Steve McGugan (b.1962) Canadian Industrial Designer
2022-01-13
Medical Technology and Telecommunications Steve McGugan (b.1962) is a Canadian industrial designer. He was bornRead More →
Erwin Komenda (1904 – 1966) Austrian Automobile Designer
2022-01-13
In 1934, he joined Ferdinand Porsche’s design bureau in Stuttgart and began work on the styling of the Volkswagen, the people’s car.Read More →
Johnson Chou Canadian Designer and Architect
2022-01-01
It was through the Gallery that Chou’s emerging practise of design developed. For its minimalist style and transformational architectural ideas, his design for the spare, but the multi-functional gallery was recognised. The first projects by Chou were the homes and offices of Archive art patrons.Read More →
Tucker Viemeister (b.1948) American Product Designer
2021-12-05
Tucker Viemeister graduated from Yellow Springs High School in 1966, went to two different colleges. He ended up studying industrial design at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, from which he graduated with a degree in industrial design in 1974. Read More →
Elio Martinelli (1922 – 2004) Italian Lighting Designer
2021-12-01
He and others founded a lighting company in 1942. In 1956, he founded the lighting firm Martinelli Luce in Lucca, designing plastics and metal and producing a perspex hanging lamp published in La Rivista dell’ Arredamento.Read More →
Perry King (b. 1938 ) British industrial, graphic and product designer
2021-11-28
He worked at Olivetti, where he designed office machinery, starting in 1956. He collaborated with Hans Von Klier on C. Castelli’s corporate design program. He was designing dictating machines for Süd-Atlas Werke in Monaco and electronic apparatus and control systems for Praxis in Milan.Read More →
Michael Graves (1934 – 2015) – American architect and industrial designer
2021-11-27
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Michael Graves (1934 – 2015) was an architect and industrial designer from the United States. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and lived and worked in Princeton, New Jersey.
Eero Aarnio (b. 1932 ) Finnish interior and industrial designer
2021-11-26
Finnish designer Eero Aarnio (b. 1932) is a great innovator of twentieth-century furniture. His plastic chairs from the 1960s are pop culture icons that continue to be in demand, which is why Aarnio Originals began manufacturing them again in 2017 after launching at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.Read More →
Daniel Weil unconventional industrial designs
2021-11-16
From 1981, he designed a series· of digital clocks, radios, and lighting for his own firm Parenthesis. His 1984 Andante deconstructed radio was executed with colourful separate parts housed in a clear plastic bag to be wall-hung. It was part of the Anthologie collection for Quartett.Read More →
Pedro Miralles (1955 – 1993) Spanish architect and designer
2021-11-15
In Madrid, he encountered people associated with postmodern culture, including architect Rafael Moneo, his university professor, and members of the Madrid movida movement, such as film director Pedro Almodóvar and fashion designer Jess del Well.Read More →
Ross Franklin Littell (1924 – 2000) American textile and furniture designer
2021-11-14
Ross Franklin Littell (1924 – 2000) was an American textile and furniture designer known forRead More →
Emilio Ambasz Argentine architect and designer
2021-11-13
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 →
Brooks Stevens (1911 – 1995) American Industrial Designer
2021-11-12
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 →
George Sakier (1897 – 1965) American Industrial Designer
2021-11-12
George Sakier (1897 – 1965) was a multifaceted artist who worked as an interior designer,Read More →
The brains and Braun of designer Dieter Rams
2021-11-11
The way Dieter Rams tell it good design boils down to something as simple durability.
Okay, not durability alone. A Well-designed piece is so self-explanatory that figuring out how to use it as simple as looking at it. And a design develops from the inside out because it involves not only aesthetics but also function.Read More →
Carlo Mollino (1905 – 1973) Italian architect and designer
2021-11-10
Today, Carlo Mollino seems just as important as when he was alive. The designer left his mark on the world of industrial design of the 20th century through one of a kind objects, incorporating new techniques and materials produced rather than batch productions in the form of collector’s items.Read More →
Mario Bellini (1935 – ) Italy’s most versatile designer
2021-10-05
Mario Bellini is one of Italy’s most versatile designers. Trained as an architect, he is known for his furniture and industrial design work. The new forms he developed for contemporary technology and furniture objects inspired designers internationally.Read More →
Misha Black (1910 – 1977) British industrial and exhibition designer
2021-10-02
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 →
Raymond Loewy (1893 – 1986) – an American Designer
2021-10-01
He arrived in the United States in 1929, just in time for the great depression. As it happened the beginning of the depression was a fortuitous time for a talented designer with new ideas to arrive in the United States. The old design aesthetic was disappearing with the collapsing economy. Manufacturers wanted to stimulate demand for their products by offering customers new designs, and Loewy had an abundance of them with the ego to match. His mother had always told him, “It is better to be envied than pitied.”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 →