JJ Abrams is a celebrated writer, producer, composer, and director. His film credits include Armageddon, Star Trek, and Super 8, as well as the television hits Felicity, Lost, and Westworld. His 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was the second film in history to gross over two billion dollars at the box office. Abrams has won numerous awards and is currently working on an HBO series with Jordan Peele, the director of Get Out.
Andy Cruz is the co-founder and creative nerve center of House Industries, the design company known for their fonts and far-reaching collaborative work with Muji, Hermès, The Eames Office, Jimmy Kimmel, and The New Yorker. Cruz’s interests such as hot-rods, Japanese folk art, and skateboarding fuel projects ranging from fashion and fonts to ceramics and satellites. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. The Process is the Inspiration, co-authored with Rich Roat and Ken Barber, considers how to turn curiosity into successful work. JJ Abrams wrote the book’s foreword.