101 Things I Learned® in Product Design School
2021-04-22
An engaging, enlightening, and cleverly illustrated guide to product design, written by experienced professional designers and instructors.Read More →
Charles Pollock (1930 – 2013) American industrial designer
2021-04-05
Charles Pollock (1930 – 2013) was an American industrial designer who created sleek furniture, most notably an office chair held together by a single aluminium band that became known as a Pollock Chair. Read More →
Industrial Design – design for mass production
2021-04-01
After 1865, as industrialisation accelerated and consumer products proliferated, producers were forced to concentrate on product appearance. Ordinary people desired comfort, even luxury: patent furniture, opulent home interiors, and eclectic mail-order products. Read More →
Ingo Maurer (1932 – 2019) – German industrial designer – Poet of Light
2021-03-31
Ingo Maurer was a German industrial designer who specialised in the development of lighting fixtures and installations. “Poet of Light” was his nickname.Read More →
Marc Harrison (1936 – 1998) American Industrial designer
2021-03-30
Marc Harrison (1936-1998) was an industrial designer from the United States. Harrison sustained a significant brain injury in a sledding accident when he was eleven years old. He had to relearn simple functions like walking and talking as a result of the crash. Harrison gained experience and motivation for his future work as an industrial designer due to this incident and his lengthy recovery.Read More →
Eliot Noyes (1910 – 1977) American industrial designer
2021-03-30
Eliot Noyes (1910 – 1977) was an industrial designer from the United States. From 1928 to 1932, he studied architecture at Harvard University, followed by stints at the Graduate School of Design from 1932 to 1935 and 1937 to 1938. Read More →
Emilio Ambasz Argentine architect and designer
2021-03-29
Emilio Ambasz is an Argentinean who studied architecture at Princeton University from 1960 to 1965, worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York from 1970 to 1975 as Curator of Design arranged the landmark Italy: The New Domestic Landscape Exhibition in 1972.Read More →
Zanussi Italian manufacturer and design firm
2021-02-22
Antonio Zanussi established the household appliance firm in Pordenone in 1916. It was initially a workshop for repairing stoves. His sons and Guido and Lino took over on his death in 1946, and under them, the firm began its rise. Read More →
Society of Industrial Artists (SIA) (1930 – 1987)
2021-01-26
The origins of the CSD lay in the creation in 1930 of the Society of Industrial Artists (SIA) in Britain, when the public debate was concerned with the nature and definition of both the designer and the design profession. The manufacturing industry and the business community were generally sceptical ofRead More →
Bakelite the first ‘plastic’
2021-01-26
AD-65 Radio, Designed 1932; manufactured 1934 Circular green Bakelite housing with semi-circular station dial at top front above circular brown textile-covered speaker with three vertical metal rods as grille; three circular control knobs below speaker; two angled feet at base. The first entirely synthetic plastic was Bakelite, the trade nameRead More →
Misha Black (1910 – 1977) British industrial and exhibition designer
2021-01-26
Misha Black, was an industrial designer, architect and educator, was born in Russia and moved to London when he was 18 months of age. Education 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 careerRead More →
Handlebar Table (1982) by Jasper Morrison
2021-01-24
The Handlebar Table (1982) was a table with aluminium handlebars, chrome steel connectors, beechwood support and plate glass top.Read More →
Industrial Design – Magazine 1954 – 2009
2021-01-23
Alvin Lustig, Cover for Industrial Design magazine, April 1954, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Tamar Cohen, reproduced courtesy F + W Media, Inc. Founded when the industrial design profession was becoming firmly established in the American manufacturing industry, Industrial Design has long been established as America’s leading magazine forRead More →
Tucker Viemeister American Product Designer
2021-01-18
Tucker Viemeister is an American product designer. He was born in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He was professionally active in New York and was the son of industrial designer Read Viemeister. Education Tucker Viemeister graduated from Yellow Springs High School in 1966, went to two different colleges. He ended up studyingRead More →
Daniel Weil unconventional industrial designs
2021-01-18
Daniel Weil is an Argentine architect and designer. He was born in Buenas Aires and is based in London. Weil has always questioned the conventions of product design, and his approach has made him a controversial figure in the design world. Many have referred to his products as art objects,Read More →
Olivetti design standard-bearer
2020-12-21
Olivetti is an Italian office machinery and furniture firm, located in Ivrea, Northern Italy. Olivetti Lexikon, Poster 1953 For a large part of its history, Olivetti has followed the highest aesthetic standards in its business activities: architecture, interiors, advertising, graphics, corporate branding, as well as its manufactured products—office and computerRead More →
Christian Germanaz french industrial designer
2020-12-18
Christian Germanaz (1940-) is a French industrial designer and maker of furniture; active in Paris. He studied in Paris, both at the Ecole Boulle and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs. Half and Half Seat Germanaz designed the Half and Half seat (1964), it was manufactured by Airborne inRead More →