11. Kuldip Singh- Indian Architect | Creative minds
Died on: 10th November 2020
Architect Kuldip Singh, with some of Delhi’s most significant and creative modernist structures to his credit, was a master architect, city planner, and designer. He preferred not to refer to himself as a Brutalist architect, as he said titles only constrict one’s creativity.
His most successful buildings might reflect massive use of geometric forms and architectural massing but to the architectural community, he was known as a soft-spoken man who enjoyed Urdu poetry and collecting South Indian poetry.
Over the years, Architect Kuldip Singh designed many iconic structures like the MIG housing for DDA, Malviya Nagar Housing, Cochin Marine Drive Scheme yet the most remembered are the NCDC Office Building and Palika Kendra in Delhi.
12. Oliver Winterbottom- British Automotive Designer
Awards: Concorso Grifo d’Oro Bertone design prize,
Books: A Life in Car Design – Jaguar, Lotus, TVR: Oliver Winterbottom
Died on: 6th November 2020
This creative mind is known for his designs for Lotus cars Elite (Type 75) and Eclat, Jaguar, and TVR, Oliver Winterbottom, will be remembered as a visionary and innovator of his generation.
Oliver played a vital role within the industrial design community, spending his whole life designing cars and few boats. His approach to designing has always been hands-on for both designing and the development of products.
13. Beppe Modenese- Italian Fashion Designer | Creative minds
Died on: 21st November 2020
Known as Italy’s Prime Minister of Fashion, Beppe Modenese, was one of the creative minds who worked with many great names in the fashion industry like Chanel, Salvatore Ferragamo company, Italian Chamber of Fashion, Giovanni Battista Giorgini, and many more. He was credited for his immense knowledge about fashion, elegant personality, sense of humor, and signature red socks.
Beppe Modenese, who started his career in the 1950s was known for his dedication to the birth of the Italian Fashion System, said council president Carlo Capasa.
“Beppe Modenese contributed like no one else to the birth of the Italian fashion system and led, with the extraordinary visionary ability and precious pragmatic spirit to the construction of the system, the affirmation of Milan as the capital of fashion and encouraged new talents. He was rightly called the Prime Minister of Italian Fashion and defined the contours of a unique system in the world. Today we lose a reference figure and an icon, many of us lose a generous friend,” said Carlo Capasa, president of the Italian Chamber of Fashion
14. Sandy Dvore- American Artist
Awards: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences
Died on: 20th November 2020
Sandy Dvore, was best known for his work on the title sequences such as Knots Landing, James Dean, Police story, and more. Dvore designed print advertisements for performers such as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, and Sammy Davis, Jr., among others, prior to his television and film work.
The most famous work by Sandy Dvore was the brushstroke design he created for the long-running soap opera The Young and the Restless. The brush stroke pattern can be noticed in the crime drama series Spencer for Hire where the eyes of actor Robert Ulrich are revealed through a brush slash which signifies a foggy window. The opening animation sequence for the 1970-74 sitcom The Partridge Family is among his many other credits, in which stylized, vibrant versions of the birds in the title move across the screen in a line.
15. David Carter- Industrial designer | Creative minds
Awards: The Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation, Duke of Edinburgh Prize for Elegant Design, Design Council Awards
Died on: 16th November 2020
The Stanley knife is one of those popular items associated with the educator and industrial designer, David Carter, along with Sellotape, Biro pens, and the Anglepoise light. He was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Design Council, the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers, and the Royal College of Art. In 1963, David Carter opened his own company called the David Carter Associates where he and his team kept on designing and engineering functional products from telephones to tube trains and the Le Shuttle stainless steel train, which has been bringing cars and coaches through the Channel tunnel since 1994.
Carter was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980 and became an Honorary Doctor of the University of Central England in 2000. Over the years, Carter taught and held numerous academic positions at the Birmingham School of Art and Architecture, including Professor of Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Visiting Professor at the Imperial College of Science.
16. Jan van Toorn- Dutch Graphic Designer
Books: The Debate: The Legendary Contest of Two Giants of Graphic Design, Design Beyond Design: Critical Reflection and the Practice of Visual Communication Jan van Toorn, strategies in communication design: staging and rhetorics in the work of Jan Van Toorn
Died on: 13th November 2020
Jan van Toorn, a Dutch graphic designer, design theorist, and exhibition designer, is widely regarded as one of the most prominent creative minds and important figures in Dutch design and beyond.
