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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.

Sarah Hardacre is a visual artist and printmaker living and working in Manchester. Through collage and screen print her works investigate the legacy of Modernist architecture and post-war social housing, viewed through the lens of documentary photography and the public history archive, while questioning the experience of women within the urban built environment, the complex relationship between female bodies, architecture, and space and the construction of sexuality within the man-made world.

Sarah is represented by London based gallery Paul Stolper and her works are included in the collections of the British Museum, British Council and private collections including Damien Hirst’s Murderme and Luciano Benneton’s Imago Mundi collections.

Pioneering interactive media and emerging digital technologies since 1988. Currently focused on engaging consumers at out-of-home locations via context-aware, mobile-optimised apps, web services, wearables, non-visual user interfaces and Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence predictive assistants.  Past personal highlights include web/mobile projects for Boeing, Apple, Universal, Creative Review, D&AD, Contagious, Cannes Lions, Apollo's Children [with Professor Brian Cox] and design/build of web, mobile and on-location media for BT London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. Creatively recognised by BAFTA, D&AD, Creative Review, Time Magazine and Campaign. Voted into the Drum's Top 50 most influential players in Mobile. Regularly seen at Podge. Alasdair is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a fellow at the Royal Institute.

Andrew Renton is Professor of Curating at Goldsmiths. He is interested in the different languages and registers that might be possible in response to the work of art. As a curator his recent concern has been with the ethical encounter with the object, its physicality and context. He has extensive experience and research in contemporary collecting practices.

Roberta Piqueras is a creative and social educator and is the Spain-based curator of the Sustainable Development: Gender Perspectives in Fashion programme jointly produced by MODA-FAD in Barcelona, Design Manchester and the British Council.

Since the age of 21, Roberto has been questioning the foundations of fashion, surviving the mechanisms of the industry made for the masses and creating connections between different continents. In 2015 he left his residence in East-London to return to his hometown, Sabadell, to forgive everything he hated during his childhood and to expand his academic training in social education.

Theo Inglis is a freelance graphic designer, writer and design historian based in Manchester. Currently he is Acting Senior Designer of Granta magazine and lecturing in Graphic Design at the University of Salford. His debut book Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design was published by Batsford in 2019. 

Andrew Ibi is a designer, artist and educator. He is currently the programme leader for the BA Fashion: Design & Communication course at Liverpool John Moores Univeristy. Awarded Graduate of the Year at Middlesex University in 1996, starting his career at Joe Casely-Hanford, Ibi went on to head up menswear design for Burlington and Club Monaco, before launching his own labels. In 2008, Ibi launched the concept space, The Convenience Fashion Store, stocking high-end, luxury womenswear including Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh and Maison Margiela. As co-founder of BOLD (The Black Orientated Legacy Development Agency), Ibi works in partnership with the BFC and the IPF on numerous initiatives focused on inclusion and diversity, intent on changing the narrative around Black British fashion and its contribution to British culture.

Jo Hogan is an Irish graphic artist and designer based in London. She works on a broad range of projects across music, art, fashion and culture. Past commissions include NME, EMI, Urban Outfitters, Toni&Guy, Artrocker and Rough Trade Publishing. Her artworks have been exhibited at Design Manchester, Guinness 5th Gallery, Jealous Gallery, The London and New York Art Fair and in 2020 at ‘Yours Truthfully’ in the virtual world of Lost Horizon. Jo studied Design at DLIADT Dublin and University of Salford. Jo has an MA in Typographic studies from the University of the Arts London. She has also taught studio practice at Goldsmiths, University of London.  Her work is described as “dynamic and innovative, with a unique visual aesthetic” (Liz Farrelly, Onehundredat360°: Graphic Design's New Global Generation).

Paul Hanley was the drummer in the Fall between 1980 and 1985. Since leaving the group he has played and recorded with former Inspiral Carpets singer Tom Hingley and Brix & the Extricated. Hanley's first book Leave The Capital, a treatise on the rise of Manchester's recording industry, was published in 2017. His second, Have a Bleedin Guess, which describes the making of The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour, was published in 2019. In 2021 Paul and his brother and fellow Fall-member Steve began hosting the Fall podcast 'Oh! Brother', interviewing ex-members and fans about their relationship with the group.

James Brown began his professional life as a staff writer on the NME, he went on to create the mens mass market magazine genre with loaded, he has edited GQ, FFT and others and works now as a writer, broadcaster and adviser to media companies. His music and magazine memoir is out September 22.

A northern-gal emerging into the design industry based in and around Manchester. Founder of Proper Talk, a platform which aims to amplify emerging creatives within the design industry, sharing motivational advice and useful resources to inspire them on their career path.

