Designer

Marco Oggian has wanted to be illustrator since he was just a little kid. Describing his style as “simple, strong, a five-year-old could do better”, it seems that a lot of that energy has stayed with him. Although most small children don’t quite have Marco’s client base, there’s definitely more than a touch of the playful to the Italian illustrator’s colourful approach. But his simple shapes and bright colours are often deployed to highlight more serious issues, from the environment to the war in Syria. Born in Italy but now based in La Coruña in Northern Spain (for his “lovely girlfriend and of course tapas and beer!”), Marco is largely self-taught, after being expelled from college pretty-early on. Ever the optimist, the young illustrator frames his departure from formal education as an opportunity for self-study and to gain life experience. “Since I had the chance to start working earlier than my peers, I have already done a lot of interesting things: travel, give talks, put on exhibitions and performances – all this is incredible,” he enthuses.

Mexican director based in London

Magazine Art Director and Barista.

Qingyu Wu (Q) is an award-winning designer, krautrock lover, and cult film dedicated fan based in New York City. Qingyu holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Type Directors Club (TDC), and China Graphic Design Association (CGDA). Featured by AIGA Eye on Design, It's Nice That, People of Print, Ficciones Typografika, Women of Graphic Design and more. Qingyu received the Golden Award at The A' Design Award & Competition 2018, Gold Award from CGDA 2017 Graphic Design Academy Award, and Certificates of Typographic Excellence Award from TDC 64. She has lectured at the Art Center College of Design, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute.

Phuc was born in Vietnam and raised in Denmark. He has a background as a graphic designer and works in the intersection of design, art and culture. His multicultural background truly comes to life in his works, which is a beautiful fusion of two worlds. Phuc is passioned about Street Art – he creates modern fables with his fabulous figurative tales, which the viewer can reflect upon. Phuc Van Dang’s works are all based on original concepts, with Phucs unique touch of personal style and storytelling. There is a lot of consideration behind every details and in the choice of materials. Phuc has exhibited in New York, Saigon, Barcelona, Tokyo and several places in Denmark.  Phuc has received Statens Kunstråds Huskunstordning and from the State Art Foundation for the exchange of culture between Denmark and Vietnam.

Kati Szilágyi is an illustrator, who is currently living in Berlin, Germany. Part of studio Headquarter & Parallel Universe Collective.

Art director/graphic designer currently living in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Marius Jopen is an art-director, web-developer.

Stephanie is a photography and video artist originally from Michigan. After receiving her MFA degree from Purdue University, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey, and currently teaches art courses there. She loves anything and everything about pinhole photography and focuses on camera building techniques. Her current photographic series explores, in both pinhole and digital photography, the degradation of a small town.

Simone Brewster is a designer and artist with over a decade's experience working across the fields of spatial design, furniture and objects. Her collections explore ‘intimate architectures’- creating objects and spaces that utilise architectural principals throughout. Although a part time university lecturer, she considers herself a constant student.

Brought up in the Cotswolds, Oliver began his photographic education studying photography at the renowned course at Filton Technical College in Bristol. He went on to study film and television at the London College of Printing and has been balancing work in stills and moving image ever since. His first solo exhibition entitled Volte-face will premier at London's Royal Geographical Society in September 2016. Taken over a period of four years, Volte-face is a series of images taken at the world’s most photographed historic sites, buildings and monuments - but looking away from them. To coincide with the exhibition at the RGS a book of the project, featuring an essay by Geoff Dyer, will be published by Dewi Lewis Publishing Ltd. Oliver continues to produce stills portraiture for major broadcasters as well as generating his own projects for exhibition and publication. He cites as key influences William Eggleston, Saul Leiter and Andre Kertesz. He continues to plough a distinctly idiosyncratic path as Director of Photography on feature films as diverse as Clare Kilner’s The Wedding Date, Frank Oz’s Death At A Funeral and Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated as well as experimental gallery-based installations such as Gideon Koppel’s Borth. He remains in great demand worldwide shooting commercials for high profile clients such as Pantene, L’Oreal, La Perla, Ferragamo, Palmolive, Rimmel, Coca Cola, Sony, Guinness, Canon and Cadbury’s.

Illustrator and art director from Brazil, living and working between Barcelona and London.

Frederike Wetzels is a photographer and artist based in Cologne. She was born in 1988 in Itzehoe (Germany) and studied photography from 2007 - 2011 at the University of Applied Arts and Sciences Dortmund and the University of Plymouth (UK). In her artistic work she is mainly focusing on man-altered landscape, its underlying socio-economic conditions and the way the inhabitant lives in and perceives these spaces.

Ozlenen Ozbicerler is a graphic designer from Istanbul who currently lives and operates in Portland, Maine. She studies graphic design at Maine College of Art and works for the award-winning creative agency PULP + WIRE. Her specialty is editorial design, branding and art direction.