Product Design
Design & Technology: AQA GCSE, topic 7.3.3
Product Designers
Famous designers can help influence your designs and provide you with inspiration for your ideas. You need to analyse, research and investigate at least two past or present designers.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Was an American designer famous for his metal work that is associated with the Art Nouveau movement.
- He worked as the design director at Tiffany and Co. who are famous for their successful jewellery.
- Art Nouveau is influenced by natural forms and structures along with the natural lines of plants and flowers.
Tiffany art nouveau lamp
Ettore Sottsass
- Is famous for establishing the Memphis design group in the 1980’s.
- The group experimented with style by mixing shapes, colours and materials to produce bizarre, eye catching pieces.
Ettore Sottsass and a memphis product
Gerrit Rietveld
- Is a Dutch architect and furniture designer who joined the De Stijl design movement.
- De Stijl was a design movement that used simple horizontal and vertical black lines along with black, white and primary colours as part of the design.
- He designed the famous Red and Blue chair.
Product Designers
Famous designers can help influence your designs and provide you with inspiration for your ideas. You need to analyse, research and investigate at least two past or present designers.
Raymond Templier
- Associated with the Art Deco design movement that uses bold geometric shapes and lines as part of the design.
- This movement became very popular from 1910 and is linked with Cubism (the style using squares.)
Philippe Starck
- A french designer who produces a lot of products for Alessi.
- His most famous product was the ‘Juicy Salif’ lemon squeezer which is widely recognised.
Juicy Salif
Test yourself on Product Design
Who designed the famous Red and Blue chair?
Which product designer is famous for the ‘Juicy Salif’ lemon squeezer?