Vela Arbutina, 1978
Vela Arbutina was born in Zurich in 1978. She studied at Central Saint Martins in London and Gerrit Rietveld in Amsterdam and was art director of the fashion magazine Blend in Amsterdam. She then worked as a freelance designer with artists, galleries, designers, curators and institutions, including Christina Li, Adam Szymczyk, Cabaret Voltaire, the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Ludlow 38, NGBK Berlin, Girls Like Us Magazine , Tanya Leighton and the Swiss Institute She has exhibited at the Kunsthaus Baselland and collaborated with PICA, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, in Australia.
Joost Grootens, 1971
Joost Grootens was born in Breda, Netherlands, in 1971 and is a graphic designer, educator and researcher. Based in Amsterdam (NL) and Biel/Bienne (CH), his studio SJG designs books, maps, typefaces, spatial installations and digital information environments. Grootens is Professor of Artistic Research in Visual Design at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, and head of the Master programme Information Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Silas Munro
Silas Munro was born in 1981 and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). In 2014 he founded with Brian Johnson the LGBTQ+ and Minority-owned graphic design studio Polymode primarily working in the cultural sphere. Munro is the curator of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest (Letterform Archive, 2022) and co-author of Black Design in America (forthcoming with Princeton University Press), as well as a faculty co-chair for the MFA Program in graphic design at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2020 he was a jury member and in 2022 a chair for the US design competition “50 Books | 50 Covers” held by the AIGA.
Kajsa Ståhl
Kajsa Ståhl was born in 1974 and is a London-based graphic designer specialising in collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects that involve archives, collections, interviews, and travel and result in books, posters, catalogues, billboards, websites, identities, exhibitions and films. Kajsa Ståhl is one forth of graphic design collective Åbäke (since 2000), and one forth of publishing house Dent-De-Leone (since 2007). After studying a BA with HC Ericson in Sweden at HDK-Valant, she moved to London where she received her MA from the Royal College of Art. Already immersed in the world of architecture, her projects involve collaborations with architects, writers, musicians, fashion designers, artists and curators.
