Magazine writer, design geek, member of Massage, proud steward of R.M. Schindler’s Walker House.

Grace Danico is a Filipino-American illustrator, designer, and archivist from Los Angeles, California. She art directs Acid Free, a quarterly magazine published by the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, and curates a regular Spotify playlist called Take Care. You can typically find her watering her plants, singing karaoke, or DJing every first Monday at Blind Barber in Highland Park and first Friday at Melody Lounge.

Matthew Brandt (b. 1982, Los Angeles) received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2004 and MFA from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2008. Interested in physicality, process and landscape, Brandt’s ability to stretch the readings of an image, multiplying them both physically and conceptually, speaks directly to his interest in how images loom and meanings shift within a shared visual history. His work is the clever manifestation of a photographic alchemist, satisfying the urge for the tangible, and grounding us in the present. Brandt’s precocious talent has landed him in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Elton John Collection. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Director - Designer - Animator - Thinker - Maker - Lover - Do'er ~ Marc William Smith. New Zealand born, New York sharpened, Los Angeles based. His 20 year career has spanned being trained by ~ and then leading ~ many of the world’s most respected names in visual storytelling craft. The last decade has seen Marc helm Creative Director + Head of Design roles for Oscar, Emmy, and D&AD winning global production studios. Currently serving as freelance Creative Director to the highest bidder.

Seth Armstrong is an artist, born and raised in Los Angeles. After studying painting in Northern Holland, he received his BFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland. He likes to paint flying cars and pretty ladies, among other things. After 9 years away from home, he now lives and works back in Los Angeles.