Jury Information

Stephen Burks is a New York-based industrial designer. His studio, Readymade Projects, has been responsible for the creative design direction on projects ranging from retail interiors and events to packaging, lighting, furniture and home accessories. He has developed innovative concepts for renowned international brands including Calvin Klein, Estée Lauder, Moroso and the non-profit organization Aid to Artisans. Burks studied architecture and product design at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture. Burk’s work has been featured in numerous design publications and journals and has been exhibited around the world. He is currently working on a video documentary of his work in Peru entitled Making Things, Transformation through Design in collaboration with Artecnica.

Caterina Fake is the cofounder of Flickr, the collaborative online photo management and sharing application acquired in 2005 by Yahoo!, where she is now senior director of technology development. Her deep interest in the online community, personal publishing and the collaborative web have continued throughout her career, which she began as lead designer at Organic Online, a top web development agency. She also served as creative director of Yellowball, originally developed at Interval Research, and art director at Salon.com, which recieved numerous design and content awards including three Webby Awards. In 2006, Fake was named one of Time magazine's “100 Most Influential People in the World, BusinessWeek's “Best Leaders of 2005,” and appeared on the cover of Newsweek.

Michael Gabellini is a principal at Gabellini Sheppard Associates in New York, a multidisciplinary design firm specializing in architecture and interior design projects. Aspiring to the creation of pure, graphic environments that animate their contents, the firm has designed distinct fashion boutiques, contemporary art galleries and residences, and has worked on restoring and improving public spaces. The firm’s many projects include the redevelopment of Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center, the Giorgio Armani Center in Milan, Italy, and exhibition designs for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Gabellini was the Interior Design Winner for the 2006 National Design Awards.

Tim Gunn was a member of the administration and faculty at Parsons School of Design for 24 years and spent six years as chair of the Department of Fashion Design. Gunn recently joined Liz Claiborne Inc. as the new chief creative director. He also serves as cohost of the twice Emmy-nominated Project Runway, a reality-based fashion design incubator that in its third season broke all cable viewer ratings records. Gunn has lectured widely on fashion and lifestyle design, written articles in numerous publications, and made frequent television appearances. His book, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste, and Style, was released in Spring 2007.

Reed Kroloff is the director-designate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and an independent architectural consultant and commentator. Kroloff was dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans, Louisiana from fall 2004 through spring 2007. In 1995, he joined Architecture magazine, which, under his direction as editor-in-chief, received more awards for editorial and design excellence than any magazine of its type. Prior to joining Architecture, Kroloff was a tenured professor and assistant dean at Arizona State University, where he received the first-ever “Award for Academic Excellence” from the Arizona chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Kroloff has practiced architecture in Texas and Arizona and consulted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Ministry of Culture of the Federal Government of Mexico, the Whitney Museum, the University of Connecticut and Motown Center. He writes and lectures widely, visiting architecture schools and professional organizations across the country.

Yeohlee Teng is a fashion designer who established her own house, YEOHLEE Inc., in 1981. Originally from Malaysia, Teng moved to New York to study at Parsons School of Design. Inspired by the “magic” of clothes, Teng has developed a body of work that has been described as “intimate architecture.” Since 1998 she has exhibited internationally, including shows in Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, London, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York. Her designs have earned a place in the Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and her work is on permanent display in the twenty-first-century case of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Dress Gallery. Teng received the 2004 National Design Award for fashion design.

James Wines is a professor of architecture at Penn State University and the founder of SITE, a New York City-based architecture practice. As the firm’s president, he has designed and built more than 150 architectural and environmental art projects in the United States, Italy, France, England, Austria, Spain, Qatar, and Japan. Educated at Syracuse University, Wines has lectured widely and written three books on architecture. As a designer, artist, and writer with a multi-disciplinary practice, Wines has won 25 art and design awards, including the 1995 Chrysler Award for Design Innovation, and his work has been collected and exhibited by many museums and galleries around the world. He continues to research environmental issues in architecture and write on these subjects for publications internationally.