Paul Barbera
Paul Barbera is an Australian-born photographer who splits his time between Australia and Europe. He works mainly in advertising and editorial but what inspires him the most are his self-initiated projects, which are featured online. He has been published in more than 50 international publications, including View on Colour, Bloom, Elle Decor, Freudin, Grazia Casa, Vogue Living, Jalouse, and Black Book.
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz is an artist and writer who recently obtained her BFA from CalArts. Her mediums include video, sculpture, photography and installation. Formerly a contributing writer for ArtSlant, she is now a freelance writer living and working in Los Angeles.
Yoko Choy
Chinese-born, Hong Kong–based Yoko Choy was trained as a multimedia designer, but found it more natural to write than to draw. She served as assistant editor at Misc. magazine in Taipei and features editor for the Hong Kong publications City Magazine and Outlook Magazine before going freelance in 2008. She now covers design and architecture for several regional publications, including the Hong Kong Economic Journal and Esquire.
Whitney Joiner
Whitney Joiner is a journalist based in Marfa, Texas. Her work has appeared in Glamour, I.D., Marie Claire, The New York Times, Salon, Teen Vogue, and Time.
Tania Ketenjian
Tania Ketenjian is a radio and print journalist, documentarian, and sound artist. She has produced nationally for PRI, NPR, and APM, and internationally for the BBC WS in England, CBC in Canada, ABC in Australia, and RTE in Ireland. She writes for The Times of London and Icon. Tania hosts and produces a half-hour weekly program on the arts coincidentally also called Sight Unseen, which airs in San Francisco and in London. She is also a member of an artist’s collective, Quorum, where she contributes sound pieces for exhibitions. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Philip Wood.
Johanna Lenander
Brooklyn-based freelance writer Johanna Lenander was born in Örebro, Sweden, where she grew up in a cabinet-making, house-building, sweater-knitting, curtain-weaving, lace-making, and embroidering family. After many crooked birdhouses and asymmetrical scarves, she gave up and decided to write about craft and design instead. She contributes to Surface, T, and HOW magazines, among others.
Shonquis Moreno
Brooklyn-based freelance writer Shonquis Moreno is a design editor for Gestalten, a contributing editor at Frame, and the former design editor for Surface and Dwell magazines. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and has lived in New York City since 1989.
Tim Parsons
Tim Parsons is a London-based product designer and a writer and lecturer on design matters. Drawing influence from both craft and industrial design, his design projects have examined notions of familiarity, functionality, and the qualities of materials and processes. He has worked with manufacturers in Britain and Europe and exhibited widely, including at London’s Design Museum. He has contributed articles to publications including Blueprint and Phaidon’s Design Classics and has just completed Thinking:Objects, a book on contemporary product design published by AVA Books, for which he recently launched a blog about issues in product and furniture design.
Mike Vorrasi
Born in Washington DC and raised in Bethesda MD, photographer Mike Vorrasi now calls Brooklyn his home. Since moving to New York 10 years ago, Vorrasi has worked for companies such as Urban Outfitters, NYLON, and Manhattan magazine, photographing designers and artists in their most private spaces — their work studios and homes. Some of his favorite shoots have been with jewelry designers Pamela Love and Digby & Iona.