Michał Łojewski is one of the most award-winning designers in Poland. He started a branding company White Cat Studio in 2001. In 2003 co-founded the anti-fashion brand - Usa e Getta (UEG), which he still continues to manage and develop. UEG combines different fields - art, design and fashion. His most prestigious projects are PKO Bank Polski (the biggest Polish bank), Alior Bank, Netia (communication company) which was awarded this year at Red Dot Design: Communication Design. He also handles branding COMME des GARÇONS's a guerrilla store in Poland. Michał is co-founder of STGU - (the Association of Applied Graphic Designers).

Michiel Schuurman is a Dutch graphic designer working in Amsterdam. He studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague for two years and finished his education in 2002 at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. After some years working for a small design studio he decided to work as an independent graphic designer in 2006. Schuurman’s personal work specializes in typography and poster design which often boasts a rather maximalistic approach. His practice of combining bright colors, warped glyphs, harsh perspectives, and acidic patterns creates some awfully intriguing eye-candy, which he often screen prints himself.

Annelys de Vet is a graphic designer and head of the design department of the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. Since 1997 she runs her own studio, which has transformed from a practice working for clients like Droog Design, Thames & Hudson, Stedelijk Museum and KPN, towards a self-directed practice where De Vet, among others, published several books concerning the representation of cultural and national identity. She was a lecturer and coordinator at the Man & Communication department at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2002–2008), and is the initiator and designer of the yearly Temporary Museum Amsterdam (2006–2009). Her ‘Subjective atlas of Palestine’ was awarded for the Best Designed Books 2007.

Director of VIDE, Visual & Individual Design Experiences and The VIDE Workshop in The Hague, the Netherlands. VIDE is organising several initiatives in visual communication in the Netherlands and abroad. Initiatives like the organisation of the yearly VIDE Summer and Winter Design Experiences and VIDE's participation in the project SURE Suriname! . Fekkes is co-founder of ED!, Academy for Sustainable Design, Education and Communication and initiator of H I M, The Hague Innovation Motor. He was co-founder and partner of Ontwerpwerk, agency for multidisciplinary design in The Hague until 1995. Fekkes was head of the department Graphic and Typographic Design and the postgraduate (now master)course Type&Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague until 2005. As from 2006 until 2010 he was coordinator of the department Visual Communication at the Fontys University of Fine and Performing Arts in Tilburg and wrote a new curriculum for this department.

Invisible design is an essential part of design in the current age.He delved further into abstracting the word and redefined it as 'NOSIGN', expressing the invisible side of design. NOSIGNER investigates the world beyond form, the invisible background of design. NOSIGNER considers many facets of design today, sustainability, education, local industry, disaster preparedness, and wellbeing, to create projects that enrich the world through providing a full range of design capabilities spanning across the fields of product, architecture, graphic, and web design. Major awards include Design for Asia Award 2009(silver prize) and PENT AWARDS 2009 and more. President of idea wiki project "OLIVE PROJECT for the Tohoku Earthquake.

The Japan-based Swiss design unit so+ba, Alex [So]nderegger and Susanna [Ba]er, is celebrating their 10 year anniversary this year. They started their design studio in Tokyo in 2001. With their experiences in graphic design and advertising in Switzerland and Japan, as well as a good understanding of the two very different cultures, cross-cultural communication is one of the strengths and the focus of so+ba. They are active in the fields of graphic design, art direction, sound visualization, and teaching typography at Tama Art University.

Your Friends is a norwegian, Oslo based graphic design studio, founded by Carl Gürgens and Henrik Fjeldberg. The studio works in different fields of graphic design and develop solutions for identities, publications, exhibitions, ­packaging, websites, typefaces etc. Their work is focused around cultural and commercial projects, specializing in print. Your Friends believe that good graphic design is based on and influences functionality, systems and structure. And that good content is key to good design which have the ability to communicate on more than one level. Your Friends work with clients who believe in strong ideas and strive to push boundaries within solutions based on conceptual thinking. Your Friends have been lecturing and held talks at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, as well as working steadily with them on different projects the last 3 years. They have also held several lectures and talks at other design schools in Norway, including Westerdals School of Communication and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences.

Edwin van Gelder is an independent graphic designer based in Amsterdam. After graduating from Utrecht School of the Arts in 2004, Van Gelder founded Mainstudio and has worked under the name ever since. Mainstudio's projects have been including editorial design, books and visual identities for clients within architecture, art and fashion. Van Gelder has won various international awards (Art Directors Club New York, Best Dutch Book Design) and has been part of different international design juries, such as Art Directors Club New York, Selected A - Graphic Design from Europe, and the Art Directors Club the Netherlands.

Born in Osaka in 1970, Masayoshi Kodaira is the principal of FLAME Inc., a graphic design studio based in Tokyo. Kodaira has designed posters and books for the exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara, LOUIS VUITTON, ART FAIR TOKYO, etc. Most recently, he has collaborated with ISSEY MIYAKE to create a line of bags and designed graphics for UIA2011 TOKYO: The 24th World Congress of Architecture. Also directed advertisings and commercial films for Laforet Harajuku(a major fashion department store in Tokyo). Awards include D&AD Silver, THE ONE SHOW Silver and Tokyo Art Directors Club ADC award.