This lecture course traces the history of industrial design from the industrial Revolution to the current design movements based on hi-tech as well as on sustainable thinking. This class will study ...

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s ...

The CONNECTING'07 World Design Congress last week in San Francisco celebrated the history of industrial design, but it may have squandered an historic opportunity to inspire and prepare thousands ...

Industrial Design: The first attributed use of the term “industrial design” in 1919 is credited to Joseph Claude Sinel, a self-proclaimed “industrial designer.” However, many argue that ...

What few realize about the birth of Apple's translucent industrial design is that it didn't start with the iMac. Apple didn't invent translucent enclosures, but they made it cool.

As explained by the animated short from The Open University‘s series on 20th century design, it’s thanks to the American industrial design movement that such little bits of commercialism are ...

Art History faculty members have written monographs, edited and contributed to collections of essays, ... and take advantage of RIT’s important collections related to the history of print and ...