FAB 2008 Jurors

Randy Brown, FAIA

Randy G. Brown, FAIA, of Omaha, is an architect who has never forgotten his roots, says his former high school architecture teacher. Now the owner of award-winning Randy Brown Architects, Inc for over 10 years, his practice challenges traditional architecture conventions and aims to incorporate innovative, community-oriented, sustainable design techniques into the typical Midwestern landscape. Mr. Brown was honored to receive the AIA National Young Architect Prize in 2002. In addition, his work has been awarded several national awards, including a 2005 AIA National Interiors Honor Award, a 2002 AIA National Honor Award for Architecture, an AIA National Honor Award for Interior Architecture for his own studio/residence (1999), and a Business Week/Architectural Record Award (1997). Mr. Brown's studio has also received 16 AIA Central States Honor Awards, 27 AIA Nebraska Honor Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes from media organizations worldwide.

John Mack, FIIDA, AIA

John Mack, AIA, IIDA, is a Senior Design Partner and Director of Interior Architecture at HLW, an internationally recognized Architecture, Interior Design, Engineering and Planning Firm, headquartered in New York City.

As director John leads a group of more than 100 architects and designers across studios in New York and several offices worldwide. He is responsible for its design vision, quality and culture.

His work has won numerous national design awards including the Business Week Architectural Record Award for SAP's Global Marketing Headquarters in New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

He is the current President of IIDA, International Interior Design Association.

Suzanne Tick

Suzanne Tick currently heads up Suzanne Tick Inc., specializing in material development for commercial and residential interiors, including textiles, hard surfacing, carpet, woven metal screens, and lighting. Her clients include KnollTextiles, with whom she has worked since 1995 and where she is currently responsible for a majority of the vertical fabrics produced every year. In 2000, Suzanne invented a new breed of hard surfacing for KnollTextiles called Imago. It was the first time that fabric had been embedded in a high performance resin, effectively extending the range of textiles into the building materials market, and launching an entirely new material product category.

Suzanne Tick and her work/life partner Terry Mowers formed Tuva Looms Inc. in 1996. This award winning company specializes in a sophisticated collection of woven carpet for the architectural and design community.

In the fall of 2005 Suzanne and Terry were hired in the commercial furnishing industry to oversee the design management, product design, and creative direction for Tandus, a carpet company representing C&A, Monterey, and Crossley. Suzanne and Terry develop product strategy, create vision, oversee all new product development, and direct the staffs for all three brands to create new floor covering products for all market sectors. For the past three years Tandus has won Best of Neocon Gold awards for their contribution to the Tandus Collection.

Suzanne Tick Inc. has also claimed Gold Awards for the past three years for KnollTextiles.

In 2002, Suzanne collaborated with Harry Allen to explore the use of woven fiber optic fabrics as light sculptures. This series of designs won a 2003 award from ID magazine. A selection of these fiber optic lamps was featured alongside Tuva Looms and KnollTextiles products in "Design Life Now," the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum's 2006 Triennial.

Over the years, Suzanne has been design director, and/or created product for several high profile contract and residential fabric and carpet companies including Interface, Inc. and their Bentley and Prince Street brands; Boris Kroll; Tufenkian; Brickel Associates; Unika Vaev; and Groundworks, a division of Lee Jofa.

Suzanne has received numerous awards and participated in several museum exhibitions with her work. Most recently, she was one of ten inaugural recipients of the 2006 Women in Design award.

Suzanne Tick received her B.F.A. in woven design from the University of Iowa and an associate degree in Applied Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology.