Nicholas Blechman is a New York-based art director, illustrator and designer. Formerly art director of the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times op-ed page, he is currently creative director of The New Yorker. Since 1990 he has also published, edited and designed the political underground magazine Nozone, featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s Design Triennial. Blechman’s illustrations have appeared in GQ, Travel + Leisure, Wired and the New York Times. Born in Waiblingen in 1970, Christoph Niemann is an artist, graphic designer and author of various books. His work has appeared on more than 25 New Yorker covers since 2001, with illustrations in Wired, Weltkunst Magazine and the New York Times Magazine. He was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2010. Niemann lives and works in Berlin.