Kenya Hara
Lebbeus Woods
Scott Wilson (even before KS)
Marc Newson
Santiago Calatrava
Tadao Ando
Herzog & de Meuron (the de Young museum in SF)
I seem to get a lot more inspiration from architecture than from ID. There is much more written/printed about buildings and the practice of architecture; this is probably due to the permanence and large-ness, rather than just this season’s new gadget/brand/trend.