Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Australian Designers at Work
The Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia, hosts an online exhibit about Australian designers. Visitors can explore careers in design by following links to each of six profiles on designers representing distinct design professions.
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Business Insider: 16 Everyday Objects That Are Perfectly Designed
An industrial designer shares his examples of products that are designed so well that it would be pointless to tinker any further with them. Teachers should be aware that one product is a handgun. Many of the others are examples of...
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Popular Mechanics: 7 Everyday Objects With Brilliant and Simple Designs
The best designs are usually the simplest, but just because they're simple doesn't mean they're easy to come up with. Here are seven examples of objects that aren't particularly sophisticated but have a subtle, genius simplicity to their...
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Wired: 4 Super Cheap but Brilliant Everyday Objects, Curated by a Design Genius
Designer Sam Hecht calls himself "a little bit of a magpie." He collects unusual low-cost, functional products that he finds beautiful, clever, and well-made. This page features a slideshow of fourteen of the objects in his collection,...
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Usc Leonard Davis: Morton Kesten Universal Design Competition
The annual Morton Kesten Universal Design Competition, a program of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, encourages student designers from across the U.S. to design products and spaces for people of all ages and abilities using...
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Milwaukee Art Center
At the home page, click on collection and read an overview, then go to areas of interest: Earlier Art, Modern and Contemporary, Prints and Drawings, Photography, Decorative Arts, and Folk and Outsider Art. Of special note are the Brooks...
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Michael Graves on Design
Get into the mind of modern designer, Michael Graves. Here on this site Graves answers some of your most frequently asked questions about his products and industrial design.
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International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
Discover news, galleria, events, and education that the ICSID offers to people throughout the world.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Raymond Loewy and the Dream Car
Use this site to learn about industrial designer Raymond Loewy and how his Avanti car design was brought to reality. You'll also be able to find out what involvement he had with kitchens and NASA.