Paul Budnitz is an American artist, designer, and entrepreneur. He is well known as the founder & CEO of Superplastic, the world’s premiere creator of art toys & accessories. He is also the founder of Budnitz Bicycles, the luxury city bicycle brand, and is co-founder of social network Ello. In 2002 Budnitz created the designer toy brand Kidrobot(which he sold in 2012).

Paul is the author of several books, has founded over a dozen companies, and lectures on creativity worldwide. A dozen of Budnitz’ designs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Burlington, Vermont and wears size 13 sneakers.

Miranda Tacchia is a designer, illustrator, and cartoonist, working in Los Angeles in the animation industry. She has worked as a character designer and layout artist for several animation studios including Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Warner Brothers. She is most known for her online comics and single Post-It note drawings accompanied by humorous, and often sexual one-liner captions. Her work has been featured in galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and New York, as well as publications such as Juxtapoz and Printed Pages (UK).

Alex Norris is an award-winning webcomic creator, best known for the complicated meta-gags of ‘Dorris McComics’ and the parody of relatable webcomics ‘Webcomic Name’. After studying English Literature, Alex aimed to sneak themes of high literature into the low art genre of webcomics. Tragedy and comedy are fused together, and repetitive formats with a catchphrase are used to explore themes of false expectations and human relationships, and to celebrate the mediocrity of art on the internet. Alex grew up in Swansea, South Wales, and now resides in East London, struggling to write a comic without an “oh no” punchline.

Félicie Haymoz took her first steps as a character designer on the animated feature Max&Co, followed by Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, for which she was the lead character designer and tasked with turning Hollywood A-Listers into lovable furry animals. She just finished designing the charming Japanese characters of Wes Anderson’s second animation film, Isle of Dogs. In recent years she has been involved in various commercial and feature development projects, creating a wide variety of characters and concept art for stop­motion­, digital 3d­ and cut­out animation productions.

Mike Perry is an artist, animator, creative director, brand consultant, poet, and designer. His work encompasses paintings, drawings, sculptures, art installations, books, murals, all of which are made to conjure that feeling of soul-soaring you have when you stare into distant galaxies on a dark night, when you go on long journeys into the imagination, when you laugh and can’t stop laughing. Key to Mike’s working method is the recognition that art and objects, go through many iterations—discoveries, coverings, uncoverings—until they’re finished; people do the same until they are fully revealed.

Sophie Koko Gate was born in Bath and came to London to study animation at the Royal College of Art. She had international success with her graduation film ‘Half Wet’, and since then has presented her work and given artist talks at festivals and universities around the world. From her studio in East London she directs and produces content for clients like Google, MTV, Air Bnb, Lena Dunham and Harvard University. She also writes songs and creates the animated visuals for the musical freak John Daker. Recently Sophie has made a short for Adult Swim and is finishing off her new film ‘Slug Life’ which will be broadcasted on the BBC in October.

Orion Tait is creative director and partner at Buck, a design-driven production company with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Sydney. Buck’s directors and artists use animation, visual effects and live action to deliver work that is visceral, innovative, fun and ego-free. Buck understands itself as an integrated collective of designers, artists and storytellers, who believe in the power of collaboration—the special alchemy that only happens when working together toward a common purpose. Buck works with a broad range of clients in the advertising, broadcast, film and entertainment industries.