Sam Hecht is a British industrial designer born in 1969. Hecht studied industrial design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and received his degree in industrial design from the Royal College of Art in London. Hetch also worked for architect David Chipperfield and travelled in the US and Japan before becoming head of design at IDEO.

In 2002 Hecht founded Industrial Facility with designer Kim Colin. Some of their clients include Muji, Yamaha, LaCie, Epson, Magis, Lexon and Whirlpool.

www.industrialfacility.co.uk

Tom Dixon is a British design and manufacturing company of lighting and furniture. In 2004, Proventus the Swedish-based private investment company, teamed up with Tom Dixon and David Begg to establish Design Research Ltd, a design and product development holding company.

With a recognised commitment to innovation and a mission to revive the British furniture industry, the Tom Dixon brand is inspired by the unique heritage, the individualistic innovation and the robust, no nonsense engineering of these small islands.

Today the Tom Dixon portfolio consists of over 45 products of lighting and furniture. Product is sold through a large network of dealers in over 52 countries world-wide. The brand launches new collections annually at major international venues such as the Milan Furniture Fair, ICFF and 100% Design London. In 2005, Tom Dixon created a public installation of 80 meters of public seating based around a rubber theme to celebrate the launch of the London Design festival and in 2006 the seating theme was extended with the ‘Chair Grab’, 500 polystyrene chairs were given to the general public. In 2007, Tom Dixon organised the ‘Great Light Giveaway’ of 1000 lights with a low energy bulb to the general public, bringing further awareness to the use of CFL’s and sustainability within design.

www.tomdixon.net

The brothers Fernando (born 1961) and Humberto Campana (born 1953) are two of the most famous South American designers. Since 1983, Fernando, who graduated in architecture, and Humberto, who studied law, have worked together in the field of design, or better between art and design. in their joint studio, a sort of converted garage, in São Paulo, Brazil, they develop furniture which are often based on everyday, ready-made materials, waste products as well as industrial goods. Some of their designs are manufactured by Edra and Cappellini.

www.campanas.com.br

Ronan Bouroullec (born 1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1976) have been working together for some ten years. Their collaboration is a permanent dialogue nourished by their differing personalities and shared perfectionism.
In 1997 they presented their “Disintegrated Kitchen” at the Salon du Meuble in Paris and were spotted by Giulio Cappellini, who gave them their first industrial design projects, notably the Lit Clos and Spring Chair. In 2000, Issey Miyake asked them to design a space for his new collection of A-Poc clothes in Paris. Then came the decisive meeting with Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of Vitra, which resulted in their conception of a new kind of office system, Joyn, in 2002. This was the beginning of a special partnership which has borne fruit in numerous projects, including Algues, the Alcove Sofa, the Worknest and the Slow Chair. Since 2004, the Bouroullecs have also been working with Magis, for whom they have designed two complete furniture collections, Striped and Steelwood. Finally, they have worked on several types of textile wall systems, such as the North Tiles, in close collaboration with the Kvadrat brand, for whom they designed a new Stockholm showroom in 2006.

Today, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec design for numerous manufacturers, notably Vitra, Kvadrat, Magis, Kartell, Ligne Roset, Issey Miyake and Cappellini. At the same time, they maintain an experimental activity which is essential to the development of their work at Galerie Kreo, Paris, where four exhibitions of their designs have been held between 2001 and 2008. They also undertake the occasional architectural project, such as the Maison Flottante in 2006.

www.bouroullec.com

Lena Bergström is one of Sweden’s best-known glass designers with a long career at Orrefors Glassworks, and she is also specialized in textiles. In her own words, she likes soft glass and hard textiles – her textiles often have a clear graphic expression, while her glass designs are more organic. Lena graduated from Konstfack’s textile department, and have won numerous awards since then, including 12 Excellent Swedish Design and 3 Elle Decoration Design Awards; and is represented by National museum in Stockholm, The Röhsska Museum of Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts in Gothenburg, the Cleveland Museum of Art in the United States, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

www.lenabergstrom.se

The paintings, murals and installations of Esther Stocker, based on grid structures and on the colors black, white and gray, consistently manifest entanglements, interconnections, interpenetrations, both semantically and formally, for which the variably deployed grid motif functions as a metaphorical logo. Stocker consistently breaks with one-dimensional notions of order, space, and painting as contextual and relational factors and concepts. When an artist so persistently preoccupied with spatial structures and spatial experience, simultaneously calls attention to the fact that „we know nothing about space“ (Stocker), then her stance would seem to testify to a productive skepticism which arises from unremitting and methodical attempts at understanding, and from insight into their-in principle-interminability.

www.estherstocker.net

Lee Alexander McQueen, was an English fashion designer known for his unconventional designs and shock tactics. McQueen worked as the head designer at Givenchy for five years before founding the Alexander McQueen and McQ labels. McQueen’s dramatic designs, worn by celebrities and fashion victims alike, met with critical acclaim and earned him the British Fashion Designer of the Year award on four separate occasions. McQueen died at his home on 11 February 2010.

Alexander McQueen’s early runway collections developed his reputation for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title “l’enfant terrible” and “the hooligan of English fashion”), with trousers aptly named “bumsters”, and a collection entitled “Highland Rape”. McQueen was known for his lavish, unconventional runway shows, such as a recreation of a shipwreck for his spring 2003 collection, spring 2005’s human chess game and his fall 2006 show, Widows of Culloden, which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss, dressed in yards of rippling fabric.

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Architect Ryuji Nakamura was born in 1972 in Nagano, Japan. from 2000 to 2003 he worked at Jun Aoki & Associates, and since 2004 he established Ryuji Nakamura Architects office, working in the fields of industrial design, architecture, landscape design, interior and furniture design. Ryuji Nakamura is lecturer at Maebashi Institute of Technology. He has won multiple awards and recognitions such as the JCD Design Award, the Nashop Lighting Award and the Tokyo Designer´s Week Award.

www.ryujinakamura.com

This is a fine example of multi-function furniture by designer John Nouanesing. Calling it the “One To Three For Five (Seconds)”, this giant white cube table can easily split up into a pair of low riding chairs and a red table/foot stool/extra life. How long does this transformation take to complete? Well as the name implies, it takes five seconds and a deep desire to interdimensionalize your surroundings.

www.johnnouanesing.net

Brodie Neill is a dynamic designer capturing the attention of the international design scene with his new and exciting use of form. The young Australian’s rapid rise to success has established an impressive collection of international achievements and an extensive list of prestigious clientele.

Already, Brodie’s progressive approach has resulted in the much-celebrated design E-turn (Kundalini) and the @ Chair; a design recently included in Time Magazine’s most influential designs for 2008. Other projects of acclaim are the Remix chaise longue and the Reverb chair (The Apartment Gallery London) both progressive designs that fuse material form with advanced technologies. Neill’s continuous creative endeavors led to the partnering with fashion maverick Alexander McQueen for ICFF New York in 2009.

www.brodieneill.com