Editor and co-author Ashley Rawlings is a specialist in postwar and contemporary Japanese art. After graduating with a BA in Japanese studies from the University of Cambridge, he moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he conducted research into the late-1960s Mono-ha movement at Sophia University while also working as a freelance editor, writer and translator. His writing on the Tokyo art scene has appeared in numerous Japanese and international publications, including ArtAsiaPacific magazine, where he was managing editor. He currently divides his time between London, Tokyo and New York.

Designer and co-author Craig Mod is an independent writer, publisher and designer. He is a MacDowell Colony writing fellow, a 2012 TechFellow, and was a product designer at Flipboard in 2011. His writing has appeared in New Scientist, The New York Times, Codex: Journal of Typography and elsewhere. He has lived in Tokyo for over ten years.