Gander is an award-winning creative agency based in New York City. Founded in 2015 by Katie Levy and Mike McVicar, Gander works across industries to transform brilliant ideas into brands that can’t be ignored. They have created numerous iconic brands like Graza, Magic Spoon, Banza, and Gotham Greens, as well as cultural institutions like Celebrate Brooklyn, Pop Up Grocer, and non-profits like Pursuit.org.

Zipeng Zhu is a Chinese-born designer, art director, illustrator, and animator based in New York City, and the Founder and Creative Director of Dazzle Studio.

Verònica Fuerte is a graphic designer based in Barcelona and the Founder and Creative Directress of Hey. Before founding the studio in 2007, she worked across a wide range of design projects, focusing on branding, illustration, and art direction, experiences that would later shape Hey’s distinctive approach and visual language.

From its early years, Hey gained recognition for a bold, highly recognizable style defined by vibrant color palettes, strong contrasts, and a playful yet rigorous use of form. Under Verònica’s creative leadership, the studio has collaborated with both global brands and independent businesses, delivering expressive and carefully crafted solutions across branding, packaging, digital, and editorial platforms. The studio’s work has been widely featured in international design publications and exhibitions, earning Hey a strong reputation within the global design community.

Verònica’s practice is driven by a constant exploration of how graphic design can balance experimentation and clarity, creating visual narratives that feel contemporary while remaining timeless. Alongside her work at Hey, she is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale), an Advisory Board Member of Canva, and a Board Member of the Art Directors Club (ADC), actively contributing to conversations around design, leadership, and the future of the discipline.

Sam O’Donahue is the founder and creative director of Established, a New York based design agency specializing in developing new-to-world brands.

Sam has won over 80 international design awards, including The Dieline Awards Editor’s Choice 2025 and 2014, The Pentawards Design Agency of the Year 2025, The Pentawards Best of Show 2025 and 2015, as well as five Clios, five D&AD Awards and Art Directors Club Gold.

Established is the agency behind the creation of some of the world’s best-known beauty brands, including Fenty Beauty, Rare Beauty, Marc Jacobs Beauty, REM by Ariana Grande, OneSize by Patrick Starr, Sarah Creal Beauty, Isima for Shakira, and and many more.

Sam has lectured on the creation of luxury brands at Columbia University Business School, and has served on the design jury of the D&AD Awards, the Pentawards and the Art Directors Club.

Originally from London, Sam received his degree in product design from Central Saint Martins and set up Established in New York City in 2007 with his wife and business partner, Becky Jones.

Jared is a seasoned Creative Director at Turner Duckworth with a passion for visual storytelling and a keen instinct for brand strategy – and his ability to seamlessly merge creativity with brand messaging has earned many accolades within the industry.

Having worked across three continents, Jared is able to apply a global lens to his work. After starting a career with smaller brands in New Zealand, a move to the UK saw him step into creative leadership roles on a number of well-known European and Global packaging redesigns; Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, Old El Paso, and Schweppes, to name a few.

Since joining Turner Duckworth in 2017, Jared has masterminded brand initiatives for Beam Suntory, most notably Maker’s Mark and their broad tequila portfolio; major visual identity & packaging initiatives for Molson Coors, Sprite and Mondelez; as well as expanding his creative & strategic oversight to different brand challenges, such as Verizon.

Emma Follett is Group Chief Creative Officer at Design Bridge and Partners, helping drive creative growth across the agency’s global studios.

Jena Garlinghouse is Co-Founder and Client Director at Herefor, an award-winning, independent design studio she runs alongside her partners Ryan Hammond and Cory Uehara.

Since 2019, Herefor has collaborated with emerging and established brands across food, beverage, pet, wellness, and beyond to create visual identity and packaging systems that are beautiful, joyful, and shape brands people love.

Kiser Barnes is Partner and Chief Creative Officer at Red Antler, leading multidisciplinary brand building across identity, digital, content, and experience design.

Erika Barbieri is the co-founder and creative director of OlssønBarbieri established in Oslo in 2012. With a degree in product and communication design from ISIA in her hometown Florence, Erika specialises in packaging and brand storytelling especially in the food and drinks sector.
Recognising the ecological, historical political and social forces shaping what we eat, her love for food evolved into a passion for the future of food. She believes that with new ways of thinking, new language, and new narratives we can challenge our food industry to build a new future.

Her work has earned several awards including D&AD, Pentawards, The Dieline Awards, European Design Awards, ADC, Dezeen and German Design Awards. Erika has served on several juries, as a guest lecturer, and her work has been published in international books, magazines and blogs.

