Emily Wood is Course Leader for BA Graphic Design, Camberwell College at University of the Arts London. Specialties: Identity and brands, marketing materials, web design, publications, packaging and exhibition graphics for small to medium-sized businesses, charities, cultural organisations and the public sector.
Christoph Grünberger is a German illustrator and designer. He is active in the fields of corporate, interactive and spatial design, with a strong focus on exploring the limits of interaction and desktop applications. Together with Stefan Gandl he is co-author of the book Neubau Modul and collaborated on the exhibition NeubauIsm at gallery MU (Eindhoven/NL) in 2008, which was opened by Wim Crouwel. For the video installation Wutbürger, a co-operation with Andreas Lutz, he received the excellence Award in the Art section at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Toyko in 2015. His works as a freelance designer have been awarded nationally and internationally.
In 1991, after finishing a BA and MA at Central St Martins in London, Graham Wood co-founded Tomato with Steve Baker, Dirk van Dooren, Karl Hyde and Richard Smith (Underworld), Simon Taylor and John Warwicker. He has worked with agencies worldwide including Wieden and Kennedy, Leagas Delaney, Goodby Silverstein, Crispin Porter, Lowes, TBWA, Chiat Day, Abbot Mead Vickers, Saatchi, Dare, Cheil, SapientNitro, CHI and Dentsu. Exhibitions include V&A and MOMA Permanent Collection, MOCA (San Francisco), BFI collection, onedotzero, The Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, Parco Tokyo, LaForet Tokyo, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Jacobson Howard Gallery New York, LEA Gallery London, Scarlett Gallery (Stockholm), AIGA Design Archives etc
Harry Pearce is a graphic designer, accidentalist, eternal optimist and photographer. He studied at Canterbury College of Art. Before joining Pentagram as a partner in 2006, he co-founded and co-ran Lippa Pearce Design for 16 years.
Pearce has worked around the world devising identities, installations, posters, packaging, books and talks for clients as diverse as Liberty, Thames & Hudson, Camden Art Centre, WITNESS, The John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose & Partners No.1, the Royal Academy of Arts, Abu Dhabi cultural quarter, Berry Bros & Rudd, Phaidon Press, Pink Floyd Records, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lloyd’s of London, Shakespeare’s Globe, PEN International, Science Museum and the UN. For Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor, he created identities for their major retrospectives at the RA. His work has been exhibited in New York, Paris, London, Toronto and Naples.
Since 1993 he has been an active member of the advisory board for WITNESS, a human rights charity founded by Peter Gabriel. He is also a committed member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and has spoken at design conferences across the globe including Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, USA, India, Holland and Costa Rica.
Pearce is the author of two books, Typographic Conundrums (published in 2009) and Eating with the Eyes (published in 2015).
Katy Cowan is a Manchester-based journalist, writer, and the founding editor of Creative Boom, one of the UK's leading platforms dedicated to the creative industries. Launched in 2009, the site delivers news, inspiration, insight and advice to seven million creative professionals every year. By exploring creativity through the online magazine, podcast, and the entire network, Katy and her team honour the platform's original ethos: to celebrate, inspire and support the creative community, particularly the underrepresented, offering an inclusive space where everyone feels welcome.
Nigel Aono-Billson is a graphic designer, author and design educator. He has run his own design studio, been a partner in another, and worked for a number of established design studios/consultancies with National and International clients. In the early 90s, he worked as a staff designer at the seminal Dutch design studio, Hard Werken, in the Netherlands.
Alongside his design career, Nigel has taught on a number of BA and MA level, Graphic Design and Visual Communication courses in the UK, America, Finland and Thailand. Plus, contributed to the establishment and validation of several Graphic Design and Digital Design Undergraduate courses within the UK and given talks on his creative practice.
He continues to work with a small range of client/commissioners working primarily within publishing and visual identity sectors, here in the UK and Japan. His current clients include Strangers Press and The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography, Co-director of the Centre for Printing History and Culture at Birmingham City University, and Chairman of the Baskerville Society. With an interest in typographic history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, Caroline has published widely. She is the author of three books, including The Kynoch Press 1876-1981: the anatomy of a printing house (British Library, 2000), Tart Cards: London’s illicit advertising art (MBP, 2003) and Paris Underground (MBP, 2005). With Malcolm Dick she has co-edited John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press, 2017) and James Watt, 1736-1819: Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press, 2020). She contributes to numerous journals and writes regularly for the trade and academic press.
Stephen Mallinder is a founder member of pioneering electronic act Cabaret Voltaire, who are regarded as one of the key influences on contemporary electronic and popular music culture. Stephen has recorded and toured extensively in Europe, USA, Japan and Australia. He continues to record and tour as part of Wrangler, alongside other recent releases under other names Creep Show, Hey Rube, Kula, and Cobby & Mallinder. He has collaborated with a host of artists and musicians including Afrika Bambaataa, Marshall Jefferson, Adrian Sherwood and worked with poet John Giorno and with William Burroughs at the Final Academy in the 1980s.
As an academic he has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and holds a PhD in popular culture. He is currently at the University of Brighton teaching on various arts and humanities courses and managing projects in the arts. In addition he does key notes, panels and guest lectures at a number of universities in the UK and conferences around the world.
