Dominik Hrodek, PhD, is a marketing consultant, publicist and historian. He has many years of experience in the field of advertising and marketing communication and media. He worked as Chief Marketing Officer at Deloitte Legal/Deloitte, before that in the management of international communication agencies OgilvyOne and OgilvyInteractive or Czech Dark Side. He is a specialist in strategic planning, brand building and content marketing, and has created a number of significant projects. He has worked for clients such as Telefonika O2, Billa, DPD, SAP, Nestlé, ČSOB, Janssen-Cilag, Philips, Heineken, Zásilkovna, Vividbooks and many others. He is the spiritual father of the data journalism project Czech Republic in Data, which has been awarded many times in the Czech Republic and abroad. In the past, he has managed media titles, for example at Mladá fronta publishing house, and has published in the media.

He has contributed to the development of the Czech advertising market and marketing education as a member of the presidium of the Association of Czech Advertising Agencies and Marketing Communications (AČRA) and as director of the Czech Institute of Advertising and Marketing Communications. He is a co-founder of the Digital Agencies section of the Association of Communication Agencies (AKA). He is also active in lecturing and publishing and is regularly invited to serve on advertising and media juries and expert committees. Dominik is an occasional curator of cultural events and exhibitions. He studied history at the Faculty of Arts and geography at the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. He holds an international marketing certificate from CIMA. He has lectured and occasionally guest lectured at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Prague and at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. He has been lecturing marketing communication at the Scholastika University of Applied Sciences since 2016.

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He is a contemporary Czech visual artist and painter, he is also the director of the Scholastika College, which he founded in 2012 together with artist Ondřej Brody. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and received his PhD from UMPRUM. He has exhibited at major shows mainly in the Czech Republic and is represented in many private and several state collections and institutions. He has been nominated for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and is a laureate of the Critics’ Prize for Young Painting. His work relates to conceptual thinking primarily through the medium of painting.

Kamil Ansorge has been in the field of design and motion design for over nine years. He studied multimedia in high school and then worked for 3 years at the design studio Incube as a junior graphic designer and motion designer. He also worked in cinematography for several years, specialising in camera work. Now he works as a freelancer and simultaneously studying the last year at Scholastika with a focus on motion design. He also works as a teaching assistant at Scholastika and is one of the leaders of the course “Studio Practice” (Atelierová praxe). In his profession, he is mainly involved in 2D motion design, which he likes to complement with stylised 3D animation. He has worked on many projects, for example for O2, Heureka, Mixit, Iqos, XPS network, etc. In 2022, he co-created an installation at the designblock for Scholastika, where he created an interactive projection, and this installation was nominated for the best school presentation. Recently, he has been working on interactive projections, installations and VJing in addition to motion design. He has been working in After Effects animation software for over 10 years and creates 90% of all projects in it.

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Mgr. Kateřina Přidalová is a publicist, design critic and editor of designreader.org. She is currently a freelance project manager, copywriter and collaborates with graphic studios (Dynamo design, Toman design, Colmo, Lumír Kajnar). She contributes to magazines and online journals (kreativnicesko.cz, materialtimes.com, Host, Bulletin of the Moravian Gallery, h7o.cz, Marketing & Media, Flash Art and others). In 2014 - 2016 she was a member of the jury of the Most Beautiful Czech Book of the Year and since 2014 she has been a member of the Czech Grand Design Academy. As a lecturer she led workshops for the graphic design studio AGD1 at the Brno Faculty of Arts (2013). In 2014-2016 she worked as a project manager at Dynamo design.

A graduate in journalism who through writing about music got to designing concert posters and club parties and to graphic design of album covers (The Prostitutes, Houpací koně, Tomáš Palucha, Kovadlina, I AM PENTAGON, P ◤I S, něco něco). His work is lies between projects in the cultural sphere and commissions for advertising and event agencies. On a long-term basis, he cooperates with the Drama Studio in Ústí nad Labem, the KULT theatre festival and prepares the graphic design of the festival of open buildings, Open House Praha (based on the illustrations of Jan Šrámek). His poster for the film Tiché doteky (A Certain Kind of Silence, dir. Michal Hogenauer) was nominated for the Český lev (Czech Lion) award in the Best Poster category. He is a big of the New Order, (the work of) Peter Saville and the story of Factory Records.

