text="Jury 2000
David M. Kelley
I.D. magazine described David Kelley as 'the most sought-after design engineer this side of Thomas Edison.' Kelley is a tenured professor in the Product Design program at Stanford University and the founder of IDEO, a worldwide leader in the user-centered design of products, services, and environments. IDEO has worked on thousands of projects for such companies as Canon, Handspring, Ford, Palm, Polaroid, and Steelcase. In 2000, Kelley was honored with the Chrysler Design Award and induction into the National Academy of Engineering.
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his design of the Jewish Museum Berlin, which opened to the public in 1999. Presently he is overseeing a number of major design and construction projects throughout the world, including the Spiral Extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Imperial War Museum-North in Manchester, England. Libeskind also serves as a professor at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, and has been a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Polish-born architect has received numerous awards, including the German Architecture Prize (1999), and has seen his work represented in many international exhibitions and publications.
William Mitchell
Bill Mitchell is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also holds a joint professorship in Architecture and in Media Arts and Sciences and serves as architectural advisor to MIT's president. His position at MIT caps a distinguished teaching career at Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge universities, and the University of California at Los Angeles. Mitchell is an influential commentator and theorist whose most recent book, E-Topia: Urban Life, JimÑBut Not As We Know It (MIT Press, 1999), explores the new forms and functions of cities in the digital electronic era.
Martha Stewart
Through the award-winning magazine Martha Stewart Living, bestselling books, Emmy award-winning television show, Website, syndicated newspaper columns, national radio show, mail-order catalog, and product lines, Martha Stewart widely disseminates the creative principles and practical ideas that have made her America's most trusted guide to stylish living. She is chairman and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
Bill Stumpf
The name Bill Stumpf is synonymous with the Aeron chair, although this icon of contemporary design is just one of the innovative products the designer has produced over the course of a 30-year career. Stumpf has been honored widely for his work, which has been represented in exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and acquired by major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is the founder and principal of Stumpf, Weber + Associates, Inc., a board member of the Aspen Design Conference, and author of The Ice Palace That Melted Away (Pantheon Books, 1998).
Lorraine Wild
An influential graphic designer, educator, critic, and theorist based in Los Angeles, Lorraine Wild heads Lorraine Wild Design and teaches in the graduate program of California Institute of the Arts. She has been honored with awards from the American Center for Design and the American Institute of Graphic Arts and has been a recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. Her work was the subject of a one-person exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1998.";