Keith Catalano is a senior front-end software engineer at Clockwork, an experience design and technology agency. At work, he builds complex web applications for clients large and small. In his spare time, you’ll find him obsessing over football, working on his D&D app side project, or trying to convince people that Stargate SG-1 is the greatest show ever created.

Sam Gordon is an interactive designer at Clockwork, a digital agency based in Minneapolis, MN where he enjoys using technology to tell stories and solve unique creative challenges. He’s an unashamed child of the internet, and misses creating colorful away messages, GeoCities sites, and custom Myspace themes.

Jordon is the Visionary Director of Blackbird Revolt, the Coordinator of Student Activities at CSS, and the creator of All Black Zine. He serves on the Duluth Citizen Review Board and as a member of the Duluth NAACP.

Terresa is the Creative Director of Blackbird Revolt, an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at UMD, and the creator and design researcher of Project Naptural. She serves on the executive boards of the Duluth NAACP, the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Committee, and on the board of AIGA Minnesota as the Director of Diversity & Inclusion.

Lindsay Nohl is the owner and creative director of Paper Bicycle LLC, a product and surface design company in Minneapolis. Retailers such as Target, Williams Sonoma, Starbucks, Tazo Tea, Michaels, Joann Fabrics, Radisson, and Sephora, among others, have produced her work in the home, stationery, apparel, and gift markets.
Nohl is also the founder of Light Grey Art Lab, a Minneapolis gallery and collaborative arts space that brings together creatives from around the world to exhibit work, share process, collaborate, and learn. Light Grey Art Lab has been featured on the websites of CNN, Kotaku, DesignWorkLife, Forbes, and Nintendo Magazine for the unique exhibitions, interactive projects, and events. Lindsay hosts Light Grey Art Lab's creative residencies each year in Iceland and Norway, and manages creative travel programs in Japan, England, and the United States National Parks.
Through Light Grey Art Lab, Nohl has published a number of projects including Girls: Fact + Fiction, an eighty-page celebration of flesh-and-bone as well as fictional heroines, and In Place: Wish You Were Here, which focuses on the beauty of Earth’s most intriguing spaces. She also contributed to Rolemodels: The Battle for Vyk’ Tornaahl, an artist-deck and RPG fantasy card game, the Great Personality visual novel series and Dream Arcade, a 27-level platformer video game. She is the author and publisher of the Light Grey Tarot, as well as the author of COSMOS Tarot & Oracle deck. Currently she is writing a choose-your-own-adventure style novel and game called The Lost Isle of Kismetdue to release in 2019.
Lindsay has been an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design since 2003, and has also taught at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the former College of Visual Arts. Her design theories have been published in the book Design School Wisdom, by Jennifer Tolo Pierce. She has been a board member of the Twin Cities Licensing Group and a member of the Craft and Hobby Association and AIGA, and holds a BFA, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Beth McKeever is a designer, gamer and cat lover based in Minneapolis, MN. She currently leads digital product design efforts for the post-purchase space at Target, and previously could be seen leading UX design at startups like Gravie and RetraceHealth. A service designer at heart, Beth loves taking on complex problems, and finding solutions that bridge the gap between user needs and bold business goals. She’d love to show you photos of her cats, or tell you where to grab a fantastic slice of pizza.

Jesse Lindhorst is an enthusiastic designer and illustrator reigning from Minneapolis, MN. He’s worked in branding and packaging at Duffy + Partners and Marvel Citizen, and now runs his own creative studio called Friend & Fort, where he helps local brands build meaningful experiences through visual communication. He’s an amateur photographer, lover of LEGOs, and can more often than not be found pedaling his bike around the city streets.

Luis Fitch is an international strategic designer, artist, mentor and creative entrepreneur who is currently the founder of UNO Branding a cross-cultural design firm. Luis has lead award-winning branding efforts for top 500 Fortune companies including PepsiCo, General Mills, Frito-Lay, Target Corp, Best Buy, Nike, Macy’s, Kimberly-Clark and MTV Latino.

His prevalent work is profiled in international design and marketing publications around the world. His design and artwork have won numerous awards including The McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, Ohio Art Council Design Fellowship, Type Director’s Club, The Peter Glen Special Award for Public Services, and The Hispanic Creative Awards Competition, among many others.

He has been named “People to Watch, by Graphic Design USA Magazine” and “Twin Cities’ top advertising minds by Metro magazine.” He lectures about cross-cultural design at creative conferences and universities national and internationally. He mentors students at MCAD MFA in Minneapolis.

Joshua Hardisty is a designer, author, educator, and artist. By day (and most nights to be honest), he works as an experience designer at Minneapolis branding agency Latitude producing retail campaigns, events, and pop-up shops for clients like adidas and PUMA. Prior to joining Latitude, Hardisty worked as a designer at nonprofit art organization Intermedia Arts, Target, and KNOCK. In addition, he and his wife Kimberlee Whaley have co-run the design company the MVA Studio since 2003 working with clients in action sports and the arts.

The MVA's work has been published in the best-selling design books Hand Job: A Catalog of Type and Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing (both by Mike Perry for Princeton Architectural Press). Hardisty's work at Latitude has been recognized by AIGA Minnesota, the Type Director’s Club, AdFed, and the American Advertising Awards.

Hardisty is the author of 3 books about design and visual culture including New Skateboard Graphics (Mark Batty Publisher) and Function, Restraint & Subversion in Typography (Princeton Architectural Press).

Passionate leader. Multi-tasking creative machine. Bike-riding Nashville native. A great day includes brainstorming, unexpected details and advocating for my team — all with a little bit of Southern charm.

Letter lover. Diet Coke drinker. Lifetime learner. I love to think big, but appreciate even the littlest details. A great day includes working with a kick-ass team to create concepts that tell a compelling story.

Avid vexillologist. Novice accordionist. Type nerd. Terrible punk music listener. Grid enthusiast. Helicopter dog parent. Idea-driven design advocate. A great day includes equal parts form and function.

Laura Kuglitsch is a business minded creative based in Minneapolis, MN. She attended the University of Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree in graphic design from the College of Design. Upon graduation she accepted a position as an in-house designer at Thomson Reuters where she still is employed as a creative manager, effectively breaking the millennial job-hopping stereotype. In 2011, she returned to the University of Minnesota to obtain her MBA at Carlson School of Management allowing her to operate equally well in right and left brain worlds. In her free time she enjoys letterpress printing, mid-century architecture and maintaining a clean manicure.

Chelsea Brink is a human being who makes a living as an interdisciplinary freelance creative. She is enthusiastic about bold type, design with intention and has an aggressive taste for the rainbow. After graduating from the University of Minnesota and working in Minneapolis for a couple years, she moved to Philadelphia for a job at the branding firm 160over90. That job quickly relocated her to sunny Southern California where she lived for many years and worked for clients like UCLA and Headspace. She returned to Minneapolis in 2016 with the vibrancy of Los Angeles packed in her stereotypical Toyota Prius. Since then, she's worked with a handful a great agencies and clients like Zeus Jones, Knock, Inc, Target and Still Kickin. In her free time she finds herself feeding her creative appetite by letterpress printing, looking at art, vintage hunting and petting all the pups.

Courtney provides great value, efficiency and service to her clients. Courtney’s practice focuses on trademark, copyright, anti-counterfeiting, licensing, marketing and brand management, and commercial agreements.

Courtney uses her experience to develop and implement creative intellectual property strategies to address each client’s unique needs. She strives to make herself approachable and responsive to her clients throughout each project to ensure unmatched service and satisfaction.