Markéta Ježková studied art history, aesthetics and French language at Charles University and ULB in Brussels. She is mainly interested in Renaissance and Mannerist art and the phenomenon of 16th-20th century sovereign collections. For more than ten years he has been cooperating with the Education Department of the National Gallery in Prague and works at the Centre of Rudolphine Studies of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

He co-founded the creative groups OKOLO and Pedal Project. He won the award for the Most Beautiful Book of the Year with the publication OKOLO Mollino. With his colleagues from OKOLO, he has realised many original curatorial, publishing and artistic projects, and with his colleague Jan Kloss, for example, created the graphic design for the designSUPERMARKET festival of contemporary design. He studied graphic design at SUPŠ and VŠUP.

Long time autodidact, started studying at 40. He graduated from the Academy of Contemporary Photography and then graphic design, photography, art history, design history and multimedia at Scholastika. When designing books, brochures, magazines, websites or music covers, he tries to combine typographic craft with contemporary graphic design. He has been lecturing since 2010 and his students include professional photographers and Czech Press Photo award winners. His graphic design publication What I Dream About won the main prize of the Fedrigoni Card Couture Awards 2017 - Das außergewöhnlichste Projekt (Exceptional Achievement).

Štěpán Marko is a graphic designer, typographer and a member of the art group Black Hole Generation, which has been active since 2015. He studied at the secondary school of graphic arts in the field of Polygraphy and at the UMPRUM in Prague in the studio of Type Design and Typography. He uses and combines these two disciplines, both printing and graphic design, in his work. He sees the field of graphic design as an opportunity to visually translate textual information with a certain cultural reference or overlap. He collaborates with a number of publishing houses that focus on artistic and theoretical publications and has been awarded several times in the Most Beautiful Czech Book of the Year competition.

He graduated from the Faculty of Education of the Masaryk University, majoring in art education and visual creation and graphic design at the Brno University of Technology. From the beginning he focused on animated graphics and video. He started as an Apple Certified Trainer for Final Cut and Motion and also worked as a freelance editor and motion designer. He has been involved in the production of many live projections, music videos and television graphics. He has also taught animation and 3D graphics as an educator at an art high school. He then joined Czech Television as an art director and motion designer, where he designed and implemented graphics for dozens of shows across channels and two complex redesigns of CT sport. After six years at CT, he moved to a marketing agency for mobile games and apps as a motion designer and now works again as a lecturer, motion designer and freelance animator.

Ondřej Trhoň is a game and cultural critic, he is studying for a PhD in video game theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and works at Charles Games. He is a member of the queer gaming collective No Fun, creates his own game art, and is the editor-in-chief of the literary and cultural website Revue Prostor online. He co-organises the festival of independent video game art Final_final. He teaches history and theory of game design at the Scholastika School of Art.

Ex game title developer:
Beat Saber, Blue Effect, Mimpi Dreams
He also works as a mixed reality developer at LIV.
He is interested in game engine development, computer vision and machine learning.

Miloš founded the mobile game studio Geewa in 2005, which he sold to the American company AppLovin in 2021. Geewa created hits like Smashing Four, one of the TOP 300 highest-grossing mobile games in the world. Smashing Four was the successor to the billiards hit Pool Live Tour, which was played by over 80 million players on Facebook. Prior to founding Geewa, Milos worked for 15 years as a business development manager on projects for banks and telecommunications companies. Currently, Miloš teaches game design and with his advice and investments he is trying to build a new generation of successful Czech startups, especially in the creative industry. He is interested in game engine development, computer vision and machine learning.

Pavel Dobrovský is a journalist who has been covering computer games and their history for over twenty years. He is the editor-in-chief of Level and ABC magazines and the founder of the YouTube channel Retro Nation. His work has been published collectively in two books (On Games and People and 50 Years of Video Games), and he has also been involved in the production of game exhibitions and the popularisation of game development in television and radio programmes.

Lucie Tvarohová is an experienced game graphic designer. She focuses mainly on 3D creation and its animation. She got into game design by studying interactive graphics at the Václav Hollar University of Applied Sciences. Since then she has worked on many game projects with a range of work from environment and character creation to art direction. She is now responsible for the artwork of the Prague-based studio Charles Games, of which the games Playing Kafka and the upcoming title about children and war (working title “Toys”) are worth mentioning.

