The Iskos-Berlin team consists of Boris Berlin and Aleksej Iskos. Berlin is an industrial and graphic designer who was born in St. Petersburg. After graduating from the Institute of Applied Arts and Design, he worked freelance, designing a wide range of industrial products and graphics. In 1987, he co-founded Komplot Design which, over the years, received numerous design awards and distinctions as well as being represented in several design museums around the world, including the MOMA.

Iskos was raised in the Ukraine where he studied architecture and, later, education theory. After moving to Denmark in 1991, he graduated from the Institute of Industrial Design at Denmark’s Designskole and then began working at Komplot Design.