Rick Banks, is a graphic designer, typographer, publisher and proud northerner. Working under the moniker of Face37 he has helped create some of the world's most loved brands, including EE, Triumph Motorcycles, AXA, British Heart Foundation and adidas. Specialising in brand, book and type design, his work has won numerous awards, including a yellow pencil from D&AD and a TDC from the Type Directors Club in Tokyo. He has been featured in the Creative Review Annual, as well as receiving recognition from the respected Creative Circle, Communication Arts, TDC (NY) and ISTD. His work has been published internationally, and exhibited in the London Design Museum and Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo. His products, such as Type Trumps, have sold worldwide and can be found in respected design retailers around the world, from the Tate Modern in London to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. And his foundry, F37, has released fonts including Bella and Ginger, licensed by global brands such as Google, Selfridges and PepsiCo, with the foundry’s website winning awards for digital innovation in the process. Rick takes an active role in the design community, lecturing on branding and typography around the world, and judging various awards including the ‘Crafts for Design’ category for the 2017 D&AD awards. Even more important to him though is the role that design can play in bettering the world around him, having donated both his time and publishing proceeds towards worthwhile causes for the likes of the Football Foundation and Horwich St Mary’s.

www.lena-burmann.de

Aaron Rinas is an artist and designer working and living in Toronto, Canada.

Director

I'm an illustrator specialized in drawing and painting by hand, mostly portraits. My background is in book design, and I still get immense inspiration from great stories. I work internationally and enjoy collaborating.

MIG

PhD researcher of AI, ethics and factuality;

Guy who works too much. 

Michael Elmenbeck, is a visionary entrepreneur, founder of award-winning night clubs, co-founder of the first e-com site dedicated to street fashion Zoovillage.com in 1998, founder of art and fashion magazine Bon and the creative agency Studio Bon, initiator and co-founder of Stockholm Fashion Week and most recently co-founder of CFHILL Art Space, Scandinavias largest hybrid Gallery in Stockholm.  

Photographer and film maker

Illustrator from Berlin

Graphic Designer from Mumbai, India

Graphic Designer & Illustrator from Belgium, Brussels.

JinSik Kim is a designer who opened Studio JINSIK KIM from 2013 in Seoul, a multiple design studio based on design, sculpture and art direction, after graduating from a Master course at ECAL. I have successfully proceeded collaboration projects with internationally recognized brands, such as Christofle, Baccarat, Bolon, Hermes, Nestle, Wallpaper* magazine, FRAME magazine and Gallery Seomi. Moreover, My works were exhibited in different fairs like Wallpaper* Handmade, Design Miami/, Salone del Mobile, Maison & Objet and New York Design week.

Wolfgang Landauer was born near Munich in 1987. Most of his work is based within the fields of typography and photography. After finishing the Bachelor of Arts in Würzburg he is now doing his final Master degree in Mainz. His last freelance job brought him to New York where he was able to work for the magazine "Man of the World". Besides an internship at the "grafisches Büro" and "liga: graphic design" in Vienna his last trip to New York was his greatest experience so far. Wolfgang will leave Wiesbaden in 2014 and wants to explore a new city for career. His bachelor thesis shows the poetic way of his designing. This final publication is made in the form of an oversized broadsheet newspaper. Just cast an eye on his portfolio!