Madeleine Lithvall is a Stockholm based illustrator and the creative director of M Lithvall; a multi-disciplinary creative agency specialising in the fashion, lifestyle and beauty sectors. With a theoretical and practical background from London, Sydney and Stockholm, she has a comprehensive understanding for the industry. Her work is characterised by humor, craftsmanship and an uncompromising focus on sustainability.

Parasto Backman is the founder of Studio Parasto Backman, a Stockholm based graphic design studio. She mixes commissions with self-initiated projects and her clients include art galleries, theaters, publishers, museums, fashion brands, film production companies etc. A central part of Parasto’s work process is about illuminating power structures in order to broaden the palette of graphic design and create space for other forms of expression, logics and references within the field. To go beyond Eurocentric traditions of thinking and making is her consistent baseline in all kinds of project attained. Since a few years back Parasto is also a Senior Lecturer of Visual Communication towards Graphic Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Craft & Design in Stockholm.

Mozambican author, illustrator and film production designer. I live in Stockholm, where I work for The New Yorker, New York Times, and where I write and publish my own stories. I'm an art director at heart.

French artist and curator based in Stockholm and Paris. Founder of Half Of Venus online Gallery and Super Arts Gallery. Her personal work has been bought by the National Art Collection in France, the Design Museum Neue Sammlung in Germany and the Institute for International Cultural Relations of Germany. emilievoirin.com halfofvenus.com

A Stockholm-based photographer and founder of Period. - periodzine.com -  a photography zine that focuses on female narratives by female-only contributors.