Richard Fenwick's brief but renowned career perfectly reflects the contemporary interplay of paradigms. Fenwick fulfils a dual role as both graphic designer and director of typographic films and has made a name for himself directing and producing video clips and pop promo material.
The German-American designer team Fork Unstable Media work in all fields of digital communications. They use design to destabilise existing conventions concerning both media and society, and as a form of discourse on viable alternatives.
Imaginary Forces is located as an independent design and production studio at the strategically advantaged intersection between two globally dominant influences: the high-tech Eldorado of Silicon Valley on the one hand, and the centre of the U.S. entertainment industry in Hollywood on the other.
Reed Kram is an engineer and designer, researcher and practitioner. He has carried out groundbreaking research in the areas of design and technology and software development. The American is a founding member of MIT Media Labs' legendary Aesthetics & Computation Group led by John Maeda, with whom Kram has undertaken numerous research and design projects.
A cartoonesque, sometimes wickedly infantile quality is characteristic of the visual worlds created by the Scandinavian design duo Reala, consciously distinct from the clarity and severity of traditional Scandinavian design, as well as defying comparison to other visual precursors.
Not least due to their vast circulation, CD cover design is one of the areas of media design which achieves the most exposure today. Stefan Sagmeister succeeds not only in compressing all essential information into this small format but also in recreating in visual form both the content and atmosphere of music.
Founded in the early nineties by Tony Brook and his wife Patricia Finegan seeking to move away from creating album covers for late eighties' bands. In collaboration with Warren Beeby, Tony Brook is now Creative Director of a generalist and non-hierarchical team of designers.
Although barely 30 years old, Alexei Tylevich already has an impressive biography, proof of his productivity and versatility in the field of design as a print and font designer, developing package design as well as high-end computer animation, interactive kiosks and new broadcasting formats for the Internet.
Developer Jürg Lehni and designers Raphael Koch and Urs Lehni have developed a site that allows up to ten users to collaboratively create an image with the help of an ingenious vector-graphic tool. Vectorama.org is not only a sophisticated game but also a prototype for future forms of collaboration no longer dependent on shared location.
Multimedia designer Markus Watz was shaped by the hedonistic Techno scene of the early nineties, adopting the "more-is-more" philosophy of the time. Today, his style is mainly inspired by British graphic design and Japanese pop culture influences.
