Professor Singer is a graphic designer, artist and occasional writer. He spends his time teaching, running a small graphic design practice, developing independent work with a particular interest in mapping and visualizing systems, and cycling every chance he gets. He has exhibited and published in the U.S. and Europe.

Professor Martin Linder initially received national prominence for his award-winning designs during his graduate studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Martin was recently rewarded for his design innovations in the field of Explosive Detection Equipment with a Industrial Design Excellence Award sponsored by Business Week Magazine. His professional furniture designs have been exhibited throughout the United States for the entirety of his career, most notably at Knoll/Design America, Steelcase's Metro Furniture and Herman Miller’s Brandrud Furniture.

Steve Jones is a graphic designer. Mr. Jones received his BFA in Graphic Design from The California College of the Arts (CCA, formerly CCAC) and his MFA in Graphic Design, with honors, from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Steve is an award winning graphic designer and exhibiting artist. His approach to graphic design combines the personal with the formal and functional. His interests focus on Black icons and their representation in mass media and popular culture, identity politics and public art.

Jane Veeder started her career in electronic media arts in 1976 as a video artist and began working with digital computers in 1978. A member of the pioneering Chicago computer graphics community in the early 1980s, she has produced internationally exhibited animated and interactive computer art works, designed user interfaces for graphics software development, and worked in creative management for interactive entertainment.

Pino Trogu is an Assistant Professor of Information Design at San Francisco State University. He grew up on the island of Sardinia, Italy, where his father, who was a mason, taught him how to lay bricks in a straight line.

Hsiao-Yun Chu holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Master’s Degree in Product Design from Stanford University. She has worked in the Rapid Prototyping Lab at Stanford University, and was formerly the Assistant Curator for the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection at Stanford University. She has also taught at SF State, Stanford University, California College of the Arts, and the Art Institute of California.

Dr. Chen has been teaching at various colleges since 1980 in fields such as electrical drafting, electrical engineering, electronics engineering, electrical material science, and electrical technology. He was an Electrical Communications Officer at the Chinese Air Force; Design Engineer at Control Systems Inc.; and CAD Design Engineer at an Advanced (Semiconductor) Technology Center in San Jose. He received his doctoral degree in Industrial Technology (DIT) from University of Northern Iowa in 1988. He has presented 23 professional papers at 8 different international conferences in the past 8 years.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Design and Industry (DAI) at San Francisco State University. Ricardo Gomes is Director of the Design Center for Global Needs in the DAI Department, a non-profit international research and development center dedicated to promoting responsive design solutions to local, regional and global issues such as: inclusive/universal design, health care, the aging, community development and sustainability.