About Talia Cotton

Talia Cotton is a designer, coder, educator, and leading specialist in the intersection of branding and technology. She is Principal & Creative Director at Cotton, an award-winning design and technology agency pioneering design through data and custom code. Prior to Cotton, Talia led the design and development of data-driven and algorithmic brand identities at Pentagram. Talia has received recognition from major design awards and publications, and was awarded the Young Guns Award, recognizing top creative professionals under 30. She has spoken in seventeen countries including OFFF Barcelona, D&AD China, and the Latin America Design Festival in Peru. Talia teaches coding and interaction design at Parsons School of Design and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

 taliacotton.com
 cotton.design
 @taliasaccount

About Matt Willey

Matt Willey is a graphic designer. He joined Pentagram as a partner in 2020 after 5 years as the Art Director of The New York Times Magazine.

Willey has worked with several of the leading titles in independent publishing, including Port, Elephant, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and the UK Newspaper The Independent. In 2021, he redesigned The Big Issue, the largest street magazine in the world. He is currently the Creative Director and co-founder of the annual literary magazine INQUE.

Willey has developed branding systems and title sequences for a wide range of clients, including the design of the titles for the award-winning BBC series “Killing Eve.

Willey sells his typefaces through the Buy Fonts Save Lives initiative with all proceeds going to Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support.

 mattwilley.co.uk
 @mrwilley

About Jon Key

Jon Key is an artist, designer, and writer originally from Seale, Alabama. After receiving his BFA from RISD, Jon began his design career at Grey Advertising in NYC before moving on to work with HBO, Nickelodeon, and The Public Theater. Now he is co-founder of the Brooklyn–based design studio Morcos Key with Wael Morcos. As an educator, Jon has taught at Cooper Union, Parsons, and currently teaches at SVA. Jon was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style list for 2020 and was the Frank Staton Chair in Graphic Design at Cooper Union 2018-2019. His work has been featured in Jeffery Deitch Gallery NYC, the Armory Show, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. Jon holds an MA in Design Research, Writing and Criticism from SVA. His writing has been featured in publications such as The Washington Post, The Black Experience in Design and AIGA. His first book Black, Queer & Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, & Trailblazers was released November 2024 with Levine Querido.

 morcoskey.com
 @jkey13

About Wael Morcos

Wael Morcos is a graphic designer/type designer and partner at the NY based studio Morcos Key. Wael leads multi-lingual identity, editorial, environment and digital projects for art and culture institutions between the USA and the Middle East. Wael has been featured in Print Magazine’s 15 under 30, was named a Young Gun by the Art Directors Club and an Ascender by the Type Directors Club

 morcoskey.com
 @waelmorcos

About Sadie Red Wing

Sadie Red Wing is an Indigenous graphic designer and student advocate from the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media Arts and Interactive Design from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University (NCSU). Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work and encourages academia to include an Indigenous perspective in design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing is an instructor at Arizona State University while obtaining her PhD in Graphic Design at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

 sadieredwing.com
 @sadieredwing

About Johannes Breyer

Johannes Breyer is a Berlin-based graphic designer. He studied in Zurich and worked at design studio NORM before graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2013, he co-founded Dinamo Typefaces with Fabian Harb.

 johannesbreyer.com
 abcdinamo.com
 @johannesbreyerr

About Fabian Harb

Fabian Harb is a Swiss typeface and graphic designer. He studied in Basel, and worked in Amsterdam and Berlin. In 2013, he co-founded Dinamo Typefaces with Johannes Breyer.

 fabianharb.ch
 abcdinamo.com
 @fabianharb

About Elizabeth Goodspeed

Elizabeth Goodspeed is an independent designer and writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. In her studio work, she is a devoted generalist with a focus on historically-inspired brand identity and print projects. She has worked with clients like Herman Miller, Phaidon, HBO, and The Whitney Museum, as well as studios like Pentagram, Mythology, High Tide, RoAndCo, Interbrand, and Porto Rocha. Her writing and criticism explore the cyclical patterns of visual culture and the lasting influence of everyday, utilitarian graphic design on the broader creative landscape. She is the US Editor-at-Large for It’s Nice That, where she writes a monthly column on design and visual culture, and contributes regularly to Fast Company, PORT, The Architect’s Newspaper, and AIGA Eye on Design. Elizabeth also publishes Casual Archivist, a newsletter on design history, and teaches at RISD and Parsons.

 elizabethgoodspeed.com
 @goodspeed
 @goodspeed.bsky.social
 @elizabeth_goodspeed

About Alan Bell

Alan Bell began his design career at an early age using amateur home printing equipment. After earning a BA from UCLA, he moved to New York, where he founded Intertypographics, a typesetting company catering primarily to an LGBTQ clientele. He was the founder, editor, designer, and publisher of Gaysweek, New York's only LGBTQ weekly newspaper at the time and the first owned by an African American. A decade later, back in Los Angeles, Bell managed Hi-Speed Typesetting, where he designed end credits for numerous major films and TV shows, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Trading Places, and 48 Hrs. In 1988, he launched the award-winning Black LGBTQ newsmagazine BLK, published until 1994 and now part of the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s permanent collection. Since then, Bell has focused on design projects for clients such as the Magic Johnson Foundation, the Black AIDS Institute, the Minority AIDS Project, and educational institutions including UCLA, USC, and Charles Drew University. Since 2010, he has led the Los Angeles InDesign User Group, an organization dedicated to fostering collaboration and education within the graphic design community.

