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Adriaan Beukers is Professor of Composite Materials and Structures in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. Together with a colleague, Ed van Hinte, Beukers has written the pivotal book Lightness, and participated in the Dry Tech project with Droog Design.
His manifesto The Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures is an interesting suggestion for developing the potential of technology and nature in order to establish ecological balance.
Denmark
www.louisecampbell.com
Louise Campbell is one of the key figures of her generation of young Nordic designers. The daughter of a Danish mother and British father, Campbell has studied design in both Denmark and Britain.
Campbell is a versatile designer working with a wide range of challenges from jewellery to furniture, lighting fixtures to spatial design. Her works combine Nordic rationality, femininity and experimental, research-oriented design.
Japan
www.isseymiyake.co.jp
Dai Fujiwara is a designer and Creative Director at Issey Miyake Inc. Fujiwara has been with the company since 1994. He is the mind behind the innovative A-POC concept, which brings together a major technology innovation and delicate, beautiful aesthetics in fashion design.
The Netherlands
www.jongeriuslab.com
Hella Jongerius is one of the most interesting designers of today. In her own business, Jongeriuslab, she works with many materials and manufacturing techniques. Jongerius moves innovatively and interestingly in the borderlands of industrially manufactured and unique products.
Camper
Spain
www.camper.com
Miguel Fluxa is one of the managers, and a member of the founder family, of Camper.
A Mallorca-based family business, Camper was founded by Fluxa's father Lorenzo in 1975, in the footsteps of his grandfather Antonio Fluxa, who in 1877 sailed to Britain to learn about shoemaking. 1992 saw the establishment of the first Camper branch outside Spain.
Camper is one of the rare businesses to combine ethical decision-making with the original spirit of an international company actively seeking new concepts.
France
www.bouroullec.com
Two brothers working as a team since 1999, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have a design agency together. Their work is a constant dialogue between two individuals, yet with shared objectives.
The Bouroullec brothers are among the key designers of our day. Despite their young age, they have collaborated with major companies, producing original, beautiful and interesting concepts and products from small desktop items to furniture and spaces.
Mikko Paakkanen
Young Designer of the Year in Finland. A furniture designer who is also a trained cabinetmaker, Paakkanen is involved in multiple projects.
Syrup Helsinki
An energetic, original team of two young graphic designers, Antti Hinkula and Teemu Suviala, Syrup Helsinki’s creations have spread around the world.
Nathalie Lahdenmäki
A remarkable, original, young generation ceramic artist. Creates unique, industrial products and concepts.
Arihiro Miyake
A young Japanese designer educated in Finland, Miyake successfully combines his native traditions and the Nordic design approach.
Paola Suhonen
One of the Finland’s most intriguing young fashion designers, Suhonen has created the “Fenno Folk” philosophy and style.
Sami Rintala
A Finn based in Norway and working internationally, Rintala is a leading figure in Nordic architecture.
