Curtis Popp

Curtis Popp is a third generation Sacramentan. He is a graduate of Sacramento Country Day School and Jesuit High School. He holds a BFA in Interior Architecture from CCA (California College of the Arts). He has been published in Interior Design, Dwell and Interni & Decor magazines. In addition to international publications, Curtis has also been published in many local publication including The Sacramento Bee, Sactown, Sacramento Magazine, Sacramento Business Journal and Comstocks.

Curtis lives with his wife and two children in Land Park.

Carlos Motta

Carlos Motta, a Brazilian furniture designer, architect and avid surfer, is one of Latin America’s leading designers. Over the past 30 years he has employed a sustainable approach to his practice, handcrafting furniture from demolition residue and reclaimed wood. Motta’s works, known for their wit, comfort and eco-consciousness, have been featured in numerous international design publications, galleries and auctions.

Motta was born in 1952 in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1976, he received a degree in architecture from Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Braz Cubas in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo. After working for Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was awarded the 2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Motta studied architecture, woodworking and sculpture at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California. In 1978, he returned to Brazil to open his atelier in São Paulo.

Julian Pastorino + Cecilia Suarez

Julian Pastorino&Cecilia Suarez

Work-mates as well as life-mates, in 2001 they start their own activity in Milan, taking comissions in the fields of lightning, product design, furniture design and brand image. Julian Pastorino&Cecilia Suarez collaborate for companies like Casamania by Frezza, Koziol e Fontana Arte, Alessi.

Cecilia Suarez, born in Buenos Aires in ’71. She graduated in Industrial Design ’96, at Universidad de Buenos Aires. She worked in packaging, product design an merchandise, as well as shop interiors and fair booths. In ’99 she moved to Milan. She worked for Atelier Bellini and DesignNetwork, working in projects of furniture design (Hans Kaufeld), corporate image and interior design (Lavazza).

Julian Pastorino , born in Buenos Aires in ’70. He graduated in Industrial Design ’96, at Universidad de Buenos Aires. In ’97 he moved to Milan. Starts a long collaboration with Centro Studi Alessi. Works for three years with Alejandro Ruiz and six years with Matteo Thun.
From 2001 to 2003 the participate in the Hall designers collective, exhibiting experimental projects in Milan and New York during the Salone del Mobile an the ICFF fairs.
Cecilia works in the field of interior architecture and together with De8 Architetti designs the interiors of NH Hotel - Orio, NH Hotel - Rho, and the concept store Sebiro.
Julian, continues working on furniture, lighting and objects, as well as figurative art, and designs vinyl toys for AtomPlastic , porcelain figures Hopi&Equus for Alessi, and the Colossus porcelain series for Covo.

Claudio Bellini

Claudio Bellini lives and works in Milan where he was born in 1963.
In 1990, he graduated in Architecture and Industrial Design from Milan Polytechnic and embarked on a series of international experiences, taking part in research projects in the fields of industrial architecture and furniture design. In 1988, he designed the TW Collection for Frezza, a timeless product which marked his official arrival and specialization in office design, a sector in which he has received numerous awards. In the years that followed, he worked with a number of historic firms in the field of Italian and international design as well as working on interior design projects for major showrooms and participating in numerous architecture competitions. 2006 saw the foundation of “Claudio Bellini Design + Design”, a design studio distinguished by formal and technological research with a decidedly experimental approach which is carried out in the prototype laboratory in the studio. He teaches the course in Design and Furnishings at Genoa Polytechnic. Since 2003, he has been art director for Barazzoni. At present, the Claudio Bellini studio is working on a number of major international architecture projects.

Chris Ferebee/521 Design

A community college drop-out, Chris Ferebee is (obviously unashamed) self-taught as an artist, furniture/product designer, photographer and graphic designer.
Chris Ferebee takes that freedom to explore new areas of art and design, continually experimenting and discovering new inspiration for his digitally generated work, music, found objects, collage and furniture design.
Chris Ferebeehas been with the stock photo agencies Photonica/Getty Images and Graphistock since 1992 where has had works published by such diverse clients as IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Saatchi & Saatchi, and American Express.
Chris Ferebee is also the principal for the multidisciplinary design studio, 521 Design formed in 1999 in NYC and has designed award-winning, internationally recognized furniture designs. has Chris Ferebee been invited to lecture at the University of Houston and Rochester Institute of Technology. Chris Ferebee continues to focus on new areas of art and cutting-edge design with collaborative and commissioned work with companies such as Medium Footwear and Danish furniture manufacturer, Gubi International. His most recent venture is Cathode Blue, a vintage design & curiosities shop on Etsy.com.

