Talk:List of industrial designers

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Why not add Eero Aarnio in this list? He`s a great designer (bubble chair, tomato chair)

This list of industrial designers according to aesthetic style is deeply problematic - for example, Jonathan Ive could easily be classified under Modernist Design, as he works according to modernist design principles. However, he is classified as a Postmodernist, a style under which no design critic or historian would ever place him. I recommend restructuring this page alphabetically, as these divisions have a tendency towards meaningless generalisation. designjunkie (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Influential Designers of Minority Backgrounds and Younger Ages
I’ve noticed that out of everyone on this list, there’s nobody born more recently than the mid-to-late 1960s. It’s predominantly white men, with a handful of Japanese contributors and a scattered few women, and there’s nobody younger than in their early-to-mid 50s.

Granted, this page is strictly related to industrial designers and not architects or fashion designers. And as a formal field, industrial design has been dominated by men or European or Japanese ancestry. I don’t hope to see history revised.

But the field has become dramatically more diverse over time, and there are notable designers who are younger than this. Can we at least better represent Gen X, if not let a few Millennials trickle in? Can we include more women and people of color? Design doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and there have been plenty who were highly influential but were also highly underrated.

Charles Harrison might be a good starting point. 2607:FB91:7984:D488:B067:D213:54E7:23B5 (talk) 22:18, 27 February 2022 (UTC)