INPLORATION
CO-FOUNDERS
LAWRENCE
AZERRAD
A 2-time Grammy award-winning creative director, author, curator, and leader in the evolving symbiosis of design and music. As founder of Macroscopic︎︎︎, a strategic and creative consultancy, and LADdesign︎︎︎, a Los Angeles based design studio, Lawrence works with musicians, educational and cultural institutions who seek to visualize the future.
Lawrence is the founder of the Designing The Future of Music initiative of which includes academic programs at Global Innovation Design, Imperial College of London, and Graduate Design Futures program at California College of the Arts. Lawrence is the lead curator of the 2021 exhibit The Future Happened: Designing The Future of Music for The Museum of Design Atlanta. Lawrence has created album artwork for Esperanza Spalding, Wilco, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Miles Davis, The Silversun Pickups among many others, plus comprehensive identity systems for USC, UCLA, UC San Diego and Berklee College of Music.
Lawrence was a producer and the creative director of The Voyager Golden Record 40th Anniversary Edition, he is also the author of “Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde” Amazon’s 2018 selection of the year - Arts & Photography. Lawrence’s second book “Mirror Sound, A Look into the People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music” was co-authored with Spencer Tweedy published by Prestel.
Lawrence has spoken on design and inspiration at The V&A Museum, London, The Smithsonian, The Cooper Hewitt, TEDxUCLA, and at universities, professional organizations, nationwide and internationally.
RICHELLE
ELLIS
Richelle Ellis is an expeditionary artist, curator, and analog astronaut. Her art and research aims to use space to help life on Earth, to see the world – and ourselves – in new ways. Richelle creates artworks made for international orbit, etched on satellites, suspended by Stratollite balloons and aboard rockets, and is one of the first women to have art on the surface of the Moon.
As the Head of Creative Research for analog space missions via Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), Sensoria Program, Lunares Research Station, and Astroland Interplanetary Agency, Ellis examines creativity beyond our world. Richelle's artistic ventures have taken her to glaciers near the North Pole to parabolic flights in zero gravity, into the Biosphere 2 and Analog Mars Missions with NASA Goddard, earning her accolades and residencies at renowned institutions such as Planet, Google Quantum AI, Relativity and the Karman Project. Her artwork spans exhibitions from the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Hamburg Planetarium, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Richelle is the Founding Director of Supercollider︎︎︎, which brings together leading artists, scientists, and the public to celebrate the future and reframe the challenges facing our world. She is also the Co-Founder and Director of Space Programs for Beyond Earth︎︎︎, an all-female international transdisciplinary artist collective exploring the frontiers of art, space, and biology through space-bound artworks.
ADVISORY
BOARD
Our Advisory Board includes leaders across the arts, business, philanthropic and media sectors.
We are proud to introduce our esteemed Advisory Board, a diverse group of experts guiding our mission. Joining us are Mo Pritzker, Rachel Crane, and Diana Vesga. Their combined expertise enhances our efforts to inspire and drive impactful change.
OUR
OBJECTIVES
1. Cultural and educational impact
through the artbook and album, exhibit, and design + education lab featuring creative leadership from diverse spheres and topics that engage distinct audiences.2. Spark renewable impact
cultivated by new visions of sustainable legacies and creative activations driven by inploration centered initiatives.3. Grow audience base
by engaging to communities in new appreciations of space and cosmic perspective through art and design.SUPPORT OUR MISSION HERE ︎︎︎
inploration
[ in • plo • ra • tion] noun,The act of venturing inside of oneself through introspection to understand the self relative to the greater cosmos.
Get in touch
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