Author ; Steve Baker – Independent consultant.
Co-Founder of Tomato , London, UK. CEO, Steve Baker Management Ltd.
Has worked in Artist management for over 30 years; initially in the music industry and later in the fields of international design & creative ideation. He was Managing Director of Tomato from its inception in 1991 until the start of 2004 when he resigned to move into a consultative position and to pursue personal creative goals. He advised the Government of Sapporo, Japan about stimulating creative economic activity which resulted in the Ideas City initiative. He also advises small creative companies and individuals in Japan, USA and Europe and runs a free practical advice website for Creativity in Business in English and Japanese. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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Contributors;
John Warwicker–le Breton – Co-Founder of Tomato , London, UK
Advisor to the Demos Think Tank/British Government on the Creative Industries. External Assessor at PhD and M.A. at the Royal College of Arts and Central St. Martins (London) and External Assessor at B.A. to numerous colleges around the U.K. He has lectured and exhibited in numerous countries in Europe as well as in Brazil, USA, Australia, Japan and Turkey. He is member of the British Council’s Design Advisory Committee and has received numerous awards in the UK, USA, Australia and Europe for his design and film work. He was included in the first Seoul Design Biennale (Typojanchi) as one of the typographers of the 20th Century and is the first foreign member of the Tokyo Type Directors Club. His work has been published in over 100 books and magazines across the world. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Andy Cameron – Creative Director, interaction design, Fabrica , Italy.
Created the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster. Co-founded the influential London based antirom design collective in 1995. As a partner at antirom he collaborated on major interaction design projects with commercial clients and arts institutions, won D&AD and BIMA awards for interaction design, and published two essays – ‘Dissimulations, the Illusion of Interactivity’ and ‘The Californian Ideology’ (with Richard Barnbrook). He co-founded Romandson Interactive Design studio in London 1999. In 2001 joined Fabrica, the Benetton research centre in the Veneto, North Italy, where he is responsible for the research programme in interactive media as well as guiding Benetton’s online and interactive communication policy. He continues to write about the politics and aesthetics of interactive and networked media – most recently with ‘The Art of Experimental Interaction Design’ for IdN, 2004. He lives in Treviso, Italy.
Toshiya Kubo – Chief Coordinator of the Inter-cross Creative Centre , Sapporo, Japan.
Media producer for Maverick Creative Works. Graduated from the Department of Broadcasting, Faculty of Arts, Nihon University. Experienced in advertising, gaming and CG production. Executive committee member/producer of the American Short Shorts Film Festival. Engaged in character licensing business as part of the Little Terra Project. Agent/personal manager for Wilson Tang (ILM), the creator of Little Terra. He lives in Sapporo, Japan and travels the world extensively.
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