List of industrial designers

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. Please bear in mind that, 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)

• William Benson
• Walter Crane
• William R. Lethaby
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1929)
• Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
• William Morris (1834-1896)
• Charles Voysey
• Philip Webb

Art Nouveau (1880-1905)

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-)

Late Modernism (1950-1975)

• Dieter Rams (1932-)
• Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971)

Pop (1960-1980)

• Harry Bertoia
• Joe Cesare Colombo
• Niels Diffrient
• Tom Dixon
• Frank Gehry
• Arata Isozaki
• Shiro Kuramata
• Olivier Mourgue
• Gio Ponti
• Karim Rashid
• Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)
• Syd Mead

Postmodernism (1980-)

• Ron Arad (1951-)
• Mario Bellini (1935-)
• Antonio Citterio (1950-)
• Luigi Colani (1928- )
• Michael Graves (1934- )
• Hans Hollein
• Jonathan Ive (1967- )
• Shiro Kuramata (1943-1991)
• Javier Mariscal (1950- )
• Alain Monnens (1969- )
• Jasper Morrison (1959- )
• Alessandro Mendini (1931-)
• Jay Osgerby (of BarberOsgerby)
• Richard Sapper (1932-)
• Philippe Starck (1949 - )
• Ettore Sottsass (1917 - 2007)
• George Sowden (1942 - )
• Apostol Tnokovski (1982 - )
• Robert Venturi (1925 - )
• Marco Zanuso (1916 - )
• James Dyson (1947 - )
• Trevor Baylis (1937 - )
• Sigvard Bernadotte (1907 - )
• Norman Foster (1935 - )
• Naoto Fukasawa (1956 - )
• Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938 - )
• Kenneth Grange (1929 - )
• Knud Holscher (1930 - )
• Ross Lovegrove (1958 - )
• Alberto Meda (1945 - )

To be classified

• Oskar Barnack (1879-1936)
• Robert Davol Budlong (1902-1955)
• Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002)
• Robin Day (1915- )
• Earl R. Dean (1890-1972)
• Harley J. Earl (1893-1969)
• Hartmut Esslinger (1944- )
• Virgil Exner (1909-1973)
• David Mellor (1930- )
• Bruno Munari (1907-1998)
• Verner Panton (1926-1998)
• Victor Papanek (1927-1999)
• Brooks Stevens (1911-1995)
• Massimo Vignelli (1931- )
• Tapio Wirkkala (1915-1985)
• Eva Zeisel (1906- )
• Belle Kogan (1902-2000)
• Betony Vernon (1970- )