Illustrator and animator. Hairy.

Chris Ballantyne’s work focuses on vernacular architecture and observation of the American landscape.  Banal features of suburban and industrial zones are sources for paintings that highlight the quirky and absurd.  Ballantyne states that, “Growing up in a military family and moving to different parts of the country, there was a certain familiarity to the kinds of houses and neighborhoods. They were a series of suburban developments built in separate regions of the country, always on the outskirts of larger cities, at the exit ramps of interstate highways, and all very similar in age and design.  My own notions of space developed out of this cultural landscape which was striving for an indidvidual sense of personal space,  consciously economic, and somewhere between urban and rural.” Dysfunctional structures are flawless in their strangeness, made beautiful through symmetry, simplified lines and flat, subdued colors. Ballantyne eliminates detail to emphasize the subtleties of the way we experience space and our attempts at containment. He extends these concepts further by expanding the imagery of his paintings beyond the picture plane and onto the surrounding walls. “Most of my works involve combinations of various places, drawn from memory. As well, my own interests in skateboarding and surfing altered how I saw  the use of these structures ranging from empty pools, sidewalk curbs, to ocean jetties in a way that tied in to my sense of this larger push and pull between culture and nature.” With shrewd restraint, Ballantyne accentuates the antisocial effects of our built environment with a hint of humor and plenty of ambiguity. A curious emptiness permeates the work of Chris Ballantyne. Graphically rendered buildings, pools, parking lots, and fences take on new meanings and amplified significance, isolated on flat fields of color.

Axel Courtière is a film director and a screenwriter, based in Paris. He likes to mix film and animation. His short film "Delectable you" with Catherine Deneuve has been selected all around the world and won more than 30 prices worldwide. He has collaborated with "Passion Pictures" and now works now with "the Mill" for his commercial projects. He lives in the 11th part of Paris where is currently writing his feature films.

André Cândido is a Lisbon-based graphic designer and coder. Currently, he is living the dream at SuperHi, having previously been at v-a studio and Silvadesigners. In addition to swimming twice a week, he is also an avid reader of independent magazines and a board games addict.

Lotta Nieminen is a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. She has studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Rhode Island School of Design, and has worked as a freelancer in both fields since 2006. After working for fashion magazine Trendi in Finland andPentagram Design in New York, Lotta is now based in NYC, working for design studio RoAndCo. In 2010, Lotta received the Art Directors ClubYoung Guns 8 award and was selected by Print magazine for its annual New Visual Artists review, highlighting 20 international rising designers under the age of 30. Her work has also won honorable mentions at Vuoden Huiput (Best of Finnish advertising and graphic design) as well as in various logo competitions. She has illustrated for the likes of clients such as United Airlines,International Herald Tribune Magazine,Monocle and Bloomberg Businessweek. As an illustrator, Lotta is represented by illustration agency Agent Pekka.

Fatti Burke is an award winning children's book illustrator from Ireland, currently living in Amsterdam. She has been working as a freelance illustrator since 2013 in the editorial, publishing and advertising fields. Her work revolves around the things she loves – food, home, memes, animals and tradition.  Her first three books that she created with her father, Irelandopedia (2015), Historopedia (2016) and Foclóiropedia (2017), were bestsellers in Ireland. She is currently working on upcoming non-fiction children's books with Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury, Gill Books and Nosy Crow.  Represented by Art Associates Amsterdam

I document aspects of life in different appearance forms with photo and filmcamera. Based sometimes in Zurich and Berlin and on the move.

Spanish cinematographer (DoP) Marc Gomez del Moral was born in 1976 in Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona, Spain). He was nominated for Best cinematography at the UK Music Videos Awards 2011, for the Battles video Ice Cream. He studied at ESCAC (Spain), EICTV (Cuba) and attended the Budapest Cinematography Masterclass in 2003 with Vilmosz Zsigmond and Lazlo Kovacs. He's planning to move to London next March with his wife.

Photographer based in Oslo

Product and furniture designer 

Printmaker, designer and educator

Hsiao-Ron Cheng is a Taiwanese illustrator living in Taipei, Taiwan. She attended Taiwan University of Art from 2007-2010, receiving her BFA in Fine Art. Her work alludes to the deformation that physically separates human from plants. The environments and situations that she paints are often of surrealist nature, reminiscent of school, and partly based on phantasy.

Future-facing designer / director

Nathan Metzler is an independent designer specializing in the creation of wordmarks, lettering, and fonts in the development of brands. Collaboration is essential to his work and he regularly partners with agencies to provide custom typographic solutions for projects of all scales. In his free time he can usually be found reading a book, backpacking, or poring over ephemera on the hunt for the funkiest vintage letterforms.

Im a parisian writer photographer and art director