Illustrator based in Berlin

Graphic designer & director based in Berlin

Joa is the founder and owner of Studio Joa Herrenknecht - a design studio and consultancy based in Berlin. The studio works on accessory, lamp and furniture design objects. Clients include DWR, Bolia DK, Warm Nordic, MUNK Collective and others. Besides working on product design projects the studio also works on packaging and spacial design projects. The award winning Studio was founded by Joa Herrenknecht 2012 and has been named one of 50 best studios in Germany by AD Magazine and L'Officiel Paris. It is also published in the book 'Best of German Interior Design' by Distanz Verlag, 2017. Slowly establishing itself in the creative German design scene.

She has a bachelor’s degree in urban planning and a master’s degree in public art. She has opened her own lecture series named Seeking Unseen at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She is the co-founder of Paleworks, a studio & brand focusing on the variety of producing—in the areas of art, architecture, and design. She established urbanbacklog, a blog based on visual impressions about the cities. Her profession ranges from writing to styling, product design to architectural photography.

Marc Philip van Kempen (1979) is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam and Berlin. Much of his practice consists out of life-sized threedimensional reconstructions of media images that result in a kind of ‘spatial collage’. His work brings elements of photography, sculpture and new media together in unconventional ways, challenging the viewers perspective.