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 →
Erwin Komeda (1904 – 1966) Austrian Automobile Designer
2021-06-21
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Johnson Chou Canadian Designer and Architect
2021-06-03
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 →
Ingo Maurer (1932 – 2019) – German industrial designer – Poet of Light
2021-06-03
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 →
Jasper Morrison (1959 – ) British Designer quirky, understated furniture
2021-05-31
Morrison produced quirky, satiric, understated furniture. His 1986 South Kensington flat was widely published in design magazines. He designed 1988 Door handles I and II, and a 1989 range of aluminium handles produced by FSB in Germany. Read More →
Elio Martinelli (1922 – 2004) Italian Lighting Designer
2021-05-29
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 →
Eero Aarnio (1932 – ) Finnish interior and industrial designer
2021-05-23
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 →
Michael Graves (1934 – 2015) – American architect and industrial designer
2021-05-20
Alessi Design Collection
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.
Enzo Mari (1932 -2020) Italian modernist, industrial designer
2021-05-20
Graduating Table Bowls
In 1956, he became interested in design, particularly books and children’s games. In 1957, he began working for Danese, for whom some of his designs and ideas for games and puzzles, including the 1957 wooden child’s puzzle, were realised.Read More →
Mario Bellini (1935 – ) Italy’s most versatile designer
2021-05-19
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 →
Antonia Astori (1940 – ) Italian designer
2021-05-17
Antonia Astori is an Italian fashion designer who co-founded Driade with her brother Enrico and Adelaide Acerbi in 1968.Read More →
Pedro Miralles (1955 – 1993) Spanish architect and designer
2021-05-14
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
2021-05-13
Ross Franklin Littell (1924 – 2000) was an American textile and furniture designer known forRead More →
Raymond Loewy (1893 – 1986) – an American Designer
2021-05-13
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 →