Throughout his professional career, Clabots has worked as a designer, a creative director, a university professor, and as a serial entrepreneur, having started and run a series of design-related businesses.

Kookie Santos is a Filipino designer from the Philippines. Her work embraces silly, funky and spontaneous forms that wish to express a sense of joy and wonder. Her approach to her work is her personal reminder of gentleness and fun-loving lightness to oneself, and then to others. Inspired by wide-eyed curiosity, she is most excited by projects that encourage play and exploration.

I moved to downtown Manhattan in 2002 and now live in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood. I know most of my friends through my work designing art books and art-directing fashion magazines. Now that I have a wife and daughter, the most fun parts of my week take place during the day instead of at night.

Laura Aviva is a Creative Director, and runs the product design studio L'Aviva Home. Originally from Los Angeles, she now splits her time between NYC and Mexico City.

Swiss graphic designer, founder and creative director of London/Zürich based studio BOB.