Design

In Praise of Industrial Design

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A well-produced package on Forbes.com celebrates the most influential industrial designers working today. Many familiar faces in this slideshow, including spacecraft engineer (and X-Prize winner) Burt Rutan, who will speak at TED2006; eco-architect William McDonough; IDEO founder David Kelley; and Martin Fisher (TED2002), who founded KickStart International, best known for the “Super-MoneyMaker Pump,” providing African farmers with both needed technology and the foundation for new businesses. (Since 1999, 400,000 pumps have been sold and 38,000 African businesses launched, generating $38M annually.)