00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685954869149765651 Buklod 20240423110237.0 m |o d | ta 240314s2003 gw a r 000 u|eng d 3822824267 DLC DCFA rda eng TS 171.4 F54 2003 Fiell, Charlotte author Industrial design A-Z Charlotte & Peter Fiell. Koln Taschen ©2003 191 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 20 cm text rdacontent rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume For over 200 years, the products or mechanized industrial production have shaped our material culture, influenced world economies and affected the quality of our environment and daily lives. From consumer goods and packaging to transportation systems and production equipment, industrial products encompass an extraordinary range of functions, techniques, attitudes, ideas and values and are a means through which we experience and perceive the world around us. As more and more countries are drawn into the global free-market economy, so industrial design has become an increasingly vital means of competing on a global scale. By reflecting on the history of industrial design and focusing in particular on its successes, this book hopes to demonstrate how industrial design has consistently sought to de-mystify technology and to deliver it in accessible forms to the greatest number of people. A further aim of the book is to highlight the phenomenal extent to which manufacturing companies themselves have shaped the history of industrial design. Without their willingness to risk the necessary and sometimes massive investment demanded by the development of new products, there would be very little industrial design. Innovative and commercially-motivated yet socially-minded manufacturing companies are too often the unsung heroes of our material culture. Donated by Prof. Dante Cruz Industrial design. Industrial arts History 19th century. Industrial arts History 20th century. Industrial designers. Fiell, Peter author. FO UPD DCFA TS 171.4 F54 2003 Book