EARLY 20TH CENTURY (1900-1920):
Henry Ford
Albert Kahn (architecture)
LeRoy Winbush (graphic design)
Early modernism:
Rene Herbst (industrial design/furniture) early modernism
Eileen Gray (architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of modernism)
Le Corbusier
ART DECO:
Renee Lalique
Cassandre (Graphic designer)
Jean Puiforcat
Raoul Dufy
Reuben Haley
AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS (EARLY 20TH CENTURY):
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Futurism)
Fortunato Depero (Futurism)
Marcel Duchamp (Dada)
Tristan Tzara
Gerrit Rietveld (De Stijl)
Theo van Doesburgh (De Stijl)
Wassily Kandiskly (abstact art)
El Lizzitsky (Russian constructivism)
Kasimir Malevich(Suprematism)
Alexandr Rodschensko (Russian constructivism)
Vladimir Tatlin (Russian constructivism)
BAUHAUS:
Walter Gropius
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Marcel Breuer
Marianne Brandt
Gunta Stolzl
Anni Albers
Herbert Bayer
Mies Van Der Rohe
Jan Tschichold (the new tyopography)
1930’S US - EARLY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Designers/stylists:
Harley Earl (GM)
Kem Weber
Raymond Lowey
Norman Bel Geddes
Walter Dorwin Teague
Henry Dreyfuss
Russel Wright
Manufacturers:
Homer Laughlin China Company (ceramics)
General Motors
MODERNISM (40’s-early 60’s):
Earl Tupper
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi (Japan/US)
Charles and Ray Eames
George Nelson
Dieter Rams (industrial design)
Advertisment:
M.F. Agha (Russin bornTurkish designer, art director, and pioneer of modern American publishing.)
Alexey Brodovitch (photographer in advertising)
Graphic design:
Thomas Miller
Milton Glaser
Paul Rand
Saul Bass
Alvin Lustig
Herbert Bayer
International Typographic Style (Swiss Graphic Design)
Helvetica
Max Bill
Adrian Frutiger
Armin Hoffmann
Early Infographics
Cranbrook Academy Design School
Black Mountain College
Design for social needs:
The ULM School
Tomas Maldonado
Otl Aicher
Gui Bonsiepe
Bruno Munari (graphic design)
Furniture:
Herman Miller
Knoll
Architecture:
International Style in architecture - Mies van der Rohe
Jean Prouve (architect and furniture designer)
Richard Neutra (Architecture)
Frank Lloyd Wright (architecture)
Le Corbusier (architecture)
Louis Kahn
1960’s - 70’s:
Design for social needs;
Buckminster Fuller (industrial design)
Victor Papanek (industrial design)
Protest movements
Pop art - Andy Warhol
Counter culture from the 60’s
Cuban poster Art Eduardo Muñoz, Sevrando Cabrera Moreno, Antonio Reboiro, Luis Vega de Castro, Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, Umberto Peña
Psychedelic poster art: Victor Moscoso, Mouse & Kelley, Family Dog Studios, etc. OSPAAAL;
Unimark International
Massimo Vignelli
Anti design - Italy -
Gaetano Pesce
Archigram
Archizoom
Super-studio (architecture)
Verner Panton (industrial and interior design)
Achille Castiglioni (industrial design)
Joe Colombo (industrial design)
George Nakashima (Japanese American)
Milton Glaser
Materials: History of plastics including Bakelite
Graphic Design:
Paula Scher
Pentagram
Verner Panton
Pin Push studio
Brutalism (Architecture)
POSTMODERNISM (end of modernism) -80’s-90’s-
Michael Graves ...
