Creative concept of book design,
and picture editor

Zalán Péter Salát, book designer and graphic artist, independent art director, founder of the open creative community Lead82, 
was born in Budapest in 1972. His book designs won the German Design Award Gold in 2015 and in 2017. He was presented the Red Dot Design Award Best of the Best in 2016. He taught himself graphic design and formed his own visual way of thinking. His creative field is in printed design. Having more than one and a half decades of experience, he regards design as a complex unit. He believes in writing as a fundamental information channel, of which typography represents the highest form of expression. From 2007 for a decade he was art director and picture editor of the professional museum journal published by the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. He was the co-creator of the photo essay Museum: a slow genre, which he presented at an exhibition held in the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in December 2015. He has worked with the German publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag; he designed the album published for the 10th anniversary of the opening of MÜPA; he created the award- winning double volume Carved Names, published for the ELTE monument Names in Mortar Joints; and in 2017, commissioned by the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, the team he headed created the Leipzig Book Fair’s Hungarian pavilion entitled Silence Inside, which was a work of conceptual architecture and graphic design, and which was also selected as a winner at German Design 
Award in 2019.

Editor

Róza Tekla Szilágyi (1993) lives and works in Budapest. She graduated in art history and aesthetics from Eotvos Lorand University, and then worked for six months at the PiArtworks Contemporary Gallery in Istanbul. She continued her studies at the University of Fine Arts Budapest with a Masters degree in Contemporary Art Theory and Curatorial Studies. She has been publishing in national and international art magazines and publications since 2012. Founder of the Omnivore Gallery and senior curator of the Hybridart Space Contemporary Art Gallery in Budapest (2017-2018), senior associate at Artmagazin (2016) and currently editor-in-chief at Artmagazin Online.

Publisher

György Simó is the producer and managing director of the collective photography album titled Fortepan Masters. After having spent more than a decade in the media business as a journalist and editor, he has built a career as an entrepreneur and businessman. He is a founder of Radio Tilos, a renowned community radio in Budapest, and origo, Hungary's market-leading portal. Later he became CEO of T-online Hungary, where he was responsible 
for new media company acquisitions, new business development in media, e-commerce and data management services lines 
and the establishment of the company’s innovation center, Kitchen Budapest. György is the founder and managing partner 
at Day One Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, where 
he invests in high-tech startups throughout the Central and East-European region. He holds an MA degree in Sociology from the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary and continued 
his education at New School for Social Research, New York, USA and at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. Between 2006 and 
2010 he was a board member of the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary. He is the president of Freedee Printing Solutions, and sits at the board of Starschema Ltd. and Codecool Inc. He is a member of the Alumni Association Board of Hungary's largest University, ELTE.