In Europe, he drew comics, illustrations, and art-directed posters, books, and record covers. When he arrived in the U.S. he became the art director of Time Magazine International Edition. Later he became art director of the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times. In 1995 he established his firm Mirko Ilić Corp. His company designs for a wide range of clients, from pro bono organizations to the high luxury hospitality clients. For his work he received numerous awards and is in collections of institutions such as Smithsonian Museum and MoMA, New York. Mirko teaches masters degree illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

http://mirkoilic.com

Erik van Blokland is a Dutch typeface designer, educator and computer programmer. He is the head of the Type Media Master of Design program in Typeface Design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in the Netherlands. Erik also run Letterror, studio for type design, lettering and tool development.

https://letterror.com

Studio Cuculic is a studio for graphic design and visual communications. It is mostly involved in the projects oriented in two main directions: designing for culture (museums, galleries, theatre, festivals...). Studio has won numerous national and international graphic design awards and has participated in many renowned publications and exhibitions.

http://www.studio-cuculic.hr

Marko is a type designer, educator and consultant who splits his time between designing retail and custom typefaces, designing logos, providing professional typographic advice to clients and working at the university which includes teaching, writing and editing books. Hot Type works with agencies, studios and individuals to achieve high quality work. Hot Fonts also aims to design, produce and distribute typefaces that are exciting, relevant and useful to designers of today and tomorrow.

Ryan Pescatore Frisk (USA) and Catelijne Van Middelkoop (NL) are the founding partners of Strange Attractors Design, an international studio specializing in typography and brand communication for print, motion and interactive media.

Hrvoje Živčić is a type and occasional graphic designer based in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated from Type and Media (KABK) in The Hague, Netherlands in 2012. Hrvoje has published typefaces Mote and Halte with Typotheque, and frequently works as a collaborator with Commercial Type. His new typeface Rector was released early 2021 with Production Type.

Peter Biľak works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design. In 1999 he started Typotheque type foundry, in 2000, together with Stuart Bailey he co-founded art & design journal Dot Dot Dot, in 2012 he started Works That Work, a magazine of unexpected creativity, in 2015 together with Andrej Krátky he co-founded Fontstand.com, a font rental platform. He collaborates with the choreographer Lukas Timulak on creation of modern dance performances, and together they started Make-Move-Think.org, a foundation for interdisciplinary artistic collaborations. Peter is teaching at the Type & Media, postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Nikola Djurek was born in Croatia, studied in Croatia, Italy and finally in The Netherlands at postgraduate master course Type and Media at Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, he earned his PhD degree in the graphic and type-design field. Nikola is a partner at Typotheque, and teaches at Art Academy - DVK, University of Split and University of Zagreb, Faculty of Design.