New York City native and a student at The New School, Urban Studies program, Celeny is interested in the spatial and political design of cities and how these pertain to the experiences of the individual. Through writing, visual art, photography and qualitative research she attempts to capture and relate the stories of the people to the stories of architecture. She is also interested in performance, environmental art and Caribbean culture. One of her current design interventions includes eco-graffiti. More at: www.miscelenyous.org.
New York City, USA
Nick is a writer for branding and design, and one half of creative partnership Asbury & Asbury. Personal projects include Corpoetics, a collection of poems made by rearranging corporate copy; Pentone, the written equivalent of Pantone colour-matching system; and Mr Blog, a blog documenting all the ‘Mr’ shops on UK high streets. Nick was also one of the writers in the original Significant Objects project, conceived by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. Nick has a particular interest in brand names, slogans, language and poetry and writes for the design press, including Creative Review.
http://www.asburyandasbury.com
http://www.twitter.com/asburyandasbury
Manchester, UK
Ajitesh Ghose was born in 1987 in Vienna, Austria. He received his BSc(Hons) in Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London and his MA in Cognitive Semiotics from Aarhus University (AU) in Denmark. During his studies he specialised in Neuroeconomics and Quantitative Semiotics. He has research experience in applied semiotics, visual semiotics, computational semiotics, and cognitive semiotics. As part of this he used eye-tracking and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He now works as a Research Analyst with Harris Interactive.
London, UK