About Kameelah Janan Rasheed

A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species, states of living, states of consciousness, and substrates. Curious about the poetics and possibilities of loss, ruin, and failure in the reading and writing process, Rasheed is interested in Black knowledge production and fugitivity. She creates sprawling, “architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints; performances; performance scores; poems; video; and other forms yet to be determined. She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union and Barnard College, a Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study, a consulting business that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions in designing expansive and liberatory learning experiences.

 kameelahr.com/
 @kameelahr

About Osmond Tshuma

Osmond Tshuma is a co-founder of Mam’gobozi Design Factory, a playground for creativity, freedom of expression in different forms. The creative studio was founded in 2016, its main focus; to showcase and pave way for African design as international design.

 mamgobozidesign.com
 @mamgobozi

About Luiza Dale

Luiza Dale (b. 1988, Rio de Janeiro) is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores (1) how live performance happens in print and digital reproductions and (2) visual representation that pushes against norms of clarity. Luiza designs independently, co-runs the studio The Aliens, and publishes as Quickbooks. She is Lecturer at the Yale School of Art and Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, and Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design. Luiza is currently graphic designer in residence at ISLAA (2023–2024). Starting fall 2024, she will be Assistant Professor at VCUarts. Luiza holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art where she was awarded the Charles Sawyer Prize.

 luizadale.com
 @daleluiza

About Tala Safié

Tala Safié is a graphic designer and art director based in Brooklyn. She currently works as a graphics and multimedia editor at The New York Times. Previous collaborations include AIGA Eye on Design, Journal Safar, The Smudge, and other independent publications and brands based in New York and Beirut.

 talasafie.com
 @talasafie

About Vera van de Seyp

Vera van de Seyp is a computational designer and educator. Her work explores generative design tools, computational typography, artificial intelligence, and finding systems in chaos. She teaches and gives workshops and lectures about code and developing your own design tools. Currently, Vera is part of MIT Media Lab as a research assistant in the Future Sketches group, where she works on the intersection of AI and graphic / type design tools.

 veravandeseyp.com
 @veravandeseyp

About Zoë Pulley

zoë pulley (b.1993) is a designer and maker who utilizes stuff to surface the seemingly ordinary stories of Black folks through mixed media, typography, and audio. She defines “stuff” as artifacts both physical and nonphysical that may be relegated as unimportant to some—as merely stuff.

Most recently, Pulley has shown work in a group exhibition, Dress Code at the Newport Art Museum and a performance at RISD Museum. Her practice includes ongoing collaborations such as a wearable line inspired by her grandmother called GRAN SANS and a collectively authored publication titled Black Joy Archive. Her work is held in the collections of The Valentine Museum, the Hardvard Radcliffe Institute, and Printed Matter.

She earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015 and an MFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. Pulley is an inaugural recipient of the Rhode Island School of Design Society of Presidential Fellowship and was awarded the Graduate Graphic Designer to Watch by GDUSA in 2023. Zoë is currently an Artist-In-Residence at The Studio Museum In Harlem.

 zoepulley.com
 @zpulley

About Sanchit Sawaria

Sanchit Sawaria is an art director and design generalist with a portfolio of work spanning every form of communication; from type design, branding, and publication design to motion, illustration and 3D art. He graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India in 2012. Since then has worked at Apple Music and Sagmeister & Walsh, and has collaborated with clients such as Google, the New York Times, Absolut, and Samsung. His typographic body of work has been recognised by the Type Directors Club for which he won the TDC Ascenders Award. His work has been featured in publications such as It’s Nice That, Creative Boom and AIGA Eye on Design.

 sawariasanchit.com
 @badjudgeofcharacter

About Chris Lee

Chris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY), where he is an Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department. He graduated from OCADU (Toronto) and the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam), and has worked for The Walrus Magazine, C Magazine, Metahaven and Bruce Mau Design. He was also the designer and an editorial board member of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy. Chris is the author of Immutable: Designing History, which explores graphic design’s entanglements with the development and perpetuation of capitalism and colonialism. It is published by Onomatopee/Library Stack.

 cairolexicon.com
 @cairolexicon

About Jingqi Fan

Jingqi Fan is a Chinese-born Canadian graphic designer and art director. Currently, she is a senior designer at COLLINS and maintains a personal practice focusing on identities, web, and printed matter. Her work is historically informed and concept-driven—balancing distinction with familiarity and an eye for detail with a playful soul. She has been recognized by the Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, Tokyo TDC, D&AD, and the Webby Awards, among others. Her work has also been showcased by industry publications like Viction:ary and It’s Nice That. Jingqi holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis with a minor in Computer Science and is a recipient of the Jeffrey Frank Wacks Scholarship.

 jingqi.work
 @jingqi___

About Rozi Zhu

Rozi Zhu is a multidisciplinary designer based in New York City. With a strong curiosity in technology, she creates experimental visuals and interactive designs.

 rozi.design
 @rozi.525

About Kyle Letendre

Kyle Letendre is a freelance designer based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in lettering, type design and illustration. Like a rhinestoned Swiss Army Knife, their work blurs the lines between type and image and has attracted collaborations with clients such as Target, Penguin Random House, Mercedes-Benz, New Belgium Beer, and Sports Illustrated. Beyond the bureau, Kyle’s love of sharp lines and exaggerated shapes turn into their drag persona, Tomboy, an androgynous fashion sketchbook come to life.

 www.kyleletendre.com
 @heykyle@typo.social
 @heykyle

About M/M (Paris)

Founded in 1992 by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, M/M (Paris) has been defying all forms of categorization for over 30 years. As practitioners of the image, they have together pushed back the boundaries of graphic design through their projects at the intersection of different fields of creation. By collaborating with contemporary artists, musicians, fashion designers and brands, photographers, directors and theatres; and by having redesigned numerous magazines, M/M have been building a visual atlas of the creative landscape since the early 1990s.

 mmparis.com
 @mmparisdotcom

About Andrea Trabucco-Campos

Andrea Trabucco-Campos is a graphic and type designer whose practice utilizes typography and behavior to build transformative visual identities. An active voice in emerging technologies like AI, his work investigates their role in the design process and culture. His output spans the digital to the material, encompassing brand identities and systems, websites and apps, print and editorial, motion and interaction, signage and environmental, and custom typefaces.

Andrea was born in Colombia, grew up in Italy and now resides in New York. He leverages the experience of his own cultural journey to uncover the essence of others’ identities. Andrea was previously a creative director at Gretel and DesignStudio, and is currently a partner at Pentagram after prior stints as a designer and associate partner in the New York office from 2015-2019. Alongside these roles, he has maintained an independent practice for over a decade, designing identities for theaters and film festivals, award-winning books and websites, and custom typefaces for publications.

 trabuc.co
 @trabuccocampos

About Gen Ramírez

Gen Ramírez, a typeface designer and educator based in Guadalajara, Mexico, co-founded Dual Type—a Mexican–Croatian studio specializing in type, editorial, branding, and digital design. His multidisciplinary approach to design has set him on a lifelong exploration of the form and expression of the written word. With a background rooted in sign painting, he’s on a mission to preserve and promote this craft professionally and culturally. Beyond teaching type design and calligraphy, Gen plays a key role in shaping a thriving type community in Mexico, organizing the biennial Letrastica conference in Guadalajara.

 genramirez.com
 @genramirez@typo.social
 @genramirez

About AUTHENTIC

AUTHENTIC (Christina Janus and Desmond Wong) is an image-making and typography practice operating at the intersection of graphics, design, language, ideology, culture, and authenticity.

 authentic.website
 @veryauthentic