Wayne Daly is a London-based graphic designer, focusing primarily on publishing, editorial and visual identity work. Recent projects include the catalogue for Hayward Gallery’s major exhibition Carsten Höller: Decision (2015); Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist’s The Age of Earthquakes for Penguin (2015); and the visual identity for artist Sean Lynch’s Irish pavilion Adventure: Capital at the 2015 Venice Biennale. He is co-founder of Bedford Press, a publishing imprint at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, which publishes books and e-books at the intersection of architecture, visual art, graphic design and theory. Collaborators include artists Gustav Metzger, Joseph Grigely, Emma Smith and Can Altay, architects Kersten Geers, Jack Self and Shumi Bose, and photographers Giovanna Silva and Bas Princen. Bedford Press has exhibited numerous times at international book fairs, including the New York Art Book Fair at MoMa PS1, LA Art Book Fair at MOCA and Miss Read at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin. He has contributed texts to the journals AA Files, The National Grid and A Circular, and lectured at various British and international schools and institutions including the Royal College of Art, Werkplaats Typografie, Whitechapel Gallery, the Architectural Association and the American University of Beirut. In 2015 he was an invited consultant to the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for the appointment of the designer for the 2016 Most Beautiful Swiss Books exhibition and publication.

Jan Nauta (1982, Rotterdam) is an architect and organiser who divides his time between London and Rotterdam. In 2012 he founded Studio Nauta, a design and research organisation for the transformation of space. The studio specialises in delivering projects that establish new and bespoke relationships between humans and space. It produces physical designs, strategic and programmatic solutions. Studio Nauta works in the fields of architecture, urbanism, geography, media and culture. The studio operates as a collaborative network for spatial transformation, promoting change through design, research and writing. Nauta studied at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (BArch – Ing.) and graduated from the Architectural Association’s Diploma School in 2011 (AAdipl), winning the AA Prize. He was nominated for AA Diploma Honours, the Dennis Sharp Writing Award and was awarded a prestigious scholarship from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

Previously Nauta has worked for Markus Miessen in Berlin, was a researcher at the AA and consulted Beyond Entropy for the Venice Biennale’s 2010 and 2012. He is the co-founder of the Public Occasion Agency and a visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton as well as the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture.

Jan Nauta has been a guest critic and lecturer at various institutions including the AA, the Bartlett, Cambridge University and the Berlage Insitute. He has contributed to numerous publications as a writer and editor, including Cosey Complex (ICA London, 2010), Architecture d’Aujourd ‘hui 378 (Archipress & Associés, 2010), Manifest (Bedford Press, 2009), Cedric Price Ephemera (AA, 2011), Architecture on Display 2 (AA, 2011), Waking Up From The Nightmare of Participation (Expodium, 2011) and Critical Spatial Practice (Sternberg, 2012).

Jan Nauta is a registered architect in the Netherlands.