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 (1845–1915)
- William R. Lethaby (1857–1931)
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1929)
- Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851–1942)
- William Morris (1834–1896)
- Charles Voysey (1857–1941)
- Philip Webb (1831–1915)
Art Nouveau (1870–1905)
Note - This category also includes preliminary work of the Wiener Werkstätte
- Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942)
- Christopher Dresser (1834–1904)
- Henry Ford (1863–1947)
- Emile Gallé (1846–1904)
- Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956)
- Victor Horta (1861–1947)
- Archibald Knox (1864–1933)
- Louis Majorelle (1859–1926)
- Henry Van de Velde (1863–1957)
De Stijl (1917–1928)
- Le Corbusier (1887–1965)
- Eileen Gray (1878–1976)
- Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964)
- Mart Stam (1899–1986)
- 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)
- Herbert Hirche (1910–2002)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969)
- László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946)
- Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900–1990)
Art Deco & Streamline Moderne (1925–1950)
- Alvar Aalto (1898–1976)
- Maurice Ascalon (1913–2003)
- Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958)
- George Carwardine
- Donald Deskey (1894–1989)
- Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972)
- Charles and Ray Eames (1907–1978) and (1912–1988)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)
- Poul Henningsen (1894–1967)
- Raymond Loewy (1893–1986)
- Marcello Nizzoli (1887–1969)
- Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951)
- 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)
- Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985)
- Jens Quistgaard (1919–2008)
- David Rowland (1924–2010)
- Jacob Jensen (1926–2015)
- Dieter Rams (born 1932)
- Greta von Nessen (1898–1975)
- Gaby Schreiber (1916–1991)
- Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999)
Pop (1960–1980)
- Harry Bertoia (1915–1978)
- Joe Cesare Colombo (1930–1971)
- Niels Diffrient (1928–2013)
- Tom Dixon (born 1959)
- Frank Gehry (born 1929)
- Arata Isozaki (born 1931)
- Shiro Kuramata (1934–1991)
- Olivier Mourgue (born 1939)
- Gaetano Pesce (born 1939)
- Gio Ponti (1891–1979)
- Eero Saarinen (1910–1961)
- Syd Mead (1933–2019)
Postmodernism (1980)
- India Mahdavi (born 1962)
- Paola Navone (born 1950)
- Patricia Moore (born 1952)
- Rowena Reed Kostellow (born 1900)
- Lucia DeRespinis (born 1928)
- Ron Arad (born 1951)
- Mario Bellini (born 1935)
- Nicolás García Mayor (born 1978)
- Vinod Gangotra (born 1969)
- Antonio Citterio (born 1950)
- Luigi Colani (1928–2019)
- Michael Graves (1934–2015)
- Hans Hollein (1934–2014)
- 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 (1931–2019)
- Richard Sapper (1932–2015)
- Philippe Starck (born 1949)
- Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007)
- George Sowden (born 1942)
- Apostol Tnokovski (born 1982)
- Robert Venturi (1925–2018)
- Marco Zanuso (1916–2001)
- James Dyson (born 1947)
- Roberto Pezzetta (born 1946)
- Trevor Baylis (1937–2018)
- Tim Fry (1935–2004)
- 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 (1902–2000)
- Patricia Urquiola (born 1961)
- Tokujin Yoshioka (born 1967)
- Jacob Jensen (1926–2015)
- Konstantin Grcic (born 1965)
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 (1930–2009)
- 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)
References
Sensory design