Cindy Allen is editor-in-chief of Interior Design magazine. Since she became editor-in-chief in 2001, the magazine has won numerous design awards and significantly expanded its readership. Allen has hosted and spoken on panels around the country and has been invited to speak at key design events nationwide.

Yves Béhar is the founder of the San Francisco-based design firm fuseproject. The firm’s diverse portfolio includes projects for clients in technology, sports, lifestyle, and fashion, among them Birkenstock, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Microsoft, Swarovski, and Toshiba. Béhar’s work has been featured in solo shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains in Lausanne, Switzerland. His numerous design awards include recognition from IDEA/BusinessWeek, Red Dot, and I.D. magazine. In 2004 Béhar was awarded the National Design Award for Product Design.

Michael Bierut is a partner at New York graphic design firm Pentagram, where his clients have included The New York Times, the Minnesota Children’s Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harley-Davidson, Princeton University, the Museum of Sex, and the New York Jets. He has served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and is a board member of the Architectural League of New York and New Yorkers for Parks. Bierut is a senior critic in the graphic design program at the Yale University School of Art, and he is the co-editor of the Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design book series, published by Allworth Press.

Roger Mandle is president of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. He serves on the boards of the Alliance of Artists’ Communities, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, Newport Restoration Foundation, and other national and regional professional organizations. Mandle received his doctorate from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and his master’s degree and museum training certificate from New York University. He is a published art historian who has written on Dutch, British, and American art.

Enrique Norten is the principal at the New York- and Mexico-based architecture firm TEN Arquitectos, which he founded in 1986. His numerous awards and honors include the Mies van der Rohe award, the National Creator System Grant, a Gold Medal from the Society of American Registered Architects, the Certificate of Merit from the Municipal Art Society of New York, and the World Cultural Council’s Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. Norten holds the Miller Chair at the University of Pennsylvania and is Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University School of Architecture.

Janet Rosenberg is principal and founder of award-winning Canadian landscape architecture firm Janet Rosenberg + Associates. The firm’s numerous projects have included the Canadian National Capital Commission and the Métis International Garden Festival, among many others, and their work has won several international design competitions, including HtO: Toronto’s New Waterfront Park. Well published, Rosenberg also serves on numerous juries, conferences, associations, and design panels, and speaks at universities across Canada. She is a founding board member of the Toronto Tree Foundation and a member of Toronto Mayor’s Roundtable on a Beautiful City and the Van Alen Institute’s Canadian Consulate Forum on Waterfronts. Rosenberg’s firm has received over 100 awards for their work and she been honored with many awards, including the prestigious Governor General of Canada’s Confederation Medal.

Stefano Tonchi is style editor for The New York Times Magazine, where he created the “T” family of magazines, which include special issues dedicated to women’s and men’s fashion, design, living, beauty, travel, and holiday. Tonchi has curated a number of exhibitions devoted to style, and has edited several books on the intersection of art and fashion, including Total Living, Uniform: Order and Disorder, and Excess: Fashion and the Underground in the 80s. He graduated with a classic studies degree from Liceo Classico Forteguerri in Pistoia, Italy, and studied political science at the University of Florence, Italy, from 1979 to 1984.