Armin Dett, born 1966, is a designer with a studio in the city of Konstanz on Lake Constance, southern Germany. His work focuses mainly on exhibition design for museums, illustration, and educational nature-trail design. He has won several international design awards and spent 18 years teaching graphic design as a lecturer. "Magic Eyes of Masoala" is his third book on moths. He collected the respective data in the field and designed both concept and book in the spirit of a private citizen science project. The work on this book took roughly five years to complete.