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Designers
Key cards on Product Designs key designers AQA 8552
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vivienne Westwood | is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream |
| Coco Chanel | was a French fashion designer and business woman. Founder of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I liberating women from constraints of the "corseted silhouette" popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the standard. |
| Alexander McQueen | was a British fashion designer and couturier. He worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001, and founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992. |
| Marcel Breuer | was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect, and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair which is “among the 10 most important chairs of the 20ᵗʰ century.” |
| Gerrit Rietveld | was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House. |
| Ettore Sottsass | was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century. His body of work included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home objects and office machine design, as well as many buildings and interiors. |
| William Morris | was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts. |
| Louis Comfort Tiffany | was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. |
| Harry Beck | known as Harry Beck, was an English technical draughtsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time. |
| Alec Issigonis | was a British-Greek designer of cars, widely noted for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959. |
| Norman Foster | is a British architect whose company, Foster + Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech architecture. He is the President of the Norman Foster Foundation. |
| Aldo Rossi | was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was the first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize for architecture. |
| Mary Quant | is an English fashion designer and fashion icon, who is of Welsh heritage. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements. |
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