Ourania Makrygianni is a visual designer who recently completed her MA in Communication Design in ESAD Matosinhos, Porto. Her thesis was about the blending of cinema with editorial design, two fields that interest her deeply. Ourania has also studied Marketing and Communication in AUEB, Athens. She has been working for various design studios and as a freelancer. She is interested in the visual language of photography and in following different creative and conceptual paths in art and design in areas such as the making of zines, collage or videos; at the same time, she is trying to participate in more explorative projects that interest her. Her work varies from illustration to visual identity or editorial design, and she tries to integrate meaningful concepts and sometimes a sense of humor and communicational interactivity by exploring other fields, like human sciences or the boundaries of expressing imagination throughout the design language.
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Eleni Martini is a lecturer in the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the Faculty of Applied Arts and Civilization, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece, http://www.gd.uniwa.gr/en. She holds a BA from the Department of Graphic Design, TEI Athens, and an MA in Electronic Graphics from Coventry University, UK. A recipient of two scholarships by the State Scholarships Foundation for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, Eleni has a working experience at magazine and advertising companies and has also acted as an independent designer for printing and interactive media. Since 1994 she teaches Visual Identity and Communication Design of Messages and Information and has participated in a number of international educational projects, workshops and exhibitions. She is currently a member of the “Future Text” research team. Her research interests focus on graphic design history, teaching methodologies, social design, the impact of type in everyday life, and calligraphy as expression.

Klimis Mastoridis is editor of Hyphen, a typographic forum and author of the books Θέματα αναπαραγωγής και εκτύπωσης (Reproduction and printing issues; 1988, 1993, 1997, new ed. 2010) and Casting the Greek Newspaper: a study of the morphology of the ‘ephemeris’ from its origins until the introduction of me­chanical setting (1999). He is a cofounder and past chairman of Altervision SA, Fellow of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and of the Institute of Paper, Printing and Publishing (IP3), director of the Institute for the Study of Typography & Visual Communication (ISTVC) as well as the initiator of the idea and the driving force behind the International Conference on Ty­pog­ra­phy and Visual Communication (ICTVC). Klimis, who holds a PhD in Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, UK, (Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation scholarship), is currently Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication and the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Georgios D. Matthiopoulos teaches at the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, University of West Attica. He is also type designer for the Greek Font Society. He has authored and translated several books on typographic topics. He has also designed many editions, art catalogues, and museum exhibitions and contributed papers on Greek typography in several national and international conferences. His book design work was awarded the 1st prize (EVGE 2005) and he is a member of the designing team which won the Gold Award for Typographic Excellence for the new visual communication of the National Library of Greece (EVGE 2018). He is also scientific and design consultant for the preparation of the Museum of Printing and Graphic Arts Technology of the Ioannina University.

Professor Louise McWhinnie is the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at The University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Over the last three decades she has lived and worked as a designer and academic in three continents (Australia, Asia and Europe), and in the last decade her research has been conducted within a fourth (America). Louise has taught, lectured and supervised at under-graduate and post-graduate levels across a broad range of visual communication, with her specialist area being typography. Her research interests reside within the areas of transdisciplinary innovation, design education, cultural and linguistic diversity within visual communication and educational practice and typography, with a particular focus upon vernacular type. Louise has written articles for The Conversation, and has undertaken print, radio and TV interviews, as well as presentations and keynotes, in Australia and overseas.
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Anna Meli, born in Athens in 1986, is a new media artist. She is a PhD candidate at Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), Greece. In 2015 she completed the European Master entitled “Art, virtual reality and multiuser systems of artistic expression” (ASFA and University Paris8) and in 2010 she graduated from ASFA with the degree in painting. Her research concentrates on artists’ books proposing a new form of book in the virtual space. Her work is a combination of typography and new media, based on narration and interactivity. She has participated in international conferences and exhibitions.
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Tonya Meyrick is an academic, creative practitioner and communication designer. Her research focuses on the intersection and boundaries of post-colonial digital ecologies, place, typography and design. She is a faculty member at Deakin University in Melbourne, where she lectures on Communication Design and Typography. Tonya is undertaking a PhD at Swinburne University, here, she is investigating the neglected role of typography within contemporary place making. As a communication designer, Tonya has worked with a variety of local, national and international brands and organizations. Tonya has spoken internationally on typography, branding and design in Australia, New Zealand, Kuwait and the UK.
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Η Αίντα Μιχαηλίδου είναι Τεχνολόγος Γραφικών Τεχνών, εξειδικευμένη σε τομείς έρευνας και τεχνολογίας που σχετίζονται με τις σύγχρονες τεχνολογίες εκτύπωσης (μελάνια, υλικά και μέθοδοι εκτύπωσης). Σήμερα παρακολουθεί το Μεταπτυχιακό Πρόγραμμα του Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου «Ολοκληρωμένη Σχεδίαση και Καινοτομία Προϊόντων». Επιδίωξή της είναι η συνεχής βελτίωση, έχει  μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον για τη σχεδίαση καινοτόμων  προϊόντων με σκοπό τη βιωσιμότητα. Τα αποτελέσματα των ερευνών της ανακοινώθηκαν σε διεθνή συνέδρια και δημοσιεύτηκαν σε διεθνή επιστημονικά περιοδικά.

