2004 Competition Print Judges

JAMES DONNELLY
The Design Office of Catherine and James Donnelly is an award winning, multi-disciplinary design firm. Their design practice creates messages, spaces, and situations that attempt to maximize people’s ability to live, learn, work and play. The Design Office has extensive experience in print collateral, internet and interactive media, environmental design, and educational and event programming.

James Donnelly has also taught typography, graphic and environmental design for ten years at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He has participated as a visiting designer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and many other regional colleges and universities. He especially enjoys speaking with non-design audiences and conducting workshops with business and civic groups.

James is interested in anthropology, communication and psychology. He evaluates design through means of people’s physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional needs and wants. He is currently involved in urban planning and projects related to the public image of communities.

LESLIE HAINES
Leslie Haines, Chair of the Department of Graphic Design and Professor at the Watkins College of Art and Design, has twenty years of experience in the fields of graphic design and advertising and has trained with such industry experts as Stavros Cosmopulous, Richard Wilde, Gary Gray and Lou Dorfsman. She has won numerous industry awards including regional and local Advertising Federation ADDY's and Certificates of Merit, NAA honors, and PIAS Best of Category. Having owned and operated a successful design business in Nashville since 1995, Leslie is able to provide students with practical business insight, as well as contemporary design skills. Her involvement in the local arts community includes Charter Board Member of the Nashville Chapter of AIGA, past Chairman of the Board of Creative Forum, and current AIGA and Nashville Advertising Federation member. Ms. Haines has lectured at the AIGA Education Conference in Los Angeles, the International Association of Business Communicators in Nashville, and at various area colleges.

BRIAN NOYES
Brian Noyes is the art director of Smithsonian Magazine and has been with the magazine since mid-2002, completing a redesign last January. He is only the third art director in the publication's 35-year history, replacing an art director who had been in the position for 25 years. Noyes was previously the art director of The Washington Post Magazine for two terms, the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Preservation Magazine (sharing in a National Magazine Award for General Excellence), and Conde Nast's House & Garden. A twenty-year retrospective of his work was included in Meredith College's exhibit on four American graphic designers, along with Michael Bierut, Alexander Isley and Paula Scher, in Raleigh, NC, last spring.

A fifth-generation Californian, he grew up in a newspaper family and spent time after school with his dad at his paper. Noyes launched his publication design career as art director of The Newport Ensign, a weekly newspaper in Newport Beach, redesigning it at age 18 and winning a silver award from the Society of Publication Designers. He joined a city magazine company as corporate art director, moving to properties in Tampa, Detroit, Houston and Washington, D.C. He has lived in the nation's capital for 20 years and, in addition to his magazine design work, has designed books for The White House, National Geographic, The World Bank, Smithsonian Books and The Washington Post. He just completed a design prototype for HGTV Ideas Magazine.

Noyes has written on southern primitive folk art for Smithsonian Magazine, history and preservation for The Washington Post Magazine and Preservation Magazine, and is currently writing and photographing a project on portrait photographers of Cuba for an upcoming story in Smithsonian Magazine.