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Kimya Gandhi is a type designer from Mumbai with a passionate interest in Indic type design. Kimya holds a Bachelors degree in Communication Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bombay. She further went on to pursue specialisation in the form of M.Des in Visual Communication at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. She got her professional start interning at Linotype in 2010. Over the next few years she freelanced for several type foundries catering to their multi-script requirements. In 2015 she became a partner at Mota Italic and now focuses on Indic and Latin designs for retail and custom corporate projects. When not drawing typefaces, Kimya regularly teaches type design and typography at several design institutes.

André Michelle started as a techno DJ in the 90s before teaching himself to code, creating games and music applications. His curiosity for both music and software quickly turned into a lifelong path. He went on to create and develop audiotool.com for 16 years, shaping one of the first online music studios. Today, he is building openDAW, an open-source digital audio workstation for the browser, focused on accessibility, education, and creative freedom.

Annie Atkins is a graphic designer best known for her work in the film industry, creating paper ephemera for Oscar-nominated and award-winning films including Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs, and Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies and Indiana Jones. Her book on the subject, Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps, prompted Jeff Goldblum to write that “Annie makes the unreal seem hyperreal, and the real more supremely alive and utterly magical”.

Making Belief: Real Objects for Imaginary Worlds
Join Annie for a look at how handmade artefacts – from film props to paper ephemera in children’s books – help fictional worlds feel lived-in and emotionally real.

Lauren Celenza is a software designer and writer examining the systems and stories shaping our lives, with work featured in Fast Company, Forbes, and The New York Times. From making millions of places and routes visible in Google Maps, to generating over $90 million in tax refunds in the US, to advancing global land restoration, she translates intricate systems into stories and experiences that move people and money, bringing clarity to complexity at Google, Adobe, Code for America, and the World Resources Institute. She has taught design and storytelling to tech makers in over 40 countries, advocating for technology that preserves human agency. She also writes Tech Without Losing Your Soul, a sharp newsletter and interview series, blending personal essay and reporting to examine tech’s power, burnout culture, and how to live and build with AI without surrendering our humanity or sense of reality.

Oliver Reichenstein studied philosophy before becoming a designer. As founder of iA (Information Architects), with offices in Zurich and Tokyo, he works at the intersection of philosophy and design, connecting the dots and building bridges between both. iA is known for its focused writing tools like iA Writer and iA Presenter. In 2024, iA launched Notebook, an award-winning paper product that helps you write with lines and read without them.

James White is a Canadian digital artist (b.1977) based in northern England. Founder of the Signalnoise Studio, his 1980s-inspired work has led to collaborations with Hasbro, Warner Bros., Nike, Metallica, Ubisoft, Twitch, and Atari. A lifelong creator, he began drawing at age four and later studied graphic design, focusing on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. He is currently the full-time Art Director at ModRetro, a company specialising in retro gaming.

Chip Kidd is an award-winning graphic designer and writer in New York. His groundbreaking book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have elevated the form for close to three decades. He’s worked with hundreds of writers, including John Updike, Katharine Hepburn, Cormac McCarthy, Henry Louis Gates Jr., James Ellroy, Karen Russell, Michael Crichton, David Sedaris, Sharon Olds, Orhan Pamuk, Paul Simon, Neil Gaiman, and Haruki Murakami. His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, was a national bestseller. His most recent book, Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design, is the first book to teach graphic design to children and has over 60,000 copies in print. As an editor and art director for Pantheon Graphic novels, he’s worked with and published some of the very best cartoonists in the world, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, David Mazzucchelli, Charles Burns, Michael Cho, and Alex Ross. He is the recipient of the National Design Award for Communications, and his TED Talk has been viewed over 1.3 million times.

James Victore is a self-taught, independent artist and designer. Clients include Moet & Chandon, Aveda, Esquire and TIME Magazines, Yohji Yamamoto, Bobbi Brown cosmetics, The New York Times, and The School of Visual Arts. Awards include an Emmy for television animation, and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director’s Club. Victore’s posters have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, Paris, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Design Museum in Zurich and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Victore lectures and teaches regularly around the globe and he is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His book “Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?” was released by Abrams in 2010. He lives, loves and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Bramus is a web developer from Belgium. He’s part of the Chrome Developer Relations team at Google, focusing on CSS, Web UI, and DevTools. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since. Before joining Google, Bramus worked as a freelance developer in various frontend and backend roles. For seven years he also was a College Lecturer Web & Mobile, educating undergrad students all about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – in that order.

Supercharge Web UX with View Transitions
Are you tired of disjointed web apps? View Transitions are the game-changer you’ve been waiting for. Whether your app is single or multi-page, this powerful API lets you create seamless, native-like experiences that captivate users. Join Bramus Van Damme when he dives into the world of View Transitions, showing you how to replace jarring page loads with elegant transitions. Learn to harness the flexibility of CSS and the power of JavaScript to customise transitions and create a truly unique experience. If you’re ready to take your web apps to the next level, this talk is a must-attend.