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Design Advisory Committee

The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to provide advice and feedback on the Design Department's curricular programs to enhance student success in professional design communities and post-graduate studies.

The objectives of the Advisory Committee are:

Interior Design

Robert Hull, The Miller/Hull Partnership
Bob is a founding partner [along with David Miller] of The Miller/Hull Partnership, a firm noted for its modest, distilled, and utilitarian projects that have contributed to contemporary regionalism in American architecture. Both Hull and Miller were in the Peace Corp, and believe in socially responsible and humane public architecture. 70% of the firm's projects involve public funding. Its design philosophy centers around two essential architectural ideas: to use a building's structure to create a significant place within a site, and to be sensitive to climate and to respond to environmental demands with the form of the building. Hull's style utilizes indigenous materials and structural forms and has been influenced by time spent in Bangladesh, India, and Afghanistan. His work earned an invitation from Marcel Breuer, in whose New York office Hull's modernist views were further shaped. Miller/Hull's architecture is easily understood and appreciated by architects and the public alike. The firm has received over 100 local, regional and national design awards and has grown to a staff of over 50. In 1998 alone, Miller/Hull received twelve awards, four of them national. In 2003 Miller/Hull received the AIA Architecture Firm Award, the American Institute of Architect's highest honor.

Eve Carlson, Northwest Architecture Company
Eve is an interior designer specializing in corporate, educational, healthcare and senior assisted-living projects. Her expertise includes interior design, master interior space planning, furniture design and specifications, standardization programming, contract document production, and project management. Carlson, who joined Northwest Architecture Company (NAC) in 2003, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interior Design from Cornish College of the Arts.

Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, Lead Pencil Studio
Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo opened their multi-disciplinary design collaborative in 1997 known as Lead Pencil Studio. Coinciding with this beginning, they finished work on a 120 page book documenting the architecture of Pacific NW sawmills. Titled Wood Burners, the book was published with Princeton Architectural Press in 1997 with a forward by Steven Holl. Trained equally in architecture and the studio arts, the work of the collaborative installation team of Lead Pencil Studio is an exploration of the history and memory of previously occupied sites with spatial gestures at the architectural scale. The office produces a wide range of work including new and remodeled residential, commercial tenant improvement, furniture, and site specific installation art. They have been awarded: Creative Capital Visual Arts Grant from New York, Architecture League of New York Emerging Voices, Artist in Residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts & Center for Land Use Interpretations, Special Projects Grant from 4Culture in Seattle, and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts from Chicago among others. Their works have been reviewed in Art in America, Architectural Record, Art and Architecture Journal UK, Metropolis and Dwell.In 2006 they were selected as an Emerging Voice by the Architecture League of New York. They recently held a double exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery titled Minus Space and 150 Works of Art.

Cam Allen, NBBJ
Cam has practiced Interior Design for over 20 years, in markets that include corporate/commercial, healthcare, education and science. Project responsibilities have ranged from Lead Interior Designer to Project Manager with on-the-ground experience in conceptual design, programming, planning, production of all phases of project documentation, construction administration and furniture specifications. Her past and present clients include Starbucks Coffee Company, Microsoft, The Wellcome Trust, Swedish Medical Center, University of Washington Health Sciences, Valley Medical Center, to name a few. She has won awards for her work on the Bremerton Naval Hospital, the Wellcome Trust Southfield project, and the Seattle Justice Center. She has been with NBBJ since 1989, with prior experience in Los Angeles. Cam has a BA in Art from California State University, Los Angeles.

Motion Design

Will Hyde, Fad
Will is one of those rare people whose right and left brains are in sync, with his conceptual abilities matched only by his deep technical skills. Where most people can either conceive of a project or execute it, Will works the whole continuum. And in a business that often pits creative types against business suits, Will understands and merges the objectives of both sides. Will came to Seattle in 1991 as a founding member and design director of The Stranger, which has since become an influential force in Seattle's culture. In 1995, Will was a founding partner of Digital Kitchen, initiating a new era of expression and experimentation in graphic design for film and television. In 2001, he founded Fad, which has since grown to be a nationwide force in motion graphics design, with offices in Seattle, New York and Los Angeles. During the past ten years, Will has worked on major campaigns for IBM, Honda, American Express, The Sundance Channel, MTV and Microsoft. In 2006, he was awarded a Silver Lion in the film category at Cannes. And although Will's accomplishments are impressive, it's also his sense of humor, enthusiasm for collaboration, and expansive entrepreneurial spirit that have made him so popular with clients.

