List of industrial designers
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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)
- 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
Postmodernism (born 1980)
- Ron Arad (born 1951)
- Mario Bellini (born 1935)
- 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)
- Betony Vernon (born 1968)