The T+L Jury
Swiss-born product designer Yves Béhar is the founder of studio Fuseproject, a San Francisco firm whose clients include Coca-Cola, Toshiba, and Nike. In 2005, he was appointed chair of the Industrial Design Department at the California College of the Arts.
Interior designer Sheila Bridges established her own firm in 1994, and she hosts a TV show on the Fine Living Network. Her clients include former President Bill Clinton, whose Harlem office she designed.
Rob Forbes is the founder of Design Within Reach. Since launching in 1999, this catalogue has expanded to include 62 shops across the country. Forbes is a member of the SFMoMA Architecture & Design Accessions Committee and serves on the San Francisco Mayor's Council for Greening.
Cathy Leff has been the director of the Wolfsonian museum in Miami Beach since 1998 and serves as the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, the museum's scholarly journal.
Craig Robins is the founder of Dacra, the real estate development firm responsible for spearheading the revival of the Miami Design District. More recently, his company opened the Aqua development, a contemporary New Urbanist community in Miami Beach.
Kate Spade began designing handbags in 1991, and two years later launched her own company with her husband, Andy Spade. In 1998, the Council of Fashion Designers of America honored her as accessory designer of the year.
Architect Robert A.M. Stern is dean of the Yale School of Architecture. His work is in the permanent collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
