Adobe Education: 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards judges

The 2007 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards entries will be reviewed and scored by a panel of outstanding judges, all experts in their fields. The panel includes:

Gaby Brink

Co-founder and creative director, Templin Brink Design
San Francisco

Rafael Esquer

Principal, Alfalfa
New York

Carole Guevin

Publisher, Netdiver
Montreal, Quebec

Andrew Lin

Director of Media Strategy, Ignited Minds
Los Angeles

Sande Scoredos

Executive director of training and artist development, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Culver City, California

Jan Wilker

Co-founder, karlssonwilker inc.
New York

Gaby Brink

Gaby Brink is co-founder and creative director of Templin Brink Design, where she specializes in integrating communication programs for national and international leading-edge brands as well as launching emerging companies through innovative marketing solutions. Her work has received hundreds of awards from major design and advertising award shows around the world. Brink was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland, where she began her visual communication education. She moved to San Francisco in 1988 and continued her studies, earning a degree in photography from the California College of the Arts (CCA). After working as a commercial photographer for several years, she returned to CCA to pursue her talent in graphic design. The distinctly international quality of Brink's work reflects her culturally diverse upbringing. She began her design career at Pentagram and Vanderbyl Design in San Francisco. In 1996, she joined Foote Cone & Belding as one of the founding members of its internal design group. During her tenure at FCB, she developed many of Levi Strauss & Co.'s brands through packaging and collateral materials, advertising campaigns, and on-floor retail presentations.

Rafael Esquer

A native of the Sonora desert of Mexico, Rafael Esquer has made New York City his home for a decade. As Creative Director at @radical.media, his group's work in communication design received the National Design Award in 2004 from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Esquer now runs Alfalfa, his own design studio. Clients have included The New York Times Magazine, Nike, Björk, AIGA, Tommy Boy Records, Target, IBM, Scholastic, and MTV. The Olympic Museum and the Library of Congress poster collection contain some of his work. Esquer received his BFA from Art Center College of Design. He frequently serves as judge and speaker at national and international design events.

Carole Guevin

Carole Guevin is an experienced communication designer, new media pioneer, theorist, philosopher, and founding partner of FYE creative continuum, the publisher of Netdiver digital culture magazine. She is an internationally recognized driving force through her work as editor of netdiver.net, which has featured provocative content about the emerging digital culture since 1998. An unrelenting industry evangelist, activist and catalyst, she extends awareness and champions the appreciation of design online and beyond.

Andrew Lin

Andrew Lin has lived in Los Angeles nearly all his life. With a love for movies and inherent techno-geekness, it was an easy decision to pursue a path that blended film and technology. After beginning his career at Chiat/Day Advertising, Andrew has created award-winning interactive campaigns for The WB Television Network, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Paramount Vantage including those for "An Inconvenient Truth," "Sideways," "Garden State," "Napoleon Dynamite," "I Heart Huckabees" and "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer". While at Fox Searchlight, he also developed the website for Fox Searchlab, a groundbreaking short-film program designed to attract new voices in the independent filmmaking world. In the past year, he has also consulted on the launch of Lexus's hybrid vehicle branding campaign with Team One Advertising and helped develop the new media strategy for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. He recently joined Ignited Minds in Marina Del Rey as their Director of Media Strategy.

Sande Scoredos

Sande Scoredos is executive director of training and artist development at Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City, California. Scoredos has an extensive background in art education, computer science, and 2D and 3D computer graphics production. She taught computer science and engineering at the studio and university level. She served as training manager at Wavefront Technologies for many years, designing its curriculum and instructing professionals in the use of 3D computer graphics and animation for broadcast, engineering, gaming, and scientific visualization. She then moved to Rhythm and Hues, where she again designed a training facility and curriculum. At Sony, for the past ten years, Scoredos has developed a highly evolved training facility and program for the production studio. She educates experienced artists on how to use the tools needed to produce world-class animation and imagery. The training program, with over 50 technical and studio art courses, special presentations, guest lectures, and specialized production task classes, enriches not only the artists' technical skills, but also their aesthetic skills, and provides artistic career development and mentoring.

Jan Wilker

Jan Wilker grew up in Ulm, Germany, and later studied design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. In 2000, Wilker and Hjalti Karlsson founded karlssonwilker inc., a design studio in the heart of Manhattan. They have received numerous awards and their work has appeared in design publications and magazines worldwide. A book on their studio, "tellmewhy," which chronicles their first 24 months in business, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2003. The partners frequently lecture and give workshops on design around the world. They continue to work with an eclectic list of clients, including MoMA, MTV, Capitol Records, the Art Directors Club, the New York Times Magazine, Guggenheim, Puma, and Creative Time.