Industrial Design

aka Product Design

the Design of non-structural products and services?

http://www.core77.com/design.edu/

== Best Design School-s ==

http://www.core77.com/blog/education/a_brief_guide_to_design_education_by_adam_richardson__11058.asp

http://www.core77.com/blog/education/teach_less_integrate_more_by_paul_backett_20264.asp

http://www.di.net/articles/big-shifts-in-design-school-rankings-for-2013/ - Industrial Design, Undergraduate

1. Art Center College of Design (Pasadena)
2. University Of Cincinnati (UC)
3. Pratt Institute
4. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
5. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
6. Auburn University
7. College for Creative Studies (CCS) - Detroit
8. Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
9. Carnegie Mellon
10. Syracuse University

grad schools http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-fine-arts-schools/industrial-design-rankings: RISD (Rhode Island School of Design); Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA; Carnegie Mellon University; Cran Brook Academy of Art; California College of the Arts (CCA) San Francisco, CA; Pratt Institute; Ohio State University (OSU); RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology); SVA (School of Visual Arts); School of the Art Institute Of Chicago; University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11257292-post6.html

http://collegeprowler.com/majors/industrial-and-product-design/

== Famous Designers ==

Going back to 1850.

Jun'2009: top 10 trendsetters - Jony Ive, Patricia Urquiola, Naoto Fukasawa, Yves Behar, HellaJongerius, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Sam Hecht and Kim Colin, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Shai Agassi, Konstantin Grcic.

Aug'2011: best "gadget" designers alive: Motorola's JimWicks, Nintendo's Ken'ichiro Ashida, Microsoft's J Allard, Fuseproject's Yves Behar, Dell's Nicolas Denhez, Apple's Jony Ive, Google's Matias Duarte, Yoo's Philippe Starck, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, Dyson's James Dyson, Apple's Scott Forstall.