Nancy and her husband, Thomas Wedell, work to diminish the boundaries between graphic design and photography—creating collaged three-dimensional images influenced by modern painting, technology and architecture. With a home/studio halfway between Boston and Providence they balance their commitments to professional practice and teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. The studio’s work has received numerous awards the including a Silver Prize 1985 in Toyama, a Second Prize in Lahti in 2011, and a Gold Medal in Warsaw in 2010; and has been widely published and exhibited. Skolos/Wedell’ s posters are included in the graphic design collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland. Nancy is an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and a Boston AIGA Fellow.

Paul runs Faith, a design and typography studio in Mississauga, just outside of Toronto. For more than two decades, he has been exploring and practicing many of the parallels between art and music. Nine years after performing as a jazz guitarist, working for numerous design firms and completing his studies from both York University’s Jazz Program and from OCAD University, Paul founded Faith in 1989. Paul has consistently offered new methods of expression by using custom typography as a catalyst within his work and has challenged both clients and peers to enter his world of unique and flamboyant use of type and imagery. In addition to being commissioned by designers, art directors, educators and forums on typography internationally, his work has been widely exhibited and published globally. Paul continues to explore visual and typographic works in print, branding, public art, motion graphics and broadcast design.

Robert Petrick began his design career at age 10 when he entered the logo design contest for The Cleveland Browns. Having suffered rejection, he quickly learned to love the business and eventually obtained a design degree from The University of Cincinnati in 1978. Some of his more formative jobs include Junior Designer for NASA, Art Director/Copywriter for an upstate NY ad agency and Creative Director for the global PR giant Burson-Marsteller. In 1986, Robert formed Petrick Design, based on the philosophy that a flush world is a clean world. Petrick has been responsible for building brands such as Goose Island Brewing Co., The Second City, Farnsworth House, WXRT and the Old Town School of Folk Music. Robert has enjoyed plenty of accolades but the thing he finds most rewarding about a career spanning four decades is that to this day, the Cleveland Browns remain the only team in the NFL without a logo on their helmet.

James founded graphic design studio Practise in 1999 after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. He is now Design Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Previously he was based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, working as course director and teacher at Werkplaats Typografie and visiting lecturer at ECAL (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne). Practise works across various media for a diverse range of clients: from books, posters, typefaces, visual identities and stationery to exhibition design, signage, web, mobile platforms, video, pattern and textile design. In addition to studio projects, James lectures, runs workshops and is a visiting critic at various art institutions and design schools in Europe and the United States, and regularly writes for international publications and journals. He was art director of progressive UK music magazine The Wire between May 2005 and December 2007.

Stefan G. Bucher contains 344design.com, DAILYMONSTER.COM, neologist.org, stefangbucher.com, the books, “You Deserve A Medal—Honors on the Path to Love,” “All Access—The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers,” “The Graphic Eye—Photographs by Graphic Designers From Around The Globe,” “100 Days of Monsters,” “344 Questions: The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment,” the “Echo Park Time Travel Mart,” and the “Daily Letter” segments on the Emmy-winning reboot of the classic children’s TV show “The Electric Company” airing on PBS. He contains trace amounts of Sting, David Hockney, Tarsem, and The New York Times. Safety sealed. Keep out of reach of children.