Wallpaper* is the global design authority, leading the way in architecture, design, art, entertaining, beauty & grooming, transport, technology, fashion, and watches & jewellery. Founded as a print magazine in 1996, it has evolved into a multi-channel media brand. With a strong track record of discovering next-generation talents and creative matchmaking, Wallpaper* is at the forefront of the global creative community. It continues to change the way the world thinks about design.

For close to two decades now, Wallpaper* has used the first issue of the year to show support to a new generation of designers. In its original form, finding, promoting and nurturing creatives of the future involved scouring academic institutions to celebrate the graduate talent within.

More recently, however, more aware that emerging design practitioners are following different routes into their professions, which is not surprising given that design education is becoming more difficult to access, and often excludes talent from specific territories the magazine is committed to exploring. For this reason,, our January issue once more serves to identify noteworthy individuals at the start of their career, irrespective of whether they have benefitted from traditional design educations, trained in workshops, chosen a mid-career life change, or simply happened upon their design skills by chance.