63 Notable alumni of Art Center College of Design
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Art Center College of Design is ranked #3,710 in the world and #977 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 63 notable alumni from Art Center College of Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Art Center College of Design won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. John Parra
1972-. (aged 54)
illustrator
John Parra is an American illustrator. Parra's books have received awards including the Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book Award, Golden Kite Award, Christopher Award, and an International Latino Book Award. He has additionally worked as an illustrator for corporate marketing campaigns and as an art instructor.
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2. Denise Gonzales Crisp
Denise Gonzales Crisp is a graphic designer, writer, and professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University College of Design, where she currently directs the graduate program. She holds a M.F.A. in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts and a B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design.
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3. Bobbie Moline-Kramer
1946-. (aged 80)
artist
Bobbie Moline-Kramer is an American artist, lecturer, teacher, and illustrator. Her work includes Japanese Shunga style paintings, gestural abstraction, animal symbolism, and realism.
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4. Shirley Tse
1968-. (aged 58)
visual artist
Shirley Tse is a U.S. contemporary artist based in California. Her art is often installation-based, employing sculpture, photography and/or video that may function as stand-alone works or in relation to one another. She explores conceptual themes including plasticity, multiplicity and multi-dimensional thinking, balancing attention to the physical attributes of raw materials, craft, form and socio-political issues such as global mobility,...
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5. Rebeca Mendez
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
designer
lithographer
Rebeca Méndez is a Mexican-American artist, graphic designer and photographer. She is a professor at UCLA Design Media Arts in Los Angeles, California, as well as the founder and director of the Counterforce Lab. She has won the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Communication Design in 2012, the AIGA Medal in 2017, and induction into the One Club Hall of...
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6. Ferne Jacobs
1942-. (aged 84)
artist
textile artist
Ferne Jacobs, who is also known as Ferne K. Jacobs and Ferne Kent Jacobs is an American fiber artist and basket maker.
7. Joe Doucet
1970-. (aged 56)
designer
contemporary artist
architect
Joe Doucet is an American designer. His work has been displayed in the London Design Museum and the Sainte-Etienne International Design Biennale. He was the recipient of a Good Design Award in 2008 and the 2010 World Technology Award for Design. Doucet was also selected the first AvantGuardian for Design by Surface Magazine in 2009. He holds over 30 patents...
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8. April Lee
1982-. (aged 44)
illustrator
artist
April Lee is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games, collectible card games, and PC games.
9. Gordon Smedt
1961-. (aged 65)
artist
Gordon Keith Smedt is an American painter from the San Francisco Bay Area. Smedt is known for his Pop art portraits of inanimate objects. His work is characterized by bold, colorful depictions of everyday objects on large canvases. He lives and works in Los Gatos, California.
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10. Antigirl
1983-. (aged 43)
graphic designer
painter
Tiphanie Brooke, known professionally as Antigirl, is an American multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer, best known for her series of heart paintings, street art and collages.
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11. June Korea
1982-. (aged 44)
photographer
June Korea is a New York–based visual artist and photographer. Sometimes, his works feature his sex doll Eva. He lives with Eva, his silicon sex doll for his photographic project. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He and his sex doll have attracted attraction from the media and has been featured in different media publications...
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12. Allen Kay
1945-2022 (aged 77)
manager
Allen Steven Kay was an American advertising executive and businessman. He created a television advertisement for Xerox that aired during the 1976 Super Bowl, featuring a monk called Dominic. Kay is also known for his "If You See Something, Say Something" advertising campaign for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Kay co-founded Korey Kay & Partners advertising in 1982 and...
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13. John Casado
1944-. (aged 82)
designer
graphic designer
photographer
John Charles Casado is an American graphic designer, artist and photographer, best known for designing logos for the first Macintosh computer, Esprit, and New Line Cinema, as well as numerous album covers for the Doobie Brothers, Carole King, and others.
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14. Roger Schlaifer
1945-. (aged 81)
designer
graphic designer
inventor
Roger L. Schlaifer is an American graphic designer, writer, inventor and licensing agent. He is best known for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids and the name and works of Andy Warhol.
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15. Lucky Kuswandi
1980-. (aged 46)
film director
screenwriter
Lucky Kuswandi is an Indonesian director and screenwriter.
16. LeUyen Pham
1973-. (aged 53)
illustrator
writer
LeUyen Pham is a children's book illustrator and author. She has illustrated and written more than 120 books. In 2020, she won a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in the book Bear Came Along.
