Forbes list their favorite design tastemakers in a special gallery section of their website. The list includes Pontus Wahlgren from IDEO. Forbes say:
Ever find yourself admiring the clean lines of your teapot? Searching for beauty in the design of your dish rack? Maybe even comparing the sexiness of your new Infiniti with that of the latest BMW?
Industrial designers know the feeling. They spend their lives looking for fineness in function, brilliance in the everyday and better ways for us to simply “use” things. But those things are changing.
Here’s the list:
Tobias Wong – “Vancouver native and resident Brooklynite Tobias Wong, 32, graduated in sculpture from the Cooper Union, and his work treads the water between the mediums of conceptual art and usable design.”
Leon Ransmeier and Gwendolyn Floyd – “Their contributions to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s “Design Life Now: National Design Triennial” have gotten a lot of attention, moving along production of several of their more popular designs, including the gradient dish-rack.”
Ron Gilad – “As cofounder of Designfenzider, a downtown Manhattan design firm, Jerusalem-born Gilad, 34, has seen his work–including a deconstructed yet functional fruit bowl, vase and desk lamp, exhibited at the 2006 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s National Design Triennial.”
Jonathan Ive – “Your iPod. Your PowerBook laptop. And soon enough, your iPhone. Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive, 40, has been designing history-making products since 1997.”
Chris Kabel – “Examples: his mesh chair, which, while sturdy, looks light enough to break under the slightest pressure. Clearly, Kabel likes to bring a bit of humor to his work.”
Shiro Nakamura – “His next endeavor will be to introduce consumers to the benefits of fuel cell vehicles.”
Pontus Wahlgren – His latest project? IDEO’s multifaceted Identity Card Project, or the hair card, a double-layered business card with a strand of the owner’s hair, which reveals the givers genetic profile to the receiver.
Niels Diffrient – “The grandaddy of the ergonomic revolution, Diffrient, 78, has spent his career emphasizing the “the human factor” when designing an object.”
James Dyson – “One of the World’s Richest People, Dyson, 59, has spent the last thirty years marketing his most important invention, the innovative dual cyclone vacuum cleaner, the world’s first bagless vacuum.”
Jason Miller – “Miller can be credited for the influx of game lodge-inspired decor sweeping the living rooms of haute hipsters from Silver Lake to Stockholm.”
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