Oscar Barnack (1879 – 1936) and the first 35mm camera
2021-07-08
The Leica 1, the first functional 35 mm camera, was introduced in Germany in 1925, making photography much more accessible to the general public.Read More →
Abram Games (1914 – 1996) British graphic and industrial designer
2021-07-03
In acknowledging his power as a propagandist, he claimed, “I wind the spring and the public, in looking at the poster, will have that spring released in its mind.” Read More →
Alfredo Häberli ( b. 1964) Argentinian industrial designer
2021-07-02
In Häberli’s design method, the human being is the beginning point. His constructions and items are made to be utilised.Read More →
Antonio Citterio ( b.1950 ) Italian furniture designer
2021-06-29
Antonio Citterio is a leading Italian architect and interior designer, furniture and industrial designer. Citterio explored the possibilities of new materials and technologies rather than aligning himself with New Design’s more fashionable aesthetics.Read More →
Christian Germanaz ( b. 1940 ) french industrial designer
2021-06-28
Germanaz designed the Half and Half seat (1964), it was manufactured by Airborne in 1968. This consisted of two identical plastic shapes clamped together to form a bench.Read More →
Naoto Fukasawa ( b.1956) Japanese product designer
2021-06-25
Fukasawa is well-known for his designs and design theories, endowed with a quiet strength that represents people’s dreams and expectations. Conveying them using such terms as “design dissolving in behaviour”, “centre of consciousness”, “normality”, “outline”, and “archetype”, he continues to put these philosophies into practice in his designs.Read More →
Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900 – 1990) German architect and industrial designer
2021-06-24
He was an assistant lecturer at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1922 to 1929, where he primarily designed lighting fixtures. Read More →
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) Austrian Designer
2021-06-21
Although trained and active as an architect, Sottsass secured a permanent place in pop culture with his designs of everyday items. From 1957, he was a consultant designer at Olivetti, where he designed computers, adding machines, typewriters, and systems furniture. Read More →
Steve McGugan (b.1962) Canadian Industrial Designer
2021-06-19
Medical Technology and Telecommunications Steve McGugan (b.1962) is a Canadian industrial designer. He was bornRead More →
Paul McCobb (1917 – 1969) American furniture designer
2021-06-18
One of the leading designers of the American design movement from the mid-20th centuryRead More →
Franco Mirenzi ( b. 1942 ) Italian Industrial Designer
2021-06-17
Franco Mirenzi is an Italian industrial designer who was born in 1942.Read More →
Sori Yanagi – Japanese Industrial Designer
2021-06-17
Sori Yanagi (1915-2011) was an industrial designer from Japan. Although previously trained as a fine artist and worked in an architectural studio, Yanagi went on to study industrial design in 1947.Read More →
Douglas Kelley ( b.1928 ) American Industrial Designer
2021-06-16
Douglas Kelley (born 1928) is an American industrial designer best known for creating the T-chair and the Elna Lotus sewing machine.Read More →
Donald Deskey (1894 – 1989) an American industrial, furniture and interior designer
2021-06-15
Donald Deskey was an American industrial, furniture, and interior designer. He was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota. He was professionally active in New York. He may have lacked the European sophistication and architectural training of his friend Paul Frankl. However, he created a uniquely American modern style that combined streamlining with French Art Deco taste.Read More →
Brooks Stevens (1911 – 1995) American Industrial Designer
2021-06-15
Brooks Stevens was an American industrial designer. He was born in Wisconsin and was active in Milwaukee. He studied at Cornell University in Utica, New York.Read More →
Marilena Boccato Italian product designer
2021-06-12
Marilena Boccato is a designer from Italy who worked in Treviso and Padua. In 1967, Boccato began her professional career. She collaborated with Gian Nicola Gigante and Antonio Zambusi.Read More →
Misha Black (1910 – 1977) British industrial and exhibition designer
2021-06-12
He was mostly self-taught despite a short period of study at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and in Paris, beginning his professional career in graphic art and design of exhibition stands.Read More →
Swatch Watch a Design Classic
2021-06-11
Swatch has revolutionised the watch industry over the previous four decades. The Swatch became the fashion item of the 1980s thanks to its combination of Swiss technology, design, and low price. It is the first watch that has become a classic look, with a black plastic band and a basic watch face.Read More →
Arthur J. Pulos (1917- 1993) American industrial designer and educator
2021-06-05
Arthur Pulos (1917 – 1993) was a well-known design teacher, promoter, and industrial designer. Arthur Pulos was renowned for his writings, lectures in developed and developing nations, and involvement with important organizations like the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID).Read More →
Matteo Thun (b.1952) Italian ceramicist and designer
2021-06-04
We reject design as an issue of taste! We follow a different strategy:
Simplicity. We always
search for the iconic form and create things that people can understand intuitively. We,
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