Glenn Adamson is a curator and writer who works at the intersection of craft, design history and contemporary art. Former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and head of research at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, he is currently a senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art.

He is the author of numerous publications including Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects, 2018, The Invention of Craft, 2013, The Craft Reader, 2010, all published by Bloomsbury. He contributes regularly to Art in America, Crafts, Disegno, Frieze, Antiques magazine and other publications.

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named a book of the year by BuzzFeed, Esquire, NPR, O- The Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. His most recent book, Go Ahead in the Rain- Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list.

Rick Poynor writes on design and the visual arts.

He is founder and Editor of Eye magazine, the acclaimed international review of graphic communication, from 1990-7.

His books include Typographica, Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World, Profile and No More Rules.