''Designer People'' is a television
documentary series launched in 2008 directed by
Ross Close. Each episode showcases one of the world's leading artists in architectural design, communication design, industrial design, interior design, and fashion, centering on the creative insight of the acclaimed designer, whose work shapes our lives and our surroundings. The series was broadcast on
Ovation.
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Hosts
*Erika Oman
*Lee Lin Chin
Lee Lin Chin is an Indonesian-born Australian television, radio presenter and journalist, best known for her association with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) network and was the weekend presenter of ''SBS World News''.
Lee Lin has been ...
* Amy Devers
Seasons
Two full seasons have been broadcast. The Season 1 series was broadcast originally from 10 November 2008 to 29 January 2009. A second season started 9 November 2009 to 30 April 2010.
;Season 1 (2008-2009)
# Yves Behar: Swiss industrial designer and founder of Fuseproject (10 Nov 2008)
#Chris Lee: communication designer and founder of Asylum design company
#Jakob Trollback: Swedish communication designer
#Qiu Hao: Chinese fashion designer
#Ole Scheeren
Ole Scheeren (born 6 January 1971) is a German architect, urbanist and principal of Büro Ole Scheeren Group with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Berlin and Bangkok and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong since January 2010.
Bio ...
: German architectfamous for his design of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing
#Max Wolff: Australian automotive designer
#Edward Fella
Edward Fella (born 1938) is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. He created the OutWest typeface in 1993. His work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Brauer Museum of Art, and the Museum of ...
: commercial graphic designer
#Young Baek Min: Korean interior designer
#Nipa Doshi & Jonathan Levien: Industrial designers discussing their creative partnership
#Antonio Ochoa: Venezuelan architect and interior designer
#Jens Martin Skibsted
Jens Martin Skibsted (born 28 June 1970) is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and author. He is a partner aManyone A/S He has founded or co-founded companies such as Biomega, Skibsted Ideation, Actics, KiBiSi and Ogojiii.
He has won several intern ...
: Danish industrial designer
# Kenji Ekuan: Japanese industrial designer
#Anouska Hempel
Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born 1941) is a New Zealand-born film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer. She is sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel.
Early life
Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry and has ...
;Season 2 (2009-2010)
#Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...
#Marc Newson
Marc Andrew Newson CBE RDI (born 20 October 1963) is an industrial designer who works in aircraft cabin design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. His style uses smooth geometric lines, translucency, strength, transpar ...
# Marcel Wanders
# Michael Young
#Zandra Rhodes
Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, (born 19 September 1940), is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes has designed garments for Diana, ...
#Jürgen Mayer
Jürgen Hermann Mayer (born 1965 in Stuttgart) is a German architect and artist. He is the leader of the architecture firm "J. MAYER H." in Berlin and calls himself ''Jürgen Mayer H.''
Life and work
He studied at Stuttgart University, The ...
#Ilan Waisbrod
#Gilles et Boissier
#Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (; born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
In Denmark, Ingels became well known after designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM Houses and Mountain D ...
#Mitchell Wolfson Jr.
Mitchell "Micky" Wolfson Jr. (born September 30, 1939) is an American businessman, collector, and the founder of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Florida, and Genoa–Nervi, Italy.
Early life and education
He was born in Miami Beach, ...
# Karim Rashid
#Emmanuel Picault
#M/M Paris
M/M (Paris) is an art and design partnership consisting of Mathias Augustyniak (born 1967) and Michael Amzalag (born 1968), established in Paris in 1992.
M/M are best known for their art direction and collaborations with musicians ( Björk, Madon ...
References
External links
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