The people behind the work.
At Luminaries, every story begins with a creative mind. Our Creative Profiles introduce the architects, designers, photographers, artists and makers whose work we feature, from emerging talents taking their first steps to established studios shaping the world around us.
Each profile brings together a short biography and the stories in which they appear, so you can follow a creative voice across the magazine and discover the ideas, materials and places that drive their practice.
Discover the creatives illuminating design and visual culture today.
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Alisa Sibgatova
Alisa Sibgatova is a fashion designer whose work brings hand-woven textiles into sharply structured tailoring.
Bella Shih
Bella Shih is a motion designer and animator who studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed
Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed is a Barcelona-born architect and designer and co-founder of MESURA, a studio that works across many disciplines linked to space, and he is also a filmmaker.
Brenda McManus & Ned Drew
Brenda McManus and Ned Drew are partners in life and work at BRED, a New York-area graphic design studio with a special focus on research and design education.
Chingyu Lei
Chingyu Lei is a product designer and ArtCenter College of Design graduate who calls himself a problem solver and enjoys every detail of the design process.
Crystal Martin
Crystal Martin is an interior designer and Savannah College of Art and Design graduate whose work is guided by “meta luxury”, a set of principles built on rarity, history, craftsmanship and purpose.
Danielle Elsener
Danielle Elsener is a fashion designer and Royal College of Art graduate who champions zero-waste design.
David Bassetti
David Bassetti is an engineer and product designer who has spent years in the medical industry and holds several patents.
Dingdong Tang, Zehui Li & Haisheng Xu
Dingdong Tang, Zehui Li and Haisheng Xu are the architects behind LYT-X STUDIO, a practice whose context-sensitive approach treats every site as a dialogue between history, culture and landscape.
Domaen
Domaen is a Los Angeles architecture practice led by Axel Schmitzberger, for whom design is holistic: a careful weighing of site, client, contractor and every factor that shapes a building.
Elham Mirzapour
Elham Mirzapour is an Iranian industrial designer and head of design at Arena Design Studio, with a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Tabriz Islamic Art University.
Fabrizio Crisà
Fabrizio Crisà is a designer at Elica S.p.A., the Italian maker of kitchen hoods.
Gavin Rajah
Gavin Rajah is a South African designer and entrepreneur based in Cape Town, whose atelier creates hand-crafted luxury while employing women from vulnerable communities.