Osmond Tshuma is an award-winning Zimbabwean artist, designer, art director, typographer and curator specializing in Afrikan-inspired themes. Osmond is the co-founder of Mam’Gobozi Design Factory, a South African design studio celebrating Afrikan identity through design, art and product design. Over the years, he has worked on numerous brands across Africa, from MTN, Telkom, RMB, SABC, Apartheid Museum, and McDonald’s, just to name a few. Invited to speak at the Typographics NYC 2024 & 2020, Dex Atmosphere 4.0 conference ATypI 2020 and Type Drives Communities 2021, Osmond’s unique designs have been featured on the Obama Foundation website and he has had projects published in both Singapore, USA and the United Kingdom. His work challenges conventional approaches by acting as a call to the decolonization of Eurocentrism in graphic design and media, plus as an ode to the beauty in celebrating African culture, heritage, and belonging.

Felipe Kaiser is a graphic designer, educator, and researcher based in São Paulo. He is currently Professor of Design History and Social Foundation of Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), where his work focuses on design historiography, visual culture, and archival practices in Latin America. His academic research explores the intersections of design, memory, and socio-political narratives, with an emphasis on Brazil’s modernist legacy. In addition to his teaching and publishing career, Kaiser has contributed to exhibitions and collaborative projects that critically engage with the cultural and ecological dimensions of design history.

Daniela Mirabella is a graphic designer, lecturer, and researcher based in Zurich. She teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where she leads the theory class ’Social History of Graphic Design’ and runs practice-oriented courses focusing on process-based design in the Bachelor of Design program. In her teaching, she combines creative practice with cultural-historical research. Her work focuses on the social dimensions of visual communication, new perspectives on design history, and ways of engaging with archives and collections as sites of knowledge production. Besides her teaching activities, she works in the Graphics Collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich on archival and exhibition projects. She is also co-founder of the design studio Mirabella–Morganti, which develops projects for clients in the fields of culture and education. Daniela holds a diploma in Visual Communication from ZHdK and a Master’s degree in Design Research from the Bern University of the Arts.