Tattoo artist Peter Aurisch for 100FOR10

Vadim Vasilev aka Vadicore is an artist born in 1989 in the beautiful city of Ventspils, currently based in Velikiy Novgorod. He grew up surrounded by industrial landscape and white sands bordering with cold and endless waters of the Baltic Sea. Post-soviet era was a strange place to be in, with its dark aesthetic and a soundtrack mixed with metal, trip-hop and electronic music. Vadicore first started drawing out of boredom but later created his own visual language inspired mostly by women.

Hugo Moura, also known as Xesta, is a Portuguese graphic designer, lettering designer, and calligrapher whose main focus is creating unique visual identities, incorporating various styles and techniques from the typographic universe into his projects.
Based in Porto and with a background directly linked to graffiti, Xesta unifies art and design in his work, and is constantly collaborating and actively participating with other creatives.
From 2013 to 2018, he was a resident member and researcher at We Came From Space, where he began teaching several calligraphy and lettering workshops. He is co-author of the books “Calligraphy Manuals – Blackletter Fraktur” and “Calligraphy Manuals – Blackletter Rotunda,” published by Itemzero.
In 2024, he was invited to teach as an assistant professor, Communication Design Project and Typography at ESMAD – Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design.