Van Toorn, a scholar and theorist, has taught graphic design and visual communication at numerous academies and universities in the Netherlands and abroad, including the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (1968-1985), the University of Amsterdam Institute of Art History (1981-1982) and the Department of Architecture of the Eindhoven University of Technology (1982-1983).
17. Pierre de Barrigue de Montvallon- French designer | Creative minds
Books: Tennis Enthusiasts , God and You , Les mordus du tennis, Aux larmes, citoyens!, 100 dessins choisis, Dipapacéquoi and more
Died on: 12th November 2020
The artist Piem passed on the day he celebrated his 97th birthday. He was a creative mind known as a great portrait painter of his century, in the written press as on television sets. Piem was a French editorial cartoonist who was Le Figaro and Témoignage Chrétien’s house artist. His cartoons also appeared in Point and La Croix, while his pantomime comic strips ‘Monsieur Pépin’ and ‘Turlupin’ (1956-1958) were broadcasted in the 1950s.
Piem was a member of the National Journalist Syndicate (National Syndicate of Journalists). He was also renowned for his custom postcards collected in the book ‘J’Aime La Poste’ (2008). Piem illustrated the cover of the book ‘En Avant en Zizique’ by Boris Vian (1958).
18. Kansai Yamamoto- Japanese fashion designer
Died on: 21st July 2020
Kansai Yamamoto, the Japanese fashion designer is a creative mind best known for his dramatic creations specially for the designs he created for David Bowie tours. Yamamoto and Bowie went on to become friends, working for the star’s Aladdin Sane tour on a wardrobe of costumes, including the famous Tokyo Pop striped jumpsuit with flared legs.
Self-expression by dress was the rebel yell of the designer; he was a promoter of flexible dressing, and he opposed rigid social standards on a deeper level. One of the forms in which the designer forced limits on the runways was by unrealistic proportions in the 1970s and 1980s. He used quilting to give his clothes dimensionality and delight in color, once claiming that it was “like oxygen.”
19. Pierre Cardin- French Designer
Artworks: Evening dress of gunmetal grey silk faille and more
Awards: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the National Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
Died on: 29th December 2020
Pierre Cardin was a French fashion designer known for his Space Age projects and avant-garde style. He was a multidisciplinary designer, from clothing to product design to automobile, this creative mind experimented with them all. Geometric shapes and motifs were favored by him, often ignoring the femininity of these designs; he matched them with bold, gorgeous colors combined with black leggings, helmets, visors, and experimental fabrics that both evoked a sense of adventure and a playfulness of intelligence.
He progressed into unisex, often experimental, and not always realistic, fashions. In 1950, he set up his fashion house and launched the “bubble dress” in 1954. Pierre Cardin was the first fashion designer to open up a market in Japan in 1958 and then in China in 1978, in conjunction with his entrepreneurial skills.
In the 1970s, Cardin started manufacturing his furniture designs, creating 150 different versions, many of which had never been seen before. The most popular architectural works of Cardin have to be Palais Bulles, an architectural development of a different kind in the south of France that he collaborated with the architect Antti Lovag to bring to life between 1975 and 1989. As a summer home, Cardin retains the structure, but it also serves as an informal gallery where he exhibits works by artists and modern designers and hosts fashion shows, film festivals, previews, and performances, among other events.
20. Ernesto Gismondi- Italian designer | Creative minds
Died on: 31st December 2020
Ernesto Gismondi, the Italian designer who is one of the Creative Minds, with fellow designer Sergio Mazza, established the lighting brand Artemide in 1960 and transformed it into one of the most creative and popular Italian lighting companies passed away at the age of 89.
As the business grew and expanded globally, as it flourished to include 24 branches, Artemide became Artemide Group and purchased the Danish Italian design brand in 2014. The contributions of Gismondi and Artemide to the history of architecture and lighting should not be overstated, as he and the company introduced both high-minded industrial design and the Memphis revolution into both homes and museums. The group’s scope continues to increase, from simple desk lamps to colorful fluted glass chandeliers, to outdoor lights. In recent years, Artemide has also worked with everyone from Neri&Hu to Elemental to Major on custom lighting.