Michael is the Design Principal at Date Of Birth (DOB), an independent branding agency based in Melbourne, Australia. With over 10 years experience, he has helped shape consumer brands in Australia and abroad, working with some of the biggest names in retail.

At DOB, Michael specialises in transforming consumer goods into consumer brands, building distinctive brand worlds that live beyond the shelf. He blends strategy and craft to define, elevate and design brands that are unforgettable and instantly recognisable.

From shelf to cart to doorstep, DOB helps brands create emotional connection, stand out in the category, and become more than just a product.

Stuart Harvey Lee is the founder of Prime Studio, a Product + Brand design consultancy based in New York City. He began his career as a Mechanical Engineer in a Sheffield steelworks before discovering a passion for Industrial Design that led him to earn a Master's degree at the Royal College of Art in London.

Stuart moved to New York in 1991, honing his craft at Smart Design and Able Design before launching Prime Studio in 1998. At Prime, he has had the privilege of working with an eclectic range of clients — from global giants like Unilever and Bayer to disruptive startups like Harry's and Welly. His work has earned numerous industry awards and more than 100 patents, but what drives him most is designing products and packaging that make a meaningful difference in people's everyday lives.

When he's not designing, you'll find Stuart either challenging himself on the hills of the Hudson Valley on his bike or doing his best to cultivate something tasty in his vegetable plot.

SUZANNA LAKATOS is an award-winning creative director with more than 22 years of experience shaping globally recognized brands and building high-performing creative teams. As Senior Director of Package Design for Mattel’s Dolls IP Portfolio, she leads packaging design for Barbie®—the world’s most iconic doll brand—along with Monster High and other fan-favorite franchises. Known for delivering strong creative vision paired with operational rigor, Suzanna brings a sharp eye for design excellence and a proven ability to lead teams to their best work. Her leadership style blends clarity, momentum, and high standards—driving impactful results with energy, confidence, and just the right amount of punch.

Esther Li is a New York based, Boston bred Creative Director, currently leading the creative team at Beardwood&Co. Over the past fifteen years, Esther has been specializing in branding identity design with a range of clients such as Etsy, MLS, Target, AICP, Chobani, Dunkin’, and UNICEF. She previously worked at SYLVAIN, Jones Knowles Ritchie and Collins, has spoken on her work at AIGA NY, served as a jury member for Dieline and Print Awards and been recognized by D&AD, ADC and The One Show amongst others. In her spare time she is either watching basketball or exploring the outdoors with her family.

Diego Barragan is a Design Director at The Working Assembly, where he leads branding and packaging projects across beauty, lifestyle, and consumer brands. With a focus on strategic clarity and visual impact, Diego brings a thoughtful approach to brand systems, identity, and packaging design that connects deeply with contemporary audiences. His work reflects a balance of craft, storytelling, and cultural relevance.

Andrea Beaulieu is the founder and creative director of Studio Linear, an award-winning, female-owned creative agency specializing in branding, package design, and digital media. With over 15 years of experience, she is known for creating bold, strategic designs that resonate across industries.

Her multidisciplinary background in music, new media, horticulture, and botany shapes a distinctive creative approach rooted in storytelling and inspiration from the natural world.

Studio Linear’s clients include Seth Rogen’s Houseplant and brands featured at major retailers like Target. What began as a one-woman studio has grown into a collaborative agency recognized for innovation, inclusivity, and impactful brand-building.

Mitch Wiesen is an artist and a designer and much, much more. Their design practice focuses on crafting unique brands and authentic packaging using bespoke typeface development, custom wordmarks, and hand-crafted illustrations. Over the course other eight year career, which spans three top creative agencies, they have had the pleasure of working on a wide range of project, from branding large universities and small nonprofits, to designing packaging for national mezcal brands and new-to-market aperitifs.

Outside of their freelance practice, they run a small font foundry called Deli Fresh Type Co., they mold young minds as an adjunct professor at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture, and they pursue various other creative interests as a tattooer, painter, printmaker and photographer.

Above all else, they value learning, creating, and collaborating with other people, brands, and organizations who are equally passionate about making great work for a greater world.

With more than 25 years of experience in design and creative leadership, Mike founded Pavement in 2014 with a vision to create timeless, enduring brands and packaging that transcend trends and categories. The studio’s work is grounded in strategy and defined by elevated craft—where thoughtful concepting, refined typography, and meticulous execution come together to create lasting impact. His multidisciplinary background spans branding, packaging, art direction, advertising, and editorial design, bringing both strategic rigor and aesthetic precision to every engagement.

