A design classic is a product that has been deemed a classic design, that is timeless or relevant to the age. Such designs are viewed as classic pieces of design that can be regarded as much as works of art as pieces of engineering. Much of the design classic have been based on new ideas and ways to develop the product.

• 1849: The Safety pin by Walter Hunt
• 1859: The No. 14 chair by Michael Thonet
• 1895: The Opinel knife by Joseph Opinel
• 1899: The Paperclip by GEM Manufacturing Ltd and William Middlebrook
• 1903: The Hill House ladder back chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• 1913: The Zipper by Gideon Sundback
• 1916: The glass Coca-Cola bottle by Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana
• 1917: The Red and blue chair by Gerrit Rietveld
• 1925: The Wassily Chair No B3 by Marcel Breuer
• 1927: The PEZ candy dispenser
• 1929: The Barcelona chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• 1932: The Anglepoise lamp by George Carwardine
• 1933: The Moka Express coffee pot by Alfonso Bialetti
• 1935: The Volkswagen by Erwin Komenda
• 1938: The 20th Century Limited train by Henry Dreyfuss
• 1948: The Porsche 356 by Erwin Komenda
• 1948: The Citroen 2CV by Pierre Boulanger and André Lefèbvre
• 1950: The Bic Cristal ballpoint pen by Marcel Bich
• 1954: The Parker Jotter pen
• 1955: Arne Jacobsen's Chair 3107
• 1955: The Citroën DS "Goddess"
• 1956: The Eames Lounge Chair by Charles and Ray Eames
• 1956: The Tulip chair by Eero Saarinen
• 1958: The Artichoke Pendant is a designer Light fixture designed by Poul Henningsen
• 1959: The Cadillac Eldorado by Harley Earl
• 1959: The Mini by Alec Issigonis
• 1961: The IBM Selectric typewriter
• 1962: The Polyprop Stacking Chair by the Robin Day
• 1963: The Porsche 911
• 1964: Ericsson Dialog by AOS
• 1965: The Cifra 3 clock by Gino Valle
• 1967: The Panton chair by Verner Panton
• 1977: The Post-it note by Art Fry and Spencer Silver
• 1979: The Walkman by Sony portable music player
• 1983: The Swatch (in particlur the plain black Swatch)
• 1989: The Reebok Pump shoe
• 1990: The Juicy Salif is a fruit squeezer or juicer designed by Philippe Starck
• 1993: The Dyson DC01 vacuum cleaner by James Dyson and Dyson Ltd.
• 1994: The Aeron chair by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf
• 1998: The iMac by Jonathan Ive and Apple's Industrial Design Group
• 1998: The Audi TT automobile designed by J Mays and Freeman Thomas of Volkswagen.
• 1999: The Nokia 3210 mobile phone
• 2001: The iPod by Apple Computer
• 2004: The RAZR by Motorola

See also

• Blobject

External links

• http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/
• http://www.idsa.org/
• http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/bottle.asp
• Design Museum in London
• A PDF list from MoMA's 2004 Humble Masterpieces exhibition. An exhibition of basic, every day, exceptionally designed objects.