Born in Vienna 1964, MA in Business Administration, has a 10 years management background in a Japanese company of the digital imaging business, first as a Product Manager in Eastern Europe and later as Marketing Director in Austria before he founded hi-pe.at in 1999. The company‘s work applies information design in project branding and navigation. Martin is board member of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) as well of BEDA and teaches Information Design at the Sigmund Freud University for Psychology in Vienna and at the Danube University in Krems, He enjoys being part of the European Design Award jury and has a passion for Japanese aesthetics Italian espresso.