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Industrial design
Industrial Design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved. Design aspects specified by the industrial designer may include the overall shape of the object, the location of details with respect to one another, colors, textures , sounds, and aspects concerning the use of the product ergonomics. Additionally the industrial designer may specify aspects concerning the production process, choice of materials and the way the product is presented to the consumer at the point of sale. The use of industrial designers in a product development prosess may lead to added values by improved usability, lowered production costs and more appealing products.
Product Design is focussed on products only, while industrial design has a broader focus on concepts, products and processes. In addition to considering aesthetics, usability, and ergonomics, it can also encompass the engineering of objects, usefulness as well as usability, market placement, and other concerns.
Product Design and Industrial Design can overlap into the fields of user interface design , information design and interaction design.
(In a nutshell), Industrial Design is the fusion of art, business, and science.
Famous industrial designers
- Egmont Arens (1888-1966)
- Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
- Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972)
- Charles and Ray Eames (1907-1978) and (1912-1988)
- Harley J. Earl (1893-1969)
- Virgil Exner (1909-1973)
- Walter Adolph Gropius (1883-1969)
- László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946)
- Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
- Joseph Claude Sinel (1889-1975)
- Brooks Stevens (1911-1995)
- Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960)
- Philippe Starck (1949- )
- Michael Graves (1934- )
- Eva Zeisel (1906- )
See also
External links
- Industrial Designers Society of America
- The Centre for Sustainable Design
- International Council of Societies of Industrial Designers
- U.S. Occupational Outlook Handbook: Designers
- Core77: Industrial Designers' Online Community