Jerry Kuyper has more than twenty-five years of experience directing corporate and brand identity programs. His passion is bringing business and brand strategy to life through creativity and design. In 2006 Jerry collaborated with Joe Finocchiaro to develop a new corporate identity program for Cisco. This work was recently acknowledged as “the best rebranding event in 2006” in a Conference Board review of new visual identities by independent identity consultant, Tony Spaeth.
Prior to establishing Jerry Kuyper Partners in 2004, he was a Senior Partner at Lippincott Mercer. During his eight years with the firm he was responsible for directing the creative development of visual identities, brand architectures, signature systems, design systems, information design, identity standards, launch materials and training sessions.
Previously he held senior creative positions with leading design and identity consultants including Siegel & Gale, frogdesign, Landor, Saul Bass and Richard Wurman. His clients have included AmeriCares, AT&T, Banco Santander, BD, ChevronTexaco, Cunard, Disney, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Fuji Bank, General Electric, Hawaiian Airlines, Humana, JohnsonDiversey, Medco, MetLife, Neuberger Berman, 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Rizzoli, Stanford University, Televisa, Telmex, WGBH Boston, University of Pennsylvania and the World Wildlife Fund.
He has designed visual identities for companies including Aqua America, AT&T, Bates Worldwide, Cartus, Cisco, Cushman & Wakefield, Genesis Eldercare, 360° Communications, LodgeNet, Singapore Technologies, Times Mirror and Touchstone Films.
He has presented to numerous universities and conferences including the AIGA National Conference, Design Management Institute, The Conference Board and Walker Art Center. In 2007, he presented to the Design Institute of Australia in Perth and to the American University in Dubai.
Jerry has a B.S. in Graphic Design from the University of Cincinnati. He completed four years of graduate work at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland. He taught design at the University of Hawaii, Otis Parsons and UCLA Extension. In 1980 he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant to teach at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. In 1998 he was selected the Outstanding Alumnus by the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.

Li has been educated at the Central Academy of Fine-Arts(CAFA).Since 1997 he became the dean of the design department of fine arts academy hunan normal university. Within 1998-2000 he was a creative director Shenzhen City CIS Institute. In 2003 he went to Danmark Designskole as a visting scholar and joined Mervyn Kurlansky Design studio. From 2007, he became an art director in the biggest type company-Founder Type Foundry, acting as a committee member of the China Typeface Research Center. Meanwhile,he teach courses in branding design at CAFA and had lectures throughout the country. Li’s work wonned numerous international awards.His recent works incluing the signage system of the China National Opear House and some new typefaces which break the rules of chinese type design.

Pim Nap has been educated at the Art Institute Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
In 2002 Pim Nap and Fabian Meijer founded Studio Piraat. A graphic design studio, in which a joint graphical past of two graduated designers has led to a critical and supplementary cooperation. Pim Nap is Creative Director and working with a talented team of young Dutch designers in a creative studio in Den Haag. Working on creative concepts, printed matters as well as websites and motiongraphics. Studio Piraat worked for Volkswagen NL, CDJA, LLink television, Boomerang, Oxbow, Everlast, Madurodam, Berg Toys, City of Den Haag, Visa Creditcards, BNO. MyOddCompany and many more

Erich Brechbuehl was born on the 3rd of October 1977 in Sursee, Swiss. In 1990, at the age of 13, he started his career with he foundation of „Mix Pictures“, an organisation for short film productions and cultural events. After a typography apprenticeship near Lucerne (1994-1998) he began an apprenticeship in graphic design at the studio of Niklaus Troxler in Willisau (1998-2002). Then Erich moved to Germany where he did an internship at MetaDesign Berlin. Back in Lucerne he founded his own graphic design studio „Mixer“. Since 2007 he’s a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). A selection of Brechbühl’s awards and honors include: Design Prestige – International Award for Design, Brno (2002); Gold prize, Student Section, Korea International Poster Biennale (2002); Bronze prize, Cultural Posters Section, China International Poster Biennial (2003); Honored Prize of Józef Mroszczak, Warsaw (2004); Red Dot Award: Communication Design (with distinction) (2004); 2nd Prize, Trnava Poster Triennial (2006); Grand Prix, Lahti Poster Biennial (2007).

Daniel Lock lives and works in London as the main designer in one of the most esteemed design consulting agencies of the Great Britain – NB:Studio, based by natives from Pentagram. It applied the passion to timeless, иконическому to design for a wide range of clients: Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Design Council, Vitsoe, Land Securities, Victoria and Albert Museum, D&AD and Soho House. Recent projects on identity include ребрендинг such highly recognised international business schools, as INSEAD and Goldsmiths (in the lead creative university in the Great Britain). Its works have been recognised on Design Week Award in the Great Britain, and also at competitions D&AD, Type Directors Club Tokyo, Type Directors Club New York and Graphis.