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1. EARLY 20TH CENTURY (1900-1920):
Henry Ford
Albert Kahn (architecture)
LeRoy Winbush (graphic design)
Early modernism:
Rene Herbst (industrial design/furniture) early modernism
Eileen Gray (architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of
modernism)
Le Corbusier
ART DECO:
Renee Lalique
Cassandre (Graphic designer)
Jean Puiforcat
Raoul Dufy
Reuben Haley
AVANT GARDE MOVEMENTS (EARLY 20TH CENTURY):
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Futurism)
Fortunato Depero (Futurism)
Marcel Duchamp (Dada)
Tristan Tzara
Gerrit Rietveld (De Stijl)
Theo van Doesburgh (De Stijl)
Wassily Kandiskly (abstact art)
El Lizzitsky (Russian constructivism)
Kasimir Malevich(Suprematism)
Alexandr Rodschensko (Russian constructivism)
Vladimir Tatlin (Russian constructivism)
BAUHAUS:
Walter Gropius
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Marcel Breuer
Marianne Brandt
Gunta Stolzl
2. Anni Albers
Herbert Bayer
Mies Van Der Rohe
Jan Tschichold (the new tyopography)
1930’S US - EARLY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Designers/stylists:
Harley Earl (GM)
Kem Weber
Raymond Lowey
Norman Bel Geddes
Walter Dorwin Teague
Henry Dreyfuss
Russel Wright
Manufacturers:
Homer Laughlin China Company (ceramics)
General Motors
MODERNISM (40’s-early 60’s):
Earl Tupper
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi (Japan/US)
Charles and Ray Eames
George Nelson
Dieter Rams (industrial design)
Advertisment:
M.F. Agha (Russin bornTurkish designer, art director, and
pioneer of modern American publishing.)
Alexey Brodovitch (photographer in advertising)
Graphic design:
Thomas Miller
Milton Glaser
Paul Rand
Saul Bass
Alvin Lustig
Herbert Bayer
International Typographic Style (Swiss Graphic Design)
Helvetica
3. Max Bill
Adrian Frutiger
Armin Hoffmann
Early Infographics
Cranbrook Academy Design School
Black Mountain College
Design for social needs:
The ULM School
Tomas Maldonado
Otl Aicher
Gui Bonsiepe
Bruno Munari (graphic design)
Furniture:
Herman Miller
Knoll
Architecture:
International Style in architecture - Mies van der Rohe
Jean Prouve (architect and furniture designer)
Richard Neutra (Architecture)
Frank Lloyd Wright (architecture)
Le Corbusier (architecture)
Louis Kahn
1960’s - 70’s:
Design for social needs;
Buckminster Fuller (industrial design)
Victor Papanek (industrial design)
Protest movements
Pop art - Andy Warhol
Counter culture from the 60’s
Cuban poster Art Eduardo Muñoz, Sevrando Cabrera Moreno,
Antonio Reboiro, Luis Vega de Castro, Eduardo Muñoz Bachs,
Umberto Peña
Psychedelic poster art: Victor Moscoso, Mouse & Kelley,
Family Dog Studios, etc. OSPAAAL;
Unimark International
Massimo Vignelli
4. Anti design - Italy -
Gaetano Pesce
Archigram
Archizoom
Super-studio (architecture)
Verner Panton (industrial and interior design)
Achille Castiglioni (industrial design)
Joe Colombo (industrial design)
George Nakashima (Japanese American)
Milton Glaser
Materials: History of plastics including Bakelite
Graphic Design:
Paula Scher
Pentagram
Verner Panton
Pin Push studio
Brutalism (Architecture)
POSTMODERNISM (end of modernism) -80’s-90’s-
Michael Graves
Philip Johnson
Anti-design movements
Memphis group - radical design (industrial design)
Ettore Sotsass (industrial design)
Andrea Branzi (industrial design)
Shiro Kuramata (industrial design)
Apple Macintosh (industrial design)
José Leonilson (Brazil art)
Keith Harring (graphic design/art)
Felix Gonzalez Torres (art) Cuban-born American visual artist.
DESIGN IN THE 90’s
Droog Design (industrial design)
Hella Jongerius (industrial design)
Eindhoven Design Academy (industrial design)
Tibor Kalman
Benetton Colors, M & Co.
Robert Stern
5. Philip Stark (industrial design)
Mark Newson (industrial design)
Ron Arad (industrial design)
Garouse & Bonetti
Campana brothers (Brazil industrial design)
Alexander Mcqueen (fashion)
Deconstructivism; Peter Eisenman; Rem Koolhas (architecture)
early computer aided design
Jean Nouvel;
Jasper Morrison.
The PC; The World Wide Web;
PC; Apple; Computer aided design (CAD). (industrial design)
MIT Media Lab; John Maeda
Zaha Hadid
Frank Ghery
Francis Bitonti
Nendo (industrial design)
Dirk Vander Kooij
Front Design (industrial design)
Studio Libertiny
Mathias Bengtsson;
Iris van Herpen;
Joris Laarman
Thomas Heatherwick
FEMALE DESIGNERS:
Eileen Gray (architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of
modernism)
Charlotte Perriand France - designer furniture and interiors.
