Joost Roozekrans is a designer, creative director and senior design lecturer based in the Hague, The Netherlands. He has worked as a design professional for 30 years in The Netherlands, United Kingdom and China, with a focus on designing visual brand identities and design education. Currently, he is active as an independent designer, teaches design and gives workshops for professionals. Roozekrans worked as a senior designer for The Guardian newspaper and Studio Dumbar, where he became the creative team leader and eventually the creative director for the Shanghai office. He is the co-founder of two design studios: NLXL (The Hague) and SparkyTiger (Shanghai). Next to his work as a designer, he also lectured on branding and identity design in Shanghai.