Lydia Davis is a consummate translator and one of the foremost contemporary short and short-short story writers; her influence within the short-short story medium seems immeasurable, as nearly every literary magazine pumps out 250-word story after 250-word story, each attempting – but few, if any,

Anxiety, Architectural, Citational, Clever, Experimental, Pioneering, Playful, Witty

Marcel Wanders is a Dutch designer. His fame started with the iconic Knotted Chair, which he produced for Droog Design in 1996. He now designs for many European contemporary design manufacturers like B&B Italia, Bisazza, Poliform, Moroso, Flos, Boffi, Cappellini, Droog Design and Moooi of which he i

Pioneering, Whimsical, Witty

Laurie Lipton was born in New York. She was the first person to graduate from the prestigious Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). Laurie has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. Laurie Li

Grotesque, Moody, Paranoid, Surreal, Violent, Whimsical, Witty

Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. He performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. He also performs many of the same characters on stage. Linzy's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, A

Charming, Conceptual, Feminine, Playful, Political, Pop, Whimsical, Witty