Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, writer, photographer, and Professor Emeritus at The City College of New York. Ina has authored eight online video tutorials about typography and related subjects on Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning.

She is the author, designer and principal photographer of the Body Type series of books on typographic tattoos, as well as Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type, and a co-author of Typography Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History and Practice of Typography.

She has written more than 50 articles on design and typography, contributed to 5 books by Steven Heller, and authored 15 essays for Phaidon’s Archive of Graphic Design.

Ina served as a Design Director at Time magazine, Worth, Golf, and others. She was one of the first art directors to work on a computer at Time Inc.’s Teletext Project. Ina frequently lectures on topics related to magazine design and typography; she has chaired, co-chaired, and judged numerous design and typography competitions. She is a two-term board member of the Type Directors Club and the Society of Publication Designers.

Ina lives in New York City. Her favorite typefaces are Requiem, Bickham Script, and Franklin Gothic No. 2 and her favorite characters are &, Q, Z, and R.

Chris has over 25 years experience in graphic, animation, and interactive design, with a unique focus on both design and development. He earned his BFA in Graphic Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (R-I-T), and has continued to study the landscape of design and its crossroads with various technologies. In addition to design and development, Chris has been a featured speaker in over 275 industry-related events, conferences and webinars, including NAB, Adobe MAX, Post Production World, How Design Live, AIGA, CreativePro Week, CreativeLive and PHOTOPLUS+ Learning Lens. Find more of Chris’ events at codifydesign.com/events

Von is the creative director of Glitschka Studios, a small two-person design firm located in the Pacific Northwest. We are illustrative designers who create designs and illustrations for global brands and small businesses to expand their creative possibilities, facilitate their brand engagement, and help their businesses grow and thrive.

Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Julieanne Kost is the Digital Imaging Evangelist Director at Adobe, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational Photoshop and Lightroom instruction. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry-standard Digital Imaging franchise, she devises and presents motivating and educational training sessions, sharing original techniques and tutorials worldwide — via live events, Adobe.com, and her blog (jkost.com/blog). She is also the author of “Passenger Seat — Creating a Photographic Project from Conception Through Execution” and “Window Seat — The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking”, an accomplished photographer and fine artist, and creator and host of the popular Photoshop Essential Training, Lightroom & Photoshop Workflows, Photoshop Automation Techniques, and the Art of Photoshop Compositing courses for LinkedIn Learning.

Kost is well-known for her unique approach to instruction, infusing practical tips and tricks with an equal amount of humor and creativity that keeps audiences entertained and engaged. She often serves as a guest lecturer at distinguished photography schools and leading educational institutions around the world. She has created and published more than a thousand instructional videos for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. For her outstanding service and contributions to the photographic industry, she received the Chuck Westfall Technical Education award from the Lucie Foundation, the Gerhard Bakker and Warren Motts International Service awards from the Professional Photographers of America, and was granted the title of Honorary Educational Associate as well as received the International Award for her significant contributions to Professional Photography as an Art and a Science from the American Society of Photographers, and was inducted to the Photoshop Hall of Fame by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

As a kid, Mark Heaps kickflipped his way into a passion for the art and designs of various counter cultures. Skateboarding, graffiti, punk rock, heavy metal, hip hop, fashion, and more, gave him a right of passage through crafts, vandalism, and trespassing. Eventually leading to college studying Fine Arts and Theater in England, which is where he discovered computers, technology, publishing, and animation.

Currently, on that journey, he is the Vice President of Brand & Creative at Groq Inc., an AI Accelerator based in Silicon Valley where he oversees a team of designers, content writers, marketers, and program managers. Formerly a Senior Image Expert for Apple, a Manager for Google’s Book Scanning Project, a Director of Development for Duarte, and lastly working for his wife’s agency Heaps LLC where he was the Executive Creative Director for the accounts of a dozen Fortune 500 companies and a handful of startups. He is a published author, frequent public speaker, and passionate advocate for the next wave of professional creatives.

If he’s not pushing pixels or bashing vectors he’s probably playing music with friends, hiking with his family, riding his motorcycle, or putting ketchup on foods that some would find offensive. Mark lives in Austin, Texas, where he is shocked by street signs that use the font papyrus.

Jesús Ramirez is a digital graphics expert, speaker, and educator specializing in Adobe Photoshop. Jesús has over 16 years of professional design experience and has worked with clients such as Adobe, Microsoft, Motorola, and Conde Nast. Jesús is best known as the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel, one of the most popular Photoshop YouTube channels in the world. You can find his articles and tutorials in many well-known publications and blogs, including the Adobe Creative Cloud Blog, Adobe’s Create Magazine, and Photoshop User Magazine. Jesús has been a speaker at many industry related events worldwide. Including events in Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Most notably Adobe MAX, Adobe SUMMIT, Adobe MAKE IT, CreativePro, CreativeLive, Talent Land, Photoshop World, and Pluralsight LIVE.

Chris started life like most humans, covered in placenta and with minimal motor skills. It was not long before he learned how to use both hands and feet as a groove-oriented drummer in a variety of bands across the Boston music scene. With over 40 years of experience, Chris has been playing drums longer than doing anything else.

Chris began creating animations as far back as when Flash roamed the Earth. His design and animation talents have graced television, the web, games, video, and even robots. Chris is a visual storyteller for a startup that uses technology to help rare disease patients. He is the author of the hit series How To Cheat In Flash along with various other titles focused on design and animation. Chris is a member of the Adobe Community Professionals program and is very active in developing example files and educational content for the Adobe Animate CC engineering team. When Chris isn’t animating, he continues to enjoy an incredibly active career as a performing and recording musician. Chris lives in Boston and is often found roaming the beaches of Cape Cod with his awesome wife, 3 amazing kids, and two dogs.

Dave is an author, writer, blogger, speaker, vlogger and photographer. With experience and expertise throughout the photographic industry, he captures the world from his perspective with a view to sharing all the tools and techniques he can in travel, photography, and retouching, all while holding nothing back. Dave lives by the mantra ‘once in a lifetime as often as you can while exploring in a converted Mercedes Sprinter van, specialising in the cold of the north and the aurora filled skies, showing everything involved in the process.