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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.

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.