Michael is a designer and illustrator born and raised in Ontario, Canada. His company, MKN Design blends strategy, artfulness, and purpose into visual solutions that delight and engage. He currently resides living in the Great Lakes Region of Michigan. www.mkn-design.com/studio | www.instagram.com/mkn_design

Michael Sylvester is a writer who lives in both Los Angeles and an aisle seat, preferably in the exit row. On his pilgrimage to Dan Rockhill's Studio 804 in Lawrence, Kansas, to see its fabled prefab projects, he was feeling a bit self conscious being a Left Coast vegetarian in steak country. "In addition to their cool prefabs, there was a great vegan restaurant downtown. Who doesn't enjoy mixing good architecture with good food?" he says.

Michael Anastassiades launched his studio in 1994, seeking to explore culture and aesthetics in designing products, furniture, and environments. In each of his designs, Anastassiades attempts to provoke participation and dialogue. His objects are minimal, functional, and simple, while also full of life. His work is featured in permanent collections at the MoMA, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Craft Council in London, FRAC Centre in Orleans, France, and the MAK in Vienna. Anastassiades has designed products for notable design teams, including FLOS, Lobmeyr, and Svenskt Tenn. He established his eponymous company Michael Anastassiades Ltd in 2007 to produce some of his signature pieces, including a lighting collection, furniture, jewelry, and tabletop objects. Anastassiades focuses on blending the timeless and eclectic in his product design, creating distinctive objects that endure over time.

J. Michael Welton is architecture critic for the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. His work has appeared in national and international publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Metropolis, Interior Design, Architectural Record, and Ocean Home. He is the author of "Drawing from Practice: Architecture and the Meaning of Freehand." He is also editor and publisher at www.architectsandartisans.com.

Michael covers design, science, tech and business, usually at night, from a bare-bones base in the whirlwind city of Berlin. He's originally from South Carolina, lived a long time in New York, and came to Berlin for its wired energy and a good story.

Michael is an associate editor at Dwell. With a background in art and design, he has high hopes that this gig will help legitimize his obsession with all things aesthetic.

Michael is editorial director of Dwell.com. He was editor of the House & Home section of the New York Times for seven years. His biography of I.M. Pei was published by Crown in 1995.

Michael Thonet was born in the town of Boppard am Rhein, Germany in 1796. A skilled craftsman, he painstakingly carved his furniture from European beech until he discovered a method of bending wood, using a pressure vessel to steam the beech rods he used for his furniture to make them pliable. His furniture designes were simple and gracefile with a distinctive quality that belied its true strength. His production process was patented, and the exclusive domain of Gebruder Thonet for more than a decade before it was emulated by others. Thonet created his No. 14 chair in the 1850's, and it quickly became popular.

African American heritage

Michael Andersen covers housing and transportation for Sightline Institute, the Pacific Northwest's sustainability think tank.

User experience, product design, small architecture, off-grid/permaculture, and technology.

Photographer Michael Moran was born in the Pomona Valley, southeast of Los Angeles and studied art at Santa Barbary City College and biology at the University of California Santa Barbara before receiving a degree in sculpture from UCSB and a graduate architecture degree from UCLA. Moran worked in Frank Gehry's studio before becomong a full-time architectural photographer. He has shot architecture for publication by A+U and MoMA and is currently working on a book about the churches of Ibiza and Formentera with the architect Elias Torres.

Michael Goorevich is an architect based in Tennessee.

Michael Young (1966) is an industrial designer based in Hong Kong. He works in areas of product, furniture and interior design with studios in Hong Kong and Brussels.

Michael Vahrenwald is a photographer who lives in New York City. His work has been shown at a variety of venues including the Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Carnegie Museum of Art and the Yale School of Architecture.

‘Saying that Michael Leon has been influential to the worlds of both design and skateboarding – and design within skateboarding – would be an understatement. While still in high school, he designed his first pro model board for New Deal. In the years since, his distinct style and… well… wisdom when it comes to his craft, have put him in a class all his own. His artwork has been exhibited internationally in numerous exhibitions. He was a co-creator of Commonwealth Stacks, Rasa Libre, and Nike’s Tech Pack. He has contributed design and art direction to Fourstar Clothing, Girl Skateboards, Stussy, DC, Arkitip, and most recently, Nike SB. Michael’s work will forever be cemented in time as one of the most admired and imitated of this century.’- Bob Kronbauer Michael Leon was born in 1974 in Tampa, Florida. He graduated from CalArts in 1997. He is currently based in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Chad Kula. From the sequence ‘LA River Fall (After Bas Jan Ader)’.

Michael Kai is a Melbourne-based photographer. Born in a town close to Berlin, Germany, Michael spent two years as a documentary photographer in post-war Kosovo before pursuing further studies in Germany and Australia. Since 2005, Michael has worked primarily as a commissioned photographer. Michael's distinctive style incorporates a striking balance of colour, a clean, graphical approach to composition and the use of negative space to frame clear focal points, creating images that are both simple and visually arresting.