Celebrating Innovation Excellence
Discover the most innovative and creative minds across various industries. Our comprehensive directory features individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to their respective fields, driving progress and pushing boundaries.
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Chung Sheng Chen
Taiwan (China) (TW)
Prof. ChungSheng Chen, a self-proclaimed "design missionary," possesses extensive experience in both design practice and education. He frequently expresses his perspectives on society through his work, blending an optimistic outlook, keen observation, and a deep emotional connection to life. His cross-disciplinary approach integrates various processing techniques and material applications, embodying a fundamental design philosophy. Chen has received numerous international accolades, including the German iF Award, Red Dot Award, Japan’s Good Design Award (GMARK), Italy’s A’ Design Award, China’s Xiamen Strait Industrial Design Grand Prize, the Golden Pin Design Award, the Cultural & Creative Excellence Award, and the National Invention and Creation Award. His works have been collected by esteemed institutions such as The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design (USA), the Museum of Outstanding Design (Italy), the Design Museum in Hebei (China), and Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Museum. Additionally, he holds dozens of patents and has guided students to win hundreds of awards in domestic and international design competitions.
View ProfileMaria Burgelova and More By Us
Bulgaria (BG)
Maria Burgelova is the Creative Director at More By Us, where she leads a dynamic team that provides a wide range of design and branding services to both multinational companies and startups. The team is guided by a childlike curiosity, which they consider their greatest strength.
View ProfileFang Xu, Xuan Shen, Yongwen Dai
United States of America (US)
This group is a collective of independent designers based in cities across the United States, brought together by a shared commitment to responsible and thoughtful design. While working at leading U.S. tech companies, they collaborate across locations to explore meaningful ideas. Their work has received international recognition over the past two years, including honors from the iF Design Award, UX Design Awards, and NY Design Awards. Their design approach stands out for its thoughtful balance between intuitive interaction and visual simplicity, creating solutions that require minimal learning curve for users.
View ProfileMikhail Chistiakov
Russian Federation (RU)
Mikhail Chistyakov is a designer who has gone a long and difficult way from a craftsman to a designer. He started working as a modeler in the porcelain factory and thoroughly mastered the entire technology of ceramic production. This gave him the opportunity to make a technologically verified, accurate design. Later, Mikhail always got to the bottom of the material he was working with, he explored all its features and full processing methods. The designer successfully combines both a manual approach to design and the use of a computer. This combination allows him to make complex projects without losing the identity of the objects of manual labor. In his works, Mikhail constantly refers to the technology, functionality, expediency, and justification of all the details of the project. Doing much with small means is a key idea of his design philosophy.
View ProfileZlatina Petrova
Bulgaria (BG)
Zlatina is the CEO of Brandly Collective. She's also a curious explorer and startup design mentor (including being featured at Google's Startup weekend). Zlatina loves to help the companies to find innovative new ways to express their message visually.
View ProfileJunru Xu
United States of America (US)
Junru (Jennie) Xu stands out as an exceptional award-winning product designer and UX lead, boasting eight years of rich experience in product design, user experience, and human-computer interaction. Her remarkable UX design initiatives, particularly those with a focus on social impact, have earned her prestigious accolades, including Asia Design Awards, the Muse Design Awards, London Design Awards, and the first prize from Chicago Women in Architecture.
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