Ainta Michailidou is a qualified Graphic Art Designer-Technician specializing in areas of research and technology fields related to modern printing technologies (inks, materials and printing methods). She is now attending a Master’s Degree in Integrated Product Design and Innovation/ University of Aegean. She believes in constant improvement, she is a mature team worker and adaptable to all challenging situations. Developing initiative and project leading management skills. Managing production and organizing a quality control process. Having great curiosity about innovative products for sustainability, her research was presented at international conferences, published in peer-reviewed academic journals.

Ian Mitchell is Programme Leader of Graphic Design and Illustration at Liverpool School of Art and Design. A significant part of his research and practice explores the ongoing validity of typographic experimentation. He has exhibited, screened and published works internationally. Most notably Chinese Whispers – an experiment to collaboratively design typefaces through the generative online process of chinese whispers. Before joining academia he worked with influential multimedia visionary, Roy Stringer, and was a founding member of 1990s typography collective Beaufonts.
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Judith Moldenhauer, Professor in Graphic Design. MFA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Her design work lies in the area of “information design” which enables people to easily access and use information by focusing on the organizational and navigational aspects of visual and verbal material. Her design work ranges from exhibition catalogues and posters for the Detroit Institute of Arts to educational materials for Healthy Start, a US Department of Health and Human Services program to reduce high infant mortality. She has received many design awards including awards from the American Association of Museums and Graphic Design. Currently, she and a group of advanced graphic design students are designing multi-media computer-based instruction for manufacturing engineering students through the Greenfield Coalition, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Julián works in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied typeface design at the University of Reading and at the ANRT in Nancy, France. Since 2011 he has been running a flexible freelance practice as a typeface designer. This has allowed him to work on other gratifying interests: He was an archive intern for Monotype (2012), a sessional lecturer in the UK and Colombia (2012-2017), and for the past year he has worked on the restoration of wood type at the Imprenta Patriótica, a government-funded printing museum in Colombia.

Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια του Πανεπιστημίου Δυτικής Αττικής, όπου διδάσκει storyboard, cartoon και animation στο Τμήμα Γραφιστικής και Οπτικής Επικοινωνίας. Απόφοιτη του Τμήματος Γραφιστικής, ΤΕΙ Αθήνας, και του CFP per la Technica Cinetelevisiva του Μιλάνου. Κάτοχος μεταπτυχιακού και διδακτορικού τίτλου από την Ακαδημία Καλών Τεχνών του Novi Sad με θέμα «Διδακτική του κινουμένου σχεδίου» και «To animation στην διαφήμιση. Συνθήκες εμπειρία και παραγωγή στην Ελλάδα». Από το 1980 έως το 1995 συνεργάστηκε ως freelancer με τις ελληνικές εταιρίες παραγωγής animated spots Κουνούπι, Artoon, Blitz και Κουάκ, ενώ από το 1986 διδάσκει animation, αρχικά ως διδάσκουσα και κατόπιν ΔΕΠ στο Τμήμα Γραφιστικής. Συγγραφέας του βιβλίου «Frame by frame» από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Nexus Publications (2004, 2009) για την τέχνη και τεχνική της εμψύχωσης, καθώς και πολλών διεθνών δημοσιεύσεων.