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industrial design
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industrial design

Design of products made by large-scale industry for mass distribution. Among the considerations for such products are structure, operation, appearance, and conformance to production, distribution, and selling procedures; appearance is the principal consideration in industrial design. The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design was founded in London in 1957 and within 25 years had members in more than 40 countries. Two significant trends have persisted: streamlining, a design principle pioneered by Raymond Loewy and others in the 1930s; and planned obsolescence, design changes that tempt owners to replace goods with new purchases more frequently than would normally be necessary.



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For example, both eugenicists and industrial designers frequently used the word "stream" as a metaphor for evolution, suggesting the importance of purity and progress.
Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s by Kline, Wendy / Journal of Social History
His funky yellow fiberglass Slantstep 2, 1969, began as a Bill Wiley junk-shop find given to Bruce Nauman, who remade versions of it before Richard Serra "stole" the "original"; Kaltenbach then "borrowed" the stool to show the industrial designer Bill Plumb, his advisor in producing the "Kaltenbach" edition of it for Tanglewood Press.
Stephen J. Kaltenbach: Another Year in La by Hainley, Bruce / Artforum International
That's how industrial designer Ravi Sawhney conceived the blueprints for his new line of guitars.
EYE-POPPING SOUND NEW GUITAR FORM ROCKS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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