Eva Li is a freelance director and producer working across APAC who, after spending a year in Seoul, boasts some pretty cool creds, from a Hwasa video clip to the latest lululemon campaign featuring Amotti (for those of you who, like us, plan to rinse the Physical: Asia finale tonight). Like you might have noticed in the headline, Eva’s working rhythm only really kicks into gear once the sun goes down: her days are quiet, her browser tabs chaotic and her nights a beautiful collision of cooking freestyles, animated classics and deep-cut YouTube lore that “definitely” counts as research.

Ian Tran is the brains and brawn behind Sydney design and fabrication studio, Domus Vim, which has been quietly shaping the look of Sydney’s cultural corners, one brushed metal or perspex sign at a time. He’s also the artist behind Dinner à la Perspex, translating iconic meals into glossy, colour-saturated art. It’s all just a stupidly delicious crossover of design, humour and nostalgia that captures taste in more ways than one.

Rory Twomey’s something of an enigma: a free-to-air TV loyalist in a streaming world. He still finds comfort in the cadence of TV programming, the gentle absurdity of prime-time game shows and the quiet hum of the Nine News theme at breakfast. It’s a reminder that while he might live online, his sensibilities are still tethered to something classic… proof that media, like marketing, is best when it blends old rituals with new rhythms.

Vanessa Nguyen is an enthusiast of the world. Running her own Melbourne-based studio, BYV.STUDIO, she has a knack for ignoring the well-trodden path, especially in the wedding industry, where her work feels like a creative pursuit stitched together from art, form and her innate curiosity.

Since making the move back from London this year, Sophie consults for SKMG, but outside of work she’s a reader, a re-reader (Fran Lebowitz forever) and someone unafraid of the occasional YouTube spiral - even if she’s reluctant to tell us which one. She has the kind of relationship with newspapers that borders on religious devotion and the kind of coffee schedule that would excite the dullest of baristas.

By day, he’s a designer at Entropico. By night (and often very late night), he’s a K-drama aficionado, anime loyalist and chess.com struggler still chasing an ELO worth bragging about. He’s the kind of friend who will send you a link to some esoteric research zine, a Qendresa track that will stay in your head for weeks, and a TikTok reel that’s either a stroke of genius or a complete algorithmic cock up. Often both.

If there’s a cultural moment happening, odds are Jeeven Singh is all over it. He’s the type of friend you see tagged in last night’s gig photos, this morning’s exhibition opening and somehow at a cafe meeting before you’ve finished your Coco Pops. A brand strategist guy – most recently Ksubi and Depop before that – Jeeves has a sixth sense for where the cool stuff lives and how it works.

If our COMMPRESS MediaDiets were an Olympic sport, then Kate O’Loughlin is now officially the poster child for them. She consumes content with all the grace of someone shotgunning a Red Bull before their yoga class, bouncing from TikTok brainrot to existential news podcasts to fantasy smut audiobooks all before you can make it out of bed.

He’s not your average ideas guy. Jerome Williams is a Melbourne-based ex-agency art director turned born-again dyslexic, freelance writer (his words, not ours) and one who treats media like a topographical map: something to be traversed, questioned and occasionally fished from.

As the very talented Media Editor at Mediaweek, Tash Lee is someone who the SKMG team works with on a regular basis. So, while we (in part) know her, we thought this COMMPRESS: MediaDiet would give our dear readers a chance to as well.

Best known as the drummer keeping time for Australia’s finest (right now: Royel Otis, currently mid-world tour), Tim Commandeur is also the solo artist behind Channings, a music producer for brands and agencies and a pottery enthusiast on the side, because, of course he is.

SKMG’s newest Group Account Director, Tess O’Brien, has spent the past decade-plus telling stories about the built world from New York to London and has now brought her property and built environment expertise home with a client roster that reads like the architectural digest of your dreams.

A cyclist. A French student.

A man grieving Richard Glover’s radio slot.

HR superstar (and occasional SKMG Head of P&C) Brendon McKeon takes us through a week of screen time, streaming services, and secondhand bike browsing for our seventeenth issue of COMMPRESS: MediaDiet.

Aleks Trkulja is a certified Sex, Relationships, and Body Image Therapist from Sydney who loves to yap, write, and overshare – exactly the kind of qualities that make for a top-tier COMMPRESS: MediaDiet.

Senior Account Director at Entropico and unofficial commissioner of the Smooth Brain Afternoon Club, David Bostelman builds campaigns for Google by day, runs 10Ks by dawn, and ends his nights at The Darlo ordering Reschs with seasoned precision.

In case you haven’t heard of her, Ella Yarnton is a freelance creative producer who’s worked for the likes of Nike, Estée Lauder and Amazon Music. She’s a food whisperer, lowkey radio star, and the founder of Gather Berlin, a dinner series turning meals into cultural diplomacy.

Richard Akingbehin is a British-Nigerian artist, curator and DJ living in Berlin. He goes by the DJ name Richard Akingbehin because he needs no other name. He kind enough to take time out of his day as the co-founder of Berlin radio station - and community hotspot – Refuge Worldwide to chat to us for our 13th issue!

We chat to Amy Anderson, the General Manager of online and physical fashion powerhouse Above the Clouds.

She’s also a self-proclaimed reading format purist, something we will let you figure out the meaning of as you read on below.

Let’s face it: there’s clearly enough US election coverage out there, so what better time to binge it than during the countdown week? We put that challenge to our own GM, Sam Somers, a person from a completely different country who has a somewhat uncomfortable and inexplicably vested interest in the political rollercoaster that is American democracy.

For our 10th issue, SKMG’s co-founder and partner, Andrew Knowles, has finally let the cat out of the bag and completed his own COMMPRESS: MediaDiet with all the gusto of a man with a point to prove… That he loves niche content almost as much as he loves K-pop. And that he digests a lot of both on a daily basis.