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Giovanni Ponti, or Gio Ponti, is the Godfather of Italy’s postwar design renaissance. With his broad knowledge and skill sets in the realms of architecture, industrial and furniture design, the arts and publishing his work was totally revolutionary. In fact, he is known as one of the most famous, influential and important creatives of the twentieth century.

After serving in World War I, Gio Ponti got his degree in architecture and never looked back. Straight out of study, he shot straight to the top as an art director for an Italian ceramics company. His...

You may not recognise the name Maija Isola, but the chances of you encountering her work and inspiration on a daily basis are actually ridiculous. She was a Finnish designer of printed textiles and created some of the most recognised and well-known contemporary patterns in this past century. In fact, it was her incredibly bold, colourful work that essentially brought the Finnish mega-brand Marimekko to fame in the 60’s.

Maija Isola studied painting at Helsinki Central School of Industrial Arts and, after graduating, became the first full-time designer hired by Printex, which eventually spawned...

Rikako Nagashima is one of Japan’s most exciting and important creatives. As an artist, designer and photographer, she is known for blurring the lines between graphic design, fashion and contemporary art. With her company Village®, Rikako works from a beautiful, cosy space full of light and plants which used to be an Olympic athletes village in Tokyo. Here, she creates branding, CI, VI, product and packaging design, editorial and art direction solutions for some pretty enormous and great Japanese brands.

Despite her high profile clients, who range from LaForet to Issey Miyake to Zucca,...

Ling Ang is one bossed up super lady. Growing up on the Gold Coast on a diet of V and Rage, she honed a taste for film, anything from stylised music videos to documentary. Now predominantly a director based in Melbourne, she delves into the worlds of photography, music and fashion via her unique eye for the candid shot. She’s produced projects from Italy to Tokyo, Jodhpur to Paris, across America and Australia. Her work has been showcased in New York City, London and Sydney, and has worked with renowned documentary photographers.

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Elise is a London-based creative who creates jaw-dropping, beautiful work straddling the relationship between the two and three dimensional worlds. We’d love to supply you with a surname, to make Googling easier and not have your search requests return every ‘Elise’ that has ever been on the internet, but mysteriously it is the only namesake this creative lady supplies. Enough about names, her work speaks many more volumes than a few abstract letters strung together!

Elise “works at the intersection of sculpture, installation and photography”. At the first glance, her work is utterly arresting. The thought...