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Brad Mallow is a web developer for fun and profit. He is enamored with technology of all sorts but is particularly fond of the internet. The son of a computer nerd, he was proudly designed in California, though has recently switched coasts to NYC. In his work he oscillates between stark perspectives. When staring deeply into his computer screen he might be thinking through a complex layer of abstraction, attempting to coax data models into elegant forms. Or he might just be fussing over a button color. He looks forward to a time when all apps and websites are clear, concise, and pretty, even though that means he'd be out of a job..
Carlos Meza graduated from La Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia and holds a Master's Degree in Architecture from Pratt Institute in New York City. During and after his post-graduate studies, Carlos has focused on theory and practice of generative digital design methodologies through modeling software as well as new digital fabrication technologies.
In 2005, he won first place in an architecture competition to design a library for the municipality of Villanueva Colombia. The project was fully completed in 2009 and has been widely published in international magazines and books. The library represented Colombia in the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture in 2010 and received an honorable mention at the 2010 Biennale of Architecture in Colombia. Carlos currently works as an architect in New York City and as a professor at Cooper Union, where he teaches 3D modeling and digital fabrication. He started Blacktable Studio in 2015 as a design/fabrication studio with a background in Architecture. The studio's creative processes are driven by the influence of digital manufacture technologies and traditional handcraft techniques.
Dean Sidaway's breakthrough Central Saint Martins MA graduate collection immediately gained him recognition in the fashion industry. After experience working with Calvin Klein and Clements Ribiero, Dean is currently working as a designer and consultant as well as Assistant Professor of Fashion at Pratt Institute.
His collection "The Revenge" was shown at London Fashion Week's official Fall 2011 runway presentations and Style.com featured him as an innovative new designer. Recent publications to feature the collection have included Vogue Italia and i-d magazine, with commissions photographed by Sebastian Feana and Sarah Moon. Another of Dean's collections, "Maidenhair", was recently exhibited at the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery in New York.
He premiered his collection LAND at the A W I N D O W Retail Lab in November 2014 and exhibited his "Unhappy Birthday" collection at 99cent store Gallery in Brooklyn in 2015. He started n0thing Editions in 2017.
Neil Gilks is a British creative based in New York. He was trained in fashion design at London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. With 15 years in industry as designer, illustrator and educator, his work has appeared in publications worldwide. Neil sees the beauty in the mundane and works to elevate the recognizable through technique and materials often mixing the exquisite and the raw.