David Blatner

Seattle, WA USA

David Blatner is a consultant specializing in InDesign, QuarkXPress and Photoshop. He has authored or co-authored 13 books, including Real World Adobe InDesign, InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, the award-winning bestseller The QuarkXPress Book, Real World Photoshop, Real World Scanning and Halftoning, and QuarkXPress Tips & Tricks. David presents at workshops and conferences around North America and Japan, including at Seybold Seminars, The Photoshop Conference, and Digital Design World.

Diane Burns

San Francisco, CA

Diane Burns is one of the pioneers in electronic publishing, and in 1984 founded TechArt International. TechArt was one of the first Macintosh-based design firms in the country and today is one of the leading firms for print and web design specializing in East Asian languages. She has presented publishing courses and seminars for Stanford University, MacWorld Expo and Seybold Seminars in both the United States and Japan, and is the author of many articles and several books on publishing, including The QuarkXPress Handbook (Hungry Minds/Wiley Publishing, Inc.).

Scott Citron

New York, NY USA

Scott Citron is an international award-winning graphic designer and principal of Scott Citron Design in New York City, specializing in fine book design and corporate identity development. SCD clients include Adobe Systems, Random House, HarperCollins, Insider Software, Tower Imaging, GSL Publishing, Walker & Company, the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, and Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. Scott is also a member of the Art Directors Club and a founding member and current chair of the New York InDesign Users' Group. Scott has also taught graphic design at The New School, Parsons School of Design, NYU, and Fashion Institute of Technology.

Sandee Cohen

New York, NY USA

After a long career in advertising, Sandee Cohen began teaching computer graphics thirteen years ago. She has taught for New York University, New School University, the University of Hawaii, City College in New York, as well as many private organizations. A dynamic and entertaining speaker, she has been a frequent participant at Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and Thunder Lizard events. She is the co-author of Acrobat 5 Master Class as well as author of books on InDesign, Fireworks, FreeHand, Illustrator, and desktop publishing.

Anne-Marie Concepción

Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepción is an accomplished design studio owner, consultant, trainer, author and speaker on all things related to digital design and production. Her Chicago-based firm Seneca Design & Training creates print, web and interactive PDF projects for clients including the Joyce Foundation, the International Housewares Show and LobsterGram. Anne-Marie is also a seasoned Adobe and Quark authorized trainer with clients across the country, recently helping BBDO, McDougal Littel, Loyola Press, Playboy Enterprises and McDonalds Corp. move to Adobe InDesign, often helping them incorporate Adobe InCopy as well. Her free bimonthly e-zine, DesignGeek, with "tips and techniques for the digital designer" is enjoyed by thousands of designers around the world. Visit DesignGeek Central at her studio's web site, senecadesign.com.

Steve Holmes

Sausalito, California

Steve Holmes is an award-winning British designer, and creative director of Energi Design in Sausalito, California. Renowned for his print and web design work, his love of typography is visible in all his work, including motion graphics and animation. Known the world over as Total Training's presenter for InDesign, Creative Suite and After Effects video training series, and as the face-in-the-box for Adobe software training CDs, he also presents and teaches design and animation with Adobe's software tools, on their behalf, at major trade shows around the world. A passionate graphic designer, he has been using InDesign for almost seven years, and is one of the founding members of the San Francisco Bay Area InDesign User Group.

Dov Isaacs

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Dov Isaacs is a Principal Scientist in the Print Workflow Products Group at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has responsibility for workflow and product interoperability issues associated with print publishing workflow products. Additionally, he monitors numerous InDesign, FrameMaker, PDF, prepress, and printing mailing lists and user forums, not only contributing advice and solutions, especially in the area of printing and PDF creation, but also using the issues raised and problems identified as feedback for Adobe product development. Previously, Dov founded Adobe's corporate Product Interoperability Group and also served in other engineering and marketing management positions within Adobe including serving seven years as Director of Quality Assurance for Adobe's PostScript printing products and drivers.

Olav Martin Kvern

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Olav Martin Kvern is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, software developer, and writer. He is the author of Real World Adobe InDesign, Real World FreeHand, and the coauthor of the groundbreaking Real World PageMaker. He is currently the InDesign scripting guru on the Adobe Development Technologies team.

Claudia McCue

Atlanta, GA

Claudia McCue incorporates more than 20 years of traditional and digital prepress production experience in her current incarnation as a consultant and trainer for the graphic arts industry. Claudia's company, Practicalia LLC (http://www.practicalia.net), provides custom onsite training for a national client base of design firms, publications, printing companies and marketing professionals. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and has been fond of InDesign since it was known as "K2."

Gabriel Powell

Gabriel Powell, an Adobe InDesign Certified Instructor, is a contributor to the InDesign Magazine, chair and founder of the Portland InDesign User's Group, a contributing author to the Illustrator CS2 WOW! Book, and will be presenting InDesign seminars with Sandee Cohen later this year. People who discover his classes rave about how easy and fun it is to learn from him. Gabriel is a partner in, and Senior Training Director for Metafusion Training, the Adobe Authorized Training Center for InDesign in Portland, Oregon

Steve Werner

Steve Werner is a trainer, consultant, and co-author (with David Blatner and Christopher Smith) of InDesign for QuarkXPress Users. He has worked in the graphic arts industry for more than 20 years and was the training manager for ten years at Rapid Lasergraphics. He has taught computer graphics classes since 1988.