Mark helps big companies think like small ones and small companies think like big ones. He works on innovation of products, services and business models; he works on sustainability and company purpose; and he coaches businesses and individuals. He has saved his clients in excess of £140 million per annum through environmental improvements, has increased sales of products by 8000% by introducing circular economy business models and trained over 2000 people in sustainability. He has worked for Nike, SC Johnson, Schweppes, Papa Johns, Heinz, Patagonia, Sportsshoes, Interface, Coca-Cola, Seedlip, Unilever, Hotpoint, Samsung, John Lewis, Fenwick, Teapigs, Bacardi, Diageo, Mars, Thorntons, 3M, Amazon, Panasonic and hundreds of funky little businesses like Propercorn, Teapigs, Hiut Denim, and Ugly Drinks. He was a lead for the RSA Great Recovery programme of Circular Economy and was once the Head of Environment for ASDA. He is a Founding Partner of the Do Lectures and author of two books Do Disrupt, change the status quo or become it and Do Present, how to give a talk and be heard. He is a coach, workshop facilitator and Qi gong teacher. Mark is also part of the reasons to be cheerful team, which he co-founded in in 2020.
Lotte Lawson is a Glasgow-based graphic designer. Originally from North Yorkshire, she lived in both London and Japan before settling in Scotland. Graduating with a First Class degree in 2020, she was also awarded a Commendation from ISTD in the same year.
A designer from a wide and varied visual background, she has a degree in History of Art and was previously a florist, running an internationally acclaimed floral design studio for ten years before deciding to pursue her interest in graphic design.
Lotte is currently working for Studio Texture in London.
Born in 1956 in Sheffield. Formed the Human League in 1978. Formed multimillion selling act Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation in 1980. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totalling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 43 year career to date. Heaven 17 and BEF continue to tour and thrive.
Martyn founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2000 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique 3DAudioScape immersive sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world. He lectures extensively and is Principal of Tileyard Education MA courses, and curates, produces and presents a wide range of world-class arts events. He also hosts a popular podcast series Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware. Martyn has DJ’d his electronic and funk influeneces in sets all over the world.
Martyn is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, a member of BAFTA, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. He is an Honarary DSc at University Of London and is the first ambassador for In Place Of War.
Martyn is proud to be an international activist, helping to fight for the rights of creators and under represented people worldwide.
Graham is Creative Director and Partner at D8, a strategic creative agency with studios in Amsterdam and Glasgow. During his career he has held senior roles at a number of leading international agencies, collecting numerous awards for his work. Graham is active in the international creative community as an awards judge, collaborator, guest speaker and mentor for emerging creative talent. A passionate advocate of Dutch design, he hosts an ongoing series of interviews with some of the countries greatest designers called ‘Dutch Design Heroes’.
Eddy Rhead is a Writer, Magazine Publisher and Social Manager. He is co founded the Manchester Modernist Society in 2010 with the aim of promoting 20th Century architecture in the Manchester region.
Bruno Maag began his career with an apprenticeship as a typesetter at Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerlands largest daily newspaper. He then studied Typography and Visual Communcations at Basel School of Design under Wolfgang Weingart and Andre Gürtler amongst others. After graduating Bruno emigrated to England to work for Monotype where he established their ‘custom type department’, creating fonts for the New Yorker magazine, and others. Recent highlights are fonts for Rio2016, multilingual type for Nokia and HP, and a lovely serif font for luxury hotel brand Faena. He is currently investigating type and emotion, with a special interest in the physiological aspects.
Carl is an award winning filmmaker, photographer, musician and designer with an international profile. He is a producer/ writer and director, and has produced and directed over 30 documentaries for broadcast television, including a RTS nomination. He has also directed award winning short films. He directed the Bill Nighy feature film, Sometimes Always Never (2018) that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and has received critical acclaim and in the UK, Australia and the USA picking up rave reviews in the LA Times, Washington Post and the New Yorker. In 2020 he directed the award winning short film More Than Time (2020).
Rian Hughes is a British graphic designer, illustrator and comics artist, noted for his work on 2000AD, where he illustrated ROBO-HUNTER, TALES FROM BEYOND SCIENE, REALLY AND TRULY and DAN DARE, among others. His work is highly distinctive, wearing its design influences on its sleeve, daring to be two-dimensional and bold in its use of large expanses of flat, bold colours. This stood out particularly during the early 1990s, when British comics were leaning ever more towards fully painted art. Unusually, Hughes preferred to be his ownletterer, and designed several unusual fonts for this purpose.
Since leaving comics illustration, Hughes has become a successful advertising artist, graphic designer and font designer. He runs his own company, Device, with clients including Virgin Airways, Penguin Books, DC Comics, Eurostar the BBC and a range of magazines and newspapers
Beck is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practices are connected through design approaches in typography and print processes, each one informs the other and there is continual play, networks forming and reforming through the experimentation with analogue and obsolete technologies. She is currently a lecturer on the MA Visual Communication programme at Birmingham City University and founder and director of Print Club Birmingham.
Jim fry is a Musician and Photographer. Working in television, music and the arts, and commissioning photography, picture editing and art direction across the media in print and on all contemporary digital platforms. Jim was also a member of World of Twist, Earl Brutus and the Pre New.
David is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon colleges. David was previously Dean of Manchester School of Art, at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has an interest in semiotics and has written for a number of design journals and published a number of self-authored books. This includes three editions of ‘Visible Signs: an introduction to Semiotics’, now a key text in the USA and UK, and 'Left to Right: an exploration of the cultural shift from Words to Pictures’.
Andy Butler grew up in Oldham, Gtr. Manchester where an obsession with sports and music lead him into a career in graphic design and writing. He is currently the Creative Director at Deduce in Mexico City, which develops branding and communication for international brands in the sports, lifestyle and entertainment industries.