Long time autodidact, started studying at 40. He graduated from the Academy of Contemporary Photography and then graphic design, photography, art history, design history and multimedia at Scholastika. When designing books, brochures, magazines, websites or music covers, he tries to combine typographic craft with contemporary graphic design. He has been lecturing since 2010 and his students include professional photographers and Czech Press Photo award winners. His graphic design publication What I Dream About won the main prize of the Fedrigoni Card Couture Awards 2017 - Das außergewöhnlichste Projekt (Exceptional Achievement).

He graduated from the Faculty of Education of the Masaryk University, majoring in art education and visual creation and graphic design at the Brno University of Technology. From the beginning he focused on animated graphics and video. He started as an Apple Certified Trainer for Final Cut and Motion and also worked as a freelance editor and motion designer. He has been involved in the production of many live projections, music videos and television graphics. He has also taught animation and 3D graphics as an educator at an art high school. He then joined Czech Television as an art director and motion designer, where he designed and implemented graphics for dozens of shows across channels and two complex redesigns of CT sport. After six years at CT, he moved to a marketing agency for mobile games and apps as a motion designer and now works again as a lecturer, motion designer and freelance animator.

Marta Maštálková graduated from Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the UMPRUM in Prague. She is mainly involved in the creation of visual identities, book typesetting and graphic design of exhibitions. Her most recent work in this field is, for example, the exhibition and catalogue Zenger’s Transformation Station: Electricity in the City, Electricity in Architecture for Kunsthalle Prague. She enjoys looking at the function of graphic design in public space and its effect on the environment. She is interested in its overlap with other disciplines. She has collaborated with architects a1architects, Papelote, the Proměny Foundation, the glass company Preciosa a.s (JSC)…. She currently combines her graphic work with teaching Pilates Body and Mind classes. She enjoys the forest, mountains, bodies of water and cooking.

Sára Matysová studied art history at Charles University and textile design at UMPRUM in Prague. Her work is appreciated in the Czech Republic and abroad and has appeared in a number of European capitals, including Dutch Design Week in the Netherlands and the Heimtextil textile fair in Frankfurt am Main. She is the co-founder of the studio and brand IHOR, with which she regularly exhibits at the Prague Designblok design festival, and collaborates with a number of representatives of the textile industry in the Czech Republic, such as Hedva Český Brokát, Tkalcovna Kubák, Schindler’s Knitting Mill and Moravská Tapestry Manufactory. She has received several nominations for her work in textiles and beyond. She has been nominated for the Czech Grand Design Award, the EDIDA Award and the Designblok Award.

Barbora Müllerová works as an illustrator, book designer and curator of the LUSTR festival of illustration and comics. She mainly works for non-profit organisations dealing with human rights and the environment, illustrating popular literature on scientific topics, children’s books and occasionally cultural periodicals. In recent years, she has also experimented with comics, publishing for example in the Finnish anthology Kuti or in the Czech comics fanzine XRX. From 2017-2022 she was a teacher at the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem, and from 2022 she has been teaching illustration at the Scholastika University of Applied Sciences. She is also involved in illustration and comics as a theoretician and curator: as part of her doctoral studies at FUD UJEP, she focused on strategies of socially engaged illustration and comics, as a curator she has prepared a number of exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, and from 2020 she has been in charge of the main exhibition section of the largest Czech trade show LUSTR. Since 2022, she has been part of the Czech Design Academy and sits on the jury selecting the Illustrator of the Year in the Czech Grand Design survey. Thanks to her experience from her own work and curatorial work, she is able to offer her students both practical know-how and a rich overview of what is currently happening in the field of illustration and comics in the Czech Republic and internationally.

Mgr. Pavel Brejcha designs clothing, footwear and fashion accessories, working both in the field of industrial design and in the free concept of fashion design. He defines his personal style in terms of “constructivist vs impressionist” - this dialogue between form and emotion is reflected throughout his work. He studied at VŠUV in Bratislava and VŠUP in Prague and graduated from Institut Français de la Mode in Paris. He has worked for Balenciaga, Zara, and a consulting agency for trend development, Peclers, and eventually founded his own brand. He was also the creative director of the Polish fashion chain Reserved and a university lecturer at the University of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín. He received several Czech Grand Design nominations for his work and regularly participated in presentations at Designblok and Prague Fashion week. He currently works as a freelance designer and devotes himself to his own design work.

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Matěj Janský and Cyril Dunděra design furniture for foreign brands and private clients. They focus on interior design and exhibition installations. They also produce furniture under their own brand MCDJ. The work of the young duo can be seen in galleries and design events in Milan, Paris, Brussels and Prague. The UMPRUM graduates have worked abroad for Claesson Koivisto Rune studio in Stockholm, glassbrand Lasvit in London or LehmTonErde specialising in steamed clay in Saudi Arabia. Products with their designs are offered by Cappellini, Lasvit and Kler, among others, and have won the German Design Award Special 2023, the Balthazar Award 2022, EDIDA 2022 and BIGSEE Wood Design 2022.
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Filip Trubač is a student of applied photography at the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem. In his free work he deals with conceptual photography, 3D art and game design.
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Martin Rýz has been working in the field of motion design since 2008, when he joined a company specialising in television and film production after graduating from the secondary vocational school of multimedia and promotional design in Prague. Over the years, he has completed a range of assignments from static 2D/3D graphics to post-production of shows and commercials, and has mastered the role of generalist in image post-production. In 2013 he switched to freelancing and continued to work in the graphics department of TV Prima, Óčko, MagicLab, PFX, Department and Oficina. As an external contractor, he cooperates with dozens of local productions and advertising agencies. In recent years, he has also worked as a lecturer at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art and Prague Scholastika.

