce breakthrough products for high profile clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Imation, and OXO. He is part of Smart Design’s sustainable design task force and helps lead the Industrial Design practice from the New York office. [...]
Debbie Driscoll works with a variety of multi-disciplinary projects with clients such as Citi, PGE, and Proctor & Gamble.
Prior to Ziba, Debbie worked for Fiori Product Development as a Researcher, Product Design Engineer and Eco-Designer. Debbie also served as a member of Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s award-winning Lighting Research Group, [...]
Peter received his bachelor’s degree in apparel design from Bassist College (now AiA) in 1986 and was hired by Nike to design their ACG and Aqua Gear lines. In 1994, he left to start a snowboard brand which he sold before setting out to create his own brand, ‘Peter Kallen,’ available only in Japan. [...]
Sam Grawe is the Editor-in-Chief of Dwell. He started at the magazine in October 2000 as the editorial assistant and currently holds the staff record for most title changes. Sam is also a contributing photographer for the magazine. Prior to Dwell, Sam worked for The Burdick Group. [...]
Yves Béhar is the founder of the San Francisco design studio, fuseproject. Yves is focused on humanistic design and the “giving” element of his profession, with the goal of creating projects that are deeply in-tune with the needs of a sustainable future, connected with human emotions and enable self-expression. [...]
Dawn Danby is an interdisciplinary designer and sustainability consultant. For nearly a decade, Dawn has been tracking the emerging field of sustainable design, working with green builders and ecological land planners, product developers, public artists and engineers. [...]
Bob Adams is focused on the intersection of design and sustainability at IDEO. Trained in mechanical engineering, product design, and agronomy, Bob has been working on the integration of the design process with principles of sustainable development since 2000, when he joined The Natural Step to develop their Sustainable Design Services Initiative. [...]
Ken is a co-founding employee and creative director of industrial design at Lunar Design. He was key in helping develop many early innovative products for Apple Computer, including Apple’s first compact laptop, the pioneering PowerBook 100. And he has been directly responsible for leading Lunar’s long-term relationship with Hewlett Packard’s Home Products Division, maker of the market-leading Pavilion and Compaq lines of personal computers. [...]
Rob Curedale was born in Australia and worked as a designer, design manager and design educator in London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Switzerland, Detroit, Silicon Valley and currently as a design consultant in LA.
For more than 25 years, Curedale managed the development of hundreds of products including furniture, medical, technology, automotive, and consumer for companies [...]
A graphic designer and letterpress printer, Heidrun Mumper-Drumm serves as adjunct associate professor in the Graphic Design and Liberal Arts & Sciences departments at Art Center College of Design. Her design practice includes identity systems, marketing materials and books. [...]
Sara is a leader in user-centered research and interaction design, as well as an educator on how behavioral changes and design can positively impact on our environment. She has over twelve years of experience designing web/software interfaces and architecting systems for clients such as Packard Foundation, Sprint and Polycom.
The passion I have for creating art and design work as well as creating change has taken me on a career path from student, to teacher, to designer and artist, to a mentor and director where I currently work at Body Glove Wetsuits as the Senior Wetsuit Designer and Art Director. [...]
Jorden Segraves is a LEED Accredited Profession, NCARB Certified Licensed architect in the State of California and Nevada. He is a founding board member and current Chair of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) – Orange County Chapter and elected Chair for the USGBC - Pacific Coast Region (PRC). [...]