Worked with Le Corbusier and Jean Prouve.
Margarete Schutte Lihotzky (ealry 20th century kitchen design)
Marianne Brandt (Bauhaus-worked in metal)
Gunta Stolzl (Bauhaus-worked with textiles)
Anni Albers (Bauhaus - color theory and textiles)
Eva Zeisel USA (industrial design and ceramics)
Florence Knoll (furniture)
Ray Eames (furniture, industrial design, architecure)
6. Esther Heath USA (ceramics in California)
Elsa Schiaparelli (fashion)
Coco Chanel (fashion)
Diane von Furstenberg (fashion)
Mary Quant (fashion 60’s-70’s)
Lucienne Day (textile)
Sonia Delaunay (textile, fashion, and set design)
Paula Scher (graphic design)
Margaret Calvert (graphic design)
Susan Kare (graphic designer - early interphase design)
Zaha Hadid (architecture and furniture) (80’s till recently)
Hella Jongerius (90’s)
Lella Vignelli (graphic)
Lina Bobardi (arch)
Maija Isola (textile - Marimekko)
Dorothy Liebes (Textile)
Emma Amos (textile - feminist)
https://www.nga.gov/blog/emma-amos.html
BLACK AMERICAN DESIGNERS:
W.E.B. Du Bois
One of Chicago's leading black artists and designers in the
1920s and '30s, Charles Clarence Dawson
Aaron Douglas was a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance,
also known as the New Negro Movement.
Leroy Winbush graphic designer in 1930’s
Seymour Chwast supported the civil rights movement.
Contributed to Push Pin Graphics
Emory Douglas - Bay Area -recognized for his graphic design
for the Black Panther party’s movement for civil rights, against
racism, oppression, and social injustice.
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/african-american-
culture-and-history-an-aiga-design-journey-
aiga/tgIyec9ZBBG7IQ?hl=en
Ed Towles (graphic design)
Thomas Miller (graphic)
Emmett McBain (graphic)
7. Archie Boston (graphic)
Gail Anderson (graphic)
Scott Barrie (fashion)
Art Sims - well known for his poster designs for classic
African-American films, including Do the Right Thing and The
Color Purple
Freedom quilting bee (quilting cooperative in the 60's)
Rosie Lee Tompkins (textile)
MEXICAN MODERNISM:
Industrial Design:
Clara Porcet
Horacio Duran
Aurora Campos-Diaz
Oscar Hagerman
Felipe Derhingher (glass)
Graphic Design:
Taller Grafica popular
Leopoldo Mendez
Vicente Rojo
Azul Morris
Rafael Lopez Castro
Architecture:
Luis Barragan
Juan O’Gorman
Matias Goeritz
Mario Pani
Pedro Ramirex Vazquez
Felix Candela
Andres Casillas
Agustin Hernandez
Ricardo Legorreta
Javier Senosiain
ARGENTINIAN MODERNISM:
Hugo Kogan (ID)
Ivan Longhini (ID)
Juan Cavallero (ID)
8. Adrian Cohan (ID)
BRAZILIAN MODERNISM:
Oscar Niemeyer (arch)
Mendes da Rocha (arch)
Lina Bobardi (arch)
AFRICAN MODERNISM
Isaac Fola-Alade (arch)
Rinaldo Olivieri (arch)
Senegal - Jean Francois Lamoureux and Jean-Louis Marin
JAPANESE MODERNISM:
Sori Yanagi
KOREAN MODERNISM:
FINNISH / SCANDINAVIAN MODERNISM:
Tapio Wirkkala
Alvar Aalto - furniture, industrial design, architecture
Armi Ratia (textile - Marimekko)
Maija Isola (textile - Marimekko)
SPANISH MODERNISM:
Daniel Gil Pila
Diego Lara
ITALIAN MODERNISM:
Achille Castiglioni
Olivetti
Vespa
OTHERS:
You can also chose a product that you want to learn more about,
for example telephones, the first computers, any object that is
mass produced. Or certain magazines.
You can also talk about the history of a specific type of
material, for example plastics, Bakelite.
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