Shin Matsunaga (Japan)
Born in Tokyo in 1940. After graduating from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music in design, he worked for the publicity department for Shiseido Co., Ltd, and then established Shin Matsunaga Designing Office in 1971. His wide range of designs include not only posters, CI plans or packages but also drawings or monuments. He is a member of AGI, Committee member of Tokyo ADC, Director of JAGDA, and a visiting professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music.

Makoto Komatsu(Japan)
Born in Tokyo in 1943. Received the Grand Prix Award in Japan Craft Exhibition by the Japan Craft Design Association in 1967. Worked at the design room of Gustavsberg Ceramics Factory in Sweden from 1970 to 1973. Received numerous awards, including the Kitaro Kunii Industrial Design Award in 1980 by the Japan Crafts Association, the Grand Prix Award of Ceramics Design Category in the 1st International Ceramics Competition ’86 Mino, Japan in 1986, the Grand Prix Award of the 30th Ceramics Design Competition.

Shigeru Uchida (Japan)
Born in Yokohama in 1943. Graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School. A visiting professor at Tokyo Zokei University and Kuwasawa Design School. Received numerous awards, including the Mainichi Design Award and the Education Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize. As the leading Japanese designer, he has been engaged in a wide range of design projects from not only interior design but also furniture, industrial designs and urban planning in Japan and abroad.

David Queensberry (U.K.)
Born in 1929, educated Eton College, Central School of Arts & Crafts, and North Staffordshire College of Technology. David Queensberry is an Honorary Doctor of Staffordshire University and Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. Professor of Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, from 1959 to 1983. Speaker on British ceramic design to the English Ceramic Circle at the Victoria & Albert Museum, in September 2002.

Kwon Oh-Hoon (Korea)
Born in 1947, Seoul, Korea. Graduated from Industrial Art Graduate School of Hongik University. From 1972 to 76, he worked as a Process Manager at Cerart Industrial Co., Ltd. Since 1983 he has been working as an Art Design Adviser of Hangnamsa(Ltd, Co) and since 1988 as Professor of Ceramic Art of Dankuk University.

Kati Tuominen-Niittylä(Finland)
Born in 1947 in Helsinki. After receiving her diploma from the Academy of Industrial Arts, Helsinki in 1976, she opened her own workshop, and was called in 1980 to the Art Department of Arabia porcellain factory in Helsinki, where she has worked as a designer as well as a ceramic artist until 2003. Now a free-lance designer at the Arabia Art Department Association.

Hubert Kittel (Germany)
Born in Saxony, East Germany, in 1953. He graduated from BURG GIEBICHENSTEIN, University of Art and Design, Halle, as an industrial designer (ceramics, glass) in 1979. He has been appointed as a professor of product design in 1994. Since then he is running the department of ceramic-/glassdesign at BURG GIEBICHENSTEIN, Halle.