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17. Zhenya Gershman
1975-. (aged 51)
painter
Zhenya Gershman is an American painter and portraitist. She is known for her "dramatic monumental portraits of iconic public and private figures" and interest in art history.
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18. AJ Dungo
surfer
comics artist
illustrator
AJ Dungo is an American surfer and illustrator known for his 2019 graphic novel In Waves. While writing In Waves, Dungo was a CMF designer for a footwear manufacturer. The book was originally an art school project about surfer Tom Blake, but expanded to include information on Duke Kahanamoku in what Surfer magazine calls "the creeping face of the commercialization...
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19. Sharon Lockhart
1964-. (aged 62)
artist
documentary filmmaker
visual artist
conceptual artist
photographer
Sharon Lockhart is an American artist whose work considers social subjects primarily through motion film and still photography, often engaging with communities to create work as part of long-term projects. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1993. She has been a Radcliffe fellow, a...
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20. Saman Kesh
1986-. (aged 40)
film director
Saman Kesh is an Iranian-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is known for his narrative music video work for notable artists such as Basement Jaxx, Calvin Harris, Kygo, Placebo,!!!, Vitalic, Apparat and Porter Robinson.
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21. Ko Rentmeester
1936-. (aged 90)
photojournalist
war photographer
rower
sports photographer
photographer
Jacobus Willem Rentmeester, nicknamed "Co" or "Ko", is a Dutch rower. He later became a photojournalist and covered the Vietnam War among other newsworthy events.
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22. Wayne Fitzgerald
1930-2019 (aged 89)
designer
Wayne Fitzgerald was an American film title designer. Over a career that spanned 55 years, he designed close to five hundred motion picture and television main and end title sequences for top directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, Mike Nichols, Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Arthur Penn, Michael Cimino, Warren Beatty, Herbert Ross, John Hughes, and Quentin Tarantino.
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23. Dick Dean
1933-2008 (aged 75)
car designer
Dick Dean, born Richard Dean Sawitskas [Sa-WITS-kas], was an American automobile designer and builder of custom cars.
24. Anders Warming
1972-. (aged 54)
car designer
Anders Warming is a Danish automotive designer who is the Director of Design at Rolls-Royce. He started his new job in July 2021. Formerly he has been the Chief Design Officer of Borgward. He was the chief of Design for the Mini division of BMW, but resigned in July 2016. Before working at Mini, he was the chief of exterior...
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25. Michael Lin
1964-. (aged 62)
video artist
painter
textile artist
Michael Lin is a Taiwanese artist who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and Taipei, Taiwan. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Taiwan and the United States. Lin is considered a leading Taiwanese contemporary painter and conceptual artist.
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26. Richard MacDonald
1946-. (aged 80)
sculptor
Richard MacDonald is a California-based contemporary figurative artist known for his bronze sculptures and his association with Cirque Du Soleil.
27. Miguel Galluzzi
1959-. (aged 67)
designer
Miguel Galluzzi is an industrial designer specializing in motorcycle design. Galluzzi currently heads Piaggio's Advanced Design Center (PADC) in Pasadena, California, where he manages the design of the Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Derbi and Gilera motorcycle brands, working closely with the company's styling headquarters (Piaggio Group Style Center) in Italy as well as its research and development centers in China, India...
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28. Sabo
1968-. (aged 58)
musician
muralist
Sabo is the pseudonym of a street artist formerly active in Los Angeles, California. His name derives from sabot, a weapon most commonly used in firearm or cannon ammunition. According to a 2015 interview with Adland, Sabo had been involved in street art since 1999, though he began to take his activity in the scene more seriously around 2008. Sabo's...
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29. Matthew Rolston
1955-. (aged 71)
photographer
music video director
camera operator
fashion photographer
film director
Matthew Russell Rolston is an American artist, photographer, director and creative director, known for his lighting techniques and detailed approach to art direction and design. Rolston has been identified throughout his career with the revival and modern expression of Hollywood glamour.
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30. Derek Jenkins
car designer
Derek Jenkins is an American automobile designer. He is currently the senior vice president of design and brand at Lucid Motors. He is known for his contribution to the design of the Mazda MX-5 as well as the Lucid Air.
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31. Neville Page
1964-. (aged 62)
costume designer
make-up artist
Neville Page is a British-American film and television creature and concept designer. Born in England, he was raised in Manchester, and Chicago, Illinois. He was inspired by science fiction, including Star Wars, and makeup artist Rick Baker's work in An American Werewolf in London. He graduated from Santana High School, Santee California, in 1983. Page moved to Hollywood at the...
