Sottsass, the last survivor of the generation of designers that dominated Italian design for half a century, also trained the next generation.
Suprematism, founded by Kazimir Malevich, inspired a young generation of designers to move toward a design based on the construction of simple geometric forms and elemental colour.
A former princess, design doyenne and sometime actress, she inspired a generation of designers.
For the emerging generation of designers attending art school in the 1950s, the path-finding design and visual arts magazine Typographica was an education in itself.
It inspired a generation of designers to go it alone.
That is the problem facing the next generation of designers.
"For this generation of designers, everyone knows that apartment".
The cultural diversity of a new generation of designers has widened the parameters.
Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue, said: "Lee McQueen influenced a whole generation of designers.
These experiments were very influential, as they showed a generation of designers new possibilities.
