This Will Do: Humble Design To Make Good Things Happen

Cecilia designs ecosystems.  Actually, they pretty much assemble themselves, she just works out what creature, idea, or object is missing, and puts it in.    

She works mostly in Japan, helping re-set the culture of children’s homes, art schools, share houses and Ecovillages. The aim is creating satisfying connections, getting rid of unwilling, unproductive effort, and working with, not against, each other's quintessential nature and talents.

With buddy Mark Garratt, she designed a self-maintaining food forest for Richard Branson’s Necker island. She consults for organisations with big ambitions and no known way to achieve them, such as Tarronga Conservation Society. 

She’s convinced you have ten times more things in your house than is good for you, not nearly enough people, and that if you allowed her to get her hands on it, your home would be transformed into a Zen Fairyland Resort everyone wants to hide out in.  

Find out more and download some crazily inspiring illustrations and stories at www.ceciliamacaulay.com.au

Ben is Principal Design Strategist for Australia’s most desirable Tech Company, Atlassian. Plus, his side projects are all about social good, making a better world.

When you are this talented, you don’t have to do meaningless work. He quickly sees the big picture, where the disfunction is coming from, and how to steer people’s existing energies into making things great, making life work out. 

Ben is master at making the smallest possible intervention, for the greatest possible benefit, and gets his teams, his clients able to do this too. 

He is ‘locally famous’ for the one little button he added to the social pages of the World’s Greatest Shave website, which resulted in an extra $1million of micro-donations. In Ben’s words “I like to design to change lives, not just the décor, but even more than that I like to bring out creativity in others.”

Most importantly, Ben is really funny. www.bencrothers.com