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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 process may lead to added values by improved usability, lowered production costs and more appealing products. Product Design is focused 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. Various schools of Industrial Design and/or Product Design may specialize in one of these aspects, ranging from pure art colleges (product styling) to mixed programs of engineering and design, to related disciplines like exhibit design and interior design.
(In a nutshell), Industrial Design is the fusion of art, business, and science.
In the UK, the term "Industrial Design" increasingly implies design with considerable engineering and technology awareness alongside human factors - a "Total Design" approach, promoted by the late Stuart Pugh (University of Strathclyde) and the work of Paul Turnock and Raymond Stroud at Brunel University at Runnymede.
1 Famous industrial designers
- Egmont Arens (1888-1966)
- Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971)
- Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
- Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972)
- Charles and Ray EamesPerhaps the most notable couple in the history of the field of industrial design. Americans, Charles (1907-1978) and Ray Eames (1912-1988) made major contributions to the emergence of industrial design as a mature discipline. Eames, Charles and Ray. (1907-1978) and (1912-1988)
- Harley J. Earl (1893-1969)
- Virgil ExnerVirgil "Ex" Exner ( 24 September 1909 22 December 1973) was an automobile designer for numerous American companies, notably Chrysler and Studebaker. He is known for his "Forward Look" designs on the Chrysler 300 letter series and his fondness of fins on c (1909-1973)
- Walter Adolph Gropius (1883-1969)
- László Moholy-NagyLaszlo Moholy-Nagy (probably July 28, 1895 November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was editor of the art and fotography department of the European avant-garde magazine: International Revue (1895-1946)
- Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
- Victor Papanek (1927-1999)
- Joseph Claude Sinel (1889-1975)
- Brooks Stevens (1911-1995)
- Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960)
- Philippe Starck (1949- )
- Herbie Pfeifer (1949- )
- Michael Graves (1934- )
- Eva Zeisel (1906- )
- Jonathan Ive (1967- )
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