Centrala

Centrala does not have a constant number of members, neither any order of operation to be routinely followed - it is not a company. More appropriately it should be called a platform where individual quests converge around common goals. It is rather a collective of as many people as a task ahead of them requires.

Architects: Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Krzysztof Banaszewski and Jakub Szczęsny constitute Centrala's core. They co-operated as students of Warsaw Technical University on school Project and have been working together since 2002 with focus on projects for architectural contests, of which majority they won or were awarded prizes. Centrala undertakes actions in many scales ranging from graphics, every-day use objects to furniture, urban objects, interiors, houses, office buildings as well as districts or aglomerations. Most of their designs never leave the studio, however occasionaly, something gets built on their ideas: the shop, apartament, the house, hall of sports

Apart from participating in contests and workshops Centrala also takes liberty of commenting upon the current state of affairs in Warsaw by means of a series of "decoy projects" published in press.

Chris Adamick

Chris Adamick, born 1980 in Los Angeles, studied fine art at UCLA and Environmental Design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Chris worked as a designer with Studio Gaia in New York where he focused on hospitality environments located internationally, and he later went on to design disaster awareness and relief products with the Pacific Rim project in Tokyo. Chris currently designs with Rios Clementi Hale Studios in Los Angeles where he explores projects in scales that range from large urban spaces to consumer products. In 2008 Chris was included in Bernhardt design's "Global Edition" and his stacking chair, Audio, was released at the Salone del Mobile in Milan; is subsequently included in Interior Design Magazines "Best of Year" and received Chicago Athenaeum's Good Design Award. Chris's work has been featured internationally in magazines such as Surface, Wallpaper, Interior Design, Metropolitan Home, Frame, Mark, and Monocle. Chris was a featured speaker at the 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair and his work has been shown at ICFF, NeoCon and NeoCon West, and at the A+D museum Los Angeles. Chris shows new work with test-collective, a collaboration with designer Piotr Woronkowicz established in 2007. Chris believes that design allows us to create new ways to interact with the world and exposes meaning in the ways we already do

Carlo Colombo

He was born in 1967.He graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1993.

Since 1993. He has worked primarily in the field of design and as a consultant for the industry.Since 1995. He has been active in the restructuring of social housing and private residences.He has held classes in industrial packaging at the faculty of Architecture of Milan Polytechnic, where he has been an assistant professor in Furnishing.As an Italian member, has held lectures in industrial design in Italy, Israel, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Australia and the UK.
Carlo Colombo website

Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram

Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar founded KRAM/WEISSHAAR in Munich and Stockholm in 2002. The office engages in the design of spaces, products and media and engages designers, architects and engineers from Germany, Spain, Sweden, the UK, the US and Japan.

With their seminal projects for PRADA's Epicenter Stores in Los Angeles and New York with Rem Koolhaas, and their work for AUTHENTICS, CLASSICON, MOROSO and PORZELLAN MANUFAKTUR NYMPHENBURG they quickly garnered wide international recognition. The break-through for Kram and Weisshaar was the project BREEDING TABLES (2003-ongoing). In this project their approach towards intelligently intertwining product development and media design, while taking advantage of the newest technological possibilities, is paradigmatically outlined. The product of BREEDING TABLES is tables — not a single one to be copied, but an indefinite number of different tables. With BREEDING TABLES the designers bid farewell to the idea of designing one product to be mass manufactured as a reproduction of the original prototype. In fact they have developed a process that allows for the production of a multitude of individually different products — tapping the full potential of current production technologies.

The projects of KRAM/WEISSHAAR stand for a new form of integrated product and process development — and thus for a new way of thinking design.

Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram website