On leaving the Royal College of Art in 1987 Andy Altmann (born 1962) formed the multi disciplinary design group Why Not Associates with fellow graduates Howard Greenhalgh and David Ellis. In over 20 years of experience Andy has worked on projects ranging from exhibition design to postage stamps via advertising, publishing, television titles, commercials, corporate identity and public art. Why Not Associates clients include the Royal Academy of Arts, Malcolm Mcclaren, Pompidou Centre, Royal Mail, Nike, Paul Smith, Virgin Records, Antony Gormley, BBC, Channel 4 and the Tate Modern.

Lupi Asensio (Zaragoza, Spain) and Martin Lorenz (Hannover, Germany) are the founders of TwoPoints.Net. They met in 1999 at the KABK (Royal Academy of Art) of The Hague. At the end of 2005 they moved to Barcelona and in 2007 founded TwoPoints.Net with the aim to do exceptional design work. Work that is tailored to the client's needs, work that excites the client's customers, work that hasn’t been done before, work that does more than work. They describe TwoPoints.Net as a small company that thinks big, as they work very internationally. Besides commissioned design work they teach regulary since 2005 and direct since 2009 the Postgraduate Degree in »Applied Typography« at the Elisava School of Design in Barcelona. Martin and Lupi also write on their doctoral thesis within the framework of the Design Research programme at the UB's Fine Arts Faculty.

Lupi Asensio (Zaragoza, Spain) and Martin Lorenz (Hannover, Germany) are the founders of TwoPoints.Net. They met in 1999 at the KABK (Royal Academy of Art) of The Hague. At the end of 2005 they moved to Barcelona and in 2007 founded TwoPoints.Net with the aim to do exceptional design work. Work that is tailored to the client's needs, work that excites the client's customers, work that hasn’t been done before, work that does more than work. They describe TwoPoints.Net as a small company that thinks big, as they work very internationally. Besides commissioned design work they teach regulary since 2005 and direct since 2009 the Postgraduate Degree in »Applied Typography« at the Elisava School of Design in Barcelona. Martin and Lupi also write on their doctoral thesis within the framework of the Design Research programme at the UB's Fine Arts Faculty.

Ruedi Baur was born in Paris more than fifty years ago. He lives and works in Paris and Zurich and leads the studios Integral Ruedi Baur in Paris and Zurich since 1989 and the Institute for Research in Critical Design »Civic City«. Furthermore he researches and teaches at the »Head« in Geneva and at the »EnsAD« Paris. Baur has various publications by Lars Müller Publishers.

Matthew Butterick is a typographer, writer, and lawyer in Los Angeles. After graduating from Harvard, he worked as a type designer for David Berlow and Matthew Carter. He then founded Atomic Vision, a web-design studio, which was acquired by Red Hat. He attended UCLA law school and became a lawyer in 2007. Butterick is the author of the popular Website and book Typography for Lawyers. His fonts include Hermes FB, FB Alix, Equity, and most recently, Concourse.

Kirsten Dietz is a designer, typographer, photographer and author. With her agency Strichpunkt she has been one of the most successful creative people in Germany for years. She studied at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, is a member of the Type Directors Club New York, of the ADC Germany and of D&AD London. She has collaborated on many books about design and communication, including »The Book of Independence«, »Reporting«, »Finest Facts & Figures«, »It’s a boy, it’s a girl« and recently »Good design is a tough job«. Strichpunkt has collected more than 500 international awards in the last ten years, including the title »Best Agency of the Decade«.

Carima El-Behairy began her journey into the type world with the launch of P22 Type Foundry in 1994. She is a founding member and has been the CFO since its inception. Her areas of expertise include contract negotiations, marketing, financial knowledge, start-ups and the ability to find money. She and P22 hosted Typecon 2008 in Buffalo, NY and helped facilitate the one-day conference “the Business of Type” in 2008 as well in Seattle. She is also a founder of Oracle Charter School, the Charter School Coalition and the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative. With over 20 years of non-profit and corporate experience, she currently sits on three non-profit boards: Planned Parenthood of Western New York; Irish Classical Theatre Company; and Atypi. In addition to P22, she consults on Business Coaching and Evolution, Museum and Educational start-ups, Board Governance, raising Basenjis and overseeing homework for her two boys on a daily basis.

