Sarah is a Communication Designer and Art Director from Leipzig, Germany. She works at her own Designstudio Mindt, focusing on Visual Identities and Print Design with a love for Interior Design, Culture, Lifestyle and Yoga. She is also Co-Founder of the Apartment102 and hosts Ladies, Wine and Design in Leipzig. Sarah’s work stands for aesthetics and clarity. Influenced by the pure design vocabulary of Modernism that emphasizes the connection between form and function, she tries to refine those qualities within the context of contemporary trends. www.apartment102.de www.ladieswinedesign.com/leipzig

Cindy is a painter living in Portland, Oregon.  Cindy captures the good old days in her sentimental paintings of characters from her past.

Global Design - Interior Architecture - Product Design

He is the co-founder of Paleworks Studio which focuses on the variety of producing—in the areas of art, architecture, and design. His multidisciplinary approach creates a base for art direction, identity design, branding, photography, art installations, product, and fashion design. His education started with two bachelor degrees -in textile engineering and graphic design- and was followed up with the Master’s Degree Course in Media Art at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar—where he also worked as a lecturer. His practice gives a range of creative services—from digital, spatial, editorial design to branding & typography. He creates projects in cultural and commercial fields both based on aesthetics and functionality.

Kris is an animation director and designer from Austria, with an MA  from the Royal College of Art. She has a passion for collecting and  crafting beautiful objects, which she uses in her films. Kris lives and works in a beautiful old farmhouse in Hertfordshire.

illustrator / graphic designer Based in Tokyo, Japan.

Alistair Hall is an award-winning graphic designer based in London. He set up his design studio, We Made This, in 2004, and specialises in thoughtful, simple, beautiful graphic design for print. He has made work with clients including Penguin Books, Historic Royal Palaces, Jeremy Tankard Typography, the National Trust and John Lewis.  Alistair is also a co-founder and art director of the children’s literacy charity Ministry of Stories, and its fantastical shop, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies. Alistair has been writing about design and visual culture at wemadethis.co.uk/blog for over ten years. He also teaches at Central Saint Martins and The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design; and has given talks about his practice across the UK and overseas. He’s currently researching a book about London’s street nameplates.

Simona Sharafudinov is an artist living and working in London. Born in Eastern Europe, emigrating to London at an early age she has been a Londoner for over two decades. 

Photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA

Jaehoon Choi is Seoul based graphic designer. He mainly creates identity system for brands and institutions, promotional and printed material design for cultural events and art exhibitions.

I’m Verena Michelitsch, an independent designer and art director from Austria by way of New York City. I specialize in conceptualizing and creating unique visual expressions, spanning graphic design, art direction, illustration, pattern, editorial, and digital design. I’ve had the pleasure to work with an array of international studios and clients, including Apple, Nasa/JPL, Facebook, Red Bull, The Smithsonian and Opening Ceremony. I work from my studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Misha de Ridder (1971, Alkmaar, The Netherlands) lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. To search, to disclose and to write with light is what Misha de Ridder does in his landscape photos and videos. He does not seek the comfort zone of the beautiful and picturesque, but of the sublime. De Ridder exhibited at Juliètte Jongma Gallery, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, PhotoEspaña, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, FOAM and The Museum of the City of New York. Photobooks by Misha de Ridder are Sightseeing (2000, De Balie), Wilderness (2003, Artimo), Dune (2011, Lay Flat), Abendsonne (2011, Schaden.com), Falaise (2016, Roma Publications).

Neal Fletcher is a freelance front and back end developer, designer and founder of independent type foundry Cliff Type. Currently based in Liverpool, UK.

Product Designer based in London

Aubrey Nolan is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently writing and drawing her first full-length graphic novel, Listen Along with Izzy McKenna, forthcoming from Rocky Pond / Penguin Teen. Her comics and illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Medium, The Nib, HuffPost, The Stranger, and more. Her work appears in Votes for Women, a comics anthology about the fight for women’s suffrage, and in the humor anthology, Send Help! She is also a teaching artist at The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and has led comics workshops and talks for several universities, as well as AOC’s Homework Helpers program. You can learn more about her in a profile for the The Comics Journal. For book-related inquiries please contact Anjali Singh at Ayesha Pande Literary.