Over the course of his career, Mike has partnered with nationally recognized brands including Williams-Sonoma, The Gap, Banana Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Gallo, Sony, Motorola, Target, and Whole Foods, working across major creative markets from Los Angeles and New York City to San Francisco. His work has received numerous industry accolades and recognition, reflecting a consistent commitment to excellence in design.

Val is passionate about helping brands maximize their sustainability efforts and then bringing those innovations to life through smart, thoughtful messaging and design. She’s on a mission to dig into emerging trends, materials, and industry shifts to create impactful packaging that brands can stand behind, no matter where they are on their sustainability journey.

With over 15 years of production experience, Val partners closely with suppliers to ensure design integrity from concept to completion, while guiding clients toward meaningful, realistic sustainability opportunities within their packaging materials. Her work spans bright-eyed startups like Grüns, Milton’s, and Egglife, as well as courageous legacy brands including Nestlé, Del Monte, and General Mills.

So what fuels her passion? If you know Val, you know her love for the planet doesn’t clock out at the end of the workday. She can often be found scaling rock faces, climbing frozen waterfalls, or standing atop mountains, taking in just a fraction of the beauty Earth has to offer. She also really, really, really loves cake. And Earth is the only planet that has it.

Léa Berger is the Creative Lead at Morrama, an award-winning London based industrial design consultancy. Léa moved to the UK in 2013 and gained experience working at studios such as LAYER and Map Project Office before joining Morrama 8 years ago, where she helps to build and maintain a sense of design thinking within the team. In the past few years she has worked with a growing number of startups and has helped to bring multiple product and packaging projects to market with a constant strive for innovation and sustainability.

Leo Chao is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Zenpack, a global packaging agency

dedicated to design innovation and sustainability. Recognized by Amistar, Clio, Dieline, IDEA, and iF, Zenpack partners with leading brands to transform packaging

into a strategic tool for storytelling, performance, and impact.

With a background spanning industrial design, packaging engineering, and brand strategy,

Leo has collaborated with globally recognized brands including Apple, Cisco, CVS, Fanatics,

Google, HP, Netflix, Nike, Sonos, Target, and Verve Coffee. At Zenpack, he leads projects

from early ideation through engineering and production, ensuring design intent,

manufacturability, and sustainability are fully aligned.

Leo is known for bridging creativity and execution, guiding teams across disciplines and geographies while mentoring designers to think systemically about materials, structure, and user experience. His work often explores how packaging can become more interactive, responsible, and meaningful beyond the moment of unboxing.

Leo holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Through his leadership at Zenpack, he continues to push the boundaries of what packaging can achieve for brands and the planet.

Alec Tear is an independent British designer and lettering artist with an extensive background in brand identity and packaging design.

Leveraging his network of independent specialists, or collaborating with creative agencies, Alec combines conceptual creative thinking with his unwavering passion for typography, to create bold, original work for brands all over the world.

Chloé Templeman is an award-winning Executive Creative Director with a sharp eye for design and a passion for brand transformation. Originally from Scotland, she’s led creative for some of the world’s most iconic names from Fortnum & Mason and Diageo to Unilever, Suntory and Valeo as well as a new wave of challenger brands. After 18 years rising through London’s top agencies (Brand Union, Designbridge, Bigfish) Chloé now leads the team at Pearlfisher, driving growth and cultural impact through design that dares to make a difference.
Her work has been recognised internationally, with awards from D&AD, Pentawards, Design Week, New York Festivals, FAB Awards, and the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards. Beyond her creative achievements, Chloé has a wealth of experience as a judge, speaker, and mentor as well as being a passionate advocate for the next generation of talent dedicated to nurturing young designers, diversifying the industry and supporting women into leadership roles.

Ryan Scott is a Creative Director specializing in packaging, brand, and visual experience design. With a background in experience design and visual communication, he leads multidisciplinary teams in developing thoughtful, design-driven systems that connect brand, product, and physical experience. His work focuses on elevating packaging beyond function—treating it as a powerful storytelling medium that communicates craft, sustainability, and brand intent at every touchpoint.

Ryan currently serves as Creative Director of Packaging Experience at Sonos, where he has led the evolution of global packaging design systems, shaping how the brand shows up across consumer and professional product lines. His approach combines strategic clarity with material sensitivity, balancing innovation, manufacturability, and environmental responsibility to create packaging that is both purposeful and enduring.

