Yesterday I caught an entry on Core77 about a Forbes article, “Tastemakers: Industrial Designers“. It’s always great to have Industrial Design in the spotlight. And I can forgive the author calling Symbol Technologies “an industrial design firm in Holtsville, N.Y.”, when they’re obviously a manufacture of scanners (I’m wondering if the Forbes website software automatically added the NYSE link/symbol in the piece since it doesn’t seem like the author ever checked the company profile page on their site). However, a review of their Top Designer List slideshow had me thinking the author or whichever people making these lists and writing these stories need to do a bit more research into the field (and then maybe they won’t make boner mistakes like the one above).

Rather than just post this entry when I first read the article, I decided to post a thread on the Core77 Industrial Design forum. You can read the issue I have with the List there. The discussion has been remarkably good for an unregistered space and you can check it out at this Link.