2007 jury

William Drenttel, Chair

A designer and publisher, William Drenttel is a founding editor of Design Observer, currently the largest online forum for design commentary. He is president emeritus of AIGA, a fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University and a trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. He is a graduate of Princeton University.

Allison Arieff

Allison Arieff is a fellow at the global design and innovation firm IDEO, and writes for the “Living Design” column for The New York Times. From 2002 to 2006, she was editor-in-chief of Dwell. She is the author of Prefab, Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America and Spa. She is a graduate of UCLA, and did graduate work at both UC Davis and New York University.

Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris is editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine, as well as an editor and curator of selected projects. She teaches at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling is a science fiction novelist and the author of The Zenith Angle, Shaping Things and Visionary in Residence: Stories. He was the first and only Visionary-in-Residence at Art Center College of Design. He blogs at Wired magazine.