The 5 Most Important Designers of the last 100 years

I would like to know your answer to this question:


Who are the 5 most important designers - from anywhere in the world - of the last 100 years?

NOTE: Please exclude graphic designers.

9 comments:

Charles Frith said...

Tricky question as important could be most influential to most useful so it's a bit arbitrary.

However.

Culturally: Vivienne Westwood
Sir Frank Whittle
Tim Berners Lee
Bill Gates - MS DOS
Gordon Moore

Leland said...

These are great, thanks.

I wanted to leave it a little ambiguous just to see what type of responses I would get back.

Adam said...

Important with a lowercase i, or perhaps just most interesting to me.

Will Wright - Designer of malleable software worlds

LEGO - Designers of malleable hardware worlds

Google - Designers of positive-sum information flows

Steve Jobs - Designer of a cult of excellence

J.K. Rowling - Designer of an epic rite of passage narrative that appeals to all ages.

Matt said...

These are the designers that impacted me:

1. The Steve's, Wozniak and Jobs for designing the Mac.
2. Tom Robbins: for designing sentences that dance off the page into the imagination.
3. Michael Polin: designer of a new way to think about food.
4. Lawrence Lessig, for thinking about how to design collaboration
5. A negative one: this is to the city planners in the US that designed highways and thruways that made it easy to get out of cities using loops, ramps, and exits. They killed cities in the last part of the 20th century and will hopefully be designed out of cities in the first half of this century.

Leland said...

Adam, nice. Will Wright, Lego, And your description of Google - I like those choices. Hadn't thought of the first two. But they are good.

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