Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian designer, collagist, writer, letterpress printer, and optimist futurist. Based in Denver, Colorado. He is a columnist for PRINTmagazine.com, 2-time programming chair for the AIGA National Design Conference. He has been a juror for the Smithsonian National Design Awards.

Making and sharing are central to his cyclical, evolutionary, liberatory practice. His works are collected and exhibited worldwide and can be found in the permanent collections of The Denver Art Museum, The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Columbia University's Butler Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and The Tweed Museum at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

He is a founder and partner with Debra Johnson of the ambidextrous graphic design consultancy MATTER, the designer behind the Black Astronaut Research Project, The Pledge for Spaces, and the Introductory Ethic for Designers and Other Thinking Persons.

He DJs a live Internet Radio show Design To Kill Tuesdays at 4 pm Mountain Time. Playing Punk, Post Punk, and other non-conforming music.

Briar Levit is a Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University. Levit’s feature-length documentary, Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production, which follows design production from manual to digital methods, established an obsession with design history—particularly aspects not in the canon. She currently collaborates on The People’s Graphic Design Archive, with an aim to help create a more inclusive and participatory design history. Levit’s recently edited book of essays for Princeton Architectural Press, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History (2021), includes the research of 19 scholars including herself.

Kate Bingaman-Burt is a multi-disciplinary artist, illustrator, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Kate’s teaching focuses on helping others find their creative voice and empowering people through making marks, making zines, and making prints! For her own practice, Kate mostly draws, letters, documents, and collects, but she also does a lot of other things that involve energy, conversation, and exchange. She is a full-time educator and makes illustrations for all sorts of clients all around the world including The New York Times, Hallmark, Girl Scouts of America, and Chipotle, as well as locally loved institutions like OMSI, Buy Olympia, and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Since 2008, she has worked at Portland State and now holds the rank of Professor of Graphic Design. She is also the Associate Director of the School of Art + Design and the head of the Graphic Design program. In 2017, Kate founded the community print space Outlet which hosts workshops, pop-up events, a zine library, and a fully operational risograph print studio.

Ramon Tejada is a DominicanYork (of Dominican-American, Afro-Caribbean, and LATINX descent) designer and educator based in Providence, RI, and occasionally in Los Angeles, CA*. He works in a hybrid design/teaching practice focusing on collaboration, inclusion, unearthing, and the responsible expansion of design, a practice he has named “puncturing.” Ramon has worked as an independent designer, most recently with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) as the graphic designer in residence in New York. He has collaborated with Silas Munro on a series of workshops titled “Throwing the Bauhaus Under the Bus” and served, in collaboration with Polymode as curator and lead on the BIPOC Design History: Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico. Ramon is an Associate Professor in the Graphic Design Department at RISD.