Kha Hoang is an interactive designer and art director from San Francisco with extensive experience in design and marketing agencies. His works have received awards and mentions, including "Best of the Web" by Forbes. He is now the Interactive Art Director of Mortar agency in San Fransisco. He shared his experience of working for studios in the interview for DI.

Yaron Schoen is an experienced Web Designer & Creative Director living in Manhattan, New York. He has been in the industry for around 11 years now, and has been employed by companies such as AOL and Fi. Now he works freelance and promotes creative projects like Desing-Swap.com. He shared with us his thoughts on designers' comaraderie and paths towards greater creativity.

Rob Palmer is a web & graphic designer based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Rob started designing and drawing from a young age and most of his design skills and knowledge are self taught.Rob graduated Multimedia Design Course at Newcastle College where he acquired great knowledge in digital art&design.

Vincent Connare has been working professionally in the software industry producing font projects for corporations for over fifteen years. While working at Agfa/Compugraphic from 1987 till 1993 he was a member of the Ikarus, Intellifont and TrueType font production teams. In 1993 he joined Microsoft Corporation as a Typographic Engineer where he designed and produced two of the most popular typefaces of the 1990's, Comic Sans and Trebuchet. There he also wrote documents relating to TrueType hinting and font production. Today, Vincent is on the staff of Dalton Maag Ltd. A London-based type design agency which specializes in corporate font solutions, branding, and type design.

Jonathan Ball is an illustrator and web designer from south Wales in the UK. Jonathan has developed his own unique and recognizable style that was appreciated by lots of designers around the globe and resulted in cooperation with such world famous companies as MTV, BBC, Channel 4, Sony Play Station, Doritos and many other.