David Baldwin
Chairman of the Board, The One Club for Art & Copy, Inc.
David has worked for some of the best creative agencies in the world like Della Femina, Travisano & Partners, NY; Hal Riney & Partners, SF; Cole & Weber, Portland; Deutsch, NY; Leonard/Monahan, Providence, RI; and McKinney, where he served as executive creative director for the previous 10 years.
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Dan Fietsam
EVP, Chief Creative Officer, Energy BBDO Chicago
Dan Fietsam is the Chief Creative Officer of Energy BBDO and Proximity in Chicago. Clients include Wrigley, Dial, Bayer, Jim Beam, The Illinois Lottery, VTech, Brinker, Hyatt, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago White Sox. As a creative leader, Dan is happiest interacting with ideas, technology and content that gets his brain buzzing, his heart pumping and his mouth yapping regardless of the delivery system be it analog, digital or human. Dan’s creative direction has helped win recognition in Cannes, The One Show, Communication Arts, D&AD, Clio, Obie, Art Directors Club, MPA Kelly, Archive, Contagious, AdCritic, Adweek, AdAge, USA TODAY’s Ad Meter and the one award his Mom actually recognizes - an Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Emmy. Additionally, he has been honored to serve on multiple juries for The One Show, the Art Directors Club, the Effies, Hatch and London International. Previously, Dan was an Executive Creative Director at Publicis in the West in Seattle and a Creative Director at DDB, Y&R and Leo Burnett all in Chicago. Clients have included T-Mobile, Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light, Dell, Sears, Coca-Cola and Dewars. He began his career as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather after attending undergraduate at Eastern Illinois University and overgraduate at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Tony Högqvist
Founding Partner and Global Creative Director, Perfect Fools
Tony Högqvist co-founded Houdini Digital Creations in 1999 and Perfect Fools in 2002. Creative Director for productions for Adidas, Coca-Cola, Ford/Lincoln, Nike, Saab, Samsung, Seat, Mentos and many more. Högqvist’s work has earned a broad array of prizes at international festivals including Cannes Lions, London International Awards, Eurobest Awards and New York Festivals as well as FWA Sites of the Day and Adobe/Macromedia Sites of the Day. He lectures regularly on digital creativity at schools such as Hyper Island and Berghs. Tony always said he'd retire when he won a Cannes Grand Prix. Just 28 years old he achieved it last year and he hasn't gone yet.
Doug Jaeger
Innovation Director, TAXI New York
Doug Jaeger, recently hired on as Innovation Director at TAXI New York is an emerging creative business leader in New York City, and previously the founder, CEO and Creative Director of thehappycorp global. He is also the Director of lvhrd, an unconventional event series that uses digital media to fuel interaction between creative professionals. In November of 2008 he was elected President of the Art Director’s Club. At the age of 33, Jaeger is the youngest person ever to hold the post.
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Scott Thomas
Designer/Web Developer, The Post Family
Scott Thomas is constantly seeking the simplest answer to complex problems. Scott began his design pursuits studying architecture before bouncing to graphic design and web development. Prior to moving to Chicago, where he set his sights on user-experience design, Scott called London's Shoreditch home. From products to websites, Scott works to simplify the experience of use. In 2006, he and five other creative types began a design collective, lovingly known as The Post Family. The group is devoted to supporting “family”member’s design habits—from silkscreen to letterpress, from illustration to blogging—in an effort to "get back to the hand." In 2007, Scott's career took a dramatic leap when he was invited to join the New Media team at Obama for America. The chance encounter led Scott to becoming the Design Director of the historic Obama Presidential campaign. He is currently writing a book that explains how an obscure senator rose to the highest office in the land and celebrity status with the aid of branding and design. Scott plans to continue designing for social causes that might just someday change the world.
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