Born in the UK, Barratt began his career in 1990, working as a product designer at Exatiss Concept Design in Paris, France. After nearly five years of product development and international business relationship management in France—having experiencing an initial taste of both the highs and lows of French design consulting—he moved to Philips Design in Holland. At Philips, Barratt worked under Stefano Marzano, learning how to design at a truly world class level; the move proved to be a career defining step.

Barratt spent five years at Philips, holding leading positions in their Hong Kong, Eindhoven, and New York Studios. In his final role, as Strategic Design Manager, Barratt’s focus was twofold: to establish and implement a coherent brand language across Philips’ ranges of telecommunication products; and to initiate, mentor, and implement a future-focused Ideation Process for the burgeoning mobile phone market.

Barratt’s global experience and both operational and strategic roles at Philips Design facilitated his move to Teague in 1999; he also credits his work at Philips with the discovery of his true passion – building, leading and inspiring great teams to achieve extraordinary results.

Scott Wilson is an accomplished designer experienced in developing iconic, industry leading products. His alternating experience within three consulting firms and four global corporations has provided him with the skills necessary to navigate through corporations and industries consistently delivering compelling consumer concepts to market.

A former Global Creative Director at Nike and Design Director at Motorola, Wilson's work has spanned dozens of brands and a wide variety of industries. His work has been exhibited in museums and competitions including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, MOMA, MCA and Chicago Athenaeum. His products have appeared in countless magazines and graced the covers of many international journals and volumes. He has been profiled in Intramuros, ID Magazine, INNOVATION Magazine, ELLE Decor, the reddot Yearbook, Metropolis, Monitor Magazine and many others. In January of 2000, Wilson was profiled when ID Magazine selected the Top 40 Designers under 30. And in October 2006, Fast Company selected Wilson as one of their Masters of Design.

Over the past 6 years his work has received wide recognition around the globe collecting over 40 international design awards from organizations like IDEA, ID Magazine, iF, reddot, and D&AD. More important than accolades from his peers and the design press however, is the fact that his designs consistently are market successes and are cherished by users, the only opinions that truly count.

Burnie's work for GT Bicycles, Molson beer, the launch of MINI, IKEA and several other clients has left him with a ton of awards from basically every award show that exists. More importantly, the work worked and has been talked about in Time, Newsweek, New York Times, 60 Minutes, ESPN Sportscenter and countless other media channels. During his time at CP+B the agency has been named Agency of the Year four times.

Today, Burnie is a co-creative director on the Coca-Cola Zero, ask.com, Shimano, Giro and Bell Helmet accounts. Burnie is also a teacher at the Miami Ad School and has lectured around the world. His latest project is the year and half long creation of Hoopla, the first ever book about Crispin Porter + Bogusky - in book stores now.

Chris is the founding director of Gravity Tank and also leads the Human-Centered Product Design track at the Institute of Design (ID) in Chicago.  He has over fifteen years of experience helping some of the world’s most influential companies change the way they develop new products and services.  At the Institute of Design, he educates a new kind of design professional – one with the potential to work throughout an organization to lead initiatives that improve the customer experience and the bottom line.  At Gravity Tank, Chris has helped companies like Office Max, Goodyear, and Samsung work differently to define and launch successful new products and services. Chris holds a Master of Science of Design degree from ID and an engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Chris is a regular contributor to design conferences and competitions worldwide and was the 2006 Chair of the IDEA/BusinessWeek Awards.

Megan McGinley and Max Erdenberger are creatives at Brand New School in Los Angeles. With offices in New York and Los Angeles, Brand New School is a bicoastal directing collective working in all fields of commercial art. Ever evolving, the studio continues to cultivate a sense of wonder and exploration.

In the past twelve months, directing commercials for VW, Toyota, Target, Vodafone, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and EA Sports, Brand New School has worked with agencies such as Arnold Worldwide, Wieden+Kennedy, TBWA\Chiat\Day, DDB and JWT. The company has also helmed viral ads for VW, Budweiser, and Adidas. On the music video front, BNS’ clips for The Polyphonic Spree and Muse each earned MVPA nominations with Muse “Hysteria” taking home the MVPA for Best Visual Effects of 2005.

Brand New School has won numerous awards from organizations such as the Art Directors Club, the D&AD, the AIGA, the MVPA, the BDA, and the Type Directors Club (TDC). The company has given lectures and presentations across the United States, as well as in Brazil, Australia and Germany. The work of BNS has been published in publications and books in the UK, the US, Japan, France, Germany, South Korea and Brazil. With its expanded staff and horizons, for its artists and clients alike, BNS represents an opportunity to play at work, to conduct experiments in image-making, and to feed the inspiration that drives the industry.

Designer, inventor, entrepreneur and educator, Scott Klinker is passionate about giving form to new cultural ideas. He heads the graduate 3D design program at the world-renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art as Designer-in-Residence, where he also received his MFA in 1996. After years of designing in larger corporate contexts - as an in-house designer at Ericsson, and as senior staff at IDEO - Klinker ventured to Japan in 1999 to lead a product design program at the Kanazawa International Design Institute and founded his independent studio, Scott Klinker Product Design - focused on developing licensed designs for contract furniture, household goods and toys. He moved his practice to Cranbrook in 2001 and began to build partnerships with small, design-driven companies that shared his passion for innovation. In 2004, Scott’s Spaceframe Builder’s Kit for Offi & Co. was selected by Fortune magazine as one of the top 25 products of the year. In 2006, following his first solo exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum, he was featured as one of Newsweek’s annual ‘Design Dozen’ best new designers. Meanwhile, Scott has been busy organizing and curating exhibitions to promote Design in Kanazawa, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Milan. As an active agent in education, culture and commerce, Scott is building new works, connections and discussions to inspire design culture in America and abroad.

Klinker’s work ranges from the theoretical and experimental to the professional and pragmatic. He claims that ‘Design is best when it is a disciplined process that can choose it’s context.’ He takes great interest in that tension between the imagination and reality, where the imagined is made physical and then confronts an audience, an industry, a market. Therefore, his ideas develop as cultural research first, and then some of these experiments are developed into marketable products with industry partners. For example, his experiments with new production technologies like CNC milling to produce furniture attracted the interest of Context Furniture Inc. who now manufactures and markets Klinker’s Truss Collection made entirely by digital automation. Scott’s experiments with recycleable PET fiber lead to the design of the Spaceframe Builder’s Kit, a large-scale construction toy now made by Offi & Co. His Icon Vending Machine proposed new ways of thinking about mass customization by turning new 3-D printing technologies into a production-on-demand scenario. While Klinker’s work suggests a playful approach to ideas, each of his projects looks carefully at contemporary materials, technologies and social needs to define relevant design problems.