Barbora Müllerová works as an illustrator, book designer and curator of the LUSTR festival of illustration and comics. She mainly works for non-profit organisations dealing with human rights and the environment, illustrating popular literature on scientific topics, children’s books and occasionally cultural periodicals. In recent years, she has also experimented with comics, publishing for example in the Finnish anthology Kuti or in the Czech comics fanzine XRX. From 2017-2022 she was a teacher at the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem, and from 2022 she has been teaching illustration at the Scholastika University of Applied Sciences. She is also involved in illustration and comics as a theoretician and curator: as part of her doctoral studies at FUD UJEP, she focused on strategies of socially engaged illustration and comics, as a curator she has prepared a number of exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, and from 2020 she has been in charge of the main exhibition section of the largest Czech trade show LUSTR. Since 2022, she has been part of the Czech Design Academy and sits on the jury selecting the Illustrator of the Year in the Czech Grand Design survey. Thanks to her experience from her own work and curatorial work, she is able to offer her students both practical know-how and a rich overview of what is currently happening in the field of illustration and comics in the Czech Republic and internationally.

In 2002 he founded the DRAWetc illustration studio, which two years later gave birth to the etc. gallery. He is the co-creator of the fashion brand UrbanLegend and organises the ARNAL comics competition in collaboration with Komiksfest. In 2013, he founded the Raw Art Wrestling (RAW) series of drawing competitions with Hanina Vetrovcova, and the year after he founded the digital comics publishing house BigBookBrotherhood.

Brett Horting has been residing in the Czech Republic for nearly a decade. As a native English teacher, he has accumulated extensive experience teaching at diverse educational institutions, encompassing public and private schools, universities, and language institutes. His teaching philosophy revolves around fostering a personalized connection with each student.

Brett is committed to maintaining an open-minded approach to enhancing the student learning journey, which serves as a driving force in his profession. He actively seeks feedback from his students and collaborates with them to integrate valuable suggestions for refining teaching methodologies and introducing innovative materials to create engaging learning experiences.

MgA. Filip Kraus is a teacher, graphic designer and typographer. Since 2020, he has been the head of the type design and typography studio at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague. He also teaches and gives workshops at a number of Czech schools focusing on graphic design. In his own work, he deals mainly with graphic design and publications in the cultural sphere. He also designs his own digital fonts and in 2016 he was awarded the Certificate of Typographic Excellence by the international professional association Type Directors Club for his font BC Mikser.

Ignác Kozánek is a graduate of product design at the Scholastika University of Applied Sciences, and from the experience he has gained in the industry he passes on technical and design knowledge to his students. Outside of teaching, he operates and maintains the school’s workshop equipment, such as 3D printers and a CNC milling machine. He works as a designer at zeitgeist.limited studio and is also involved in the design and manufacture of hi-fi speakers.

Ondřej Elfmark is an architect and designer with his own atelier (Atelier Elfmark) focused on complex architectural activities, interior design and reconstruction of monuments. He graduated from UMPRUM in Prague and gained experience during internships in companies such as IKEA and MMCITÉ. His work has been awarded in international competitions such as Young Package, Talent Design, Graduation Projects and ABSOLUT ELEMENTS.

Filip Trubač is a student of applied photography at the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem. In his free work he deals with conceptual photography, 3D art and game design.
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Petr Polák graduated from the Institute of Art and Design at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Multimedia Design).
He first worked in the field of photographic post-production and collaborated on campaigns for Czech and foreign clients such as Mastercard, Nestlé, Labeyrie, GE Money Bank… ).
He is the founder and co-owner of Creative Studio St. Petersburg, where he is in charge of multimedia content creation. He was, among others, the photographer of the film Smiles of Sad Men (Úsměvy smutných mužů) and co-author of the poster for the film, the main cinematographer of the documentary film No Wave Back, the author of the concept and theme for the film Comfortable Century (Pohodlné století), producer and author of several photo campaigns for Czech Tourism and co-author of the photographic publication Prague Brutally Beautiful. Since 2016 he has been working with the Rudolfinum Gallery and together with his colleagues he is responsible for all of its video performances.
Currently, Petr Polák focuses mainly on photography and video from the field of architecture and, together with his colleague Lukáš Pumpr, founded the blog Naokraj.

