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Graphic designer, illustrator, lecturer, educator and author Paul Sahre established his New York studio in 1997. While consciously...

Andrew Shoben is the founder of greyworld, a world-renowned collective of artists who create art in public spaces. Primarily,...

Piet Hein Eek was born in Holland in 1967. It was his 1990 Design Academy Eindhoven graduation project, Scrapwood Creations, that had the...

Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design related to contemporary...

Dubbing herself a “professional in-betweener”, scent expert Sissel Tolaas has been working at the intersection of smell and language since...

"Saving the world has to be fun, otherwise who's going to do it?" What John Bielenberg does best is help people find the courage and the...

Clive van Heerden is the director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design. Here he works primarily in driving the “Probes” programme,...

Established in 2003, United Visual Artists are an art and design practice based in London. UVA produce work at the intersection of...

Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they are director and associate director (...

Eddie Opara studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his...

Porky Hefer focusses on conceptual precepts which manifest in three dimensional forms, in a variety of executions from public sculptures to...

Hans Ulrich Obrist is co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Prior to this, he was curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville...

Born in South Africa in 1970, Heinrich Wolff studied at the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town. In 1998 Wolff formed...

Architect Y Tsai founded Tsai Design Studio in Cape Town in 2005. With a multidisciplinary approach, the studio generates creative...

Aaron Koblin - famed for his work on 'The Wilderness Downtown' and 'The Johnny Cash Project' - is an artist specialising in data and...