Bob Aufuldish is a partner in the San Francisco area-based graphic design firm Aufuldish & Warinner and a Professor at the California College of the Arts, where he has taught graphic design and typography since 1991. In recent years his professional practice has focused on work for cultural institutions. He has designed projects for the Center for Creative Photography, Denver Art Museum, the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Aperture Foundation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the deYoung Museum, and Chronicle Books, among others. He launched fontBoy (www.fontboy.com) a digital type foundry in 1995 as an outlet for his typefaces.

He has participated in a number of exhi­bitions, including, “DIY: Photographers & Books,” at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and has lectured in London, New York, Honolulu, and points between. His work has been selected for many competitions and publications, among them AIGA 50 Books of the Year, the Type Directors Club, Communication Arts design annual, and Print’s regional design annual. He was elected into the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 2011. He has a BFA and MFA in graphic design from Kent State University, Ohio.

Barbara Bestor, AIA is Principal of Bestor Architecture and the founding chair of the Graduate program at Woodbury University’s School of Architecture and is now the executive director of the University’s Julius Shulman Institute. Her work is dedicated to the idea that ‘everyone should experience strange beauty everyday’. She has developed a varied, creative and aesthetically progressive body of work over the last ten years propagating the concept that Architecture can and should be a part of all aspects of our creative community.

The studio is currently designing new headquarters for Los Angeles companies ‘Beats By Dre’ and Nasty Gal, an innovative small lot housing complex in Echo Park, a variety of custom residences and restaurants. The Floating Bungalow house in Venice, CA will be featured in MOCA’s spring survey of contemporary LA architecture.

Barbara Bestor is the author of ‘Bohemian Modern, Living in Silverlake’ (Harper Collins 2006), a book dedicated to the suppressed narrative of informal and eccentric modernism found in Silverlake’s rich domestic architectural history.

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Ashkahn Shahparnia is a wannabe artist, designer & all around bon vivant who lives and works in Los Angeles. Ashkahn was born and raised in Redondo Beach, California and loves bananas, coconuts, burritos, convertibles, gold, silver, fluorescents, pastels, silver lake, open bars, heather, wearing pajamas in public, robes, sunsets and avocados. Upon graduating from Otis College of Art in 2006, he got his start working under the artist and designer, Shepard Fairey. Just two years after he started his own studio, ASHKAHN in Silver Lake, CA. Ashkahn has worked for clients such as Capitol Records, Universal Records, Coca-Cola, Target, M83, Urban Outfitters, The Standard and Nike.

Ashkahn has been featured in Interview Magazine, Paper Magazine, The New York Times and Taschen to name a few. In 2011, Ashkahn launched a line of lux greeting cards that are now sold in over 120 select stores worldwide. Ashkahn was nominated by Print Magazine’s prestigious “Top 20 under 30″ and was selected to be Taschen’s Illustration Now! Vol.4.

Christopher Simmons is a designer, writer, educator, design advocate and principal of the noted San Francisco design office, MINE™. He is the author of four books, including the recently released Just Design, which focuses on designing for social good. Christopher’s work has been exhibited at museums ranging from the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan), to the Smithsonian Institution. He is an adjunct professor of design at the California College of the Arts (CCA) and a past president of AIGA San Francisco. On completion of his tenure in that role, then Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an official proclamation declaring San Francisco to be a city “where design makes a difference.”