Jeff Faulkner is an award winning brand, web and UX Creative Director/Designer based in Seattle Washintgon, USA. Jeff is currently Creative Director for Xbox, where he guides the brand and UX vision for the Xbox Entertainment Ecosystem. Before Xbox, Jeff's history includes Executive Creative Director for Blast Radius, Artist in Residence at Second Story, Partner and CD at Portland Oregon design firms deepPlay and Parisfrance where he worked exclusively with Wieden + Kennedy and Nike. Jeff has served on several design panels, as competition judge and speaker. He was also Communication Design professor at the Northwest College of Art. Clients inlcude MoMA NYC, Nike, Apple, Starbucks, Virgin, BMW, Gravis and Burton. Jeff's background includes years in the Pacific Northwest music scene, photography, journalism and lots of design. You can get a sense for his personal style and first love, art direction, by visiting his blog http://agiantgirl.tumblr.com.

Maurice Göldner is an independent type and graphic designer. He lives and works in Leipzig. Göldner studied type design at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle (Saale) and at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, where he is currently a master student. In addition to his own research projects, he teaches »Type and Signs« at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. His fonts »Meran« and »Stan« were released by OurType.

Michael B. Hardt is a visiting professor and doctorate candidate at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Design and sustainability are the topics of his research. He was Chairman of BEDA and the Vice President of »ICOGRADA«. In 2002, the National Academy of the Arts in Bergen, Norway, appointed him as a professor. He lives in Northern Sweden. (Picture: Daniel Koebe)

Jessica Hische is a letterer and illustrator best known for her personal projects Daily Drop Cap and the Should I Work for Free? flowchart. Just five years out of college, she’s been named one of Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists and an ADC Young Gun, one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Art and Design, and currently serves on the TDC board of Directors. She has been profiled in many publications, has traveled the world speaking about lettering and illustration, and has probably consumed enough coffee to power a small nation.

John Hudson designs typefaces and makes fonts. As co-founder of Tiro Typeworks Ltd., a digital foundry specialising in custom font solutions for multilingual publishing and computing, he has been responsible for or has collaborated on type designs for Arabic, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Odia, Sinhala, Telugu, Thai, and other scripts. Tiro's clients include software companies such as Adobe and Microsoft, and scholarly publishers such as Brill and Harvard University Press, and the STIpub consortium of scientific publishers.

Nat is a Design Director at the RSA in London, using design to close the gap between our every day behaviour and the future to which we aspire. She is also working on various other digital and art projects. She was one of the founders of Airside and of Three Trees Don't Make a Forest and is currently on the executive committee of D&AD.

Stefan Kiefer was born and grew up on the German island of Sylt. He worked as an illustrator and art director for many famous national and international publishers, agencies and companies before joining Spiegel, where he worked for 18 years, including 13 as cover art director. At the end of 2014, he founded Hongkong Studios in Hamburg. Working in a 400-square-metre large former warehouse, the company is a creative laboratory for graphic design, workshops, art, photography and music.

Joachim Kobuss is a coach and scout for designers and entrepreneurs. DesignersBusiness® is his office for design economy and development. Together with his partners, Kobuss runs the Institute for Design Policy and Development. Both organizations are based in Berlin. (Picture: Uli Kreifels)

Hanif Kureshi is graphic designer/art director from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda. He has worked at Ogilvy & Mather’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai and is currently working for Wieden+Kennedy, Delhi. He loves Typography and is currently working on an ongoing project to preserve and digitize the different styles of street painters in India.

Shoko Mugikura is a Japanese designer based in Berlin. Alongside working on book design projects, she is running the type design studio Just Another Foundry with Tim Ahrens. Her special interest is the historical development of multi-script (Japanese and European) typography.

His early years as a designer were seminally influenced by his close friendship with the constructivist artist Richard Paul Lohse and the graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. This has led to Müllerʼs long-standing preference for straightforward, functional design. Since 1996, Müller has been a partner of »Integral Concept«, an interdisciplinary design group active in Paris, Milan, Zürich, Berlin, and Montreal. In »Integral« Lars Müller designs visual identities for NGOs and institutions focused on cultural, social, and ecological concerns, as well as acting as a consultant in communication. In 1983 Müller started publishing books on typography, design, art, photography, and architecture and, as Lars Müller Publishers, has so far produced some 400 titles. Recently, he has branched out into visually oriented books on social issues, such as human rights and ecology. Many books are initiated and published by Müller himself and most of them have been designed in his own studio. A passionate educator, Lars Müller has taught at various universities in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. In his lectures he calls for a political consciousness and a sense of social responsibility among designers. He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Design since 2009.