In addition to his in-house leadership, Ryan collaborates with creative partners and emerging brands, helping translate complex ideas into clear, compelling visual systems. He believes the best design is simple and human—grounded in purpose, crafted with care, and built to endure.

Fe is a creative human who leads design for the Family Care brands at Kimberly Clark North America. Prior to that, she founded her creative consultancy Experimenta, led design for Coca Cola North America, Danone North America and Hershey. Fe's approach to creativity is hyper-human, and she would like to remind you in this tiny bio that we're all just winging it, even when we seem like we know what we're doing. :-)

As a partner at CBX, Todd leads the company’s marketing and growth initiatives, and is the resident expert on all things retail. He works with clients across multiple channels of trade, including grocery, pharmaceutical, mass, pet specialty, consumer electronics, high-end fashion, convenience, office, home improvement, clubs, and auto parts supply. Under his leadership, CBX has developed dozens of comprehensive own-brand portfolios across thousands of SKUs, helped transform retail shopping experiences, and helped develop and omnichannel presence to help our clients remain competitive in today’s complex retail marketplace.

Prior to joining CBX, Todd was Vice President of Marketing for Daymon Worldwide and ran their global design firm’s offices throughout the US, Japan, Hong Kong, and Latin America. Daymon was the world’s largest own-brand sales and marketing company, working with hundreds of retailers across 40 countries.

Prior to focusing on the retail side of the business, Todd led creative teams developing advertising, promotional, and direct response campaigns for clients like Citibank, Sony, ESPN, Castrol Oil, and Mouton Cadet wines.

Todd has published articles on private label branding for PLBuyer, Store Brand Decisions, and Progressive Grocer. He has also spoken at FMI, PLMA, and NACS about retail brand development and growth.

Tom Rowe is Head of Design at OTHERWAY, where he leads brand and packaging projects that blend strategic clarity with bold creative execution. With a deep focus on contemporary consumer culture, Tom works across CPG and lifestyle brands to build identities that feel distinctive, confident, and commercially effective. His work is defined by thoughtful storytelling, refined visual systems, and a sharp understanding of how brands live in the real world.

We design brands with the power to move people. Stirring emotions. Driving action. Understanding what matters to people and what’s memorable for them. Ultimately designing what brands stand for into how they stand out.

Sébastien Servaire est designer de formation.
Après plusieurs expériences dans les domaines du design et de la création à Paris et à New York, il fonde Servaire & Co, qu’il dirige avec passion depuis plus de 25 ans.

Hybrid Design

Hybrid Design is a full-service creative studio that specializes in creating exceptional brand experiences.

Through these premium experiences, longterm brand equity is born, giving clients a strong foundation on which to grow and reach their goals.

Specialties: Our services include: Advertising, Branding and Identity, Print and Collateral, Interactive, Retail and Environmental, Film and Video, Photography, Product Design, Packaging, Research and Strategy, Asset Development, Client Services, Production, Copywriting and Curation

Our clients include Nike, Apple,TED, United Nations Foundation, Lucasfilm, Starwood Hotels, Juxtapoz Magazine, Disney, and Sony.

Super7

Founded in 2001, Super7® is the premier pop-culture design house and producer of lifestyle-oriented collectibles, toys and apparel based in San Francisco.

Super7® harnesses the graphics, aesthetics and energy of our youthful obsession with science fiction, giant monsters, comic books, punk rock, skateboarding, robots and rebellion to build a unique and innovative business that crosses all categories and is not bound by traditional manufacturing boundaries.

Besides its own branded products, Super7 has also designed, manufactured, and distributed officially licensed programs for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, GI Joe, Peanuts, Planet of the Apes movies, as well as for music legends Iron Maiden, the Misfits, and Run DMC.

Adam is a brand designer, lettering artist and mural painter who is obsessed with fusing the worlds of fine art and strategic design. In his personal work Adam infuses his love for travel and the outdoors into his typography, illustration and storytelling to create visceral experiences for his audience. That’s visceral, not Vicarel.

Adam enjoys donuts, whiskey, all things outdoors, trying to convince his niece that he’s not a monster and experiencing new cultures and conversations with people from around the world.

Stckmn (pronounced "stickman") is an award-winning, one-man creative studio based in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by Chris Wilson, a multidisciplinary designer with over two decades of experience in the creative industry and a BA (Hons) in Product Design under his belt. Stckmn partners with local and international businesses—from start-ups to established brands—offering an end-to-end, full-service approach, including branding, packaging, visualisation, and everything in between.

