Jason Panton

Jason Panton / Jamaica

Jason Panton is an artist, designer & culturalist from Kingston, Jamaica.

For the past 15 years he has been designing, providing creative direction, producing music events, and weaving culture and community into branded marketing programs.

Art  

After a stint of painting & curating exhibits in Miami & Ft. Lauderdale with residencies at Edna Manley Art College in Jamaica via Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Jason created a niche start up called I&I Clothing Co. Fusing reggae music & cultural themes with imagery influenced by Jamaican culture,  The brand developed a cult following which lead to a series of design opportunities. He has worked with companies such as Def Jam Records, VP Records, Tuff Gong International, We Are Massiv, & Puma’s 2012 Olympic collection with Cedella Marley.

Culture

Jason entered the retail space with good friend and artist Cezar Cunningham to create Jamaica’s first street wear boutique called Base Kingston. The store carried contemporary street wear accounts such as RockSmith, Kilo Goods, LRG & More. Thru collaboration’s with musical artists he produces an emerging musical artist showcase called “Live from Kingston“, which has given stage to some of Jamaica’s most influential emerging talent. He also co-created a global reggae event called Dubwise Jamaica that takes place weekly in Miami, and monthly in various cities across North America, Canada, Africa and the Caribbean.

Website: http://www.jasonpanton.com

Elizabeth Resnick

UNITED STATES

Elizabeth Resnick is a Professor in Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1977.
She earned both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.

Professor Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized six comprehensive design exhibitions, the last three being a triad of contemporary socio-political poster design: The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment (2005) with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman; Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); and Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age: 2001–2012 (2012).

Yossi Lemel

ISRAEL

Yossi Lemel was born in 1957 in Jerusalem Israel. He is a political poster artist, creative director and a teacher, graduated and taught at the “Bezalel” Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Workshops in Xalapa Mexico, Denver, El Paso, Minneapolis, Seattle, Istanbul, Stockholm and Milan.

Roy Villalobos

UNITED STATES

Roy Villalobos is a graphic designer and visual artist, born in Chicago, IL. At age of 10 his family decided to relocate to their roots in the city of San Luis Potosi, Mexico were he studied a BFA in Graphic Design in the Habitat Faculty, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi. Mexico.

Richard B. Doubleday

UNITED STATES

Richard B. Doubleday is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Graphic Design at Louisiana State University’s School of Art. He is a former Senior Lecturer in the Master of Arts in Graphic Design program at Suffolk University and Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Graphic Design at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.

John Moore

VENEZUELA

John Moore is one of the most prolific tipographic designers of Venezuela, he studied graphic design in the Institute of graphic design Neumann from 1972 until 1976. In 1980 he taked a workshop with Milton Glaser and since 1983 he has worked as an art director and creative director in many advertisign agencies as Foote Cone & Belding, Leo Burnet

Luba Lukova

UNITED STATES

Regarded as one of the most distinctive image makers working today, Luba Lukova has held solo exhibitions at UNESCO in Paris, DDD Gallery in Osaka, La MaMa in New York and the Art Institute of Boston. Her many awards include the Grand Prix Savignac at the International Poster Salon in Paris, the Gold Pencil

Charis Tsevis

GREECE

Charis Tsevis is an award winning visual designer living and working in Athens,Greece. He holds a Diploma of Graphic Design from the Akademie fur das Grafishe Gewerbe, Munchen and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano. He manages a modest studio by the name of Tsevis Visual Design in Athens serving clients all over the world. His client list includes companies like Nike, Toyota, IKEA, PepsiCo, Unilever, Best Buys, Sanyo, Bradesco Bank, Saatchi and Saatchi, BBH, Leo Burnett, Publicis and media like Time, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, Sunday Times, Wired, Panorama, Epoca, MacFan, RAM, Focus and many more. Charis is a part time professor of Editorial Design and Typography at the AKTO College of Art and Design since the year 1996. He has also presented seminars at the Panteion University of Athens and he has given lectures in numerous national and international conferences and symposiums like the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication, the TEDx Athens, the Adobe D-Day and many more. Charis Tsevis is also a regular columnist in some of the most respected design and computer magazines in Greece (+design, RAM etc.). He has also written 2 books about Adobe Photoshop. Charis’ work is awarded in ED Awards (Europe), Epica Awards (Europe), NPSA (USA), Behance (USA), EBGE (Greece) and others. His work has been featured in many books, magazines and websites around the world.