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industrial designDesign 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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3D Systems' rapid prototyping and other technologies have been widely used by designers and engineers to produce functional models a wide variety of industrial, commercial and educational uses, including industrial designs and prototypes for products such as a dashboard for a new car or a casing for a new cell phone. Product Design & Development: A builder of prototypes and architectural and industrial designs, this six-employee firm renewed its 8,450-square-foot occupancy. In a contemporaneous manifesto we learn that Superstudio's industrial designs were to participate in a Happenings-like form of protest, a countercultural "contestation of the system" of consumer objects. |
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