Industrial design
インダストリアルデザイン
The design of goods made in quantity by machine: deciding a product's shape and use before it is made.
01About
The term was first used in the United States in the 1920s for specialist designers working on product design. Henry Ford's introduction of the production line in the car industry in 1913, and its later use for other goods, prompted artists to try to combine art and technology. Russian Constructivism and the German Bauhaus drew on the machine age, and the Bauhaus also shaped modern architecture; they stressed form following function and produced abstract, geometric designs. In Japan, the Japan Industrial Design Association (JIDA) is the public-interest association of industrial designers. Today the World Design Organization calls industrial design a strategic problem-solving process that drives innovation and builds business success, covering products, systems, services, and experiences.
02In the gallery
Pick an everyday product and imagine making a thousand of it: which parts look easy for a machine to repeat, such as even edges, joined panels, or a molded surface?
Wall label terms in Japanese
- インダストリアルデザイン
- Industrial design
- プロダクトデザイン
- Product design
- 大量生産
- Mass production
03Notes
Industrial design shapes a product for machine production and for use.
On an everyday product, can you tell which part of its shape is there to make it easy to use?