JI LEE
ED TUFTE
DAVID BUTLER
JOE ROSPARS
ROBERT WONG
BEN FRY
STEFAN SAGMEISTER
KHOI VINH
MARC JACOBS
JOHN MAEDA
AZA RASKIN
SCOTT DADICH
NICHOLAS FELTON
ERIC RODENBECK
MICHAEL ROCK
JONATHAN HOEFLER & TOBIAS FRERE-JONES
FABIEN BARON
DUANE KING & IAN COYLE
ALEXANDER WANG
JAKE BAR TON
FRED WOODWARD
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LISA STRAUSFELD
PHILLIP LIM
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1./2. Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer, the duo behind
Roman & Williams, did the interior of New York’s Ace Hotel
and set the standard for the worldwide haute-lodge trend.
3. Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s design curator, is a quirky
tastemaker and articulate advocate. 4. Chris Bangle’s
controversial flared designs made BMW a sales monster.
5. Fabien Baron, designer of Madonna’s book Sex, later
defined fashion at Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, and Calvin
Klein. 6. Jake Barton, founder of Local Projects, designs
interactive websites and environments, most notably for
the 9/11 memorial and museum. 7. Yves Béhar’s designs—
from the Peel Universal Remote to Jawbone’s Bluetooth
headset—are a mainstay of Silicon Valley startups. 8.
Kathleen Brandenburg, head of the firm IA Collaborative, is a
guru of user-focused design. 9. David Butler made design
part of Coke’s modern DNA. 10. James Corner helped create New York’s High Line, the most acclaimed public park
in recent memory. 11. Teddy Cruz uses U. S.–Mexican border
towns as new models for urban development. 12. Scott
Dadich, Wired’s former creative director, now oversees
Condé Nast’s iPad and digital editions. 13. Nicholas Felton’s
witty “Annual Reports” plotted his life in infographics;
DoUgLAS LYLe tHoMPSoN ( 1, 2); SCott RUDD ( 3); gett Y IMAgeS ( 4, 15, 32,
39, 46); Co URte S Y of e St UDIo teDD Y CRUz ( 11), NIKe ( 18), 3M ( 34), 2x4 ( 37),
MINIMAL( 48),googLe( 49);KIMRogALA( 13);IStoCKPHoto( 16);
