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Alex McDowell

Digital Designer • Product Designer

Award-winning designer Alex McDowell is an immersive storyteller. He is best known for the set designs for "Minority Report", "Fight Club" and "Man of Steel". >
Photographer looks at history through a feminist lens

Bristol-based photographer Chloe Massey’s representations of women focus on their heroic contributions to history. >
Naama Schendar

Artist

Multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar explores identity and individuality through constructed methods of experiencing empathy. >
Safia Qureshi

Architect • Entrepreneur

Safia Qureshi is an award-winning architect, social designer, entrepreneur and one half of Studio [D] Tale. >
Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones are known for their surreal approach to photography

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones turn photography on its head with their unique artistic process. >
Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

Art Director • Filmmaker • Photographer

"Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers. >
Kids' craziest inventions become reality

In a world where we think nothing new can be created, inventors like Dominic Wilcox come and shatter that thought to pieces. >
A coat that doubles as a shelter for refugees

Students at the Royal College of Art have designed a garment that can turn into a shelter for an adult and a child. >
Water-resistant home floats during a flood

Baca Architects have constructed the UK’s first "can-float" home on the picturesque River Thames. >
"Creative courage" is the mantra behind Alan Dye and Nick Finney's NB Studio

Alan Dye and Nick Finney are the creative directors behind NB, a London-based studio specialising in branding and communication. >
NB Studio

Brand Specialist • Communication Designer

NB is an independent, multidisciplinary branding and communication studio established in 1997 by designers Nick Finney and Alan Dye. >
Hilary Cottam on how design can fix social services

Social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to help fix some of the biggest social problems of our time, using design as a tool for deep systemic change. >
Hilary Cottam

Social Entrepreneur

Hilary Cottam is a designer, innovator and social entrepreneur who pioneers the use of design for social change. >
Studio [D] Tale: A building isn’t always the solution

Studio [D] Tale founders Maxwell Mutanda and Safia Qureshi look beyond the traditional distinctions of architectural practice. >
Maxwell Mutanda

Architect

Multi-talented architect Maxwell Mutanda uses design to address real-world issues. >
Star Wars-like strobe lights for cycling safety

Public bicycle system Santander Cycles plans to release a fleet of bicycles equipped with laser lights. >
Imogen Heap and the future of the music industry

Self-produced singer-songwriter Imogen Heap is an unusual digital diva with rare technical savvy and a personal vision for the future of the music industry. >
Imogen Heap

Musician

As well as a talented musician, Imogen Heap is a digital master. Her tech innovations include the Mi.Mu gloves and a conceptual platform called Mycelia. >
Soner Ozenc: 3D printing and coffee in Shoreditch

Soner Ozenc is the founder of Makers Café, a maker space-cum-coffee shop located in Shoreditch, London that brings 3D printing into the public space. >
Recycled plastic gets beautiful with these vessels

Wael Seaiby, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, has designed Plag, a series of glass and ceramic looking vessels made from recycled plastic. >
Pentagram's Naresh Ramchandani slates corporate jargon with a two minute rap

Corporate slang is named and shamed in Pentagram partner Naresh Ramchandani's Gamechanger video. >
Naresh Ramchandani

Advertising Executive • Communication Designer

Naresh Ramchandani is the first ever communications and advertising partner at Pentagram. >
Urban designer Ekaterina Lichtenstein on the future of smart cities

London-based urban designer and architect Ekaterina Lichtenstein breaks down the elements involved in designing advanced cities. >
An exhibition dedicated to contemporary fashion in Africa’s major cities

“Fashion Cities Africa” is the first major exhibition in the United Kingdom to celebrate and examine the growing contemporary fashion scene on the continent. >

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