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32. John Hubley
1914-1977 (aged 63)
animator
director
film director
John Kirkham Hubley was an American animated film director, art director, producer, and writer, known for his work with the United Productions of America (UPA) and his own independent studio, Storyboard, Inc. (later renamed Hubley Studio). A pioneer and innovator in the American animation industry, Hubley pushed for more visually and emotionally complex films than the productions at that time...
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33. Doug Aitken
1968-. (aged 58)
cinematographer
film editor
film screenwriter
installation artist
photographer
Doug Aitken is an American multidisciplinary artist. Aitken's body of work ranges from photography, print media, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, installations, and live performance. He currently lives in Venice, California, and New York City.
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34. Marla Frazee
1958-. (aged 68)
children's writer
illustrator
writer
Marla Frazee is an American author and illustrator of children's literature. She has received three Caldecott Honors for picture book illustration.
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35. Yves Béhar
1967-. (aged 59)
university teacher
designer
entrepreneur
Yves Béhar is a Swiss-born American designer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and principal designer of Fuseproject, an industrial design and brand development firm. Béhar is also the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of August Home, a smart lock company acquired by Assa Abloy in 2017; and co-founder of Canopy, a co-working space based in San Francisco.
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36. Sam Liu
illustrator
television director
character designer
director
film producer
Sam Liu is an American animation producer, director, storyboard artist and character designer. He is best known for directing animated superhero films at both Marvel Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation.
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37. Ron Galella
1931-2022 (aged 91)
paparazzi
photographer
photojournalist
Ronald Edward Galella was an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo. Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by Newsweek and "the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture" by Time magazine and Vanity Fair, he is regarded by Harper's Bazaar as "arguably the most controversial paparazzo of all time". He photographed many celebrities out of the public eye and gained notice for his...
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38. Floyd Norman
1935-. (aged 91)
screenwriter
storyboard artist
film producer
animator
Floyd Ernest Norman is an American animator, writer, artist and cartoonist. Over the course of his career, he has worked for various animation companies, among them Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Ruby-Spears, Film Roman and Pixar.
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39. Dave Goelz
1946-. (aged 80)
actor
voice actor
puppeteer
David Charles Goelz is an American puppeteer and actor. He is known for his work with the Muppets. He is best known for performing the characters Gonzo the Great, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beauregard, Zoot, and Waldorf. He joined Jim Henson's Muppet team in 1973 and has remained a key performer in many Muppet productions, including The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock,...
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40. Leonard Boyarsky
video game developer
game designer
Leonard Boyarsky is an American computer game designer and visual artist. He is one of the key designers of the video games Fallout and Diablo III.
41. Frank Stephenson
1959-. (aged 67)
designer
car designer
Frank Stephenson is a Moroccan-born Spanish-American automobile designer who has worked for Ford, BMW, Mini, Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and McLaren. He is best known for redesigning the Mini as the Mini Hatch.
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42. Drew Struzan
1947-2025 (aged 78)
illustrator
painter
Drew Struzan was an American artist, illustrator, and cover designer. He was known for his more than 150 film posters, which include The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, as well as films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Harry Potter, and Star Wars film series. He also painted album covers, collectibles, and book covers.
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43. Mark Ryden
1963-. (aged 63)
painter
Mark Ryden is an American painter who is considered to be part of the Lowbrow (or pop surrealist) art movement. He was dubbed "the god-father of pop surrealism" by Interview magazine. In 2015, Artnet named Ryden and his wife, painter Marion Peck, the king and queen of Pop Surrealism.
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44. Ralph McQuarrie
1929-2012 (aged 83)
designer
actor
illustrator
Ralph Angus McQuarrie was an American concept artist who worked in film and television. His career included work on the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica television series, the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and the film Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award.
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45. Chris Bangle
1956-. (aged 70)
designer
car designer
Christopher Edward Bangle is an American automobile designer. Bangle is known best for his work as Chief of Design for BMW Group, where he was responsible for the BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce motor cars.
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46. Bruce Sterling
1954-. (aged 72)
science fiction writer
writer
futurist
literary scholar
literary critic
Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.
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47. Thomas Kinkade
1958-2012 (aged 54)
writer
painter
William Thomas Kinkade III was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company. According to Kinkade's company, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a...
