Legendary London-based studio focusing primarily on complex visual identity work. Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi founded the branding agency in 2001. Together they have a global reputation as leading creatives in branding and design and are sought out by some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies to help them connect with and inspire their audiences.
DixonBaxi believe that in a world of rapid, constant change, there has never been a greater need to future-proof brands. They’re trusted by Netflix, IMAX, Audible, AC Milan, AT&T, The Premier League and British Land.
Jeroen Krielaars runs Calango, a motion design studio in Amsterdam, working with clients like Nike, Adidas, WhatsApp, and Google both directly and freelance with studios like The Mill and Buck.
He also pursues side projects including a coworking space, an After Effects tool, and Animography, a platform for animated typefaces.
Jeroen will share his journey as a self-taught creative and entrepreneur.
Anna Mill is a London-based designer, author, and illustrator who uses fiction to explore possible futures. As a founding partner at Liquid City under director Keiichi Matsuda, she creates films, prototypes, and narratives that steer emerging tech toward positive ends.
From her World Illustration Award–winning graphic novel Square Eyes to her recent Folio Society illustrations for Neuromancer, her talk will dive into how design and fiction inform each other in “Design Fiction.”
Živel was a trailblazing Czech magazine of the 1990s, revolutionizing graphic design and typography by giving young artists total creative freedom. Fusing contemporary music culture with influences from British magazines and album art, it became a DIY utopia for dance and cyberculture enthusiasts.
Three decades on, Živel endures its former editor-in-chief, Ivan Adamovič, reflecting on that radical blend of independence and early digital optimism.
Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus is a Maryland-based designer specializing in motion and generative design.
He’s created bespoke graphic and animation tools for studios like Buck and Wolff Olins and clients such as IBM, Nike, Apple, and Spotify.
His Space Type Generator, an interactive text-creation tool, has already been used in music videos and magazine covers.
Illo is a Turin-based studio, founded in 2012 by Ilenia Notarangelo and Luca Gonnelli, specializing in motion, illustration, and art direction. In 2019, after their Mouvo debut, they began experimenting with automated video creation, spawning sister studio Algo.
Today, Algo is a ten-person team crafting data visualizations, motion systems, and video-automation tools for clients like Bloomberg and The New York Times. Both studios share a love of clear visual principles, geometric forms, and bold color, and six years on, they’re returning to Mouvo together.
Martin Charvát is an assistant professor in Media Studies at Metropolitan University Prague, researching techno-imagination, media archaeology, and post-1960s media philosophy. In his lecture, he’ll examine how software and technology culminating in AI have reshaped visual creativity over the past decade,
realizing visions first sketched by J. C. R. Licklider’s “Man-Computer Symbiosis” and Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 demo. He’ll explore how this human–computer partnership amplifies creative potential through real-world examples.
Gergely Wootsch is a Hungarian-born animator and director working between London and Barcelona. He debuted at the inaugural Mouvo festival, already showcasing his signature blend of hand-drawn principles with cutting-edge 3D techniques.
Over the past decade, he’s become a fixture on the international animation stage, crafting sequences for Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+ series, and striking music videos.
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