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Ferdinand Porsche, Automotive Engineer
Prof. Dr. Ing h.c. Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer. He is best known for creating the Volkswagen (Beetle) as well as the first of many Porsche autom... |
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Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made... |
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Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a German-born architect and educator who helped define modernist architecture. Mies is widely acknowledged as one of the 20th century's greates... |
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Le Corbusier, Architect
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he... |
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Gerrit Rietveld, Designer/Architect
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' movemen... |
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Raymond Loewy, Industrial Designer
Raymond Fernand Loewy was one of the best known industrial designers of the 20th century. Born in France, he spent most of his professional career in the United States wh... |
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Gerd Arntz, Graphic Designer
Gerd Arntz was born the son of a factory owner. At the art school in Düsseldorf he became involved in revolutionary circles and linked up with a small communist group tha... |
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Charles Eames, Designer
Charles Eames is one of the most important designers of the 20th century. His colleagues were Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Florence Knoll and Ray Kaiser whom he married... |
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Victor Papanek
Victor Papanek was a designer and educator who was primarily interested in socially and ecologically responsible design. He was highly critical of products which were pro... |
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Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Designer
"Kaiser Karl", as he is known in the fashion press, was born to a wealthy Swedish businessman and his German wife in Hamburg, in 1938. It seems that his destiny was mappe... |
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Gunpei Yokoi, Creator Game Boy
Yokoi was one of the most important figures in the history of the Nintendo video game company. While employed there, Yokoi designed the Game Boy handheld game console and... |
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Philippe Starck, Designer
Philippe Starck recalls spending his childhood underneath his father's drawing boards; hours spent sawing, cutting, gluing, sanding, dismantling bikes, motor cycles and o... |
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John Maeda, Designer
John Maeda is a world-renowned graphic designer, artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory. He has pioneered the use of the computer for people of all ag... |
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Jonathan Ive, Product Designer
The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iP... |
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Reza Abedini, Designer
Reza Abedini is an Iranian designer. He is one of the most famous graphics designer in Iran because of his modern Persian Typography. Reza Abedini has won dozen of nation... |
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