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48. Henrik Fisker
1963-. (aged 63)
businessperson
designer
Henrik Fisker is a Danish automotive designer and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California, US. He is best known as the founder of Fisker Automotive and Fisker Inc, and as a designer of luxury cars. After working at BMW, Ford, and Aston Martin, Fisker founded Fisker Automotive in 2007. The company failed to meet production deadlines despite significant federal and...
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49. Syd Mead
1933-2019 (aged 86)
designer
mechanical designer
film director
Sydney Jay Mead was an American industrial designer and neo-futurist concept artist. Initially known for his influential futuristic design work for industrial clients such as U.S. Steel, Philips, and Ford, he subsequently went on to create conceptual and world designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Mead has been described as "the artist who illustrates the...
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50. Joe Hahn
1977-. (aged 49)
club DJ
composer
record producer
disc jockey
film director
Joseph Hahn is an American musician, DJ, director, and visual artist best known as the DJ and creative director of the rock band Linkin Park, doing the scratching, turntables, sampling, and programming for all eight of Linkin Park's albums. Hahn and bandmate Mike Shinoda are responsible for most of Linkin Park's album artwork. Hahn also directed many of the band's...
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51. Aldis Hodge
1986-. (aged 40)
screenwriter
television actor
actor
film actor
Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Alec Hardison in the TNT series Leverage, MC Ren in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, Levi Jackson in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, Noah in the WGN America series Underground, Matthew in Girlfriends, Jim Brown in the 2020 film One Night in Miami..., and...
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52. Mike Shinoda
1977-. (aged 49)
composer
singer-songwriter
pianist
guitarist
rapper
Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and graphic designer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 as the band's co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer. He also created the hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He has also served as a producer for tracks and albums...
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53. Evan Spiegel
1990-. (aged 36)
computer scientist
entrepreneur
Evan Thomas Spiegel is an American and French businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. As of August 2025, he had a personal net worth of $2.5 billion according to Forbes.
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54. Michael Bay
1965-. (aged 61)
actor
screenwriter
director
film actor
film director
Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl...
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55. George Rodrigue
1944-2013 (aged 69)
painter
George Rodrigue was an American artist who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, which are common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a...
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56. Franz von Holzhausen
1968-. (aged 58)
car designer
engineer
designer
businessperson
Franz von Holzhausen is an American automobile designer. He has been the chief designer at Tesla, Inc. since 2008, where he has led the design of multiple production and concept vehicles, including the Model S, Model X, Model 3, Model Y, Semi, Cybertruck, and second-generation Roadster. He previously held design roles at Volkswagen, General Motors, and Mazda.
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57. Shadoe Stevens
1947-. (aged 79)
radio personality
film producer
film actor
film director
film editor
Shadoe Stevens is an American radio host, voiceover actor, and television personality. He was the host of American Top 40 from 1988 to 1995. He currently hosts the internationally syndicated radio show Top of the World, and co-hosts Mental Radio, an approach to UFOs and paranormal topics. He was co-founder and creator of Sammy Hagar's rock station "Cabo Wabo Radio"...
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58. John Glenn
film producer
screenwriter
film director
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at the...
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59. Ariana Richards
1979-. (aged 47)
painter
television actor
actor
film actor
Ariana Clarice Richards is an American painter and former actress. She is best known for her role as Lex Murphy in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. Richards won several Young Artist Awards for her acting as a child, but as an adult has focused primarily on her art career.
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60. Yeon Jung-hoon
1978-. (aged 48)
television actor
actor
singer
film actor
Yeon Jung-hoon is a South Korean actor. He is best known for generational epic East of Eden (2008), crime procedural Vampire Prosecutor (2011–2012) and the domestically popular weekend drama Pots of Gold (2013). Outside of acting, Yeon hosted the first three seasons of Top Gear Korea, the South Korean version of the BBC show, and was a cast member of...
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61. Hiroshi Sugimoto
1948-. (aged 78)
photographer
artist
Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory.
62. Satyendra Pakhale
1967-. (aged 59)
architect
industrial designer
ceramics designer
Satyendra Pakhalé is a mulifaceted designer. His work spans design, architecture, art, technology, healthcare and mobility. His projects combine technological development with cultural references and experimentation with materials.
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63. Andy Denzler
1965-. (aged 61)
painter
Andy Denzler is a Swiss artist. His distinctive technique of distorting the freshly applied surface of his paintings has shaped his entire oeuvre in painting, printmaking, sculpture and drawing.
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