Creative
Leaders.

Tracey Moffatt

Cinematic photographer with a film-maker's eye.

Australian artist of Indigenous (Meriam Mer) heritage. Her 1989 series 'Something More' and feature 'beDevil' (the first…

Wesley Enoch

Theatre maker, storyteller, cultural leader.

Australian playwright and director of Quandamooka heritage. Former Artistic Director of Sydney Festival, Queensland Thea…

Janine Benyus

Biologist and author of “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature” who pioneered the practice of looking to nature’s 3.…

Maya Angelou

Poet and author who maintained strict creative rituals throughout her 50+ year career. Angelou rented hotel rooms to wri…

Vince Frost

Editorial design polymath — print, brand, type.

British-Australian designer, founder of Frost*collective in Sydney. Built his reputation on award-winning editorial work…

Luke Shanahan

Australian writer and director who, at 18, wrote himself a note: “I will be a filmmaker. I will make a feature film.” He…

Massimo Vignelli

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

Italian designer behind the 1972 NYC Subway map, American Airlines identity, and Knoll catalogues. A lifelong advocate f…

Cathy Freeman

Kuku Yalanji, Olympic champion, who in 1993, on the back of an airsickness bag during a flight home from the World Champ…

Tom Sachs

Bricolage sculptor of an alternative NASA.

American artist whose long-running studio 'Tom Sachs Studio' produces handmade replicas of NASA hardware, Chanel motorcy…

Austin Kleon

Author of “Show Your Work!” and “Steal Like an Artist” who built his career by teaching creative concepts in the simples…

Aurora James

Canadian-American fashion designer and founder of Brother Vellies, who proves that honouring cultural heritage and pushi…

Brian Eno

Musician and producer who revolutionised creative practice by designing systematic approaches to creativity. Eno created…

Kara Walker

Contemporary artist who started with simple silhouette cutouts - one of the most basic art forms - and transformed them …

Andrew Simpson

Andrew Simpson is the founder of VERT Design Studio in Sydney. As a designer, Andrew creates from discarded materials - …

Sasha Titchkosky

Co-founder and CEO of Koskela, Australia’s leading sustainable furniture and design company. Since 2000, Titchkosky has …

Cleo Wade

Poet of the everyday.

American poet, artist, and author of Heart Talk and Where to Begin. Her Instagram-distributed handwritten poetry brought…

James Turrell

Light as material.

American artist whose work treats light itself as a medium — most famously the Roden Crater, a decades-long earthwork in…

Agnes Martin

Grids as gentle resistance.

Canadian-American painter whose subtle grids and luminous fields of colour came after long stretches of silence in the N…

Brian Collins

Brand designer for builders and believers.

American designer, chief creative officer of COLLINS — the New York and San Francisco studio behind identity systems for…

Tony Albert

Reclaiming the visual archive of Aboriginal Australia.

Australian Aboriginal artist of Girramay, Yidinyji, and Kuku-Yalanji descent. Albert collects 'Aboriginalia' — kitsch ce…

Virgil Abloh

Fashion designer and architect who built Off-White and became Louis Vuitton’s artistic director by starting with simple …

Jason Fried

Co-founder of Basecamp (now 37signals) who built a billion-dollar software company by rejecting conventional business wi…

Jessica Walsh

New York designer and partner at &Walsh who built her career by publicly sharing work-in-progress, failed experiment…

adrienne maree brown

Detroit-based writer and social justice facilitator whose book “Emergent Strategy” teaches that complex systems and patt…

Ai Weiwei

Chinese contemporary artist and activist who learned creative resilience through 81 days of secret detention by the Chin…

Björk

Sound as architecture.

Icelandic musician and composer who treats each album as an environment rather than a record. Pioneered the use of gener…

Yayoi Kusama

Japanese artist who transformed her hallucinations into one of the most recognised visual languages in contemporary art.…

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is an American author, entrepreneur, and speaker known for his best-selling books and popular daily blog, whe…

Theaster Gates

Artist, potter, urban planner — all at once.

American social-practice artist working at the intersection of art, urban planning, and religion. Through Rebuild Founda…

Abb-d Taiyo

Design strategist and co-founder of Driftime & Design Declares London, transformed how designers approach the climat…

Tadao Ando

Concrete, light, and silence.

Self-taught Japanese architect whose buildings are studies in poured concrete, geometric restraint, and how natural ligh…

Alison Page

Indigenous design that listens to Country.

Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman, designer, and filmmaker. Through her studio National Indigenous Design Charter and project…

Andy Fallshaw

Designer and co-founder of Bellroy who transformed the wallet industry by asking “What if products were designed to impr…

Joan Didion

Sentences as scalpel.

American essayist and novelist who shaped New Journalism with precise, restrained prose. Slouching Towards Bethlehem and…

Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin is a highly influential American record producer, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, and founder of American R…

Yvon Chouinard

The founder who built a billion-dollar company by declaring creative values first, business second. Chouinard’s entire c…

Twyla Tharp

Legendary choreographer who created over 160 works spanning 50+ years by treating creativity as daily practice, not occa…

Rhoda Roberts

Bundjalung woman (Widjabul Wiyabal clan) from northern NSW who has dedicated her life to ensuring Indigenous stories, kn…

Olafur Eliasson

Icelandic-Danish artist whose work demonstrates permanence through adaptation, not resistance. Eliasson’s installations …

Donella Meadows

Environmental scientist and systems thinker who wrote “Thinking in Systems” - the foundational text on understanding int…

Debbie Millman

Designer, author, and host of “Design Matters” - the world’s first and longest-running design podcast. For over 18 years…

Elizabeth Gilbert

The author, who rebuilt her creative confidence after the massive success of “Eat, Pray, Love”, left her paralysed by fe…

Mikaela Jade

Cabrogal woman from the Dharug Nation who founded Indigital in 2014 - Australia’s first Indigenous-owned edu-tech compan…

Ruth E. Carter

Costume design as historical reclamation.

American costume designer, two-time Academy Award winner (Black Panther, Wakanda Forever). First Black woman to win Best…

Patti Smith

Poet, singer, witness.

American songwriter, photographer, and writer whose 1975 album Horses helped birth punk. Just Kids, her memoir of life w…

Tinker Hatfield

Nike’s legendary designer, who created the Air Jordan series and revolutionised athletic footwear by observing patterns …

Es Devlin

Stage as built environment.

British artist and stage designer behind sets for Beyoncé, Adele, the Royal Opera, and the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020. Tre…

Ben Rennie

Designer, writer, advisor — Orbital Design, Reny®, Lessons in Creativity

Designer, writer, and advisor working where creativity, systems, and impact meet. Over two decades, Ben has explored wha…

Kerry Washington

Actress and producer who transformed her fear of being “not enough” into powerful advocacy work. Washington openly discu…

Jonny Ive

Industrial design as quiet conviction.

British designer who led Apple's design studio for nearly three decades — iMac, iPod, iPhone, AirPods. Now runs LoveFrom…