- Standard Design
Standard Design is the pen name for Tom Pappalardo, a Northampton, Massachusetts illustrator/graphic designer/comic artist best known for his comic books "Failure, Incompetence", "Famous Fighters" (with co-creator Matt Smith), and "Broken Lines". He is also a concert poster artist and the creator of the weekly comic strip "Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot!". Standard Design does freelance illustration, design and motion graphics work. - Free Radical Design
Free Radical Design is a video game developer, based in Nottingham, England. - Free Lunch Design
Free Lunch Design is a Swedish independent computer game developer, founded in 1998 by Johan Peitz. - Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck has designed an array of masterpieces from hotels to toothbrushes motorbikes to furniture. His love of streamlined, "horn" shapes is obvious and this is what makes his ingenuity appear inexhaustible. Philippe Starck is undoubtedly a star in the design and architectural world. - Le Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss and later French, (Swiss-born) architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture. He was a pioneer in theoretical studies of modern design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. His career spanned five decades, with his iconic buildings constructed throughout central Europe, … - Ray Eames
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 - August 21, 1988) (pronounced) was an American artist, designer, architect and filmmaker who, together with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. She was born in Sacramento, California. Having lived in a number of cities during her youth, in 1933 she moved to New York, where she studied abstract painting with Hans Hofmann. - Charles Eames
Charles Eames (pronounced) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker who, together with his wife Ray, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. - Scott Miller
Scott Miller is an entrepreneur and former game programmer. Miller is the founder and CEO of Apogee Software, Ltd. (currently known as 3D Realms Entertainment), started in 1987. He started as game programmer, but now handles primary business duties of the company, as well as producing and co-designing all third-party games associated with the company, including "Wolfenstein 3D", "Raptor", "Terminal Velocity", "Max Payne" and "Prey". - Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. - Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is a graphic designer, best known for his "Bob Dylan" poster, the I Love New York logo, and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968. - Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray (August 9, 1878 - October 31, 1976) was an Irish lacquer artist, furniture designer and architect now well-known for incorporating luxurious lacquer work into the stark International Style aesthetic. - Konstantin Grcic
Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England he studied Design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Since setting up his own design practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting for many of Europe's leading design companies. Konstantin Grcic creates industrial products widely described as pared down, simple, minimalist. - Richard Sapper
Richard Sapper (Munich, 1932) is a German industrial designer. He received a Compasso d'Oro industrial design award in 1959. Sapper partnered with Italian designer Marco Zanuso and were hired in 1959 as consultants to Brionvega, an Italian company trying to produce stylish electronics that would compete with products manufactured in Japan and Germany. - Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (Utrecht, June 24 1888 - Utrecht, June 26 1964), was a Dutch designer, architect and cabinet maker. In 1911, Rietveld started his own furniture factory, while studying architecture. Rietveld designed the Red and Blue Chair in 1918, influenced by the 'De Stijl' movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect. In 1924 he designed the Schröder house for Truus Schröder-Schräder, with whom he cooperated. - Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko, – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. - Steve Reid
Steve Reid is an American video game producer. He has been the managing director of game developer Red Storm Entertainment since January, 2001. He is an advisor to local and national colleges on digital art curricula and serves on the Visual Arts Advisory Board of the Game Developer's Conference. A founder of Red Storm, Reid began as Director of Creative Design. Previously, he served as art director at Virtus Studios and at Virtual Reality Games. - Nick Verreos
Nick Verreos (born February 13, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American fashion designer and contestant on the second season of the reality television program "Project Runway". He is currently the contributing fashion editor of "Frontiers" magazine. - Michael Thonet
Michael Thonet (July 2, 1796, Boppard, Germany - March 3, 1871, Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was a German furniture maker and industrialist best known as the inventor of bentwood furniture and as a pioneer of furniture design. Thonet was the son of master tanner Franz Anton Thonet of Boppard. Following a carpenter's apprenticeship, Thonet set himself up as an independent cabinetmaker in 1819. A year later, he married Anna Grahs, with whom he had seven sons and six daughters. - Brad Wardell
Bradley R. Wardell (born 24 June, 1971 in Texas), commonly known as Brad Wardell, is an American residing in Michigan. He is the founder and current President and CEO of Stardock, a software development and computer games company. Brad graduated in 1994 from Western Michigan University with a degree in Electronic Engineering. His first notable achievement was the design and implementation of "Galactic Civilizations" for OS/2, … - Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley (born in Cardiff on 13 October, 1951) is a British design critic, cultural critic and author. Educated at Manchester University and Liverpool School of Architecture, he has worked as a museum curator, and was the first director of the Design Museum in London. He became nationally famous when he was appointed as creative director of the exhibition at the Millenium Dome in Greenwich. After a series of disputes he resigned in 1998. - Paola Lenti
Paola Antonelli is one of the world's foremost design experts and was recently rated as one of the top one hundred most powerful people in the world of art by "Art Review." She is a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. The recipient of a Master's degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1990, Paola Antonelli has curated several architecture and design exhibitions in Italy, France, and Japan. - Isokon
