With more than 100 design awards under its belt -- and 44 of them from BusinessWeek -- IDEO is an Industrial design firm that enjoys high esteem in both artistic and commercial circles. Tom Peters, described as "the father of the postmodern corporation," has cited IDEO in books and lectures for years

Clean, Functional, Hi-tech, Minimal, Pioneering

Chiho Aoshima (青島千穂) is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She had a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas in 2006. This young graphic artist began in Murakami's factory wi

Anime & manga, Cartoonish, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Polychromatic, Superflat, Surreal

Heavily influenced by the otaku culture of sexually explicit manga, Kunikata's work adopts the genres conventions to explore and communicate issues of abandonment, masochism, and depression. Often filling notebook after notebook with nightmarish depictions of cruelty, Kunikata's personal drive to pr

Anime & manga, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Kinetic, Sexy, Superflat

Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎) is a Japanese anime director and writer. He is most well-known for the television anime series Cowboy Bebop. Watanabe is noted for blending together multiple genres, such as in Cowboy Bebop, where classic cowboy western mixes with 1940s/1950s New York City f

Anime & manga, Atmospheric, Fantastic, Hi-tech, Machinistic, Technology