Shapescapes

Magda Gargulakova has a degree in Art History and is a co-founder and also curator of the OFF/FORMAT gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, which exhibits and promotes contemporary progressive art, mostly by young artists. She worked for a time in marketing, but her love affair with books has been a long one. For OFF/FORMAT, she has edited and published several art publications. Since 2019, she has added to this experience as an editor of literature for very young readers at Albatros Media, using her two daughters for quality control.

Stepanka Sekaninova is a graduate in Czech and History from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. She used to work as a TV reporter and in the production of children's programs but has always longed to write. Now she is realizing her childhood dream as a writer and editor-in-chief at Albatros Media. Stepanka lives in the Czech Republic.

Lukas Fibrich, born in 1974 in the Czech Republic, graduated from the Department of Animated Film at the Film and TV School in Prague and the Studio of Film and TV Graphics at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic. He is a house artist for the Czech ABC magazine, where he has his own comic strip, and his work appears regularly in a Czech history magazine for children. He has also illustrated 20 language coursebooks and works with various advertising agencies and filmmakers.