She has a bachelor’s degree in urban planning and a master’s degree in public art. She has opened her own lecture series named Seeking Unseen at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She is the co-founder of Paleworks, a studio & brand focusing on the variety of producing—in the areas of art, architecture, and design. She established urbanbacklog, a blog based on visual impressions about the cities. Her profession ranges from writing to styling, product design to architectural photography.

Sarah is a Communication Designer and Art Director from Leipzig, Germany. She works at her own Designstudio Mindt, focusing on Visual Identities and Print Design with a love for Interior Design, Culture, Lifestyle and Yoga. She is also Co-Founder of the Apartment102 and hosts Ladies, Wine and Design in Leipzig. Sarah’s work stands for aesthetics and clarity. Influenced by the pure design vocabulary of Modernism that emphasizes the connection between form and function, she tries to refine those qualities within the context of contemporary trends. www.apartment102.de www.ladieswinedesign.com/leipzig

Oliver Montiel, creative and art director based in Barcelona. In 2007, after working for different studios and agencies, he and Olmo García founded Bold, an award-winning branding studio that has worked for clients like the European Commission, Barcelona’s Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA), the City Council of Barcelona, the Government of Catalonia and Mercat de les Flors (European House Dance), among others. His passion for editorial design and packaging has helped him direct his career towards projects that focus on the final product as a piece that will increase the brand image and take it forward. His personal projects include teaching in different design schools, editor for Muster magazine and photography. His work has been exhibited in Lisbon, San Sebastian and Barcelona.

I'm an illustrator from Paris yay

Raul de la Cerda (1988), Mexican industrial designer. Trained as a designer in Mexico, Paris and Madrid, looking to have a proper understanding of design, to produce new proposals in products and spaces, always starting from a concept without forgetting his identity, his context and the essence of each project. In 2012, he became independent and started a design firm with his name, Raul de la Cerda. He has won several awards, like the first place in the category of "utilitarian object" in the National Silver Price "Hugo Salinas Price 2015". He has been in several exhibitions at fairs and museums like Desgin Week Mexico, Abieto Mexicano de Diseño, Salone del Mobile (Milan), Salone Satellite (Milan), Cervantes Academy (Madrid), Zona Maco (Mexico), The London Design Festival (London), The Franz Mayer Museum (Mexico), among others. His inspiration is life, the continuous curiosity about things, travel, art, his family, the people around him, his country; Mexico, his history and the passion and the desire to have to do things different.

British writer living in Barcelona

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Founded in 2015 Girls on Their Way Home (GOTWH) is a studio for art direction & design based in Copenhagen run by art director Kevin Pfaff. Kevins main focus is on art direction, set design and production of photo shoots for fashion brands and magazines as well as brand identity, editorial and graphic design within the field of fashion and culture. Other work has included exhibition and textile design. Recent clients have included brands and magazines like: Maria Black Jewellery, Lehho, Å-Journal and Kinfolk Magazine, just to name a few. Reference comes from a submersion of multiple cultures, which enables a refined perspective when considering vital aesthetic choices. GOTWH are able to maintain relationships with international clients, and are currently consulting with brands in Japan, Denmark, and the UK.

A French creative director in the global village of Amsterdam

Designer & Art Director based in Copenhagen

I'm a photographer from Brazil, based in Berlin. I'm attached to this city since 5 years and I have been trying it out from top to bottom, from inside out. Here are some of my personal highlights.

Hi! My name is Weitong Mai. I am a Chinese-born Canadian freelance illustrator, currently based in London, UK. I had already provided editorial and commercial illustrations for DK Books; Fever-Tree; Moleskines; The National Trust. Feel free to contact me for any kind! :)

Photographer splitting time between New York and Los Angeles

COLOR / STORY Brandi Katherine Herrera is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and translator, whose work in text, image, and sound explores the poetics of space. She is the author of Mutterfarbe, a full-length work of color theory, experimental translation, photography, and poems using Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre as a primary source; and Natürlicher, a chapbook-length work of color theory, experimental translation, and poems (both Broken Cloud Press, 2016); a co-author of MAR, a collaborative artist book + limited-edition chapbook of photography, marrings, and poems (Lute & Cleat, 2018); and the co-editor of The Lake Rises, a Witness Post Series anthology of poems (Stockport Flats, 2013). Her work is held in the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection, Yale University’s Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color, UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Library, University at Buffalo’s Poetry Collection, and Reed College’s Special Collections & Archives, and has been featured in a number of solo + group exhibitions, performance series, and publications, including: the Seattle Art Museum, Cube Gallery, 23 Sandy Gallery, Creative Mornings, Poetry Press Week, Pure Surface, The Volta, Octopus Magazine, The Common, Poor Claudia, Word/For Word, Thru Magazine, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, and Womenspeak PDX.

Arthur Brun, Freelance Graphic Designer, Paris (half of v-a-b.fr)