Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Industrial design
Industrial design
The design of mass-produced, machine-made goods. The word was first used in America in the 1920s to describe the work of specialist designers who worked on product design. Earlier, Henry Ford's introduction in 1913 of the production line to the motor car industry, and subsequently to the production of other merchandise, led to a move in the art world to attempt to weld art and technology together. Constructivism in Russia and the Bauhaus in Germany were inspired by the new machine age; putting emphasis on form following function they created design that had an abstract, geometric form.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Art history
- Category: General art history
- Company: Tate
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Politics Category: International politics
Hanadokei
A self-styled patriotic women's group in Japan that denounces the country's pacifist constitution and strongly supports Prime Minister ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Biochemistry(4818)
- Molecular biology(4701)
- Microbiology(1476)
- Ecology(1425)
- Toxicology(1415)
- Cell biology(1236)
Biology(22133) Terms
- General boating(783)
- Sailboat(137)
- Yacht(26)
Boat(946) Terms
- Pesticides(2181)
- Organic fertilizers(10)
- Potassium fertilizers(8)
- Herbicides(5)
- Fungicides(1)
- Insecticides(1)
Agricultural chemicals(2207) Terms
- Software engineering(1411)
- Productivity software(925)
- Unicode standard(481)
- Workstations(445)
- Computer hardware(191)
- Desktop PC(183)
Computer(4168) Terms
- Home theatre system(386)
- Television(289)
- Amplifier(190)
- Digital camera(164)
- Digital photo frame(27)
- Radio(7)