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Nina Paim 

Nina Paim is a Brazilian designer, curator, editor, and publisher based in Porto, Portugal. She has co-curated numerous exhibitions, workshops, and events, including Escola Aberta (Rio de Janeiro, 2012), Swiss Design Network Conference: Beyond Change (Basel, 2018), Department of Non-Binaries (Sharjah, 2018), Feminist Findings (Berlin, 2020), Etceteras: Feminist Festival of Publishing and Design (Porto, 2023), and most recently Comunoteca, part of the public program of the 4th Porto Design Biennale (Porto, 2025). She has co-edited Taking a Line for a Walk (Spector Books, 2016) and Design Struggles (Valiz, 2021). A three-time recipient of the Swiss Design Awards, Nina has taught and lectured internationally, and her writing has appeared in Occasional Papers (UK/BE), Les Presses du Réel (FR), esad-idea (PT), AV Editions (DE), and the Korea Society of Typography (KR). In 2019, she co-founded the feminist platform FUTURESS.org, which she co-directed until 2023, when she launched Bikini Books, an independent feminist publisher for design. In 2024, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London (UAL).

Yara Khoury Nammour

Yara Khoury Nammour is a graphic and type designer, author and educator. She is an assistant professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut and an independent designer since 2017 after a long-standing career of 20 years as design director at Al Mohtaraf design house. Her work is published in several international books and has authored a book titled ‘Nasri Khattar: A Modernist Typotect’ from Khatt Books. She heads the Arabic Type Research Unit and co-organizes the biennial Mashq conference on Arabic typography at AUB.

Adrien Vasquez

Adrien Vasquez is a graphic and type designer. He worked with John Morgan since 2011. In 2017, they founded Abyme, a digital type foundry and independent publisher of artist’s editions and multiples. Following John Morgan’s death in 2025, he co-founded Lima Vasquez studio with Teresa Lima. He teaches at ÉSAD Valence.

Naïma Ben Ayed 

Naïma Ben Ayed is a French-Tunisian type and graphic designer. She holds a master’s degree in Type Design from École Estienne in Paris. After a decade of working with various studios between Paris and London, she established her independent practice, focusing on Arabic and Latin scripts and the narratives that connect them. Her work spans retail and custom type design, visual identities, and storytelling through letters.

She is also the co-founder of La Bureau, a virtual studio in collaboration with Francesca Bolognini (Italy/USA). Together, they design typefaces that foster dialogue between Arabic and Latin scripts, drawing from their Mediterranean heritages. Their first typeface, La Grotesque, is available at TPTQ Arabic. Naïma regularly leads type design and digital lettering workshops, most recently at Pickle Bar (Berlin), ESAV Marrakech, and Le Signe (Chaumont). Beyond teaching, she explores ways to make type design education more accessible and geographically inclusive.

Khajag Apelian

Lettering Artist • Type Designer • Graphic Designer
Khajag’s profound affinity for languages and writing systems largely stems from a mix of his Armenian heritage and multicultural upbringing between Dubai and Beirut. He channels said affinity into creating award-winning typefaces across various scripts (Arabic, Armenian, Latin) and collaborating with several type foundries and design studios worldwide. Passionate about cultural expression and artistic exploration, Khajag regularly contributes to cultural institutions and design collectives and also teaches courses and workshops at various universities, design programs, and independent entities around the world.

Loraine Furter

Loraine Furter (she/i·elle/ան) is a graphic designer based in Brussels, working with hybrid publishing and in love with subversive practices that challenge hegemonies. She works within constellations of collectives ~ past and future ~ among which the projects support sCRIPtures and Intersections of Care, the typography research group Bye Bye Binary and the cyber-feminist collective Just For the Record. Loraine is currently doing a PhD in the arts at Sint Lucas Antwerpen & ARIA/��������Ƶ — “The politics of publishing, researching encounters between artists’ books and intersectional feminist tools” — a research full of emo punctuation, access·ories, guided fabulations and graphic novel{l}as...

Ludi Loiseau 

Ludi Loiseau (she, 1983) is a co-founder and active member of the Open Source Publishing (OSP) association. She connects this work to her role at erg (École de Recherche Graphique), where she currently teach typography and digital culture. In parallel, Ludi is a co-founder of the Médor cooperative, a Belgian investigative and storytelling media. She regularly work on the layout and art direction for the magazine where she explores and emphasizes the connections between text and images and seeks to highlight new drawing practices. Since 2018, with the Bye Bye Binary collective, she has been revisiting the history of typography and striving to disrupt digital norms and formats by hacking the binary nature of our interfaces.

Reem Shilleh

Reem Shilleh lives between Brussels and Ramallah. Her practice is informed by an ongoing research on militant and revolutionary image practices specific to Palestine and its solidarity network, by examining the transational web of struggles past and present. She interlaces research, moving image, editing, archival, and writing practices to question the infinite formations of memory and collectivity, from within the conditions of the present. She is a member of Subversive Film and the Kitchen.

Joachim Ben Yakoub

Joachim Ben Yakoub is an art worker, sometimes operating as writer, sometimes as curator or dramaturg, mostly in the Kitchen, a collective study and workspace in Brussels. He works at Sint-Lucas Antwerp, where he promotes and conducts research in the arts as part of the SLARG research group, and where he teaches aesthetic theories. Joachim Ben Yakoub also works at erg in Brussels (École de recherche graphique) where he facilitates research in the arts.

Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet 

Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet is a Belgian-Ivorian artist and writer who lives and works in Brussels. He conducts documentary research on colonial and contemporary situations. His research gives form to heterogeneous fictional assemblages that combine text, image, video and sound. He is nourished by a variety of questions concerning the relationship between affect, image and imperialism, and the construction and circulation of imaginaries in the context of what V.Y. Mudimbe has called "The Invention of Africa" and Joseph Tonda has called "Afrodystopia".Over the past few years, he has participated in the following group exhibitions: The Busan Biennale 2024, Seeing in the Dark (Busan), Branching Streams. Sketches of Kinship at Théodore Monod Museum (Dakar) in 2024, Style Congo. Heritage & Heresy at Civa (Brussels) in 2023,... ; His texts have been published by La Criée centre d’art contemporain (Rennes), Civa (Brussels), Ròt-Bò-Krik (La Grotte aux poissons aveugles to be published in october 2025). Ayoh is doing a PhD in the arts at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG) / ARIA (University of Antwerp), entitled *Hearing room: Ghosts of the African Democratic Assembly.*

Movses Der Kevorkian

Movses Der Kevorkian is an architect and the founder of the firm Sill and Sound Architects. He has translated three essays by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben into Armenian: “Friendship”, “What Is the Contemporary?” and “What Is a Dispositive?”, works he considers to be closely linked to the concept of architecture. He has undertaken the publication of about twenty selected essays of the contemporary Armenian writer Krikor Beledian, who is based in Paris. His interest lies in Armenian diaspora culture, addressing issues of dual identity and mother tongues or adopted languages in transnational artistic practices.