Michal Špirko studied digital media at the Masaryk University and media studies at Charles University.
In the past, he worked with Czech Television as a director and scriptwriter, and later as a dramaturg and promo producer for ČT24. Currently, he mostly collaborates with the motion design studio Oficina, with the non-profit organisation Post Bellum on the Memory of the Nation project, and with film productions. He has worked for clients such as Netflix, EXPO, CAMP, Czech Television, Livesport and Aktualne.cz. He has created film trailers, documentaries, jingles, promo spots, campaigns and music videos.

Martin Rýz has been working in the field of motion design since 2008, when he joined a company specialising in television and film production after graduating from the secondary vocational school of multimedia and promotional design in Prague. Over the years, he has completed a range of assignments from static 2D/3D graphics to post-production of shows and commercials, and has mastered the role of generalist in image post-production. In 2013 he switched to freelancing and continued to work in the graphics department of TV Prima, Óčko, MagicLab, PFX, Department and Oficina. As an external contractor, he cooperates with dozens of local productions and advertising agencies. In recent years, he has also worked as a lecturer at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art and Prague Scholastika.

Natálie Pleváková is a composer and sound artist. She studied Multimedia Composition at the JAMU in Brno, Interactive Media Theory at the Institute of Musicology at MUNI and completed an internship at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague (NL). Her work challenges the exploration of new aesthetic categories in music and the enhancement of listening sensitivity. She creates music and sound design for theatre, podcasts, installations and AV works.

Mojmír Měchura studied Multimedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology. Music producer, DJ and sound designer with a focus in electronic music. In Prague, he works as part of the promoter collective Wrong, with whom he organises club events and experimental concerts; as a music dramaturge he is associated with the cultural space Petrohradská kolektiv. He works in film and stage music.

Věra Marešová is a graduate of the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague, graphic design and visual communication studio (Prof. Rostislav Vaněk). She designs logos, visual identities, book design and motion design. She is a recipient of the National Design Award, Gold Award WOLDA. Author of logos and CI of the city of Brno, the city of Mělník, the Ministry of Transport, rebranding Pilulka (pill pharmacy), and many others. Currently she works as a freelance creative, graphic designer designing logos and corporate identity of Czech and multinational companies. Her goal is to motivate students to be progressive, proactive - to be their unobtrusive mentor.

Madelen Hrubešová is a graduate of Motion Design at the Scholastika. She continues to work at the school in the field of Studio Practice as a consultant for first and second year students. She works at the Prague studio 3dsense, which deals with interactive projection mapping and light installations. She has collaborated with them on projects for clients such as Mercedes, Paměť Národa (Memory of a Nation), the National Museum in Prague, among others. As a freelancer, she has worked on countless other projects, both commercial and personal. Besides motion design, music is a big part of her artistic passion and she spends every spare moment on it.

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Martin Vaňo has been involved in game design for 30 years, including more than 16 years working professionally in various areas of the industry. During his career, he has worked on the development of AAA games, including the military simulation ARMA 2 and 3, the mobile games Mimpi and Mimpi Dreams, and live escape games. He has worked with Prague-based studio Mindmaze to create two next-generation escape games, Galactic Pioneers and Nautilus.

Since 2016, Martin Vaňo has also been teaching game design and development at universities in Pilsen and Prague. In addition, he provides tutorials in game design through private online platforms such as GameDevHub and Anomalia.

Tereza Fousek Krobová is a game theorist at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Her research focuses on the gendered aspects of digital games, i.e. in the context of representation, audiences and the games industry. She teaches gender studies, cultural studies and game studies at several Czech universities (NYU, FSV, FAMU and Scholastica). She is a member of the research group working on the project “Developing Theories and Methods for Game Industry Research, Applied to the Czech Case (PRIMUS grant, Charles University) and the group working on the project “A Systematic Approach to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Field of Game Applications” (NAKI grant, FAMU). She also works as an administrator for the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and as a dramaturge for the program DVA3 (Czech Television).

Matyáš Barák is a graduate of UMPRUM and the Royal College of Art in London. With participation in projects focused on reuse and upcycling, he is involved in product and interior design and architecture. He has gained work experience in Paraguay in Javier Corvalán’s studio, in the Prague studio Petr Hájek Architects and in the London studio Foster and Partners. He has worked with the Swedish furniture manufacturer Nola, Hornbach and the Czech company Atelier Paletky. He has exhibited his work not only in the Czech Republic, but also abroad, for example at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair or at Dutch Design Week. His biggest project to date is the realisation of a sculpture made of driftwood in Iceland. He is currently working on establishing his own brand with readymade design products Mata by Mata.