Designers & thinkers that i like and anyone should know:
- Bruno Munari (1907-1998)
- John Maeda | MAEDASTUDIO | Maeda’s Simplicity blog
- Konstantin Grcic | Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design | @DesignBoom | @DesignMuseum
- Victor Papanek (1927-1999)
- Yves Béhar | fuseproject
- [Under construction]
List of notable industrial designers:
Arts and Crafts movement (1851-1914)
- Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)
- Charles Voysey
- Philip Webb
- Walter Crane
- William Benson
- William Morris (1834-1896)
- William R. Lethaby
Art Nouveau (1880-1905)
Note – This category also includes preliminary work of the Wiener Werkstätte
- Archibald Knox
- Charles Robert Ashbee
- Christopher Dresser
- Emile Gallé
- Henry Ford
- Henry Van de Velde
- Josef Hoffmann
- Louis Majorelle
- Victor Horta
De Stijl (1917-1928)
- Eileen Gray
- Gerrit Rietveld
- Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
- Mart Stam
- Robert van’t Hoff
- Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931)
Bauhaus (1920-1930)
- Gerd Alfred Müller (1932-1991)
- László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
- Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)
- Marianne Brandt (1893–1983)
- Max Bill (1908-1994)
- Peter Behrens (1868–1940)
- Walter Adolph Gropius (1883-1969)
- Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900-1990)
Art Deco & Streamline Moderne (1925-1950)
- Alvar Aalto
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
- Charles and Ray Eames (1907-1978) and (1912-1988)
- Donald Deskey
- Eva Zeisel (1906-)
- Ferdinand Porsche
- George Carwardine
- Gerard Kiljan (1891-1968)
- Gösta Thames (1916-)
- Harold van Doren
- Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972)
- Hugo Blomberg (1897-?)
- Jean Heiberg
- Marcello Nizzoli
- Maurice Ascalon (1913-2003)
- Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958)
- Poul Henningsen
- Ralph Lysell (1907-1987)
- Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
- Russel Wright (1904-1976)
- Viktor Schreckengost (1906-)
- Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960)
Late Modernism (1950-1975)
- Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971)
- Dieter Rams
- Gino Valle
- Hans Gugelot (1920-1965)
Pop (1960-1980)
- Anna Castelli-Ferrieri
- Arata Isozaki
- Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
- Frank Gehry
- Gio Ponti
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Kenmochi
- Joe Cesare Colombo
- Karim Rashid
- Niels Diffrient
- Olivier Mourgue
- Riki Watanabe
- Shiro Kuramata
- Syd Mead
- Tom Dixon
Postmodernism (1980-)
- Alberto Meda (1945 – )
- Alessandro Mendini (1931-)
- Antonio Citterio (1950-)
- Borek Sípek (1949 – )
- Brad Ascalon (1977-)
- Brett Lovelady (1962 – )
- Carlos Riart
- Erik Magnussen (1940 – )
- Ettore Sottsass (1917 -)
- Geoff Hollington (1949 – )
- George Sowden
- Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938 – )
- Hans Hollein
- James Dyson (1947 – )
- Jasper Morrison (1959- )
- Javier Mariscal (1950- )
- Jonathan Ive (1967- )
- Kenneth Grange (1929 – )
- Knud Holscher (1930 – )
- Konstantin Grcic (1965- )
- Lisa Krohn
- Luigi Colani
- Marco Zanuso (1916 – )
- Mario Bellini (1935-)
- Masanori Umeda ( )
- Mattheo Thun (1952 – )
- Maurizio Corbi
- Michael Graves (1934- )
- Michele De Lucchi (1951- )
- Naoto Fukasawa (1956 – )
- Nick Butler (1942 – )
- Norman Foster (1935 – )
- Philippe Starck (1949 – )
- Richard Sapper
- Robert Venturi ( )
- Ron Arad (1951-)
- Ross Lovegrove (1958 – )
- Shiro Kuramata (1943-1991)
- Sigvard Bernadotte (1907 – )
- Trevor Baylis (1937 – )
To be classified
- Acton Bjørn (1910 – 1992)
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922)
- Brooks Stevens (1911-1995)
- Bruno Munari (1907-1998)
- David Mellor (1930 – )
- Douglas Scott (designer) (1913 – 1990)
- Egmont Arens (1888-1966)
- Emil Berliner (1851 – 1929)
- Eva Zeisel (1906- )
- Gino Colombini (1915 – )
- Harley J. Earl (1893-1969)
- Hartmut Esslinger (1944- )
- Herman Miller (1923 – )
- Jakob Jensen (1926 – )
- Kenji Ekuan (1929 – )
- László Bíró (1899 – 1985)
- Massimo Vignelli (1931 – )
- Olof Bäckström (1922 – )
- Oskar Barnack (1879 – 1936)
- Robert Davol Budlong (1902-1955)
- Roberto Sambonet (1924 – 1995)
- Robin Day (1915- )
- siGz (1982 – )
- Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985)
- Verner Panton (1926-1998)
- Victor Papanek (1927-1999)
- Virgil Exner (1909-1973)