Over the years Morag has concentrated on working way beyond the restrictions of 2-D and creates and curates many different types of work including a train as a café, numerous exhibitions, interpreting buildings plus running her own gallery and shop »her house«. Myerscough believes that wayfinding is not purely about a series of signs but as much about bringing out the narrative in the built environment, enhancing the physical experience, it is very important how people feel when they move through a space, if they can move easily almost unconsciously and if you can make them smile and feel happy that is one of the best outcomes. Morag studied at St Martin's and the Royal College of Art. Starting Studio Myerscough in 1993.

Michael Schirner, managing director of the Schirner Zang Institute of Art and Media GmbH Berlin, is creative director, artist, curator, author and professor for communication design at the University of the Arts in Bremen, the Design Academy at the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China. He studied at the University of the Visual Arts in Hamburg under Max Bill, Max Bense and Bazon Brock. In 1968, when the student movement took to the streets to protest against capitalism, Schirner went into advertising and changed the world with his communication ideas. Throughout his life, the author of the book Werbung ist Kunst (Advertising is Art), has strived to break down the boundaries between applied and free art. The creative head of the legendary GGK advertising agency in Düsseldorf, his advertising and project agency and the Institute for Art and Media is one of the most inventive and successful creative figures around today (»The Pope of advertising«). His campaigns have become a highly esteemed art from and have received awards worldwide and influenced the style of generations. Schirner is and honorary member of the Art Directors Club and a member of the Advertising Hall of Fame. The artistic work of Michael Schirner, which is shown in international museums and galleries, includes painting, photography, media art, installations and performance.  In 2010, the House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg presented the artist in a solo exhibition of his works from the media art series BYE BYE, which saw the further development of his well-known photographic exhibition without photos Pictures in our Minds.

Petz is an eco-designer working from Barcelona. Equipped with iPhone and solar bag she fits into the category of »eco-urbanista«, and believes that living sustainable is fun, sexy and possible through good design. Petz delights in designing products but believes that the world has enough chairs and so has set out to designing services and experiences. She also writes for TreeHugger, lectures and organises creative events.

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and musician. He is the Co-editor and Creative Director of lifestyle magazine Lagom, the Creative Director of coffee roaster Colonna, and the founder of typography magazine-turned-book 8 Faces. He was previously the Creative Director of Adobe Typekit and his design work, for clients such as Virgin, Microsoft, Brooklyn Beta, and MailChimp, has been showcased in publications such as Communication Arts, Creative Review, Computer Arts, Page, The Independent, .Net, and Design Week. He lives and works in the countryside near Bristol, UK, and creates electronic music by night under the alias ‘Other Form’. (Photo: Norman Posselt)

Nina Stössinger (b. 1978), type-obsessed designer & overall curious person. Originally from Basel (Switzerland), Nina studied multi-media design in Halle (Germany) and type design in Zurich and The Hague. She has stayed on in the Netherlands, where she is now running Typologic, her studio for type design, typography, and code. Photo: Marina Chaccur

Born in 1950, in order to serve, to create meanings, and to make a difference. Prof. Teunen deals with all corporate matters that are not part of the balance sheet: values, knowledge, impact. He helps cultivate companies, usually in his capacity as a worker and a tool.

Andreas Uebele was born in 1960, studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart, and Art at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. In 1996, he founded his own visual communications agency in stuttgart, and since 1998 has been a professor for Communications Design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Andreas Uebele has been a member of the Type Directors Club of New York and of the Art Directors Club of New York since 2002. Since 2007 he has been a member of AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale. Büro Uebele’s work is represented in dhub disseny hub barcelona, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Chicago Athenaeum, the Museum of Modern Art Toyama and the Museion – Museum für Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst Bozen. (Picture: Jim Rakete)

Designer, co-founder of Metahaven, studio for design and research based in Amsterdam. Teaches design at Yale University, New Haven and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Metahaven published »Uncorporate Identity«, a design anthology for our dystopian age.