WBora Aksu is a London-based Turkish fashion designer. Aksu set up his fashion label upon graduation from his MA at Central Saint Martins. Awarded New Generation sponsorship, he catapulted straight onto the London Fashion Week scene and has showcased his collections since 2003. His collection is stocked in Selfridges, Wolf & Badger and Liberty & Co in London and he has 61 stores, primarily in Asia. He has also prepared seven window displays at Selfridges and is a 4 times NEWGEN recipient.
WTom Barker is a British designer and academic. He has held various appointments, including the Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada, the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and the Royal College of Art, London.
WSara Battaglia is a fashion designer and the founder of the Sara Battaglia fashion label.
WJohn Henry Belter (1804–1863) was an American cabinetmaker active in New York City.
WDavid Reed Bromstad is an American designer and television personality. In 2006, he became the winner of the debut season of HGTV Design Star. He is the host of his own television show, Color Splash with David Bromstad, which debuted in March 2007 on HGTV as well as Color Splash Miami on HGTV which debuted in 2010. He also hosts HGTV's My Lottery Dream Home, in which he helps lottery winners find their dream real estate property.
WLuís Buchinho is a Portuguese fashion designer. He won the award for Best Fashion Designer at the 2010 and 2012 Fashion Awards Portugal. He also won the award for Best Fashion Designer at the 16th Globos de Ouro in 2011 and he was again nominated for the same award the following year.
WEugenio Caballero is a Mexican production designer. He is best known for his work on Guillermo del Toro's film Pan’s Labyrinth for which he earned an Academy Award, Ariel Award, Art Directors Guild Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award as well as Goya, Satellite, and BAFTA award nominations for Best Production Design.
WMelvin Chee is a Singaporean designer, artist and painter. He is one of the founding partners of contemporary art and design collective PHUNK.
WGalileo Chini was an Italian decorator, designer, painter, and potter. A prominent member of the Italian Liberty style movement, or Italian Art Nouveau, he taught decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He was responsible for several of the paintings and decorations in the Brandini Chapel at Castelfiorentino, the church of San Francesco de' Ferri in Pisa, and the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall in Bangkok. His theatrical work included designing the sets for the European premiere of Puccini's opera Gianni Schicchi and the world premiere of his Turandot. He also created the sets for the premieres of Umberto Giordano's opera La cena delle beffe and Sem Benelli's play of the same name on which the opera was based.
WAldo Cipullo was an Italian-born American jewelry designer.
WMuriel Evelyn Coleman (1917–2003) was an American designer who was a member of the Pacific Design Group based in California. She designed furniture through the material scarcity of post-World War II, and used rebar, metal rods and strips in her minimalist designs. Her works were included in the Autry National Center's California’s Designing Women, 1896–1986 exhibition.
WGeorge Frederick Cruchley (1797-1880) was an English map-maker, engraver and publisher based in London.
WRoy Diblik is an American perennial garden designer, plant nurseryman, and author of The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden (2014). He co-owns the Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington, Wisconsin.
WJean Dunand (1877–1942) was a Swiss and French painter, sculptor, metal craftsman and interior designer during the Art Deco period. He was particularly known for his lacquered screens and other art objects.
WKaj Gabriel Franck was one of the leading figures of Finnish design and an influential figure in design and applied arts between 1940 and 1980.
WMaria Ghezzi was an Italian designer, illustrator, and painter. She was a specialist in the design of the rebus of the Week Puzzles, to which she devoted her professional life. In the enigmatic field, she was known under the pseudonym La Brighella.
WLucinda "Lulu" Jane Guinness is a British accessories fashion designer.
WRobert B. Harris was an American multihull sailboat designer.
WPaola Hernández is a NYC based fashion designer, born in Mexico City. She started her career designing womenswear, menswear, knitwear, jewelry, and shoes in 2010. Since 2019 she is focused on knitwear only, made in the US. She believes “fashion is the manifestation of collective consciousness in everyday life.” Hernández tends to choose natural, biodegradable materials, and her pieces are usually made out of one single component— which is easier to recycle, such as merino wool, cotton or silk.
WRahil Hesan is an Iranian fashion designer and fashion entrepreneur, born in Dubai. She began her career in 2005 in the field of couture.
WAlfred Hirschmeier was a German production designer. In 1995, he was a member of the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
WRiitta Immonen was a Finnish fashion artist and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Finnish fashion corporation Marimekko. Immonen was also known for her one-of-a-kind outfits, celebrity clients and a question-and-answer column which she wrote for Finnish fashion magazine Eeva in the 1950s and 1960s.
