Possible exceptions you missed:

- Steve Jobs
- Jeff Bezos
- Sergei Brin
- Larry page

As with the architects you list, these people are known as the figureheads
of the products they bring to market.  They do not necessarily do the design
& engingeering (or at least ALL of the design & engineering).  Clearly, some
famous architects and industrial designers did more of the design and others
did less.  Gehry had a whole team of architects working on Disney Hall with
him - do you know any of the other names?

-Weston

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM, mike myles <[email protected]> wrote:

> Many of the great architects & industrial designers are known to the
> general public. To name a few (in no particular order): Walter
> Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudí, Frank Gehry, Raymond
> Loewy, Henry Dreyfuss, Charles and Ray Eames...
>
> Who do we feel are the greats of IxD?
>
> And to follow...
>
> Why are designers of great software less well known than designers of
> real world objects?
>
> Is that a problem?
>
> Is there something we could/should be doing to change that?
>
> Or is there simply no software equivalent yet to Falling Water or the
> Coke bottle?
>
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