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Photoreal Electronics Competition Judges Panel


George Aye
Industrial Designer
IDEO
CHICAGO, IL
After graduating in 1998 with a Bachelors in Engineering Design
Visualization, George worked in several design consultancies in London
before joining a boutique image making company called Solid State Ind. Ltd.,
that produced computer generated photographic still renderings for
advertising. While at Solid, he worked as a modeling, rendering and lighting
artist. The company's work often ran on 48 sheet billboards advertising
campaigns.

In 2001 George moved to Chicago to join the Industrial Design group at IDEO
Chicago, led by Martin Thaler. He has been involved in a great variety of
projects some of which include; a range of new laptops for a US based PC
maker; a new wireless microphone design language for a leading microphone
manufacturer, including their new consumer level wireless receiver; a new
slide carrier and scanning station for a start up medical company working
with nano-scale research technology.
 


Yves Béhar
Founder, Principal Designer
Fuseproject
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Yves Béhar, design principal and founder of fuseproject, is a multi-award winning industrial designer who enjoys working across a wide array of disciplines as diverse as personal care, fashion, sports, cosmetics, furniture, technology and transportation. His work has been internationally recognized in museums and competitions alike, including awards from the IDSA, Businessweek, ID Magazine and If Industrie Hanover; and exhibits in the Cooper Hewitt Museum NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Athenaeum Museum and the Munich Museum of Applied Arts.


Béhar is interested in developing lasting experiences. He uses design as a tool to create exciting stories and takes a long-term strategic approach developing and enhancing brands through qualities communicated by a product’s design. Béhar’s recent projects include: perfume bottles for scent001 and perfume09, shoes for Birkenstock, personal care products for Philou, technology products for HP, a cashmere Teflon coated sweater for Lutz & Patmos, products for NIKE and Herman Miller, as well as a variety of experimental projects for the SFMOMA, Surface Magazine and Dwell Magazine


Yves Béhar studied industrial design in Europe and the US, and holds a B.S. of Industrial Design from the Art Center College of Design
 




Thomas Heermann
Product Manager, Design Products
Alias|Wavefront
TORONTO




Thomas Heermann is Product Manager at Alias|Wavefront, responsible for the StudioTools family of industrial design software programs. Heermann has been involved in the design and surface modeling software industry for eight years, holding marketing and management positions with Alias|Wavefront and ICEM Technologies. He holds a degree in Engineering and Management from FHTE of Esslingen, Germany.
 


Peter Pfanner
Director Global Design Integration
Motorola
CHICAGO, IL		 Peter Pfanner is a designer, design manager and design strategist with over 15 years experience working at corporations such as ACCO and Motorola and consultancies such as IDEO, Pentagram and HFID.

He is currently the Director of Global Design Integration at Motorola where his work is focused on Design Integration, Design Systems, ‘Collaborative Design’ and Design Led Initiatives.
He is also Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Design, IIT Chicago.

Pfanner’s work has been recognized in exhibitions such as the “National Design Triennial” at the Cooper Hewit Museum and the ‘Workspheres’ exhibition at MOMA and in competitions such as: IDEA / Business Week Awards, Good Design Awards, Industrie forum Hanover Awards and I.D. Magazine Design Awards.



   


Kent Solberg
Global Industrial Design Manager
SRAM Corp.
CHICAGO, IL


"I don't think to promote, you know, that old 'artist' mentality, patting one's back, selling out.... whatever. I like to think we communicate through product and not press."
   

Scott Wilson
Creative Director - Nike Timing/Techlab
Principal - MOD
BEAVERTON, OR



Scott Wilson is an accomplished designer with over 10 years of experience developing iconic, industry-leading products. His alternating experience within three consulting firms and three global corporations has provided him with the skills necessary to consistently deliver compelling consumer concepts to market. The pervasive theme throughout Wilson's work is the intimate relationship between the user and the product. Wilson strives to create a balance within his products that speak rationally and emotionally to the consumer, ultimately ensuring a higher probability of market success and endurance.

Formerly of IDEO Product Development, Thomson and ACCO, Wilson's current mission is creating exciting futures for Nike as Creative Director for their sport's technology group. Prior to and separate from Nike, Wilson founded MOD (www.studiomod.com) whose focus is establishing long-term collaborative relationships with design-sensitive and marketing-savvy companies. MOD's first two products have already gained recognition within the furniture industry at both the 2001 NEOCON exhibition and the 2002 Salone del Mobile in Milan.

Wilson's work has spanned dozens of brands and a wide variety of industries. His work has been internationally recognized in museums and competitions. His work was exhibited in the first annual "National Design Triennial" at the Cooper-Hewitt museum. He also has products in the MOMA, MCA and Chicago Athenaeum museums. In 1999 alone he was recognized with an ID Magazine Design Distinction, 3 Business Week IDEA Awards, 2 IF Industrie Hanover Awards, and 10 Good Design awards. In January of 2000, ID Magazine selected the Top 40 Designers under 30. Wilson was one of 4 product designer's from the US profiled.
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