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Krzysztof Lenk and Paul Kahn
Krzysztof Lenk holds an MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (Poland) and was an IBM fellow at the IDCA Conference in 1983. Since 1982 he has been a professor at Rhode Island School of Design.

Paul Kahn has an English Literature degree from Kenyon College. He began working with text processing systems at Harvard University in 1977 as an analyst and production editor. He was an application specialist for communication software for Atex, Inc. In 1985 he moved into hypertext research at Brown University’s Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) serving as Director from 1990-94. He teaches at Rhode Island School of Design.

Krzysztof Lenk is Director of Design and Paul Kahn is President of Dynamic Diagrams, an information design firm specializing in the mapping of knowledge and the presentation of information on the computer screen. Since its founding in 1991, d/D has worked with major companies in the fields of hardware (IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc., Sun Microsystems) and software (Microsoft, Netscape Communications), publishing (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Nature, McGraw-Hill, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck), and financial services (Merrill Lynch), creating visualizations of information collections, and web site architecture and design. Dynamic Diagrams became part of Cadmus Communications in 1999.

Acknowledgement: Ryutaro Sakai. Born and educated as a designer in Japan, Ryutaro is now a Graduate Program student at Rhode Island School of Design.

E-mail: lenk@dynamicdiagrams.com / paul@dynamicdiagrams.com.
Web site: www.dynamicdiagrams.com.

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