The members of the editorial board—the contributing editors of The Living Principles—are thought leaders, writers, and experts on the evolution and practice of sustainable, socially responsible design. Through the content they share and their ongoing input, contributing editors shape The Living Principles and help direct and enhance the community’s conversation.
Gaby Brink
Editorial Director
Gaby Brink is the founder and creative director of Tomorrow Partners, where she leads an inter-disciplinary team of creative talents to craft communication programs that turn heads and grab hearts everywhere that brands live. She works with a wide spectrum of top global marketers and emerging companies. And because she believes that design plays a vital role in building a brighter future, she regularly applies her creative firepower to nurture environmental and social causes and help organizations with sustainability at their core thrive.
Gaby co-authored The Living Principles for Design, and with her team at Tomorrow, built its online community. Through her leadership on the Board of Directors of AIGA, she fosters dialogue and collaboration amongst professional organizations and the global design community to co-create tools and best practices for design as a catalyst for positive cultural change.
Caitlin Dover
Editor
Caitlin has written about design and culture for more than a decade. She is the former managing editor of Print magazine, which won two consecutive National Magazine Awards during her tenure. Her articles have appeared in Print and Metropolis, among other publications, and she has produced two graphic design compendiums. She has taught at Pratt Institute, and has contributed editorial illustrations to publications including The Nation and The New York Times.
As the editor of the Living Principles site, Caitlin curates and oversees content submitted by the site’s members and contributing editors, and works to maintain lively and enlightened discourse throughout the site’s community.
Sue Apfelbaum
Contributing Editor
Sue is the chief editor of the AIGA website and oversees the editorial direction of online publications. She is the managing editor of Voice: AIGA Journal of Design and Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design, and also works with authors to manage publications for the AIGA Design Press, a co-publishing partnership with New Riders.
Sue earned a BA in English from the University of Vermont, where she was the music director of radio station WRUV. Most recently, she was managing editor and co-editor of RES magazine, a bimonthly publication about film, music, art and design. Her writing also appears in pop culture and design magazines Lemon and Print.
David Berman
Contributing Editor
David Berman is a thought leader and author who helps organizations get great things done, through the motivation and techniques he provides for applying strategy, design, ethics, and creative branding and communications to business problems.
He has over 25 years of experience in design and strategic communications, including Web design, environmental graphics, airport signage systems, wayfinding design, and software interface development. As an internationally-acclaimed expert speaker, facilitator, communications strategist, graphic designer, typographer and ethics chair, his thought-provoking speaking and professional development engagements have brought him to over 25 countries in the past few years.
Tom Biederbeck
Contributing Editor
Tom Biederbeck is an arts and design journalist with a passion for visual communication. He is the editor of the Mohawk Fine Paper’s site Felt & Wire and the Academy of Art University Newsfeed. A graduate of the University of Iowa, he is the former editorial director and editor in chief of STEP inside design and Dynamic Graphics magazines. When not tending to his sizable inventory of posters, prints and books, he hikes, bikes, skis, hunts, fishes, kayaks and tries to get lost in the great outdoors, sometimes with success.
Don Carli
Contributing Editor
Don Carli is senior research fellow with non-profit Institute for Sustainable Communication (ISC) where he is director of The Sustainable Advertising Partnership and other programs addressing corporate social responsibility, design for sustainability, life cycle assessment, innovation and sustainable sourcing. He is also Environmental Correspondent for PBS MediaShift and Sustainability Editor for Aktuell Grafisk Information magazine in Sweden. Don is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Program Affiliate Scholar and has been an invited lecturer at New York University, MIT, Clemson University, California Polytechnic University, City University of New York and Columbia University. He is also a recipient of the P3 Foundation “Luminaire Award” recognizing outstanding achievement and personal dedication by graphic communication industry innovators.
William Drenttel
Contributing Editor
William Drenttel is a partner at Winterhouse, a design practice in Falls Village, Connecticut, focused on social innovation, online media, and educational institutions. He is also design director of Teach For All, an international education network. Through the Winterhouse Institute, he is leading a series of initiatives funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop models for design and social innovation, including conferences, symposia, case studies and editorial projects.
Drenttel is president emeritus of AIGA, a senior faculty fellow at Yale School of Management, and a fellow at New York University Institute of the Humanities. He is the editorial director of Design Observer, a leading website focused on design, social innovation, urbanism and cultural commentary.
Roxann Henze
Contributing Editor
Roxann Henze is the communications manager for the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), a membership organization for industrial designers. Roxann’s editorial experience includes managing and editing Insight, the American Marketing Association Washington DC Chapter’s quarterly journal for over three years. Additionally, she has written and edited articles and newsletters for several nonprofits, including the Loudoun Arts Council, the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Fairfax. She is the past president of Henze Communications, a public relations firm that developed strategies for organizations to help them communicate their unique value to their customers and their publics. Roxann holds a bachelor’s in marketing from George Mason University.
Wendy Jedlicka
Contributing Editor
Wendy Jedlicka, CPP, is president of Jedlicka Design Ltd., a packaging design firm specializing in sustainable design and business strategies, co-coordinator for the o2 International Network for Sustainable Design in the US, and is packaging and business faculty for Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s groundbreaking Sustainable Design Certificate Program. A national caliber speaker, Jedlicka writes the regular “Sustainability Update” feature column for Package Design Magazine, and has been the contributing editor of two books: Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design, and Sustainable Graphic Design: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Print Design.
Jeremy Lehrer
Contributing Editor
Jeremy Lehrer is a freelance writer and editor working in the arenas of magazines, books, and the web. He writes Print’s “Best Practices” column, focused on helping designers understand sustainability and create projects that are superbly effective and simultaneously Earth-nurturing. He has edited books including Debbie Millman’s essay collection Look Both Ways. A firm believer in the connection between sustainability and spirituality, Jeremy advocates meditation and yoga as helpful complements to doing everything you can (life cycle assessment, using local printers, composting, choosing renewable energy, etc.) to create a cradle-to-cradle feedback loop that enriches everyone.
Nancy Levinson
Contributing Editor
Nancy Levinson is editor of Places Journal, at Design Observer. As architect and editor, Nancy works to promote innovative urban and environmental design. At Arizona State University, where she was founding director of Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, she created Post-Petroleum Phoenix, a multidisciplinary project focusing on the systems-scale adaptation of car-centric cities. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she cofounded Harvard Design Magazine. Levinson writes for diverse publications, including Architectural Record, the Journal of Planning Literature, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Perspecta, The Architect’s Newspaper, I.D., Metropolis, and Dwell. For two years she wrote the blog “Pixel Points” for Arts Journal. She received a B.A. from Yale University and Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
Namrata Rana
Contributing Editor
Namrata is a Director at Futurescape and also a Mentor at Futurescape Foundation. She has done an MBA program from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has also undertaken study programs on Strategic Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge and Blekinge Tekniska Högskola.
Her background in business and Sustainability ensures a cross functional expertise in work assignments which include New Services, Applications that enhance livelihoods and also integrated sustainable experiences.
She has written extensively on Sustainability Reporting, Mobile Applications for Sustainable Livelihoods and has been a visiting Faculty at various Management Schools across the country. She also conducts workshops on Sustainability Practices of Businesses.
Syamant Sandhir
Contributing Editor
Syamant is the Business Head of Futurescape and has over 15 years of experience in technology and communication related assignments. He specializes in using technology to drive innovative new services and communication platforms for organizations.
His experience includes work in Healthcare, Mobility, Retail and Learning Environments. Syamant writes extensively on new technologies, digital experiences and music.
