BMW itself made sure to remind the public that the latest version of its Z4 sports car was designed inside and out by two female primary designers, Nadya Arnaout and Juliane Blasi.
At its peak, it employed as many as 60 women, and its primary designers, besides Wheeler herself, included her daughter, Dora Wheeler, who specialized in needlework tapestries of women from mythology and literature.
The French sculptor Paul Landowski, who collaborated with Silva Costa on the final design, has been credited as the primary designer of the figure's head and hands.
It also influenced the design of the the 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt, which was the work of Alex Tremulis, primary designer of the Tucker Torpedo.
There was one primary developer, Sam Williams, and one primary designer, Daniel Lee.
By the late 1950's, Ferdinand Porsche's grandson, F.A. Porsche, who was known as Butzi, was the company's primary designer.
Now the Italian concern Pininfarina -- the primary designer of Ferrari automobiles for the last 50 years -- has created a product that is for walking, not driving.
Kirk Rasmussen, Harley's manager of styling and the primary designer of the Cross Bones, explained that while the paint pinstriping is done on the assembly line, it maintains authenticity "right down to its imperfections".
In a public statement, in March, a primary designer of the fountain, the Sasaki Associates' principal emeritus Stuart Dawson, explained, "I cannot help but return to the original idea that carried through all aspects of the project: the idea of connection.
Manfred Bergmann, the European Commission director for indirect taxation and tax administration and a primary designer of the tax plan, calls it a "Triple A approach — all markets, all actors and all products".
Under Mr. Korolev, who died in 1966, Mr. Chertok was the primary designer of control systems for one of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missiles, the R-7, and the Soviet Union's earliest manned spacecraft, the Vostok, the Voskhod and the Soyuz.