 about.me/alanbell

About Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea, where he absorbed the transgressive soundtrack of the 1980s through limited access to MTV. Gibson graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and received a Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. While in Chicago he also worked as a research assistant on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) for the Field Museum, a formative experience that fostered an ongoing interest in questions of ownership and notions of cultural translation. Though trained as a painter, Gibson began incorporating materials and techniques that deliberately reference his heritage—such as raw hides and bead work—around 2010. A major turning point in his career, in 2012 he presented ‘one becomes the other,’ his first solo exhibition of sculpture and video, at Participant Inc. Sculpture, moving image, and sound have since become an integral aspect of his practice. He is known for his immersive, multi-sensory installations that invoke and interweave such disparate contexts as faith-based spaces of communion and night clubs.

 jeffreygibson.net
 @jeffrune

About Nat Pyper

Nat Pyper is an alphabet artist. Their practice of fonts, wearables, video, and performance extends from ongoing research on queer publishing histories. They’ve written for Are.na, Draw Down Books, GenderFail, Source Type, and the Walker Art Center, and their font project A Queer Year of Love Letters will be published as a book by Inventory Press and Library Stack in the summer of 2025.

 natpyper.com
 @natpyper

About Yehwan Song

Yehwan Song is a Korean-born artist, graphic designer. She designs and develops experimental websites, installations and interactive graphics driven by content structure instead of static templates and web design conventions. Through her projects, she tries to flip the general understanding of web design and subvert common user-experience behaviors, which oversimplify users' behavior. She pursues diversity above consistency and efficiency.

 yhsong.com
 @yehwan.yen.song

About Arsh Raziuddin

Arsh Raziuddin is a creative director, designer, and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Arsh is currently the VP of Global Creative at Christie's and the creative director of Acacia, a literary magazine for the Muslim left. She has worked in house with The New York Times, Condé Nast, The Atlantic, and with handfuls of publishing houses. Arsh led the redesign of Bon Appétit magazine in 2021 and was a key member of the team behind The Atlantic's redesign in 2019. Arsh’s work has been seen in The New Yorker, A24, Bloomberg, LA Times, and more. Her work has earned recognition from the National Magazine Awards, Society of Publication Designers, The Art Directors Club, The New York Times, Monocle, Print Magazine, among others. Arsh believes in the transformative power of design to help shape an inclusive culture of systems, style, and communication.

 arshraziuddin.com
 @arshraziuddin

About Leo Porto

Leo is a Brazilian designer, Founder and Executive Creative Director at PORTO ROCHA, a New York-based strategy and design agency recently named Independent Agency of the Year by D&AD. Before founding PORTO ROCHA, he was Design Director at COLLINS and worked at renowned studios such as Pentagram, Mother, and Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Leo’s work has been recognized by major design awards and publications, including Young Guns, The One Club, the Webby Awards, Print Magazine, and The Type Directors Club. Specializing in branding and design systems, he has created identities for some of the world’s largest brands, including Nike, Netflix, and Twitch.

 portorocha.com
 @leoportooo

About Gabriela Carnabuci

Gabriela is a New York-based designer and art director whose work combines creative and systematic thinking to craft visual identities with lasting impact for global brands. Her work spans brand identity, editorial design, experiential design, and packaging. Prior to joining PORTO ROCHA, she worked at Base Design, Studio Lin, and Synoptic Office. Her work has been recognized by The Type Directors Club, Creative Review, It’s Nice That, and Dieline. She is now an Associate Design Director at PORTO ROCHA, where she has worked on brand identities for a diverse range of clients including Netflix, Apple, Melissa, and Kunsthalle Basel.

 gabrielacarnabuci.com

About nicole killian

nicole killian is an artist and design educator based in richmond virginia and sometimes florence italy. nicole runs a publishing initiative called nico fontana that focuses on the form of writing by primarily queer and trans artists. nicole is an associate professor and graduate director of the MFA program at the Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Graphic Design. Work has been exhibited at ICA VCU, Sediment in Richmond, CAVE in Detroit, Arcadia Missa in London, Present Works in Milwaukee, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, Embassy in Los Angeles, Sadie Halie Projects in Brooklyn, Nomade Gallery in Hangzhou, and Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art for Lorna Mills’s Ways of Something. nicole's expanded approach to publishing considers objects as containers for language—language that gets activated when read, passed, held, and handled.

 nylondip.com
 @saucyunicorn

About Elizabeth Karp-Evans

Elizabeth Karp-Evans was born in Salem, Oregon. She is a founding partner and director of the New York-based creative agency and publisher Pacific. Elizabeth is deeply passionate about envisioning, building, and improving brands and communication systems across print and digital that function outside the confines of European design theory. She has worked in the field of contemporary art for two decades and has designed brands, exhibitions and publications for institutions globally. She is the former Director of Media, Communications and Content at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Elizabeth holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School for Social Research.

 pacificpacific.studio
 @elizabethkarpevans

About Robyn Kanner

Robyn Kanner is a creative director with a passion for telling urgent human stories.

As the creative director for Biden-Harris ’20, she led branding for a handful of verticals, including social, ads, merch, video, planes, trains, buses, and stadiums. After President Biden’s victory, she continued this work for the Inauguration.

Robyn then launched her own studio, collaborating with clients like Spotify, Showtime, and Governor Josh Shapiro. She led the Democratic National Committee’s first major brand refresh since President Obama’s took office. Within 18 months, her studio joined forces with Studio Mosaic, allowing her to continue working with organizations such as the ACLU, Lambda Legal, and Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center. She is a visiting professor at Cooper Union.

An avid film lover, Robyn contributes to The Verge through conversations with directors about the decisions they make behind the camera.

 robynkanner.com
 @robynkanner.bsky.social
 @robynkanner