After co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and collaborating with Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels started his own office, BIG / Bjarke Ingels Group, in 2006.
BIG is a Copenhagen based group of 85 architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development in Europe, the Middle East, USA and Asia. By practicing what Bjarke Ingels likes to describe as ’programmatic alchemy’, BIG often mixes conventional ingredients into new forms of symbiotic culture.

www.big.dk

Since 1952 Moroso has been dedicated to manufacturing furnishings of the highest quality. Coupling the customers’ requirements and expectations with the guarantee of top quality products and services, Moroso use non-polluting production processes and materials that are as natural or as recyclable as possible. As a company Moroso works to connect the worlds of design, arts and commerce.
Under the direction of Patrizia Moroso, the company continues relationships with well known designers like Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, Carlo Colombo, Enrico Franzolini, Marc Newson, Toshiyuki Kita and also actively supports young designers and thinkers from around the globe.

www.moroso.it

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have been working together since 1999. Their collaboration is a continued creative dialogue that feeds off their separate identities, yet strives toward a common goal. The Bouroullec brothers worked for numerous companies, including Vitra, Cappellini, Issey Miyake, Magis, Ligne Roset, and Habitat. In addition, they work on architectural projects, like the "Floating House". In 2003, they were voted “designer of the year” by Elle Decoration, Japan. Their designs have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and at the Boijmans Museum of Art in Rotterdam. Their designs are part of the permanent museum collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art, the “Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou” in Paris, and the London Design Museum.

www.bouroullec.com

After launching his first collection "Primary Pouf" in 1999 - made from a cold foam on which he holds a patent - Arne established his own company Quinze & Milan. He is the creative director of the company, designing the majority of its numerous collections. Today furniture by Quinze & Milan can be found in the interiors of some of the world's most prominent buildings, such as Rem Koolhaas’ Public Library in Seattle. In 2006, Quinze was catapulted to instant fame with Uchronia, a gigantic sculpture built with wooden slats in Black Rock Desert in Nevada. A year later, he built Cityscape, an equally impressive sculpture – a forest of thirty 12-metre high stilts supporting 60 kilometers of wooden slats.

www.quinzeandmilan.tv

Paola Antonelli is one of the world's foremost design experts. In 2007 she was named one of the 25 most influential people in design by Time magazine and was rated as one of the top 100 most powerful people in the world of art by the Art Review. Working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994, Paola is now senior curator in the department of architecture and design. She has organized a number of important and well-received exhibitions at MoMA and has curated several architecture and design exhibitions in Italy, France and Japan.
Paola has been a Contributing Editor for Domus magazine and the Design Editor of Abitare. She was a lecturer at the University of California and has taught design history and theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the past several years.

www.moma.org

Alice Rawsthorn is the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, writing a weekly column on innovations in design and its impact on our lives. She sits on the board of Arts Council England, and is a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London. From 2001 to 2006 she was the director of the Design Museum in London. During her directorship, the number of visits to the museum rose by 40%, participation in the education programme doubled and the Design Museum website became the world's most popular design site.  Her books include an acclaimed biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, and a monograph on the designer Marc Newson.

www.alicerawsthorn.com

Since 1987 Birgit practiced as a designer and product development manager for a number of Italian architects and master designers, including Achille Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari and Renzo Piano.
In 1999 she co-founded designboom, where she is currently editor-in-chief, head of educational programming and curator for international exhibitions.
With more than 1,000,000 readers a month from over 165 countries (including 160,000 subscribers) designboom.com is the leading independent publication for key contemporary issues and the critique of all aspects of design.

www.designboom.com

Graham Fink began his career in advertising at the CDP agency. Following CDP, he went on to hone his skills as a creative director at WCRS, Saatchi & Saatchi and GGT.
In 1995 he began directing commercials and music videos at the Paul Weiland film company. In the following year he became the youngest ever President of the Design and Art Directors Association and was subsequently voted into D&AD's “Art Direction book”, representing the top 22 Art Directors of all time. In 2001 Graham created "thefinktank", a conceptual production company, and in 2005 became creative director of M&C Saatchi.

www.mcsaatchi.com

Joerg Koch co-founded the 032c workshop, a creative consultancy, and is editor/creative director of the bi-annual 032c contemporary culture magazine that covers art, fashion, politics, architecture and technology. Finding the new in the old and the old in the new, 032c invites leading and emerging creative minds to to work together in unison. Past contributors include Matthew Barney, Hedi Slimane, Daido Moriyama, Steven Klein, Juergen Teller, Fabian Baron and Rem Koolhaas.
The magazine is internationally distributed to selected art bookstores and fashion boutiques. It has been exhibited at places such as London Design Museum, Colette (Paris), GAS (Tokyo), The Pineal Eye (London) and the 3rd Berlin Biennial.

www.032c.com