WHarri Koskinen is a Finnish designer, born 1970 in Karstula, Finland. He has studied at the Institute of Art and Design in Helsinki.
WCelia Kritharioti is a Greek fashion designer. She is the owner of the oldest Greek fashion house, established in 1906.
WMatt Leacock is an American board game designer, most known for cooperative games such as Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert.
WKadri Mälk is an Estonian artist and jewelry designer.
WMariuccia Mandelli was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. Mandelli established her ready-to-wear fashion house, Krizia, in 1954 by bringing suitcases of samples to shops in Milan out of her Fiat 500. The Guardian has called her the "godmother of Italian fashion." According to the New York Times, Mandelli was one of the first female fashion designers to create a popular line of men's wear.
WTeuta Matoshi Duriqi is a Kosovar fashion designer. She is known for her whimsical style of high-end gowns.
WUwe Mèffert is a German puzzle designer and inventor. He has manufactured and sold mechanical puzzles in the style of Rubik's Cube since the original Cube craze. His first design was the Pyraminx – which he created before the original Rubik's cube was invented – and his others include the Megaminx, Skewb and Skewb Diamond. More recently he has licensed and re-released designs from other manufacturers, such as Dogic.
WOra Ito is a French designer. 'Ora-Ïto' is the brand name of his work and includes designs for watchmaker Swatch, appliance manufacturer Gorenje, brewer Heineken and tobacconist/fragrance chemist Davidoff.
WHerbert Niebling was a master designer of the style of lace knitting called Kunststricken (art-knitting). Today, his designs remain popular with lace knitting enthusiasts.
WVuokko Hillevi Lilian Eskolin-Nurmesniemi is a Finnish textile designer. She is best known for her work as one of the two leading designers of the Marimekko company. Her signature striped Jokapoika shirt helped to make the company's name.
WTala Raassi is an Iranian-American Fashion Designer born in Maryland, United States and raised in Tehran, Iran. When Tala Raassi turned sixteen, she attended her Sweet 16 at a friend's house wearing a mini skirt. It was not long before the party was raided by the religious police and she and her friends faced the punishment of five days in jail and forty lashes. In 2000 right after the punishment, Raassi moved back to the United States where she currently lives.
WTed S. Raicer is a game designer who has worked on board games. He became a board wargamer at the age of 12 years and has published more than 10 games based on World War I. Raicer has won many awards in his gaming career.
WTimothy Schreiber is a London-based, design artist. Schreiber's limited edition items are represented by various galleries including Wexler Gallery and 88-Gallery.
WJohn Sheppard was a car designer who worked with Alec Issigonis on the Mini and later on British Leyland's Metro, Maestro and Montego. He also designed the body for the Mini Moke.
WGeorge J. Sowden is a designer and product developer. He studied architecture at Gloucestershire College of Art in the 1960s. He moved to Milano in 1970 where he started working with Ettore Sottsass and Olivetti. In parallel to the industrial design work on early Olivetti computers., he was involved during the 1970s in experimental "radical" design projects which enabled him to become, in 1981, one of the co-founders of the Memphis Group, the design movement that had a significant impact on design in the eighties.
WPer Spook is a Norwegian fashion designer. He ran a fashion house in Paris from 1977 to 1995. He was awarded Aiguille d'Or in 1978, and Dé d'Or in 1993. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2003.
WYrjö Ilmari Tapiovaara was a Finnish designer noted for his furnishings and textiles.
WVictor Tchetchet (1891–1974) was a pioneering early modern multihull sailboat designer from the Ukraine who is thought to have coined the term 'trimaran', though Éric de Bisschop built a trimaran in France earlier.
WThomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer. He describes himself as "a designer, interested in technology, science, futures research & etc."
WJohan "Jan" Tjaarda (1897–1962), later known as John Tjaarda van Sterkenburg, was a Dutch product and automotive designer and stylist in the United States.
WJole Veneziani was an Italian fashion designer.
WRoger Henri Vivier was a French fashion designer who specialized in shoes. His best-known creation was the stiletto heel.
WMarije Vogelzang is a Dutch "food", or "eating", designer who focuses on how people design their food habits, ways and rituals. She regularly works as a designer for organizations and a food industry consultant. She became the head of the food department at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2014. Her 2017 "Volumes" project, focused on the design of eating devices which help eaters think their plates are fuller than they are, to reduce overeating.
WJustus Erich Walbaum was a prominent German typefounder and punchcutter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.