Spark Design Awards

Spark is the innovation and design competition for all types of design, from architecture to digital, product to transportation, systems to world-changing. If you believe that good design can be an effective tool to help our stressed-out world, enter your work and be seen and heard. All types of design and all levels of designer, from student to novice and pro, -are welcome and encouraged to enter.

Sponsors & Partners include:
-Hewlett-Packard
-Autodesk, Inc.
-Bravo Media

ADVISORY COUNCIL & COMMUNITY BOARDS

This design initiative has an exceptional resource in it's Council and Boards, with representatives from academia, media, marketing, advertising, design and industry.

Christian Bancroft, Filmmaker, London
Mark Charmer, Director, Movement Design, London
Ted Chin, President, Ted Chin & Co. Marketing, Greenwich
Kathleen Creighton, Chair, Communications Design, Pratt Institute, NY
Esther Dyson, Editor, CNET Networks, Editor of Release 1.0, NYC. www.edventure.com
Rob Forbes, Founder & Director, Design Within Reach, SF. www.designwithinreach.com
Marc Gobé, Chairman/CEO, Desgrippes Gobe, New York. www.dga.com
David Gottlieb, Producer, City Beach Films, Raleigh
Tom Hall, Chairman, Tucker Hall PR & Consulting, Tampa. www.tucker-hall.com
Chris Hart, President, Martelit Educational Consultancy, London. www.thing-e.co.uk
Cheryl Heller, CEO, Heller Communications, Inc. NYC. www.hellercommunications.com
Kit Hinrichs, Partner, Pentagram Design, San Francisco. www.pentagram.com
Dr. Robert Holkeboer, VP of Graduate Studies & Research, Eastern Michigan Univ., Ypsilanti
Dr. Marc Holzer, Exec. Dir., National Center for Public Productivity, Rutgers. www.ncpp.us
Clark Kellogg, President, Communication By Design and Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley
Peter Kuchnicki, President, Spark Design Awards and Cyllabus Network, New York
Sam Lucente, Vice President Design, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto
Malcolm McCullough, Professor, Taubman Architecture College, U of M, Ann Arbor
William McDonough, Principal, William McDonough + Partners. www.mcdonough.com
David Meckel, Director Research & Planning, California College of the Arts, SF. www.cca.edu
Marty Neumeier, President, Neutron LLC, SF. www.neutronllc.com
John Norquist, Pres., Congress for New Urbanism, Former Mayor, Milwaukee. www.cnu.org
Alf Nucifora, Chairman, Luxury Marketing Council of San Francisco, www.nucifora.com
Mike Nuttall, Co-Founder of IDEO
Brent Oppenheimer, Founder & Creative Director, OH & Co., New York. www.oh-co.com
Richard Parker, Principal, 450 Architecture, SF
Charles Pelly, the Design Academy, Founder, Designworks/USA, L.A. www.pellydesign.com
Don Peppers, Founding Partner, The Peppers & Rogers Group, Norwalk. www.1to1.com
Kristen Richards, Editor, Ocular Magazine and ArchNewsNow, NY
Herbie Pfiefer, Montgomery Pfiefer, SF
Dr. Peter Sealey, CEO, Los Altos Group. www.losaltosgroup.com
Harris Silver and Sharoz Makarechi, Founders, Thinktank3, and Director, Citystreets, NY
Lionel Sosa, Sosa Consulting & Design, former Chairman, DMB&B/Americas
Dan Sturges, President, IntraGo Transportation Solutions. www.intragomobility.com
Lisa Sullivan, Former Director, AIA-San Francisco, Principal, L Sullivan Group, Berkeley
Susan Szenasy, Editor in Chief, Metropolis Magazine. www.metropolismag.com
Drew Takahashi, Funjacket Enterprises and Founder, Colossal Pictures. San Francisco
Ronna Tannenbaum, former Chief Creative Officer, Alexa, Co-Founder, mydailylook.com
Pen Tudor, Co-Founder, Adweek Magazine, Los Angeles
Tom Vecchione, VP and Design Director, Gensler, New York. www.gensler.com
Andrew Wagner, Editor in Chief, American Craft Magazine, New York
Richard Wilde, Chairman, Graphic Design and Adv. Dept., School of Visual Arts, NY.