Founded in 2007, Bureau Borsche is a global design studio based in Munich, Germany. Rooted in editorial design, our work is powered by the continuous commitment to contemporary art and culture, design and new technologies.

The Bureau has won several international design awards, taken part in exhibitions and been able to present our own initiative at the 2019 Venice Biennale. With our close-knit international team, we work with clients from cultural establishments, luxury fashion houses, to commercial entities, providing a wide range of design services. We are proud of our longterm partnership, producing full service graphic design, with Bayerische Staatsoper, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and The Design Museum. Our editorial projects are at our core and include over ten years of continued creative direction for Zeit Magazin and Spike art publications. Over the years, we have worked on global campaigns for both Nike and Apple. Since 2020, we have been recruited by Supreme NY to work on seasonal graphics and creative services. The Bureau’s branding commissions include Balenciaga, Givenchy, Rimowa, Farfetch, Highsnobiety, Zara Athleticz and in 2021 we were able to fulfil a dream by working with one of the biggest football clubs in Europe, Internazionale Milano, for their new visual identity.

Patrick Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London before relocating to Barcelona in 1991. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

He has exhibited his limited-edition silkscreens across five continents, where many are now held in private and public collections. He has lectured and held many workshops worldwide, extensively in the UK and Spain. In 2005 he published Black & White, a compilation of his work for the International Press. In 2011 his Protest Stencil Toolkit was published by Laurence King, UK. A revised edition was released in April 2019.

In April 2018 he was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Front Row about his twenty-four hour public installation Breaking News in Liverpool for RRU News an independent art organisation funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain and Liverpool City Council. The project was since developed and shown in London, Manchester, Seoul, Novi Saad and Rome.

In 2019 he created Open Collab a self-run workshop format to enable and encourage collaboration, dialogue and experimentation between participants. In March 2020 a free online platform was launched during Covid-19 lockdown to enable remote real-time collaboration. Since its launch thousands of creatives have participated worldwide.

Since October 2013 he is a professor at Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and in Spring 2019 he was invited for a seven week residency at Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo, the German Academy in Rome. In January 2020 his artwork for The Berliner Philharmoniker was shortlisted for a Grammy. In 2022 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Birmingham City University.

Can Yang is a multidisciplinary artist and visual designer working with a wide range of media to create context-aware graphics.

She sees graphic design as a practice of creating daily artefacts using forms or typography as tools, not only for carrying the message but for facilitating cultural and historical values. Her work seeks to evoke renewed approaches to established hierarchies and principles within graphic design and visual communication industry.

Besides her individual practice, Can also demonstrates her model of practice, Neobridge, through pedagogical methodologies, i.e collaborative activities, workshops and open-ended conversations. She is currently teaching at Royal College of Art, Kingston School of Art and ual: Chelsea College of Arts in London while working as a design and art director for te magazine. Her previous education includes MA Visual Communication from Royal College of Art in 2021 and BFA Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design in 2018.

Besides her individual research, Can also demonstrates her model of practice, Neobridge, through pedagogical methodologies, i.e collaborative activities, workshops and open-ended conversations.

Shivani Parasnis is a graphic designer specialising in Typography, Print Design & Branding.

Shivani is currently a Senior Designer at Spotify and previously worked at Locopopo Studio and Pentagram.

Based between London, New York, Sydney and Shanghai, DesignStudio creates brands and experiences through radical collaboration.

Their holistic, insightful and unconventional working methods go deeper and push further, to inspire deep connection within their clients’ teams and communities. They live and die by this philosophy, because they know it delivers remarkable change.

Executive Creative Director Vinay Mistry will present on behalf of DesignStudio.

Originally from Bradford, West Yorkshire, Vinay is a multi-award winning Executive Creative Director at DesignStudio. With over 10 years of experience Vinay has led multiple projects for brands including the BBC, Bentley,  Williams F1, Motorola and Virgin amongst many others.

Vinay’s personal mission is to leave a better world for the next generation through the power of experimental design. This is evidenced by his recent work for mental health charity, Mind, which enables them to reach more people who need them. Meanwhile, he recently designed a new competition for the English Cricket Board that would make cricket accessible for everyone, not just the elite. 

As a person of South Indian heritage, Vinay passionately believes that innovative design comes from creatives with diverse perspectives and cultures. He spearheads hiring creatives from around the world, as well as promoting young people to have an equal voice in the design industry. He also lectures across the UK at leading design universities alongside leading the internationally based, Popped Corn Collective; a group of designers that love to create, explore and experiment.

Annie Atkins is a graphic designer for the film industry, having created graphic props and set-pieces for multiple Oscar-winning-and-nominated films: including the animated feature The Boxtrolls, Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies and West Side Story, and Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, French Dispatch, and The Grand Budapest Hotel – the latter which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Production Design.

Annie’s book on the subject, Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Film was published by Phaidon, winning accolades from Jeff Goldblum (“Annie Atkins is a master craftswoman… she makes the unreal seem hyper real and the real more supremely alive”), The Guardian (“When film-makers need a detailed artefact, they go the in-demand Welsh creator, Annie Atkins”) and Esquire magazine (“This unforgettable book is at once a treasure for film buffs and a visual feast”), among others.

Zhongkai Li’s practice crosses design, curation, teaching, and publishing.

Li is the director of IS A GALLERY in Shanghai. His recent curatorial projects include “Karel Martens: Reproduction” (2021), “Radical Return” (2021-2022), and “Michel Auder: Iconography, Storytelling, Myth, Irony, Archive” (2021). He previously served as the Design Director for AIGA Pittsburgh and has taught at Parsons School of Design. He is part of the Jury panel for the Young Ones Awards (2022-2023) from The One Club for Creativity in New York. Li received his BFA in communication design from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2016, and an MFA degree in Graphic Design from Yale University in 2019. 

PORTO ROCHA is a New York-based design studio developing creative and strategic work that engages deeply with the world we live in.

Working closely with people and companies to craft branding systems, products and experiences, we seek to provoke meaningful change through our work, from large-scale projects that reach significant audiences to socially and culturally-motivated initiatives.

PORTO ROCHA has launched brands, products, books, websites, campaigns and experiences with clients that range from global tech and retail companies to independent artists and cultural institutions.

Under the name Untold Stories, Ruben Pater creates visual narratives that support solidarity, justice, and equality.

Neo Neo is a Swiss-based studio specializing in art direction and graphic design. It was set up in Geneva by Thuy-An Hoang and Xavier Erni in 2010.

Neo Neo partners with artists, cultural institutions as well as private companies to produce creative and contemporary concepts and designs. Our area of expertise ranges from editorial design, visual identities, typography, posters and all kinds of printed matter to web design, signage systems and scenography. Over the years they developed a transdisciplinary approach and are now sharing their time between visual communication, curating, publishing and teaching. Since 2011 they have been publishing Poster Tribune a poster-dedicated periodical newspaper. In 2015, they launched Print Program – an exhibition and archive platform dedicated to printed matter and graphic design. In 2020 they partnered with Alex Dujet (Futur Neue), Roger Gaillard (Cécile + Roger) and David Mamie (TM) to launch Extraset, a Geneva based digital type foundry. Since 2015 Thuy-An and Xavier are teaching visual communication at HEAD-Genève, Geneva University of Art and Design