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DD Allen, partner and principal designer with Michael Pierce in Pierce Allen, an architecture, interior design and decorating firm in New York City since 1986. Their broad project base includes residential, retail, gallery and restaurant design for such clients as Matt Damon; Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates; Tommy Tune’s Penthouse, Matthew Marks’ Townhouse; Sullivan Street Bakery; Thomas H. Lee Capital.
Christopher Bangle, director of design, BMW Group since 1992. Bangle is responsible for overseeing the design of every aspect of the BMW Group that includes all BMW cars, sport utility vehicles, motorcycles, motor sports and the MINI and Rolles-Royce brands. Bangle also serves on the Board of Directors of DESIGNWORKS/USA in Newbury Park, Calif., a design firm subsidiary of BMW and was recently published in a by-lined article in Harvard Business Review.
Julie Bargmann, principal of D.I.R.T. studio and associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Bargmann is nationally recognized as an innovative designer in the building of regenerative places. She collaborates with scientists, ecologists, architects, artists, engineers, and historians to create new public spaces out of abandoned toxic Superfund sites. A Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture, in 2001 she also was the recipient of a 2001 National Design Award in Environment.
Red Burns, chair, Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She was named Tokyo Broadcasting System Professor of Communications in 1997. Burns is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Art Director Club’s Hall of Fame, Crain’s All-Stars Educator’s Award and the Mayor of New York’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Crain's also cited her as one of the “Top 100 People Who Will Shape New York,” and she was named one of Newsweek's “50 for the Future.”
John Hoke III, global creative director, footwear design, Nike. Hoke's team creates more than 200 styles of new footwear each year. He was also the designer and creative director for NIKETOWN in New York and London as well as the creative director of Nike’s Brand Design Studio. Prior to joining Nike, Hoke worked as an architectural, industrial, graphic and product designer at architect Michael Graves’ office. This fall he will become a part-time faculty member at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Fern Mallis, executive director of 7th on Sixth and Vice President of International Management Group (IMG). Before joining IMG, Mallis was for 10 years the executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She is widely credited with the creation of 7th on Sixth, which produces Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week for American women’s and men’s fashion shows twice a year in New York and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this fall. Mallis received a Fashion Group International award at their annual “Night of Stars” for helping to change the face of fashion.
Rafael Viñoly, founder and principal of Rafael Viñoly Architects PC, a New York-based firm that has offices in Lower Manhattan and London. He has over 40 years of practice in the United States, Latin America, East Asia and Europe, Viñoly’s work has been driven by the belief that architecture’s essential responsibility is to elevate the public realm. He was most recently selected to design the expansion of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts and was a finalist in the competition for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. He has won numerous design excellence awards, including the coveted American Institute of Architects Medal of Honor award.";