Ora-Ïto made headlines with a rather unconventional career path: the drop-out student thanks his status as a shooting star of the design scene to a magazine, which published his designer creations for Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Apple –

The Dutchman runs the architecture and design office UNStudio in Amsterdam together with a female partner. Besides his professional activities as an architect and urban planner, Ben van Berkel teaches as a professor at the State University for Visual Art in Frankfurt am Main.

Jean-Marie Massaud produces large architectural projects as well as individual design objects. In his studio he puts together projects of every size ranging from a perfume bottle to a football stadium.

The Italian Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 and studied architecture in Milan before founding an interdisciplinary studio for architecture and design with Nicoletta Canesi in 1986. Lissoni gained his reputation with various projects for renowned clients like Boffi and Benetton.