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Filmmakers, fashion designers, product designers, artists: Creative people to watch.

The 26 years old German designer Meike Harde studied product design at HBK Saar. She works on an experimental-constructive basis while looking for allegoric-conceptual approaches.

Jamie Wei Huang

Jamie Wei Huang graduated from Fashion Design Womenswear at Central Saint Martins Art and Design College in London. Her collection was selected as the Top 5 finalists for the international fashion competition Designer for Tomorrow awards. Being the Top 5 finalist, Jamie was personally mentored by Stella McCartney and gained full sponsorship for her 2014 Spring Summer catwalk at the Mercedes Benz Berlin Fashion Week 2013. Shortly after that, she was awarded UKFT's TAP award enabling her to show her collection at WHITE Milano showroom and the renown Tranoi showroom in Paris. During her studies, she has worked in high-end fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen and Christopher Kane and she is also hired as one of the costume designer and tailor for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympics’s closing ceremony. Jamie has also been active in the arts industry. In 2009, she was selected as artistic representative for the Societe Nationale Des Beaux at Louve, won Medaille de Bronze at Le Salon 2012 Societe Des Artistes Francais and was the finalist of the Taiwan National Large-sized oil Paintings Competition. Her background became her foundation in developing contemporary fashion and concept building, and also appearing in her signature elements in design details and silhouette.

Jamie Wei Huang

Jamie Wei Huang

Michal Fargo was born 1984. and is a graduate of the Bezalel academy of art and design Jerusalem. She works and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her "else" project was awarded the Australian Sidney Mayer award in the international artist category.

Yoav Reches is a graduate of the M.A. Design Products course in the Royal College of Art, London (2010), followed by a residency at the MIT Media Lab as a visiting researcher in the Fluid Interfaces group. He received a B.A in Industrial Design from of the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2003) and was a member of the performance group Zik since 1995. He also taught at Shenkar College of Design, Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design and the School of Visual Theatre. He collaborated as a product design consultant with Samsung Electronics and IDEO. Yoav's work has been widely exhibited internationally in venues such as Milan Furniture Fail, London Design Week, Sotheby’s London, Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin, La Manufacture National de Sèvres Gallery Paris, Third Biennale for Ceramics Tel Aviv and Design Museum Holon.

Nick Veasey: Born in London in 1962, he worked in the advertising and design industries and pursued work in conventional still photography before being asked to X-ray a cola can for a television show. Veasey also X-rayed the shoes he was wearing on the day and upon showing the finished image to an art director was galvanised by the response it provoked. He lives near Maidstone, England. His work has featured in many international advertising campaigns and adorned products and packaging. In 2009, a major exhibition of his works began at Maddox Fine Arts in Mayfair, London. Artworks are also exhibited in galleries internationally, with exhibitions running in 2010 in Europe, North America and Asia. He is the recipient of many photographic and design awards including IPA Lucie Awards, AOP, Graphis, Communication Arts, Applied Arts, PX3 and awards from the D&AD also being nominated for the IPA Lucie International Photographer of the Year 2008.

Casey Neistat is a film maker. He was born and raised in New London, Connecticut. He dropped out of Ledyard High School in the 10th grade at age 15 and did not return to school or graduate. At age 17 Neistat had a son, Owen. From age 17 until 20 he lived in a trailer park with his son and son's mother, it was during this time Neistat was on welfare, a detail cited by Neistat when delivering his own biography. In 2001 Neistat moved to New York City. Prior to moving to New York City Neistat worked as a dishwasher[4] and short order cook in Mystic, Connecticut. His first job in New York City was as a bike messenger. In mid-2001 Neistat and his brother Van began working with the artist Tom Sachs, ultimately making a series of films about the artist's sculptures and installations. This was the earliest work done by the brothers as a collective. Neistat first gained international fame in late 2003 for a three-minute film titled iPod's Dirty Secret, criticizing Apple's lack of a battery replacement program for the iPod. The film received national media exposure and brought broad attention on Apple's policy towards iPod battery replacements. The video clip begins with a phone call to the Apple Support 800 number, and a conversation between Casey Neistat and an operator named Ryan. Casey explains that after 18 months of use his iPod battery is dead. Ryan suggests that for the cost of labor and shipping to replace the battery Casey is better off buying a new iPod. To the music of NWA's rap song "Express Yourself" the brothers begin a "public service announcement" campaign to inform consumers about the batteries. Using a stenciled sign reading "iPod's Unreplaceable Battery Lasts Only 18 Months", they spray paint the warning over iPod advertisement posters on the streets of Manhattan. In 2004 Neistat and his brother created a film series titled Science Experiments. The 15 minute series featured a number of short films documenting various experiments. The series was included in the 26th Sao Paulo Biennial in São Paulo Brazil. The work was popular and was eventually featured in Creative Time's 59th Minute program showing a one-minute excerpt from Neistat's film every 59 minutes on the Panasonic Time Square Astrovision. In July 2008 Home Box Office HBO purchased an eight episode television series entitled The Neistat Brothers. The series was created by Casey Neistat, Van Neistat and Tom Scott. Independent film producer Christine Vachon served as consulting producer. Written and directed by Casey and Van, the show is autobiographical and told in the first person. Each of the eight episodes is made up of short stories about the brothers' lives. The show premiered June 4, 2010 at midnight on HBO. Neistat has released 78 short movies on YouTube since the account was opened on February 15, 2010. The subject matter of the movies varies greatly and most feature Neistat.

Lee JeeYoung graduated from Hongik University in Seoul. His photographs have been aquired by the Museum of Photography in Kiyosato, the Foundation for Art and Culture in Incheon and the OIC museum Seoul.

Tina Roeder received a BA from Saint Martins College in London and an MA from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2004. After training with Studio Job in Antwerp, she started her own studio in 2007. Tina lives and worksin Berlin.

Pablo Reinoso (born 1955, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine-French artist. He was introduced to carpentry by his French grandfather. He made his first chair when he was 7-years old. He went on to study Architecture in University of Buenos Aires and began a career in communications and design. Reinoso has been working in Paris, France since 1979. He became known for his public installations and sculptures, created from traditional materials such as metal, stone and wood. After 1995 he began to introduce a wider range of materials, such as cloth in his installations Respirantes, Persistantes and Contractantes. In the late 1990's he broadened his work in a commercial direction to include the design of products, for example perfume bottles. In 2003 he designed a new cup for the French Ligue de Football Professionnel. In 2012 Reinoso had his first Asian exhibition, at the Art Plural Gallery in Singapore, showing 15 sculptures. Pablo Reinoso's works of Art and Design are presented in international exhibition such as the Biennale of Venice, Art Basel, Miami Basel,FIAC,Paris and ARCO, Madrid. In May 2013, as part of Le French May, Pablo Reinoso and Art Plural Gallery jointly presented an exhibition at One Central and Mandarin Oriental, Macau. The exhibition titled 'Living Sculptures' features eleven of the designer's artworks.

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