2009 jury

William Drenttel, Chair

William Drenttel is a designer, publisher and design leader and a partner with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse. He is a senior faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management, co-founder of Design Observer, trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and president emeritus of AIGA.

Rick Poynor

Rick Poynor is writer at large for Eye, which he founded, contributing editor and columnist for Print and a research fellow at the Royal College of Art, London. His books include No More Rules, the essay collections Obey the Giant and Designing Pornotopia and Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice, a monograph about the radical Dutch designer.

Alice Rawsthorn

Alice Rawsthorn is the design critic of the International Herald Tribune and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Her columns are syndicated to newspapers and magazines all over the world. A prominent broadcaster and public speaker on design, Rawsthorn is also a board member of Arts Council England and the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

Michael Sorkin

Michael Sorkin is principal of Michael Sorkin Studio, as well as Distinguished Professor of Architecture and director of the graduate program in urban design at City College of New York, and president of Terreform. He is the author of more than 15 books, most recently Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State and Twenty Minutes in Manhattan.