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Ariane Spanier

Founder of Ariane Spanier Design

Ariane studied visual communication at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee and, after a stay in New York, founded her own studio in Berlin.

She works primarily with cultural clients, with a strong focus on typography. Her clients include Kunsthalle Zu Kiel, Museum for Communication Berlin, Phaidon, Washington Post and Wired. Ariane is also the creative director and co-editor of Fukt, a magazine for contemporary drawing. Her work has received numerous awards, including from TDC New York and Tokyo, D&AD, Graphis and ADC New York and Germany, and has been widely published in international design publications. She is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

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Thomas Hull

Chair of Graphic Design at Savannah College of Art and Design

Prior to joining SCAD, the largest and most influential graphic design program in the US, Thomas Hull was Partner and Design Director of Rigsby Hull, a communications brand consultancy where he worked with a diverse range of Fortune 500 companies and organizations including Dell, Sappi Fine Papers, Thornton Tomasetti and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

His work is part of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent collection, the Denver Art Museum and Columbia University. The New York Times’ art critic Steven Heller profiles Rigsby Hull’s work in his A Century of Design Milestones. And in each of its 40th, 50th and 60th Anniversary issues Communication Arts has cited Thomas’ work as among the most influential in American Graphic Design.

Jamie Chang

Founder, Manic Type

Jamie Chang is a seasoned type designer who champions bold and expressive letters and the spirits they can embody. 

He designs letters that give brands and ideas a voice of their own. Jamie is a graduate of the York/Sheridan Joint Degree Program and Type@Cooper, and holds an MA in Type and Media from The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. He has created work for Apple, Canada Type, DINAMO and The Northern Block. His work can be found on Adobe, Type Network and Future Fonts.

Dominic Ayre RGD

Partner & Creative Director, Hambly & Woolley

Dominic graduated from The Bournemouth & Poole College in the UK and has worked as a designer for more than 25 years.

As the Creative Director at Hambly & Woolley, Dominic focuses on high-level strategic initiatives with clients such as York University, Caseware, University of Toronto, Horizon Trading Solutions, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and RTOERO. Hambly & Woolley recently published issue No. 2 of their Journal for the Curious: Find. Currently on faculty at George Brown College, Dom is an enthusiastic mentor to new designers and is well known within the design community for his expertise in branding, typography, web platforms, design trends and popular culture. Dominic is also the designer publisher of Do Not Xray, a zine dedicated to the joy of experimental typography and techno music.

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