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Masashi Kawamura

Creative Director

Masashi Kawamura is a creative director and founder of the creative lab PARTY, with offices in Tokyo and New York. >
Brand symmetry

Yves Béhar draws inspiration from Nivea's iconic blue tin to create brand uniformity across all Nivea products. >
Illustration & the internet

We look forward to welcoming Jessica Hische, letterer, illustrator and "internetter", as a speaker to Design Indaba Conference 2013. >
Jessica Hische

Illustrator • Graphic Designer

Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, and self-described “avid internetter”. >
David Butler on why design is critical to business

David Butler believes that design goes beyond making something pretty; it is about designing systems that start a movement. >
Matthew Carter

Typographer

Matthew Carter is a type designer with some 50 years' experience, having designed some of the world's most recognised fonts. >
Pop of colour

Pentagram's Pantone 2013 Calendar brings colour and digital graphics into the home and office for 2013. >
Seymour Chwast

Graphic Designer

Seymour Chwast is a graphic designer and founding partner of Push Pin Studios. >
AIGA

AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to advancing design as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. >
AIGA Charlotte Guest Blog: Gain Conference Recap

Rachel Martin, design director of Rachel Martin Design LLC, highlights Ravi Naidoo's presentation at Gain: AIGA Design for Social Value Conference. >
Coconut twist

BIG's Coco Grove at Grand Bay proposes to breathe fresh life into Miami through style and elegance for decades to come. >
Andy Chen on an inside-out process to social design

For Andy Chen, design should be used to build empathy and to bring about social change. >
John Bielenberg on why thinking wrong is right

John Bielenberg believes in thinking wrong to do right. Here he discusses his projects that drive positive change. >
The loaves and the women

Abbott Miller has designed branding for Hot Bread Kitchen, emphasising the bakery's mission to empower women through the baking of bread. >
Lisa White

Creative Director

Lisa White is the head of lifestyle and interiors at WGSN. >
Spiralling tower

Adding a significant structure to the Phoenix skyline, BIG Architects blend form and function for the "Phoenix Observation Tower". >
John Maeda

Educator • Computer Scientist • Artist • Graphic Designer

John Maeda is president of the Rhode Island School of Design. >
Lover, lost

"lost lover" is the title of Faith47's most recent work at Design Miami 2012. >
Eddie Opara on creating three-dimensional designs

Eddie Opara believes that a sense of identity is the most important thing one can hold on to. >
Pet project

Calling all pet lovers: Kenya Hara's "Architecture for Dogs" project looks at creative ways people can interact with their pets. >
Eye for programming

The Bright Eyes Kit seeks to take the bland and boring out of programming to make it easy, fun and accessible. >
Bell of the lion

Faith47's second piece of work at Art Basel 2012 in Miami is titled “let he who tied the bell to the lion take it off”. >
Valerie Steele on cultural influences in fashion design

From the Ottoman Empire to modern-day fashion houses, Valerie Steele discusses the history of fashion. >
Sparse seating

Studio Tjep's Recesssion Chair Bronze comments on current and looming economic issues in the world, and can be seen at Design Miami/. >

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