Contest Judges

Current job: Creative Director of Design is Play, an award-winning design studio

Other current job: Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts (teaching in the CCA Graphic Design program since 2005)

Work seen in: Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, U.S. Library of Congress, and LACMA

Education: BFA in Graphic Design from CCA and a BA in East Asian Languages from UC Berkeley

Cool project: Angie and Play co-founder Mark Fox co-authored Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing, published by The Monacelli Press in 2016

Day job: Designer for Code for America: improving government services for everyone

Evening job: Outreach and programming with Inneract Project

Education: BFA in Graphic Design, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

In high school: dreamed of becoming an architect and starting an architecture firm

Motivators: Wildly curious about people; seeks to spark creative and thoughtful ideas that improve our daily experiences

Current job: Design Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

Education: BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, Netherlands

Born and raised: Mexico City, Mexico

In high school: Dreamed of leaving Mexico (which at the time wasn't a safe place for LGBTQ+) to work in the arts and meet other like-minded people

Current job: Product designer for Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden

Recent accomplishment: Organized Where are the Black Designers?, a virtual conference that brought awareness of the experiences of Black designers and became a platform of support for the community

Education: BFA in Graphic Design, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)

Originally from: Atlanta, Georgia

Recognition: Placed in hackathons organized by IDEO, SCAD, and MIT that solved for issues such as the wealth inequality in the music industry to systemic socio-economic injustice

Current work: Illustrator and graphic journalist

Other work: Co-founder of Women Who Draw, an inclusive directory of female-identifying and non-binary illustrators

Previous work: Columnist for The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine

Books created: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat; Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words; Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

Home base: Lives in Potrero Hill, San Francisco with her partner (and collaborator) the writer Caroline Paul, two cats, and a dog