Roy Fleeman, founder of the Atlanta-based Office Hours studio and VP of Design at Vacation®, was introduced to the world of creativity in the basement of his childhood home where his father would hand letter signs for small businesses. Inspired by this, mid 90s albums, and skateboarding t-shirts, he enrolled in the design program at a small college in Georgia to see if he could make a career out of graphic design.

After graduating, he bounced around a few small advertising and branding agencies. In 2014 Roy made the venture into starting his own agency. Since then Roy has worked on branding and packaging for an array of clients including Sony Records, Patagonia, the City of Atlanta and Vacation® Sunscreen. In 2023 he went in-house with Vacation®, where he’s now VP of Design. At Vacation® Roy leads the small design team in creating all of the company’s packaging and visuals.

Roy believes a key part of his work is trying to capture “a little bit of undesigned charm”, this might account for the timeless feel that infuses all of Office Hours work, with elements harking back to the simpler, less-digitized design of the late twentieth century.

Design leader working at the intersection of physical and digital consumer experience, focused on crafting holistic brand identities that connect strategy, story, with systems. Expertise in visual identity, product and packaging design, user experience, and solution architecture., anchored in a belief that great design should improve how people interface with the world, innovating along the way.

Creative Director Adam Walko started his career as a commercial artist, but it was his passion for making products and the artistry behind them that drew him to the world of branding.
 
Since joining Safari Sundays 14 years ago, Adam’s savored silent sushi, two levels below Tokyo street level, smelled the obscurities of a Nordic fermentation lab, gasped at color spectrum of over 200 varietals of potatoes, and hoorah’d at the screeching of a ’66 Toyota Pick-Up Tokyo drifting around a hairpin turn.
 
Adam goes deep to give voice to every project with an unwavering commitment to craft a brand with the perfect taste, touch, sound and story it needs to come alive.

Passionate about brand building, client services and design operations, in 2015 I pivoted my career having held brandside roles at notable fashion brands to design project management, cutting my teeth at Pentagram on Paula Scher's team.

I am currently the Managing Director at CENTER design studio where I oversee and manage the successful collaborations with our client partners, our internal team and studio operations.

Sharon Werner is the Founder and Creative Director of Werner Design Werks, a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based design studio known for its thoughtful and authentic approach to branding. Since founding the studio in 1991, she has worked with clients ranging from Moët Hennessy and Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day to Target Corporation, crafting brand identities and packaging that resonate both commercially and culturally.

Beyond her client work, Sharon is also an author and educator. She co-authored a series of children’s books, including Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types and Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types, which explore the expressive potential of typography in a playful and educational way.

Her work has been widely recognized, earning international acclaim and a place in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She has also served on the board of directors for the Type Directors Club and has been actively involved in the design community, sharing her expertise through lectures and mentorship.

Sharon’s design philosophy centers on collaboration, curiosity, and the belief that brand storytelling should be as engaging as it is strategic. Through Werner Design Werks, she continues to push the boundaries of visual identity and branding, creating work that is both timeless and distinctive.

Monica Schlaug is a creative leader and educator who currently serves as the Associate Chair of the Graphic Design BFA degree at ArtCenter College of Design. Additionally, she teaches package design and brand identity courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, with a focus on design system development, sustainable materials and methodologies, and increasingly, consideration and exploration of AI tool integration in designers’ current and future workflows.

Her role at ArtCenter builds on her extensive professional career, which has included independent, agency, and in-house designer and director roles, including Creative Director of AdamsMorioka and Senior Design Director of the in-house creative team at John Paul Mitchell Systems (Paul Mitchell haircare brands).

Mentorship is core to Monica’s design and career philosophy. She is most fulfilled when helping others build and succeed in their design careers, whether they are her students or her professional team members.

Laura is a Growth Director based in New York and a self-proclaimed high priestess of all things beautiful and business. With over a decade of experience across growth, marketing, business development, and design, she has worked both in-house and agency-side to build culturally resonant, commercially effective brands, as well as help shape the next generation of design talent.

Her background includes roles at Shillington Education, Jones Knowles Ritchie, and Blurr Bureau, partnering with everyone from early-stage founders raising capital to globally established CMOs driving category leadership.

When she’s not buried in Figma decks or using too many emojis in emails, you will find her hunting for good coffee, at the cinema or a bookstore, or bouncing around at live gigs.