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Ash is the co-founder and creative director of Six Cinquième. As a brand consultancy, Six Cinquième exists to define and build brands for visionaries who want to leave behind an impactful legacy in people’s lives, their industry and the world.

Indi is a solution strategy researcher who created a method that lets teams clarify, measure, and grow their solutions and audience based on thinking styles. She works with teams on knowledge-building projects . She also teaches six applied research courses , writes books & essays , makes talks and podcast appearances , and pens helpful posts on LinkedIn .

* 24 design patents * 6 Featured Mobile apps * 6 design books in 3 languages including UX for AI: A Framework for Designing AI-Driven Products (April 2025) * Hundreds of millions in design ROI

Founder of Manic Type, Jamie Chang is a seasoned type designer and letterer based in Toronto, Canada. Jamie’s work delves into expressive typography, and its textural intricacies. A graduate of Type@Cooper and holding an MA TypeMedia from The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. He now teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has spent years working on his independent practice designing...

Paul Twa is a designer and illustrator who merges the richness of maximalism with the depth of visual history to create bold, intentional, and timeless work.

Today, as chief creative officer at Bruce Mau Design, Stein likes to operate without a rigid structure and follows the ethos that there is no “right way” when it comes to creativity.

Vince is the Founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of Frost*collective. A globally recognised and awarded creative who is passionately committed to designing a better world.

Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the subject. She is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Anti/Post/Decolonial Histories, Theories, Praxes at the Decolonising the Arts Institute at University of the Arts London (UAL). She is the author of two books: Designerly Ways of Know...

Rachel [she/her] is an independent creative executive shaping the future of design at the intersection of brand, culture, and technology. Since founding her SF-based consultancy in 2020, she has brought her expertise to larger companies like Airbnb and Dropbox and women-founded ventures such as Chicken & Egg Films and Acora. 

Debra has been the Design Director of The New York Times for Kids since 2017. Previously she spent more than 25 years working as an editorial Art Director designing magazines such as Rolling Stone , House and Garden , Condé Nast Traveler , Esquire and More magazine.

Hi, I’m Gurudutt — your go-to creator for blending brains, beauty, and business into seamless digital experiences. 🚀 I thrive at the crossroads of engineering precision, creative artistry, and business impact, turning complex challenges into intuitive solutions that inspire.

Interdisciplinary artist, inventor, co-founder, executive, design leader, DJ, dancer, designer, and aspiring writer. Background in design, engineering, and interdisciplinary mischief. Decades of experience shipping products and experiences, including work on multiple operating systems and inventions that have now become ubiquitous and everyday.

My name is Abby Covert. I am an author, teacher and community leader in the field of information architecture. My work aims to make information architecture and sensemaking skills accessible to everyone. NRkhEgg7EQAJrPf423vA

I started learning design at two years old on my father’s letterpress (yes, really - there’s a photo to prove it). I’ve been creating ever since, following in his footsteps as a second-generation design and Creative Director.

Lou Downe is the author of Good Services, the bestselling book on how to design services that work and the founding director of the School of Good Services. Lou is the former Director of Design for the UK Government where they founded the discipline of service design, growing a 2000 strong team of designers into one of the largest, and most influential design team’s in the UK - winning a Designs o...

I make stuff like moonlearning.io and thesolo.io, and enjoy speaking at conferences about the intersection of UI design/coding and solopreneurship.

I am an award-winning designer with years of experience as a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant. Until Sunday encompasses the versatile work I do, whether that’s crafting compelling and trustworthy brand stories for cutting-edge tech startups, leading innovative digital designs for global organisations, or illustrating a captivating book.

He joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in 2010. Eddie Opara was born in Wandsworth, London in 1972. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University , where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his career as a designer at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as a senior designer/art director at 2×4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office, in 2005...

Virtual Reality Developer, Industrial Designer, UX Designer, Web Developer & CG Artist

I am an award-winning designer with years of experience as a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant. Until Sunday encompasses the versatile work I do, whether that’s crafting compelling and trustworthy brand stories for cutting-edge tech startups, leading innovative digital designs for global organisations, or illustrating a captivating book.

As an evangelist for design ethnography, Kelly is dedicated to understanding how real people integrate products and services into their daily lives. Kelly is founder and principal of both gotomedia and gotoresearch.

I'm Brad Frost , a design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. I wrote a book called Atomic Design , which covers all that goes into creating and maintaining effective design systems.

Luba Lukova is an American visual artist, known for her thought-provoking images and expressive poster designs. Her work has won international acclaim and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York among many others.  Luba Lukova is an internationally renowned, New York-based visual artist and designer. Her powerful, thought provoking works have been exhibite...

Natasha Jen is an award-winning designer, an educator, and a partner at Pentagram. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she joined Pentagram’s New York office in 2012. A six-time National Design Award nominee.

Linn is a leading advocate for service design in Canada and co-founded Service Design Toronto in 2013. She runs Made Manifest, a boutique consultancy, leading transformational projects for clients like Mejuri, TELUS, Shopify, and the City of Toronto. She writes the Ask a Service Designer newsletter and has spoken at global conferences like Service Design Network, CanUX, and Service Design in Gover...