Gideon Loewy is founder and Director of Strategy and Design of Scandinavian Designer, and was formal Vice-President of Association of Danish Designers (MDD). He is most famous for his work for Bang & Olufsen, Denmark, and for his inspiring speeches. A graduate of The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, his works have received numerous awards including iF (Hanover), G-Mark (Japan), SMAU (Milan) and Innovalue Excellence (Taiwan). Working with premium, international companies for over 25 years, he has also become a branding specialist, and is a consultant to TAITRA. Gideon Loewy is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He is founder of The ThinkingCAPS Institute for Integrated and Holistic Thinking, and of The C-Spot Creativity Centre.

Graduated with a Master of Arts in International Communication in 2002 inspired Joselyn to substantiate personal research in fields related to International political economy and Communication. Aside from participating in academic dialogues, having been based in Hong Kong as a Creative Head for a content provider company that specialises in global branding; some of the projects she has worked on were award winning portals included MTV Asia, Asia E!Online, CNET Asia, ELLE Hong Kong, British Telecoms, Moet Hennessy and Sun Microsystems. Having worked in reputable creative firms in Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore for over 10 years, Joselyn’s exposure to diverse cultures has served her well in her course of work. Her role as Programme Leader has seen her strength in the management of the Design Communication Team, overseeing the teaching developments of the programme team through her organisational skills and versatility in meeting the needs of the programme since her appointment.

Professor Peter Won-jae Choi graduated Academy of Art University in 1995. He joined Visual Communication Design Department at Dankook University, in 2002. He is lecturing in 3D Design and New Media Design. Since 2009 he is an advisor of Event for Guest of the State Office of The President Republic of Korea, Korea-Russia Treaty of amity 20year Anniversary Motion Picture Art Director (2010), Board Menber of Dangjin City Development Committee, Board Menber of Chungnam Province Design Committee and Board Menber of Cheonan City Design Committee working as a member of advisory committee at the Blue House (National guest ceramony, President Office). Also he was a motion picture director for 2010 Korea-Russia 20 years Amity Anniversary commemorative ceremony (Bolshoi Teatr, Moscow, Russia) He wrote theses such as 'A Study on the Web Usability Design for Login System' and 'A Case study on the Motion Graphics in Microsite'. Also he wrote a book ' production of Mutimedia Contents'.

In exploring the pattern on Insects -peculiar spot, beautiful color combination and texture - Mario Ho uses these living creatures near us to illuminate findings from such diverse filelds as Visual Art, Color Indexing, Textile Design and more. He not only sharing with the ideas of Visual Design from Nature , but also encouraging and teaching students how to branding and marketing themselves with new marketing ideas and using digital creation tools to create Digital Portfolio. For many years, Mario Ho has dedicated to multimedia application, helping faculty and students finding a sort cut to create their own digital production with no limitation

President of the animation festival “kinetoscope”, he became an honorary professor for the advanced course of animation director at the Animation School of Beijing Academy. He studied fine arts at “les beaux-arts de Valenciennes” in France. Then, influenced by the Japanese literature, he went to study Japanese culture which made him leave France for Japan. He passed more than a decade in Asia, specially Japan and Taiwan refining his comprehension of art in given societies. His substantial research in the understanding of the media in the arts brought him from pencil, to computer animation. He has become an illustrator, a creative director, a producer, a director and a teacher. He worked on TV series, TV shows, as well as live action and animated film in Taiwan but also in Europe. Considered as an autodidact, his unorthodox experience has inspired many people.

Location: CYUT campus Taichung City, TAIWAN.

Date: June 11, 2011 Organizer: Visual Communication Design, CYUT