David Halbertstam: opening a window on the society -- Edward Albee: collecting ideas from the unconscious mind -- Dale Chihuly: exploiting controlled accidents -- Daniel Libeskind: creating reality with architecture -- Nandan Nilekani: visualizing the future of global business -- Erica Jong: seducing her own demons -- Julie Taymor: moving, touching, entertaining and inspiring people -- James Rosenquist: making an illusion on two-dimensional surfaces -- Steve Wozniak: inventing to simplify things -- Roland Heiler: overruling the tendency to compromise -- Milton Glaser: being a design generalist -- Chuck Close: decoding the mysterious process of art -- Spike Lee: changing the filmmaking landscape -- Chris Bangle: creating the personification of BMW Group design -- Paul Warwick Thompson: looking for enduring significance -- Marvin Hamlisch: composing and collaboration -- Steven Holl: breaking the rules -- Ilana Goor: my best things are my mistakes -- Ken Heyman: seeing more than others see -- Karim Rashid: changing the aesthetics of product design.