What kind of companies do product design? The New York Times reports today that “The Arnell Group, based in New York, planned to announce today that it is being awarded a global assignment from Electrolux, the world’s biggest maker of home and outdoor appliances...a broad effort — everything from product design to in-store marketing to traditional advertising — to help Electrolux introduce a line of small domestic appliances, tentatively scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2005.”