Today’s Influential Designers

Unfortunately I cannot make it to class Wednesday to hear about today’s influential designers, but I thought I might share who’s work I find inspiring. I’d be interested to see who’s currently inspiring you too. I don’t find Martha Stewart terribly inspiring, but what other female designers are influencing product design?

Marcel Wanders

http://www.marcelwanders.com/

• known for luxury goods
• integrates Delft patterns and other intricate patterns
• designed KLM airlines meal service

Marc Newson

http://marc-newson.com/

• recently joined apple design team
• leads design for Quantas Airlines
• leads design for G-Star clothing
• clients include Mount Blanc, Leica, LV, Sumbeam,..

Leica designed by Marc Newman and Jon Ive

Early chair design that put Newman on the map

G-Star jacket by Marc Newman

Frank Gehry

http://www.foga.com/

Popularized cardboard furniture

Designs:

• Seattle EMP
• Walt Design Concert Hall
• Vitra Design Musem

Here’s Frank responding to critics:

Karim Rashid

http://karimrashid.com/

• Known for organic meets tech aesthetic
• Clients: Dirt Devil, Umbra, 3M

Jonathan Ive

www.apple.com

• leads Apple design
• most influence in-house designer of our time.
• enough said.

Here’s some his early ID work:

http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-the-earliest-work-of-apples-design-leader-jony-ive-2013-11#heres-another-sketch-from-ive-this-time-for-a-power-drill-ive-likes-to-say-hes-not-good-at-drawing-but-he-is-actually-quite-talented-4

One of kind table designed by Marc Newman and Jonathan Ive for charity auction

Temple Grandin

http://www.grandin.com/design/design.html

• Over half the world’s livestock handled by systems designed by Grandin
• Unsung hero of Industrial Design, better known as animal scientist and autism advocate
• uses her autistic ability to understand how animal perception

Yves Behar

http://www.fuseproject.com/

• founder of fuse project
• leads design for Jawbone
• designs for Herman Miller, and many more

Naoto Fukasawa

Founder of “+-0” brand

http://en.plusminuszero.jp/

Philippe Starck

http://www.starck.com/en/

Architect and product designer

Clients include:

• Target
• Microsoft
• Puma
• Kartell
• Steve Jobs Yacht
• many more…

Steve Jobs Yacht designed by Starck

Kartell  Monobloc Chair  designed by Starck

blobject designed by Starck

Target Line designed by Starck