Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer living in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut.

Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker based in New York and London. He has produced eight feature documentaries, including the award-winning I Am Trying To Break Your Heart about the band Wilco and a documentary about electronic music pioneer Robert Moog, Moog. 

Michael Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990, he was vice president of graphic design at Vignelli Associates.

Jonathan Barnbrook's fonts Exocet (1991) and Mason (1992) are regarded as benchmarks of the pre-millennial style. Barnbrook's talents, however, extend beyond typography, his layered graphic style having given form and meaning to the artist Damien Hirst's print monographs.

Neville Brody, the British designer and art director, has now been at the forefront of graphic design for over two decades.

Lynda Relph-Knight has been editor of the UK’s Design Week since 1989. The role encompasses editing the world’s first and only weekly design magazine and its daily website, as well as overseeing the Design Week Awards and Benchmarks prize scheme for branding.

Born in 1947, Erik Spiekermann studied history of art and English in Berlin. He is an information architect, a type designer (FF Meta, FF MetaSerif, ITC Officina, FF Govan, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk and many corporate typefaces) and an author of many books and articles on type and typography.