The London-based Isokon firm was founded in 1929 to design and construct modernist houses and flats, and subsequently furniture and fittings for them. Originally called Wells Coates and Partners, the name was changed in 1931 to Isokon, a name derived from Isometric Unit Construction, bearing an allusion to Constructivism. Unusually for a design company, its directors were a bacteriologist Molly Pritchard, a solicitor Frederick Graham-Maw, son of the founder of the law firm, … - Bernard Leach
Bernard Howell Leach CH (January 5, 1887 - May 6, 1979), a British studio potter. Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong, but spent his young adult years in Japan where he came into contact with a group of young Japanese art lovers who called themselves Shirakaba (白樺). Through them he learned about William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. - Sim van der Ryn
Sim Van der Ryn is acknowledged as a leader in "sustainable architecture." He is also a researcher and educator. Van der Ryn's driving professional interest has been applying principles of physical and social ecology to architecture and environmental design. Van der Ryn distinguished himself among those designers and planners who have pioneered sustainable design at the community scale and the building-specific scale. - Clement Mok
Clement Mok is a designer, software publisher/developer, author, and design patent holder. He has founded several design-related businesses - Studio Archetype (acquired by Sapient), CMCD and NetObjects, Inc.. From 1998 until 2001, he was Chief Creative Officer of Sapient. Currently, he leads a new subscription-based royalty-free stock image business and consults on a variety of product development projects. - Celia Birtwell
Celia Birtwell is a textile designer. Born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1941, she studied Textile Design in Manchester, where in 1959 she met the fashion designer Ossie Clark, whom she married in 1969. Theirs was an almost perfect marriage of style, and their work together defined the era. The collaboration began with a 1966 collection for the "Quorum" boutique in London, which they shared with the designer Alice Pollock. - Vlad Kolarov
Vlad Kolarov is an Bulgarian-born Canadian cartoonist, humorous illustrator, designer and animator. He was born in Rousse, Bulgaria and became one of the "Wind of Change" generation cartoonists, after the collapse of communism in his native country. Vlad was hired by the largest Bulgarian newspaper publisher "168 hours" and created the first Bulgarian comic strips: "Birdie" and "Phil the Cat", which appeared in the "24 Hours" daily. - Adriana de Barros
Adriana de Barros is a Portuguese and Canadian illustrator, web designer, and poet. Since 1999, de Barros has created innovating visual poems that combine various disciplines—writing, designing and drawing, sound editing, and filmmaking (through the use of new media, Flash software). Her visual poems have been screened in American festivals Flashbang! and Flashbang 4 (2001 and 2002), The.ME.Project. (2002; showcased in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, … - Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (born Friedrich Stowasser December 15, 1928 - February 19, 2000) was an Austrian painter and sculptor. By the end of the 20th century, he was arguably the best-known contemporary Austrian artist, though he was always controversial. Hundertwasser's original, unruly, sometimes shocking artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism, philosophy, and design of facades, postage stamps, flags, … - N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles (16 December, 1943 -) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics" which won the "Rene Wellek Prize" for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. She is currently the Hillis Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). - Josef Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann, was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he produced concert posters for the Tonhalle in Zurich. In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg. - Wilhelm Schickard
Wilhelm Schickard (April 22 1592 - October 23 1635) was a German polymath who built the first computer in 1623. Schickard was born in Herrenberg. Contemporaries called his machine the "Speeding Clock." It precedes the less versatile "Pascaline" of Blaise Pascal and the calculator of Gottfried Leibniz by twenty years. Schickard's letters to Johannes Kepler show how to use the machine for calculating astronomical tables. - Philip B. Meggs
- Satyendra Pakhale
Satyendra Pakhale (born India), International Industrial designer. He studied Mechanical engineering at VNIT, Nagpur. Master of Design at Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Advanced Product Design at Art Center College of Design in Switzerland. He worked at Philips Design - creating innovative products in the areas of digital communication and transportation. In 1998 he set up his own design practice in Amsterdam and active in Europe, … - Ed Fella
Ed Fella(born 1938) is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. - Marcello Gandini
Marcello Gandini (born on August 26, 1938) is an Italian car designer. After finishing school he received a job as the chief designer at Bertone. In 1980 he left to pursue a career as a freelance designer. - Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape designer (besides being a painter, ecologist and naturalist) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. Marx was respected by other 20th century architects. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. Marx's first landscaping inspirations came while studying painting in Germany, … - Virgil Exner
Virgil Max "Ex" Exner, Sr. was an automobile designer for numerous American companies, notably Chrysler and Studebaker. He is known for his "Forward Look" design on the 1955 through 1961 Chrysler products and his fondness of fins on cars for both aesthetic and aerodynamic reasons. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Virgil Exner was adopted by George W. and Iva Exner as a baby. Virgil showed a strong interest in art and automobiles. - J. J. Gibson
James Jerome Gibson, was an American psychologist, considered one of the most important 20th century psychologists in the field of visual perception. In his classic work "The Perception of the Visual World" (1950) he rejected the fashionable behaviorism for a view based on his own experimental work, which pioneered the idea that animals 'sampled' information from the 'ambient' outside world. - Allison Arieff
Allison Arieff (born October 29, 1966) is designer in residence at IDEO and an author and editor of numerous books on art, architecture, and popular culture. In 2000 Arieff helped found the architecture and design magazine "Dwell," and in 2002, following the departure of founding editor Karrie Jacobs, she was promoted to editor-in-chief. During her tenure the magazine expanded its readership and received a number of awards, …
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