Wallpaper* USA 400: The people shaping Creative America in 2025
The Wallpaper* USA 400 celebrates Creative America in all its dazzling breadth and diversity. Our snapshot of the people who are shaping the country’s creative landscape in 2025 spans community builders, tastemakers, business leaders and more. It’s all a testament to the abundance of stellar talent that’s defining the discourse here in the United States – and the world more broadly.
Here are the names to know in America now.
Wallpaper* USA 400: a guide to Creative America in 2025
The New Guard
Creatives working in fashion, architecture, visual arts and more: the rising stars getting us excited for the future.
ADAM CHARLAP HYMAN AND ANDRE HERRERO
Principals, Charlap Hyman & Herrero
KATIE STOUT
Artist and designer who creates furniture and objects that use traditional craft techniques and materials, but which are shaped by an urge to subvert utilitarian forms with unexpected results
MINJAE KIM
Korean-born designer whose work explores ideas of identity and belonging (Kim has previously shown alongside his artist mother, at Matter Projects)
Creativity Meets Science and Tech
Leaders of design research, start-uppers and business leaders whose creative brilliance is paired with a strong focus on technology and sustainability.
GERMANE BARNES
Architect researching architecture’s social and political influence
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