Lotte van de Hoef (1990) is a dutch graphic designer living in Amsterdam. After graduating at het Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht she continued her graphic design studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie where she graduated in 2015. During her graduation year she co-founded the graphic platform fanfare together with Freja Kir, which they have been running together ever since. Besides of this she runs her own independent studio as a freelance graphic and fabric designer, working mainly in music- and cultural related fields.

Freja Kir (1989, DK) works within graphic- and culturally engaging design. After being enrolled with Art History at the University of Copenhagen she continued her studies at the Graphic Design Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, class of 2015. Next to her studies she studied at the honours programme in Art and Research and worked for the lecture series Lunch Bytes. Together with Lotte van de Hoef she runs the graphic platform fanfare which they initiated during their graduation year. Besides of fanfare, Freja works as a freelance graphic designer and is currently occupied with running the wandering and wondering project Chives Archives together with designer Celina Yavelow (CH/US).