The term "industrial design" is often attributed to the designer Joseph Claude Sinel in 1919 (although he himself denied it in later interviews) but the discipline predates that by at least a decade. Its origins lay in the industrialization of consumer products. For instance the Deutscher Werkbund, founded in 1907 and a precursor to the Bauhaus, was a state-sponsored effort to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques, to put Germany on a competitive footing with England and the United States.

An iPod, an industrially designed product.

KitchenAid 5 qt. Stand Mixer, designed in 1937 by Egmont Arens, remains very successful today

Western Electric model 302 Telephone, found almost universally in the United States from 1937 until the introduction of touch-tone dialing, as the Family’s life was extended into the 1960s

 

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