Martin Rincon, Martini Design
Martin, principal and creative director of Martini Design, drives The Big Idea for their client campaigns, and he maintains and creates the overall vision for each project. He steers the design, development, and project management teams and ensures that the "Martini Touch" is infused into every project. Martin has been in the design and on-line industry for the past 10 years. Before he founded Martini in 1998, Martin worked as a visual journalist for the Seattle Times and the Miami Herald. Martin brings his rich experience in building graphical solutions in technical, illustrative, editorial, and graphic design to help companies build innovative and effective marketing collateral, online applications, and online brand experiences.

Doris Quan, Martini Design
Doris is a principal at Martini Design. She brings her extensive experience with Web strategy, project management, and business development to the firm. She manages the operations side of the business. Doris' business savvy earned her the 40 Under 40 Award by the Puget Sound Business Journal in 2003. That same year, Martini Design was named 12th in the region's Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies by the Puget Sound Business Journal. She is actively involved with the Entrepreneurs' Organization, and her civic contributions have benefited the Alliance for Education, as well as the University of Washington, and Western Washington University, where she has been a guest lecturer.

Matthew Mulder, Digital Kitchen
Matt joined Digital Kitchen as a creative director 2003. He leads the creative staff in the concept and design of projects for film, television and exhibition spaces. Previously Matt has worked at Art Center College of Design, H Design and Words+Pictures for Business+Culture as well as co-founding the experimental design studio wideopenspaces in 2000. Matt received his BFA in graphic design from the University of Florida in 1993 and his MFA in 2D design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1998. His work has been acknowledged by the AIGA and Communication Arts among others and been published in numerous periodicals and books internationally. He has lectured on motion and broadcast design at Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, University of Hawaii, Cornish College of Arts and Crafts among others

Wanda Gregory, UW iSchool, Adjunct Faculty
Wanda has worked in both traditional and new media for the past 15 years. She has worked for The Seattle Times where she created and launched their first freestanding publication for high school students called the Mirror and Sierra Online as an associate producer on their edutainment titles. Wanda then spent the next six years as Senior Director of Online Media for both Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Inc. Most recently she was Group Product Manager on the Xbox Live team. She is currently adjunct faculty at the UW iSchool where she teaches classes on game design, online communities and virtual worlds. Wanda is an avid game player who spends many hours online playing and researching games. Wanda is a graduate of the University of Washington where she received her BA, MBA and MA. In the fall she will begin work on her PhD at Simon Fraser in Art and Technology. She is also a former member of the Board of Trustees for Cornish.

Visual Communication Design

Bob Grindeland, Methodologie
Bob, a Cornish graduate, is one of the founding principals of Methodologie, a brand firm that specializes in comprehensive, business-critical communication systems for clients such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Washington Mutual, Starbucks, and Burlington Northern. He provides leadership for the internal marketing team, as well as strategic direction for Methodologie projects. His specialties include naming, messaging, and strategy development, as well as cultivating new business opportunities. With more than 28 years in the visual design field, Bob has managed and directed identity, print, and online communication programs for broad array of local and national clients. When not pushing back the frontiers of corporate communications he can be found keeping the forest at bay at his home on the Hood Canal.

Michelle Kumata, Wing Luke Asian Museum
Michelle received her BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. She worked for The Seattle Times for over 10 years as a page designer and illustrator. For several years she was also design instructor for the Urban Newspaper Workshop, a journalism "bootcamp" for high school juniors and seniors of color. In addition to illustration and fine art, Michelle has created costumes for the Degenerate Art Ensemble, Ying Zhou/Archana Kumar Dance Duo, and composer, performer, writer Byron Au Yong. Her work has been shown at COCA, Bumbershoot, the Frye Art Museum, the RAW Gallery and the Society of Illustrators Gallery in New York. Michelle is currently the Senior Exhibits Planner at the Wing Luke Asian Museum , overseeing development and production of exhibits for the current and new museum spaces.