Jonathan is a designer and co-founding partner of Pearlfisher, one of top-10 branding agencies in UK. He oversees a portfolio of award-winning designs, including a high profile list of ethical, entrepreneurial and iconic brands. The outstanding commercial success of many of these design projects has led to Pearlfisher being named by the DBA as the leading design agency for Design Effectiveness in 2007. He is also a frequent speaker at high-profile international industry events and regular contributor and commentator in the design and brand press. In his not so spare time he helps REACH, a childhood leukaemia appeal, raises funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital, designs the odd garden, is writing a book for people with a desk job and a dream, and lives his former glorious rugby playing days through his children.

Fumi Sasada was born in western Japan, but attended high school and university in Los Angeles, USA. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena as a graphic and packaging major in 1975, Sasada joined the San Francisco office of Landor Associates. He returned to Japan as creative director of their Tokyo office in 1983 and was responsible for major corporate identity projects including Mizuno, Tokyo Gas, NEC and the Nagano Olympics.
He was appointed Japan representative and deputy president of Landor Associates, Tokyo in 1992 and established Bravis International(the name is a fusion of the words ‘brand’and’visual’)in June 1996.With an in-depth knowledge of branding and design issues based on 30 years experience as a designer and a design director in the US, Japan and Asia, Sasada’s passion for design remains undiminished. ‘Whether for design or naming, when it comes to the number of directions we explore and the quality of creative work we offer,’he says, ‘no one can beat Bravis.

Marius started out as a freelance cartoonist at 16, and now has more than 12 years practical experience in design, graphic arts and branding, acquired in various companies from Romania, UK and USA. He has studied graphic design at Sessions.edu Online Design School in New York, holds a degree in Medicine and is currently studying Communication and Public Relations in a Master programme, with a thesis on rebranding.
In 1999 he founded Grapefruit, a branding and interactive design consultancy in Iasi, Romania. Grapefruit now has a staff of 17 and has worked for more than 100 clients in 13 countries on four continents—ranging from one-man businesses to large corporations such as Dacia, Pfizer, Lilly, HP and Vodafone.
His branding interests revolve around rebranding, nation and place branding and he has written articles and spoken at conferences on these subjects. He writes a monthly column on the history of famous brands and is very passionate about typography and identity design. Marius is also the initiator of the first city branding initiative in Romania, for his birth city, Iasi.

Grapefruit is a Romanian branding consultancy, with offices in Iasi and Bucharest, specialized in strategy, verbal and visual identity, packaging design and digital branding. Grapefruit works for Antibiotice, Banca Transilvania, Dacia, Heidi, NNDKP, OTP Bank, Pepsi Americas, Renault, Ţuca Zbârcea şi Asociaţii. Grapefruit is the most awarded Romanian branding agency, with nominations and awards at Rebrand 100 (USA), Identity: Best of the Best 2007 (Russia), Pentawards 2007, 2008, 2009 (France).

Jelena Drobac born 1982 in Belgrade. She graduated at Belgrade’s Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of graphic design in 2007. Member of ULUPUDS, Serbian applied artist guild.
Drobac works primarily in the field of corporate and visual identities, logotypes, packaging, type design and custom made type. She works as a freelance designer in Belgrade and has a number of implemented projects both in Serbia and abroad. She says: “ I believe in a KISS approach to design– Keep it Short and Simple and that might eventually evolve to Keep it Smart and Simple!” Beside Identity: Best of the Best awards, Jelena is particularly proud of the award for Cyrillic typeface design and Silver Bra for Logotype at Magdalena festival, Slovenia. Her works have been featured in numerous design publications worldwide.

Bill Gardner attended Kansas State University and Wichita State University where he earned both a BBA in Marketing and a BFA in Design. As president of Gardner Design, his firms work has appeared or been featured in Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, New York Art Directors, the Museum of Modern Art and many other national and international design exhibitions. Bill has judged various design competitions nationally and internationally including the Communication Arts Design Annual. Bill is the founder of www.logolounge.com, the international, cross-referenced, compendium of logos from the worlds leading corporate identity designers. He co-authors the best selling books LogoLounge Volume 1, 2, 3, and 4 for Rockport Publishers and has just released Volume 5 to press this month. He is the author of the annual LogoLounge Logo Trend Report, published by Identity, Graphic Design USA, and other design publications throughout the world. The 2008 report marks the sixth in the series.In his spare time Gardner has recently completed a six year term as the Territorial Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Gardner Design is a small firm of nine located in Wichita, Kansas, directly in the center of the USA. Gardner Design has developed a reputation for inventive solutions in corporate/brand identity with a roster of clients both large and small, national and international. The firm has produced effective and award winning results for such industry leaders as Cessna, Spirit AeroSystems, Bombardier/Learjet, Thermos, Chrysler, Pepsi, Pizza Hut, Coleman Outdoor, Kroger, Hallmark, Cargill Corporation, and others.