Raymond Loewy, a renowned designer, arrived in the US during the Great Depression, revolutionizing product design and creating iconic works like the Studebaker Starliner car.Read More →
Angelo Testa (1921 – 1984) was an American fabric designer. He studied at the Institute of Design, Chicago, to 1945. As well as being a fabric designer, he was a painter and sculptor.
He designed the 1941 Little Man abstract floral fabric, widely published and hailed as a new direction in textile design. It all began, in fact, with a doodle. A free-form sketch with a dancing shape that intrigued its artist.Read More →
In 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXT after leaving Apple. His collaboration with designer Paul Rand led to an iconic brand identity, culminating in Apple’s acquisition of NeXT.Read More →
Klein’s excellent, modest tailoring and beautiful sportswear lines, as well as his casual separates created in the finest linens, silks, and cashmere, had earned him a name by the mid-1970sRead More →
Hartmut Esslinger (born June 5, 1944) is a German-American industrial designer and inventor. He is best known for founding the design consultancy frog, and his work for Apple Computers in the early 1980s.Read More →
Alexey Brodovitch (1898 – 1971) was an American/Russian graphic designer and magazine art director. Alexey Brodovitch was born in Russia and worked in Paris in the 1920s, creating books, posters, furniture, and advertising. He moved to America in 1930 and worked as the art director of Harper’s Bazaar magazine in New York after a brief stint of teaching and advertising.Read More →
One of the leading designers of the American design movement from the mid-20th centuryRead More →
Hilton McConnico ( 1943 – 2018) was American furniture and interior designer. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He worked professionally in Paris.Read More →
Dominick Labino (1910-1987) was a pioneering American glass innovator and technologist, credited with founding the Studio Glass Movement and holding numerous patents in glassmaking.Read More →
Harvey Littleton (1922-2013) transformed glass into a medium for abstract art, establishing the first hot-glass art program in the U.S. and influencing contemporary design.Read More →