1. Åbäke

Abake is a group of four graphic designers who do a lot more than you might expect. They are self confessed ‘content’ junkies. Patrick Lacey is from the UK, Kajsa Stahl from Sweden, Benjamin Reichen and Maki Suzuki from France. They decided to work together in the summer of 2000. Please click here to read more.

2. Assa Ashuach

Assa Ashuach was born in Israel in 1969. After getting his BA in product design at Betzalel Academy in Jerusalem, he opened a design studio mainly working in collaboration with architects: the VIP lounge for Bloomfield Tel Aviv football stadium was a major project. He moved to London in 2001, where he continued his independent studio practice while completing an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. Please click here to read more.

3. Celine Condorelli/Gavine Wade

Support Structure is an evolving collaborative project between architect Celine Condorelli and artist-curator Gavin Wade. Please click here to read more.

4. Daniel Brown
Danny Brown is a digital artist/designer, born in Liverpool in 1977. Computers and computer games were part of his childhood. His father was a pioneer of computer graphics and, through a family friend, he was given access to the equipment at the Learning Methods Unit at John Moores University. Please click here to read more.

5. D-Fuse

D-Fuse are a group of London based artists founded in the mid 90s by Michael Faulkner with the ambition to explore a range of creative media – art, architecture, photography, film and live Audio-visual performances. Please click here to read more.

6. Julia Lohaman
The ransformation of humble materials into things of beauty and value is a common theme among todays’ product designers, but Julia Lohmann takes it to extremes. Please click here to read more.

7. Marloes ten Bhöme

Pick up a pair of shoes by the Dutch-born, London based Marloes ten Bhömer, and you quickly realise that there’s something fundamentally different about them. Please click here to read more.

8. Martino Gamper
Martino Gamper has an abiding interest in the pshyco-social aspects of furniture design. In particular, he has a love of corners and the multiple emotions provoked by the single right angled boundary. Please click here to read more.

9. Neal Rock and Newbetter

Neil Rock is an artist inspired by the shlock horror and special effects of 1980’s gore movies coupled with a the paintings of the abstract expressionists. Newbetter is a curatorial design agency that has worked on numerous research and exhibition projects including Shrinking Cities, Can Buildings Curate, Airspace and Hydan.Please click here to read more.

10. Sam Buxton

When Sam Buxton needed a new business card rather than make “a boring printed card”, he devised one which reflected his work as a product designer.  By deploying a chemical milling process used in the electronics industry, he produced a fine flat stainless steel card which unfolded into a 3-D miniature of himself using a computer. Please click here to read more.

11. Shezad Dawood
Shezad Dawood studied Critical Fine Art Practice at Central St Martins College of Art and Photography at the Royal College of Art. Since he received his degree in 2000 his works were shown at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Tate Modern and at the Richard Salmon Gallery. Please click here to read more.

12. Simon Heijdens
Simon Heijdens was born in Breda, the Netherlands, in 1978. He studied film at Udk Berlin, and product design at Design Academy Eindhoven where his Moving Wallpaper was awarded best graduation project of 2002. Now based in London, he has designed products for Droog, Swarovski and Artechnica. Please click here to read more.

13. Sebastien Noel
Founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel, this multi-disciplinary art and design practice draws on its members’ multi-disciplinary backgrounds in product and communication design to focus on the cross-contamination of arts and design disciplines to develop projects both engaging and demanding to the user, where design and information never stray far from each other. Please click here to read more.

14. Wokmedia

Wokmedia is a design partnership between Michael Cross and Julie Mathias who met while studying Design Products at the Royal College of Art. They graduated in 2004 and are now both research associates at the RCA while running Wokmedia with interaction design collaborator Wolfgang Kaeppner. Please click here to read more.