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- According to Grammy, sagmeister won a Grammy Award for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package in 2005 for Once In A Lifetime, a point on which the panel's sources or…~4 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Sori Yanagi (1915–2011) was a Japanese industrial and product designer active from the mid-twentieth century.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- The Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) records Shigeo Fukuda as a person under identifier 500202745 and lists him among artists associated with the…~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Saul Bass was born on May 8, 1920, and died on April 25, 1996.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Ross Lovegrove (born 1958) is a Welsh-born British designer known for organic forms that combine nature, technology, and advanced materials.~1 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Ronan Bouroullec (born 1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1976) are French furniture, industrial and interior designers.~1 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Richard Sapper (1932–2015) was a German industrial designer active in Milan. His work included products for Alessi, the Tizio lamp for Artemide, and design consulting for IBM.…~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Piano’s redesign brought Harvard’s Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler museums into one facility.~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Rem Koolhaas is a Dutch architect born in Rotterdam in 1944.~1 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Raymond Fernand Loewy (1893–1986) was an American designer, described in an Avery authority record as an industrial designer.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Ray Eames (1912–1988) was an American designer, architect, and filmmaker who worked in a collaborative design partnership with Charles Eames.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- The sources and panel disagree on 2 points, described under “Viewpoints and evidence”.~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Peter Saville is a graphic designer and artist known for album covers he created in his mid-20s for Factory Records bands including Joy Division and New Order.~1 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Paula Scher (born 1948) is a graphic designer and partner at the New York firm Pentagram.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Urquiola studied architecture in Madrid before moving to Milan.~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Otl Aicher (1922–1991) was a German graphic designer, typographer, and professor of architecture and design. He co-founded the Ulm School of Design with Max Bill and Inge…~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was a Brazilian architect known for designing major public buildings in Brasília, whose master plan was by Lúcio Costa. His work included the Rio de…~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Norman Foster is a British architect whose work includes the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building and several prominent London buildings. He founded his own practice in 1967 and…~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Neville Brody is an English graphic designer and typographer whose work spans magazine art direction, type design, and digital design projects.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Naoto Fukasawa is a Japanese industrial and furniture designer based in Tokyo.~1 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929 – June 26, 2020) was an American graphic designer known for creating the I ❤ NY logo and co-founding New York magazine.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Michael Bierut is a graphic designer and partner at Pentagram. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1957, and graduated with highest honors from the University of Cincinnati’s…~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Max Miedinger was a Swiss type designer best known for his work on Neue Haas Grotesk, created with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas foundry in Münchenstein in 1957 and renamed…~1 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014) was an Italian graphic designer associated with modernist work in print, products, furniture, and visual identities.~4 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Marc Newson is an Australian designer whose work spans furniture, interiors, and writing instruments, with collaborations including Montblanc, Knoll, and Apple. His 1987 Pod of…~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect and designer. He directed the Bauhaus from 1930 until…~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Niemeyer was the youngest member of the Board of Design for the UN Headquarters, whose team began work in early 1947 in Rockefeller Center.~4 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Konstantin Grcic is a German industrial designer born in Munich on 18 May 1965. He founded his Munich design firm in 1991. His work includes furniture and exhibitions that…~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Kenya Hara (born 1958) is a Japanese graphic designer and professor at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Kenji Ekuan (1929–2015) was a Japanese industrial designer and author.~1 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Kuma designed the stadium for the Tokyo Olympics.~4 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Karim Rashid is a designer born in Cairo in 1960 and raised in Canada. He graduated from Carleton University with a bachelor's degree in industrial design in 1982 and later…~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Getty ULAN provides semantic web representations (JSON, JSONLD, RDF, N3/Turtle, N-Triples) for Müller-Brockmann's record.~5 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Sir Jonathan Ive is a British designer who worked at Apple from 1992 and became its senior vice president of industrial design in 1997.~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Jonathan Hoefler is a type designer who established the Hoefler Type Foundry in 1989.~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- ULAN assigns him person record ID 500048491.~4 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Jan Tschichold (born Johannes Tzschichhold; 2 April 1902 – 11 August 1974) was a German typographer, book designer, teacher, and writer who significantly influenced graphic…~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Ivan Chermayeff (1932–2017) was a graphic designer who worked with Tom Geismar and other partners on corporate identities and other design projects over a career spanning about…~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was an American sculptor and designer whose career spanned six decades and fused Asian aesthetics with Western modernism.~3 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
- Ikko Tanaka (1930–2002) was a Japanese graphic designer whose work included posters, logos and book design.~2 min readUpdated 12 Oct 2026Read article ↗
