Leftloft is a visual communication studio based in Milan since 1997. The studio has grown to a staff of 16 people with multi-disciplinary skills, able to provide solutions for all information and communication needs. Leftloft creates projects that aim to improve and implement successfull communication channels for companies, institutions and cultural organizations.
The studio has been established by Andrea Braccaloni, Francesco Cavalli, Bruno Genovese and David Pasquali. All are members of AIAP (Italian Design Association for Visual Communication) and BEDA (Bureau European Design Association).
In addition to their design activity, the partners teach at the Milan Politecnico Faculty of Design. Leftloft is also a promoter of the Graphic Ministry, a cultural association promoting design culture. In autumn 2008, Leftloft opened a new additional office in New York City, USA.

Eduardo Berliner is a graduate in graphic design from Brazil and obtained his Master of Arts in Type Design from University of Reading, UK.

Currently he is working as an independent artist and graphic designer. In 2004, he developed an introductory course in typography for the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, which was fully adopted. Eduardo has subsequently worked as a lecturer at the same university.

Recently, Eduardo created, in collaboration with designer Cadu, the graphic structure for the newspaper “museumuseu”, a project conceived by the Brazilian artist Mabe Bethonico. It was exhibited in the 27th Bienal de São Paulo.

Additionally, the first version of Eduardo’s typeface “Pollen”, was shown in the catalogue of the DOBRA (Brésil, une nouvelle génération de designers- France 2004) exhibition.

He has also been engaged in the design of motifs for various fashion clothing brands in Brazil.

Eduardo’s work has been published in books and magazines worldwide, including Brazil Inspired, Étapes, Type One, Typosphere and Type Culture.

Bart Blubaugh has designed and illustrated his way through the retail, automotive, magazine publishing, software development, energy and automation industries. He has set his experience toward delivering visual communication that leads to results by designing forms, logos, stationery, digital graphics, brochures, print ads, event displays, magazines and books. He has spent late nights crafting and maintaining temporary trade show displays on location, and has served his time as photoshop jockey. As a designer with global power and automation technology leader ABB Inc., Bart strives to challenge corporate communicators to leverage their own company's visual identity guidelines and to consider the audience as important as the product.

Bart received his MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, in the UK, and has a BSc in Graphic Design earned in the USA.

Pilar Cano is a graphic and typeface designer from Barcelona, where she gained her first degree in Graphic Design. During this degree she studied for 6 months at Lahti Polytechnic (Lahti, Finland), where she started to think of the possibility of studying type design.

In 2006 she graduated from the MA in typeface design at the University of Reading, UK. The same year she co-founded Mídori, a graphic design studio specialised in editorial design. Currently she works on her own as graphic and typeface designer as well as teaching typography at BA level.

Pilar partially edited and wrote the book typosphere, and has developed custom typeface design projects.

Tom Grace is an independent typeface designer and font developer whose skill and experience span both the aesthetic and technical aspects of digital typography.
He creates custom and retail typeface designs as well as adapts existing designs for specialized roles (eg. reading on-screen).
His collaborative style has allowed him to work closely with many of the world’s most prominent typeface designers and foundries, and their work has received awards for excellence. He has lectured on typeface design and has participated in type design workshops.
He has gained a formal education in type from the Rhode Island School of Design (RI, USA) and the University of Reading (UK), where he received his MA in typeface design.

Wolfgang Homola is an independent type and graphic designer based in Vienna. After his studies at 'die Graphische' in Vienna, he worked several years for Bohatsch Visual Communication in Vienna and for Harper Collins Publishers in London. In 2004, he received his MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. 
During his career, he has designed postage stamps, award-winning books, dictionaries, bibles, annual reports, signage and wayfinding systems, logos and visual identities.
He teaches graphic design at BA level, writes articles and gives lectures about typography and visual communication, and he continues to design typefaces.

Alisa Nowak is a native german independent type and graphic designer based in the north of France.
During her studies of visual communication at “Fachhochschule Düsseldorf”, she spent one year as exchange student in Besançon, where she focused her interest on type design.
After her diploma in 2009 in Düsseldorf, she specialised in designing typefaces in the context of formation “post-diplôme typographie & langage at École supérieure d'art et de design d'Amiens” in France.
Currently she is teaching there calligraphy & type design. At the same time she continues to design typefaces with a great interest in german scripts.

Winnie Tan was born in Singapore in 1975. She graduated from Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore) in 1995 and Kent Institute of Art and Design (UK) in 1997 where she studied Visual Communication. After 10 years of graphic/multimedia design and teaching experience in Singapore, she went to Prague (Czech Republic) to pursue an MA in Typeface Design at VSUP under the tutelage of František Štorm and Tomáš Brousil. She is currently a full-time lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

Gerard Unger Born at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1942. Studied graphic design, typography and type design from 1963–’67 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He teaches as visiting Professor at The University of Reading, UK, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, and he is Professor of Typography at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Free lance designer from 1972. He has designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logo’s, corporate identities, annual reports and many other objects, and typefaces.
He has been awarded several Dutch and international prizes and honours, such as two honorary doctorates by the universities of Hasselt, Belgium and Tallinn, Estonia. He has written articles for the trade press, and several larger publications, such as Landscape with Letters (1989), linking the usually limited scope of type and typography with a wider cultural view. His book Terwijl je leest — about reading —has been translated in Italian, English, Spanish and German. He lectures frequently in Holland and abroad, about his own work, type design, the reading process, and related subjects.

Nicolien van der Keur is a Dutch graphic designer with more than 22 years of experience. Her starting point was to design several public- and sponsored magazines. She also supported designers to accomplish a smooth transition from manual page lay-out to computer based lay-out.

In 1990 she started her own studio, 'Van der Keur graphic design'. Nicolien's personal way of working and versatile interests brought her a broad range of work, such as magazines, books, websites, corporate identities and packing material.

While working with books, magazines and corporate identities she experienced the pleasure of choosing a typeface that reads and functions well and is appropriate for its application. This and her experience with type in general, sparked her interest even further in how typefaces and typography can help to structure texts and make the navigation for the reader as clear as possible. This curiosity directed her to the University of Reading (UK), where she received an MA degree, specializing in designing a typeface for dictionaries, encyclopedias and other high-density complex text-environments.

Nicolien is now dividing her work as a typedesigner and graphic designer, working with a deeper insight in typography. You can look at some of her design work at www.vanderkeur.net