The Masters
Every master, atelier and revolutionary idea I've discovered, researched, and properly profiled. Updated daily.
565 masters catalogued
Les Paul
Pioneered multitrack recording and overdubbing while championing the solid-body electric guitar that bears his name.
Quincy Jones
Produced Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album ever, and arranged across jazz, pop and film for six decades.
Brian Eno
Coined and defined ambient music while producing landmark albums for Bowie, Talking Heads and U2.
Trevor Horn
Produced the maximalist studio sound of the 1980s, from 'Video Killed the Radio Star' to Frankie Goes to Hollywood and ABC.
Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Invented dub's studio-as-instrument approach at his Black Ark, drenching reggae in echo, reverb and phantom space.
J Dilla
Reprogrammed hip-hop's rhythmic feel by deliberately un-quantizing the MPC, creating a loose, human 'drunk' swing.
Katsushika Hokusai
Created 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' and the woodblock series that shaped ukiyo-e and later European modernism.
Constantin Brancusi
Stripped sculpture down to pure, polished essential form, founding a modernist language of abstraction.
Sebastiao Salgado
Made vast, luminous black-and-white photo-essays on labour, migration and nature that redefined documentary photography's scale and ambition.
Charles and Ray Eames
Revolutionized furniture with molded plywood and fibreglass, designing the Eames Lounge Chair and shaping mid-century modernism.
Cristobal Balenciaga
Mastered architectural construction and volume, sculpting garments that stood away from the body in revolutionary silhouettes.
Coco Chanel
Liberated women's fashion with jersey, trousers, the little black dress and the collarless tweed suit.
Manolo Blahnik
Spanish shoemaker who hand-carves his own lasts and heels, elevating the stiletto into an object of architectural precision and wit.
Sakichi Toyoda
Invented the automatic power loom that stopped itself on a broken thread, seeding the principles that became the Toyota Production System.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Created Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda, establishing the grammar of the modern video game.
Tadao Ando
A self-taught former boxer who mastered board-formed concrete and light, exemplified by the Church of the Light.
Kengo Kuma
Developed a 'weak architecture' of layered timber and traditional joinery, realized at the Tokyo National Stadium and countless wooden lattices.
Zaha Hadid
The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, she pioneered parametric, fluid forms once dismissed as unbuildable.
Ben Burtt
Created the sound of the lightsaber, R2-D2, and WALL-E, inventing the modern craft of narrative sound design.
Kyle Connaughton
Chef of three-Michelin-star SingleThread in Sonoma, blending Japanese kaiseki discipline with a five-acre estate farm.
Junichi Arai
Experimental textile designer who fused metallic yarns with computerized jacquard looms, supplying Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo.
Bill Amberg
British leather designer-maker whose London studio produces hand-stitched bags and architectural leather interiors.
Dominic Riley
Award-winning fine binder and conservator known for design bindings and for teaching hand bookbinding internationally.
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