Bruce Hale, design consultant
Bruce Hale is a Seattle design legend who started his career over forty years ago as a hand sign and car painter. Bruce continues his one-of-a-kind approach to hand lettering and identity work with clients such as Eddie Bower, Bon Marché, PCC, Starbucks, Pyramid Brewery, and many more.

Marty McDonald, Egg
After graduating from Duke University with a self-conceived degree in Advertising and the Social Sciences, Marty attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and went on to become an art director at Doner in Baltimore. Within his first few years, he had won the Gold Lion at Cannes for television, and print for the Milk Marketing Association was selected for The Communication Arts Advertising Annual - among advertising's two highest honors. After six years at Omnicom agency GSD&M in Austin, Texas creating brand campaigns for Southwest Airlines, Southwestern Bell and Texas Monthly, Marty moved to Seattle for better coffee, cooler summers, and the Creative Director position at DDB Worldwide. Next, Marty spent several years in Boston as a Partner and Creative Director at creative boutique Holland Mark, working on Coke, Dreyfus, Mass Mutual and Polaroid, before returning to Seattle in 2003 to start his own firm, egg. Egg is a three-year-old brand development agency that works exclusively with sustainable brands and socially responsible organizations.

Simon Daniels, Microsoft, typography group
Simon is the lead program manager for fonts in Microsoft's typography group. He is a graduate of the Typography & Graphic Communication program at The University of Reading in Berkshire, England and is a regular fixture at typography conferences such as TypeCon and ATypI. Simon's team is responsible for most of the fonts that ship with Windows, Office and other Microsoft products including the Xbox consoles, games, devices and various applications. The team also provides typographic support and advice to Microsoft groups and partners, and provides developer support to independent font developers and foundries.

Other

Bix Bickson, management consultant
Since 1985 Bix has consulted major corporations, institutions, non-profit organizations and individuals. These initiatives have taken place throughout the world and have had the intended purpose of breaking out of limiting strategies, perspectives and behaviors in order to create and fulfill an audacious future. He is regarded by colleagues as an authority on the design and implementation of corporate-wide efforts to increase competitive advantage, productivity and worker satisfaction -- a logical, but rare, combination. Educated at Trinity University in Texas, Mr. Bickson has been a member of the faculty of the Graduate Management Program at Antioch University in Seattle and served as the Chairman of the Board of Washington Works, a non-profit organization designed to provide woman on welfare the training and support needed to gain sustainable employment. He lives in Seattle with his wife Christine and their two children.

Rhoda Pitcher, management consultant
Rhoda has spent 25 years coaching senior executives to create and lead companies that are both fulfilling to work at and produce outstanding financial results. Rhoda's work is about executives seeing beyond the status quo to what is possible and educating them to provide the leadership needed to realize an unprecedented future. This is the source of the significant improvement in both financial results and employee satisfaction her clients consistently create. Companies whose executive teams she has worked with include Starbucks, Sears, Stanley Works, GE and Monsanto as well as many smaller companies. She has built, managed and sold two multinational consulting companies. Her philanthropic work focuses on education - a key prerequisite to a great life - from an initiative to reinvent the Chicago Public Schools, to the University of Washington School of Education and IslandWood (a school located on Bainbridge Island for inner city students). Rhoda has both an MBA from the University of California and an MS from the University of Manitoba in Psychology.

Barbara Johnson, design consultant
Barbara is co-founder of the International Design Resource Awards Competition (IDRA), subsequently, the Design Resource Institute (1997), encouraging the use of sustainable materials and strategies in industrial design and architecture. Exhibitions of these award-winning designs are presented as a focus for designers, manufacturers, recyclers and the public to understand the relationship of good design to responsible use of resources. Important goals are the development and sharing of sustainable design strategies and processes in both product design and architecture, and demonstrating how this approach adds value to new materials such as recycled, reprocessed, or sustainably harvested materials. She has several years' experience developing and presenting environmental education programs to the public, including business and professional organizations, and university level programming. Experience with city, county, state and national groups, government and private industry as well as with charitable foundations in support of sustainable design programming. Grant writing experience supporting community-based environmental education projects with Seattle Parks and Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, and she is a long-time advocate and design educator on sustainable design strategies. She has a B.A. Diploma, Three Dimensional Design, Kingston University, London, England