Born in 1964, Marti Guixé is a Catalonian designer living in Barcelona and Berlin. He graduated in interior design from Elisava in Barcelona in 1985 and studied industrial design at Scuola Polytecnica di Design di Milano in 1986.
Professor Hartmut Esslinger is founder and co-CEO of frog design inc. He studied industrial design at the College of Design in Germany and received a Doctor honoris causa in Fine Arts from Parson School of Design in New York.