Dan Tanenbaum calls himself a “technology entrepreneur with a creative edge”. He has been a collector of fine timepieces for around 20 years now, and his inspiration is “to breathe new life into these pieces allowing them to live on in a different form”.

Monomi Ohno studied at Osaka University of the Arts, where she specialized in 3-D animation. But she had no money for the expensive 3-D equipment, so she decided to use Amazon cardboard boxes instead, and gradually turned into a real cardboard artist.