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MoMA's recent exhibition called "Design and the Elastic Mind" has a nice list of the featured designers
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Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames were American designers, married in 1941, who worked and made major contributions in many fields of design including industrial design, furniture design, art, graphic design, film and architecture.
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Dunne and Raby
Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby use products and services as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Many of their projects are collaborative, working with industrial research labs, academia and cultural institutions to design both speculative products and services.
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Jurgen Bey
Jurgen Bey is driven by the ambition to understand the world. He is able to question it in a unique manner. According to him, wanting to think or create something new is bizarre, for every thing or solution we can possibly dream of does already exist in the world around us. It is just a question of recognizing it and then of being able to translate it into something people want to use. Therefore, Bey is continuously busy analyzing the real qualities and hidden values of phenomena and things around us. He even analyses phenomena like dust or waiting, that no-one else is interested in but which could be of huge value – as soon as we understand how to use it. Being deeply interested in the emotional meaning of things, Bey creates new images and works that provoke thinking and discussions about the value of the contemporary production machine. Besides its plain functionality his conceptual work is part of the international discussion around the role of design and the designer.
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Martí Guixé
Dedicated to inventing “brilliantly simple ideas of a curious seriousness”, Martí Guixé divides his time between his native Barcelona and Berlin. Dubbing himself an “ex-designer”, he designs products for Authentics and shoe shops for Camper as well as conceptual projects.
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Panamarenko
Panamarenko's work, fusing artistic and technological experiment, takes many forms: Aeroplanes, flying carpets, cars, flying saucers, submarines and birds. Spectacular structures of strange beauty, both playful and inspiring.
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Theo Jansen
For over ten years Theo Jansen has been occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
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