Roy Sharples is the founder and CEO of Unknown Origins, a creative  design studio on a mission to save the world from unoriginality by  unleashing the power of creativity. Providing brand creation, creative  strategy, storytelling, and envisioning solutions for artists,  businesses, educators, and entrepreneurs. Author of "Creativity Without  Frontiers: How to make the invisible visible by lighting the way into  the future." Curator of the community-driven storytelling platform that  provides everyone access to insights and content from creators  worldwide. https://www.unknownorigins.com/

Raissa Pardini is an Italian-borned, UK multi-disciplinary designer  specialised in Digital Typography, Graphic Design and brand focus. She  has been working for many of the most interesting music artists, labels,  art and culture projects around the world. She has been curved her  design passion between Milan, Berlin, London and finally, Glasgow. Her work have just been added to the V&A permanent collection. She mixes old-school typography and colourful details with a contemporary eye and critique.

Studied mechanical engineering at Manchester University (1982-85), then  trained in graphic design. An internship at the Manchester studio  Johnson/Panas led to meeting Peter Saville in 1991 and a life-changing invitation to work under his direction for Factory and the Haçienda.  Later worked independently as a designer for clients including the  British Council and Fedrigoni.

Lea Linin is a self-taught illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. She is often inspired by  the themes of wandering, solitude and life’s simple pleasures. Working  predominantly digitally, she creates meditative and whimsical  illustrations for editorial and products

Scott King is an artist, graphic designer and writer.

King worked as art director for i-D magazine, creative director for Sleazenation magazine, and is a contributing editor to Arena Homme+ magazine. From 2013 to 2016, King was Professor of Visual Communication at University of the Arts, London.

He has produced graphic design work for the Michael Clark Dance Company; Malcolm McLaren; Pet Shop Boys; Róisín Murphy; John Grant; Saint Etienne; Earl Brutus; Suicide and New Order amongst many others.

King’s work has been exhibited internationally, in both commercial galleries and institutions, including Institute of Contemporary Arts, Barbican and Studio Voltaire in London; Museum of Modern Art and White Columns, in New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Portikus, Frankfurt; and Kunstverein Munich.

 Patrick He is a Graphic Designer, UX Designer, Book maker

Andrew is a Designer and Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design &  Course Director for the London South Bank University Bsc Product Design  program. He  currently divides his time between Academia and is principal designer  for the research and development studio for a German medical device  manufacturer.

He studied at Central (St Martins) School of Art and Design and  graduated from the renowned Industrial Design Engineering course in  1990, Prior to his tenure at LSBU Andrew worked in the design and development industry working on a broad range of product typologies.

He has worked for  some of the most respected design consultancies such as IDEO London, was  a design and development consultant at Concord:Marlin lighting and  collaborated with disciplines as broad as DJ’s,  ergonomists, teachers, graphic designers, typographers, architects,  engineers, ‘marketeers’ and entomologists.

Andrew  currently collaborates with Susana Soares on the 'Insects au Gratin'  project and they have recently presented their project 'The future of  Carnism' exhibited online https://climate-2021.com/iwwdn-climate-exhibition/

Creative Director @ www.tuimedia.com and practising digital artist, see: www.britaintakeabow.org. My work explores the perceptions and realities of life in Britain, going against the grain of the hyper-charged stereotypes and assumptions that populate the national discourse.

Brian Cox is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially the Wonders of... series and for popular science books, such as Why Does E=mc²? and The Quantum Universe.

Mat Bancroft is an independent curator, archivist and art director specialising in 20th century pop culture. His curatorial projects include Use Hearing Protection - The Early Years  of Factory Records at Science + Industry Museum - Manchester, Use  Hearing Protection - Fac 1-50 / 40 at Chelsea Space - London, Patrick Procktor – The Last Romantic at  Arts University  Bournemouth and True Faith - an exhibition looking at the artistic  legacy and influence of Joy Division and New Order for Manchester Art  Gallery and Manchester International Festival. His ​archival work focuses  on the stabilising, formalising and valuing of pop culture archives for transfer to institution and preparation for exhibition. Mat has been art director for Johnny Marr since 2012.’

Dr Harriet Atkinson is a historian of art, design and culture, with a particular interest in  the uses of design for propaganda and protest, nation building and  diplomacy, from the 1930s to the present day.  She leads the research project '"The Materialisation of Persuasion": Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance,  1933 to 1953', which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and will result in two books, a film and a podcast series. She co-leads the research strand on Graphic Design Histories at  University of Brighton's Centre for Design History.

Muiz is an artist, designer and art director specialising in bi-lingual Arabic and Latin type, branding and publication design. His  practise develops radical new aesthetics that are inspired by the  centuries to millennia old work of master crafts people, from calligraphers and potters, to architects and armourers across the Middle  East, North Africa and Asia. Proudly born, raised and educated in Manchester, Muiz has represented his home town on the international  stage, working with Bruno Maag, Erik Spiekermann, Huda Smithsjuzen  AbiFares, and clients including Audi, Bloomsbury, Foreign Policy, Hermès, Qatar Museums Authority and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Wendy Wong is an illustrator, originally from Manchester, now based in London. She studied fashion textiles at the University of the Arts London, graduating with honours in 2014. Inspired by awkward body shapes, cartoons and her own life experiences, Wendy's illustrations could be described as silly, low-brow, sometimes irreverent but always full of joy, humour and positivity. Featured in: Pit Magazine, Refinery29, Digital Arts Magazine, Fuse Magazine, Popshot Magazine and Creative Boom.

Luke Tonge is a graphic designer, lecturer, and events wrangler in Birmingham. He specialises in identity & editorial work for brands, agencies and charities. As an introvert he finds it ironic to now spend most of his time on some sort of stage. He's a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University and co-director of Birmingham Design, the organisation responsible for the Birmingham Design Festival. 

Ian Swift is a graphic artist, typographer and designer who has become recognised for his pioneering and maverick approach within contemporary British graphic design. Swift was one of the first designers in the UK to embrace the Apple Macintosh’s potential as a design tool whilst studying at Manchester Polytechnic in 1985. This new digital approach attracted the attention of Neville Brody and in ‘86 Swift subsequently joined the design team at the eighties style bible The Face magazine before becoming art director of its sister magazine Arena two years later. He also was senior designer at Neville Brody Associates from 1998-1990.

For nearly two decades he was art director of Straight No Chaser (SNC) ‘the magazine of world jazz jive’, which became a vehicle for his hybrid design techniques and radical page layouts and later for his own bespoke font creations. SNC magazine became the centre of the emerging jazz dance scene and two decades on retains its global reputation as a black music journal, recently publishing its 100th issue.

In 1990 Swifty Typografix was founded in London’s Hoxton Square where his studio began creating logos, label identities and record covers for a growing client base including Talkin Loud, Island Records and MoWax Recordings.

One of the new breed of designers to embrace typeface design and the democratisation of font production, Swift launched ‘Typomatic' in 1997 as the UK's first independent Font foundry to showcase his font designs including Dolce Vita, Cut it Out and Coltrane. Typomatic will be re-launched this year with old and new fonts, remastered in ‘open type’ format.

‘The Graphic Art of Ian Swift’ (volume one) published in 2018, covers hybrid design work of the 1990’s illuminating his techniques, working roughs and mechanical artworks from the cut and paste days up to the millennium  Volume 2 has just been released, with a focus on more recent and personal projects from the last two decades including clothing and apparel, paintings, wall art, print and silk screen editions.

Swift’s current practice reflects his enduring interest and commitment to type, typography, lettering and font design and a return to earlier experimental graphic processes fusing materials and techniques and combining analogue and digital skills to create innovative artworks and print editions.

Graphic Designer Nico Sharpe

Dani Molyneux is a typographic artist and designer. Her experience is  extensive — she has worked for leading creative agencies across the country for a diverse range of clients. From corporates + mega giants to  indies + arts orgs. She’s art directed international photo shoots and  created award-winning campaigns. After working everyone else’s way, Dani  wanted to work a different way. She launched Dotto® in 2017 to make meaningful work with good people. People who have something to say, and  want to say it loud. Dotto is community, collaboration and taking up space. Powerful messages through playful type.

Johnny Marr first achieved fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of The Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. He has since performed with numerous other bands and embarked on a solo career.

Having released an album titled Boomslang in 2003 under the name Johnny Marr and the Healers, Marr released his first solo album, The Messenger, in 2013. His second solo album, Playland, was released in 2014, followed by a third, Call the Comet, in 2018. Marr's autobiography, Set the Boy Free, was published in 2016.

Voted the fourth-best guitarist of the last 30 years in a poll conducted by the BBC in 2010, Phil Alexander, editor-in-chief of Mojo, has described Marr as "arguably Britain's last great guitar stylist". In 2013, NME honoured Marr with its "Godlike Genius" award, hailing him: "Not content with rewriting the history of music with one of the world's greatest ever bands, the Smiths, he's continued to push boundaries and evolve throughout his career, working with some of the best and most exciting artists on the planet."

Neeraj Kainth is a Graphic Designer who works across a range of  disciplines including Brand Identity, Print and Editorial. Neeraj is a  member of his local design scene in Birmingham, organising and hosting various creative networks and events such as Birmingham Design Festival and Fuse Birmingham.

Mary Hemingway is a graphic designer and founder of  platform DesignbyWomen. With a background in both surface pattern and  graphic design, Mary’s work combines her love of colour and pattern with  experimental use of layout and typography. She specialises  in creating visual identities and editorial design for creative  agencies, individual brands and public sector organisations.

After noticing how few women were celebrated in the design world at events and award ceremonies, she started DesignbyWomen in June 2020, as a self-initiated lock-down project. The platform aims to celebrate,  showcase and inspire women, marginalised  genders and gender non-conforming creatives currently working in the  design industry. Through celebrating work and sharing insights and  stories, Mary hopes to encourage collaboration, provide visibility and  greater inclusion for women creatives at all stages  in their careers.