MUJI products vividly embody both their product-design methods and overall philosophy. Since the firm's founding in 1980, their goal had been to offer products that excel in quality at lower prices has been achieved by avoiding the waste typical of much product-manufacturing and distribution – in the form of unnecessary functionality, an excess of decoration, and needless packaging. Their design vision is rational, and free of agenda, doctrine, and “isms.” MUJI aspires to modesty and plainness, the better to adapt and shape itself to the styles, preferences, and practices of as wide a group of people as possible.

With offices in Tokyo and Paris, British designer Jasper Morrison has worked for a staggering array of companies including Flos, Vitra, Samsung, Muji, Olivetti, Cappellini, Canon, Alessi, and others. An industrial designer trained at the Royal College of Art in London, Morrison's furniture design ranges from the contemporary classic Air Chair and the Eames-inspired Lotus Lounge Chair to bus stops, benches, and a tram for the city of Hannover, Germany. He's certainly one of the most respected industrial designers working today. He also represents the height of English industrial design, along with Tom Dixon.

Konstantin Grcic is a German industrial designer known for harnessing new technologies and materials to create stunning works of modern design. Born in 1965, he apprenticed as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in the UK before studying industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1991, he founded KGID, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design. His work has includes the MAYDAY lamp for Flos, Miura barstool and Myto cantilever chair for Plank, and Chair One and 360 Containers for Magis in addition to creations for Lassicon, Krups, Moroso, Vitra, Luminaire, and Muji. He lives and works in Munich.

When the founding members of a design collective all hail from the powerhouse firm Nendo, you can expect their work to be both disciplined and prolific. Such is the case with Takt Project, a multidisciplinary studio based in Tokyo founded by Atsushi Honda, Yoshitaka Ito, Satoshi Yoshiizumi, and Takeshi Miyazaki. The group works on a wide range of projects, from socially driven endeavors like improving wheelchair design to wristwatches for Sony’s under-the-radar wearable tech start-up. Reinvention is a recurring theme in the studio, as seen in the 3-Pring Product line—3-D printed components that people can use to transform readily available, inexpensive products from retailers like Muji. Riffing on the idea of sampling in music, Takt created a bracket that can be used to join run-of-the-mill acrylic storage bins to build a console, and a unit that allows someone to string an ordinary light socket through an acrylic storage box to create a pendant light. “The words of greats from the past taught me that design is not about the beauty of shapes or styling,” says Yoshiizumi, “but rather adding a creative and novel interpretation to existing ways of thinking.”

Pauline Deltour is a French industrial designer. Deltour studied applied art and design at the Olivier de Serres in Paris, and also holds a Bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Deltour worked as a designer and project leader in Munich at Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design from 2006–2009. She has lived and worked in Paris since 2010, and works on a range of commission projects spanning industrial products, furniture, jewelry, and public space installations. Some of Deltour’s clients include Alessi, Tacchini, MUJI, BREE, and the City of Munich.