List of industrial designers

Updated on Dec 23, 2023

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The following industrial designers and product designers are among those who are noted for their accomplishments in industrial or product design, and/or who have made extraordinary contributions to industrial-design education or philosophy.

This list is categorized by the main design movements of the twentieth century. Although many industrial designers of this list followed many such trends, they are listed under the movement they are most associated with.

Arts and Crafts movement (1851–1914)

Walter Crane

William R. Lethaby

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1929)

Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

William Morris (1834–1896)

Charles Voysey

Philip Webb

Art Nouveau (1870–1905)

Note - This category also includes preliminary work of the Wiener Werkstätte

Charles Robert Ashbee

Christopher Dresser

Henry Ford

Emile Gallé

Josef Hoffmann

Victor Horta

Archibald Knox

Louis Majorelle

Henry Van de Velde

De Stijl (1917–1928)

Le Corbusier (1887–1965)

Eileen Gray

Gerrit Rietveld

Mart Stam

Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931)

Bauhaus (1920–1930)

Peter Behrens (1868–1940)

Max Bill (1908–1994)

Marianne Brandt (1893–1983)

Marcel Breuer (1902–1981)

Walter Adolph Gropius (1883–1969)

Herbert Hirche (1910-2002)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969)

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946)

Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900–1990)

Art Deco & Streamline Moderne (1925–1950)

Alvar Aalto

Maurice Ascalon (1913–2003)

Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958)

George Carwardine

Donald Deskey

Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972)

Charles and Ray Eames (1907–1978) and (1912–1988)

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)

Poul Henningsen

Raymond Loewy (1893–1986)

Marcello Nizzoli

Ferdinand Porsche

Alexis de Sakhnoffsky (1901–1964)

Viktor Schreckengost (1906–2008)

Walter Dorwin Teague (1883–1960)

Russel Wright (1904–1976)

Eva Zeisel (1906–2011)

Late Modernism (1950–1975)

Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971)

Jens Quistgaard (1919-2008)

Jacob Jensen (born 1926)

Dieter Rams (born 1932)

Greta von Nessen (born 1900)

Pop (1960–1980)

Harry Bertoia

Joe Cesare Colombo

Niels Diffrient

Tom Dixon

Frank Gehry

Arata Isozaki

Shiro Kuramata

Olivier Mourgue

Gaetano Pesce

Gio Ponti

Eero Saarinen (1910–1961)

Syd Mead

Piero Gatti - Cesare Paolini - Franco Teodoro

Postmodernism (born 1980)

Ron Arad (born 1951)

Mario Bellini (born 1935)

Todd Bracher (born 1974)

Nicolás García Mayor (born 1978)

Antonio Citterio (born 1950)

Luigi Colani (born 1928)

Michael Graves (born 1934)

Hans Hollein

Jonathan Ive (born 1967)

Dennis L. Kappen (born 1968)

Manfred Kielnhofer (born 1967)

Shiro Kuramata (1943–1991)

Javier Mariscal (born 1950)

Jasper Morrison (born 1959)

Alessandro Mendini (born 1931)

Richard Sapper (1932–2015)

Philippe Starck (born 1949)

Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007)

George Sowden (born 1942)

Apostol Tnokovski (born 1982)

Robert Venturi (born 1925)

Marco Zanuso (1916–2001)

James Dyson (born 1947)

Trevor Baylis (born 1937)

Sigvard Bernadotte (1907–2002)

Norman Foster (born 1935)

Naoto Fukasawa (born 1956)

Giorgetto Giugiaro (born 1938)

Kenneth Grange (born 1929)

Knud Holscher (born 1930)

Ross Lovegrove (born 1958)

Alberto Meda (born 1945)

Satyendra Pakhale (born 1967)

Karim Rashid (born 1960)

Betony Vernon (born 1968)

Belle Kogan (born 1902)

Patricia Urquiola

Tokujin Yoshioka

Jacob Jensen (1926–2015)

To be classified

Oskar Barnack (1879–1936)

Robert Davol Budlong (1902–1955)

Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002)

Robin Day (1915–2010)

Earl R. Dean (1890–1972)

Harley J. Earl (1893–1969)

Dennis L. Kappen (born 1968)

Hartmut Esslinger (born 1944)

Virgil Exner (1909–1973)

Timothy Jacob Jensen (born 1962)

David Mellor (born 1930)

Bruno Munari (1907–1998)

Verner Panton (1926–1998)

Victor Papanek (1927–1999)

Brooks Stevens (1911–1995)

Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014)

Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985)

Belle Kogan (1902–2000)