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Gerrit Rietveld (chair)
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch architect and furniture designer. He also made graphic work, including posters and covers for magazines, including one for De Gemeenschap in 1925. He is best known as a member of De Stijl and as a pioneer of new building.
Katerina Kamprani (disfunctional object)
Greece's Katerina Kamprani's series The Uncomfortable rethinks casual objects with this little twist that makes them useful but frustrating. As a designer, she obviously has the importance of the user experience in mind, but all the better to sabotage it!
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school that operated from 1919 to 1933, combining craft and fine art.
Joan Miró (Miró painting in 3D, window painting)
Joan Miró was a Catalan painter who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life.
Alexander Calder (mobile)
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.
William Morris (printing)
William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
SketchUp
SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer program for a broad range of drawing and design applications — including architectural, interior design, industrial and product design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, theater, film and video game development.
Minecraft
​Minecraft is a video game in which players create and break apart various kinds of blocks in three-dimensional worlds. The game's two main modes are Survival and Creative. In Survival, players must find their own building supplies and food. They also interact with blocklike mobs, or moving creatures.