Jess Russell Flint has been physically attached to a pencil since she was able to hold one...Jess is the slightly odd one you see travelling on public transport with ink all over her face, curled over her sketch pad, battling the bumps & the shoves to get ideas down.

An illustrator, designer and creative director, she uses bright colours & textures to bring a unique look & vibrancy to her work. 

With a background in advertising and branding she's now working with a range of freelance clients, from designing wallpapers & textiles, directing photoshoots & set design, to illustrating for book covers & publications, logo design and branding to designing her own range of products.  

His work uses striking colours and geometric shapes in order to create posters, book covers and logos. As a freelance designer, he has worked for clients including O2, Ballantine’s, Red Cross and Sony Music, and has collaborated with the agencies What if? Innovation, WHAM and Mint Digital.

His work has been published in several blogs, magazines and books, and it has been exhibited in Paris, London and Spain.

He’s currently working on a personal project titled Philographics, a series of posters that explain big philosophical theories through simple graphics and colour. And he’s really really looking forward to have it published as a book soon.

Makoto Yamada is a freelance graphic designer born in Japan.  She studied exhibition and display design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She went on to study in Amsterdam, BCN and Glasgow School of Art. She has worked on a range of print and screen-based projects for studios in New York, Tokyo, Zurich, Berlin, Mallorca, Glasgow and London. 

In summer 2012, she assisted the Booksfromthefuture, the independent design school in London run by Martinez & Trees.

Jennie McConnell moved to London after studying design, starting a magazine and working at small and large studios in Melbourne.

Now a freelance photographic art director, designer and illustrator, her time is spent working for design studios on fashion clients and a whole host of other less glamourous brands. 

With a particular love for hand drawn typography and illustration, she hopes to have time to experiment with both in 2013.

Marianne Smink learned the craft of print design at a fashion academy in her home country of the Netherlands and went on to design prints and garments for a wide variety of high street brands. Finding the potential life of her prints cut short by the ‘undo’ key and mass production, she sought a new way to interact with them, a way to allow them to grow and become unique.

After moving to London and completing an MA in Applied Imagination at Central St Martins, she began to develop prints that celebrated inherent imperfection, either in the print itself or the interaction between the print and the material it was applied to. This experimentation led, amongst other things, to clay and a love of the beauty that arises from the ‘distress’ that the clay causes the print.

 Emma Jones is a graphic designer who cut her teeth at boutique design consultancies before moving to a large branding agency producing work for a number of household brands, and gaining a firm footing in brand strategy.

In 2011 she left agency land to set up her own design practice, creating brands for a broad range of clients from tech start-ups to children’s products and beauty brands. The style of her work is determined by the brief — she is an ideas led designer who believes in the power of creativity to solve business problems.

As well as contributing to design blog FormFiftyFive, Emma has featured on a number of blogs and in magazines, as well as being invited to speak at design colleges and business events. She also spends one day per week running an after-school graphics club in East-Ham. 

Rosie Roche is a producer/designer/animator based in London. As a producer she has been responsible for a number of websites, interactives, apps, print products and infographics for a wide range of clients over the past 5+ years. 

Her design and moving image work focuses on patterns, shapes, scribbles and colour. She is currently working on creating music visuals. 

Jhinuk Sarkar is an illustrator from London.

Her work uses inks, print-making, collage and typography. Jhinuk's illustrations can be fluid, fun, as well as intricate and sometimes with a hint of dark humour where projects allow it.

She has exhibited across the UK, Europe, Australia and Vietnam. Her clients include House of Illustration,  and Time Out London. Her illustrations have been used for music, editorials, packaging, invitations and theatre stage sets.

Jhinuk likes to think her unhealthy interest in cheese, bad knowledge of Spanish and interest in travelling informs her work.

Emma Smith understands that detail matters. She knows those intricate, little pen-strokes bring a design to life and help craft a story demanding more than a second glance.

Whether creating illustrations for bands or commissioned pieces for special occasions, Emma's ethos is simple and natural: keep it intimate and unique - one of a kind. 

Her primary medium is pen and ink, which she uses across both print and ceramics, earthenware and porcelain.

Emma is a graduate of Falmouth College of Arts, with a BA (hons) in Studio Ceramics, and currently works as a freelance illustrator and designer-maker. 

Hattie Stewart covers most aspects of design including web, print, illustration, company identity and promotion, for private, start-up and established clients.

With her previous experience, proficient working knowledge of the adobe programmes and passionate creative flair she can create solutions to almost any design brief.

She likes design to be simple but effective and applies that style to her work. Quirky and clever design solutions are preferred when she gets the opportunity, however she also understands the more rigid guidelines required by some corporations.

Hattie strives to turn the client’s vision into a reality and adds a personal touch to any project.