Kate Moross (22) is a graphic designer and illustrator based in London where she started working for the music scene, hand drawing flyers and creating unique geometric graphics. She owns and runs a Vinyl-only record label, Isomorph Records, set up to explore further the relationship between design and music. Her achievements include campaigns for Cadburys, Sony, Zune, Ford. She launched her own range of signature clothing at Top Shop. Moross says about herself: “Specialising in work for the Music Industry. As an artist I possess a split personality. I have gained notoriety for my freelance illustration internationally. Having worked prolifically over the last 3 years as an illustrator creating bold psychedelic artwork for clients big and small. I am also however very focused on my personal practice, producing work that explores geometry, psychology and art theory. I like three sided shapes and illegible typography. I am an avid collector of modular toys. I am a workaholic and enjoy the tension between my two practices.”
www.katemoross.com

Emma Thomas (30) studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts, London and Communication Art & Design, a postgraduate programme at the Royal College of Art. In 2003 she founded APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life) together with Kirsty Carter. The focus of their work lies with cultural institutions such as galleries and museums, publishing houses and magazines. Their thoughtful and rational approach to graphic design has established themselves a reputation for deceptively simple and successful projects.
Emma Thomas has lectured and taught, among others, at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art at the University of Oxford, at the HfG Karlsruhe, Germany, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and the Royal College of Art in London.
www.apracticeforeverydaylife.com

Trained as a graphic designer, Luna Maurer (37)works as an independent designer in the field of graphic, interaction and media design in Amsterdam. Her interests lie in technological developments that change our media into fluid digital environments, and in finding design solutions for it. Central in the work of Luna Maurer is the theme “control”. This leads to design methods in which designing the environments and conditions for visualization or creation of content is more important than designing the end product. The structure and the process become an important part of the message.
Her work has been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Het Domein in Sittard, Museum de Paviljoens in Almere, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the London Design Museum.
Since 2004 she teaches interaction design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Maurer gives workshops and lectures inside and outside the Netherlands.
www.poly-luna.com
www.poly-xelor.com
www.conditionaldesign.org

The graphic designer Catrin Altenbrandt (31) studied Visual Communications at the University of Arts and Design Offenbach. Since 2004, she and Adrian Nießler are working on free and applied projects within the areas of photography, illustration, and graphic design. The team received international recognition for their amusing and striking illustrations for magazines such as beef, form, intro, Wired, or neon, which are modeled three-dimensionally from paper, cardboard and everyday objects. In addition their work was shown in prestigious museums and institutions, i.e. ZKM (Karlsruhe), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Museum for Applied Arts (Frankfurt) and Graphic Design Museum (Breda, NL). Furthermore they conceived books, catalogues and exhibition contributions for Birkhäuser Verlag (Basel) and the German Design Coucil (Frankfurt). Their book “Drei D – Grafische Räume” was published in autumn 2008 with Birkhäuser.
www.pixelgarten.de

Kasia Korczak (32) has been interested in design primarily as a vehicle for producing and distributing content, in particular within publishing. She completed an MA residency program at the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, where she started her design collaboration with Boy Vereecken. Together they formed a studio in Brussels working primarily with printed matter and specializing in artist books. In 2008 she received the Grand Prix of the Brno Biennial.
In 2006, Korczak co-founded Slavs and Tatars, an artist collective whose work has been exhibited widely and acquired recently by the MoMA in NY. Slavs and Tatars work across several media, disciplines, and, particularly, registers of culture, both high and low, having as a common thread the stories of Eurasia, both political and personal.
www.korczak-vereecken.com www.slavsandtatars.com

Marije Vogelzang (31) specialized in eating design after graduating from the Design Academy in 2000. In 2004 she founded her design studio and restaurant Proef (which means tasting or testing) in Rotterdam. In 2006 she expanded with her activities to Amsterdam. Today she creates experiences that touch the subject of food “starting from seed going to shit”. Vogelzang builds a bridge between the culinary world and the design world. Besides her design work for, among others, hospitals, museums and restaurants, she works as a consultant for any food-related business and gives lectures around the world. Her work is widely published in New York Times Magazine, Icon Magazine, Wallpaper, Food and Wine Magazine and exhibited for example in Axis Gallery in Tokyo. She recently published a book about her work and philosophy called EAT LOVE.
www.proefamsterdam.nl