Magdalena Šťastníková graduated from the K.O.V. studio, Concept - Object - Meaning, at UMPRUM in Prague. Her work is characterised by an abstract, organic and fluid morphology, with jewellery often extending beyond the human body and into the space beyond. The relationship between jewellery and the body is the main theme of her work. Magdalena creates jewellery that is unisex and wearable and combinable in multiple ways. She is inspired by feelings, nature and utopian imaginations. In addition to collections and custom jewellery, she often collaborates with leading Czech fashion designers and her work complements fashion shows. She was nominated for Jewellery Designer of the Year in the Czech Grand Design Awards for 2021 and 2022. Since 2021 she has been running her own brand under her own name.

Tomáš Gelien je architekt a urbanista se studijními zkušenostmi z Bratislavy, Prahy, Buenos Aires a Gentu. Absolvoval studium architektury a urbanismu na Českém vysokém učení technickém v Praze, kde současně působí jako doktorand se zaměřením na digitální tendence v urbanismu měst. Ve své praxi spolupracuje s odborníky napříč celým spektrem architektury i mimo něj. Zkoumá tradiční techniky v moderním, společensky odpovědném přístupu. Jeho práce zahrnují realizace a projekty interiérů, návrhy staveb od konzultace počáteční myšlenky, projekce až po dotažení výsledného díla. Úspěchy v soutěžích ideálních obnov rodinných domů až po transformace velkých brownfieldů do pulzujících městských čtvrtí a parků odrážejí autorský přístup založený na vzájemné spolupráci, od velkorysosti nadhledu až k promyšlenému detailu.

Klára Zápotocká je grafická designérka se zálibou v okrajových, pokleslých a jinak autentických formách, černém humoru, šumperácích a funerální typografii.

Zaměřuje se na úpravu knih, vizuální systémy a obalový design, a to hlavně pro kulturní instituce (Divadelní ústav, Národní galerie v Praze, Kunsthalle Praha, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová, Máš umělecké střevo?), neziskový sektor (Energeia, Nadační fond Impuls, Meta o.p.s.), kávovou a naturálně-vinnou scénu (7shotscoffee, Milan Nestarec, Pivnica Čajkov, United Cellars of Tekov).

Životopisně Malostraňačka, skautka, absolventka nedělní školy, Střední průmyslové školy grafické (obor restaurátorství a konzervátorství) a Prague College (School of Art & Design). Její absolventská práce, katalog sbírky Domácí umění (Český lidový design 2. poloviny 20. století) byl oceněn v soutěži Nejkrásnější české knihy. Domácímu umění jakožto přehlíženému, ale o to víc fascinujícímu žánru, se Klára věnuje i nadále jako členka stejnojmenného sdružení, které se zabývá katalogizací, popularizací a pořádáním výstav těchto svérázně svépomocných dekoračně-užitných artefaktů československého socialismu.

Pod hlavičkou vlastního podpultového nakladatelství Deset Deka Dekadence vydává kromě řady plakátů a autorských tisků také česko-anglický slovník s hvězdičkou „Odborný jazykový rádce ve věcech delikátních“.
V roce 2015 spoluzaložila grafické studio Breisky, v rámci něhož se podílela na designu řady výtvarných publikací a vizuálních identit kulturních akcí. Na jaře 2023 zakládá vlastní grafické studio Deset Deka Design.

Michael Fokt je profesionálním fotografem, novinářem a publicistou již téměř čtvrtstoletí. Jeho srdce patří fotografování zvířat a makrofotografii.

Své materiály o přírodních krásách světa díky přírodovědnému vzdělání zpracovává se smyslem pro souvislosti a vysvětlení vzájemných vztahů. Mnoho let se také věnuje popularizaci vědeckých témat, především z lékařských a přírodovědných oborů. Se svými sériemi fotografií získal v soutěži Czech Press Photo první místo – Cenu Zlaté oko – v kategorii příroda a životní prostředí, cenu dětí UNICEF, dvě ceny Academic za nejpůsobivější makrofotografii a několik čestných uznání. Publikoval též v prestižním odborném časopise Canadian Journal of Zoology, v mezinárodním časopisu GEO nebo v on-line vydání National Geographic Česko. Několik let vyučuje obor fotografie na Vyšší odborné škole informačních technologií (VOŠIS) a také na Střední škole elektrotechniky, multimédií a informatiky (SŠEMI).

Své studenty během lekcí učí nejen bezchybně ovládat aparát, ale také se dívat kolem sebe. Věří, že dokonalý snímek nevznikne bez toho, aniž by fotograf neznal vlastnosti fotografovaného objektu a vnímal ho s notnou dávkou empatie.