Industrial design  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

A huge iron and glass building, The Crystal Palace was one of the wonders of, if not the world, Britain. A rebuilt and expanded version of the building that originally housed the Great Exhibition of 1851, it stood in Sydenham from 1854 until 1936, and attracted many thousands of visitors from all levels of society. The name "Crystal Palace" was coined by the satirical magazine Punch. Today, it symbolizes modern architecture, the rise of consumer culture and the start of industrial design.

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Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved for marketability and production. The role of an industrial designer is to create and execute design solutions towards problems of engineering, marketing, brand development and sales.

The rise of industrial design is illustrated by The Crystal Palace (illustration, right).

See also

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• Recorded culture
• Mass production
• Modern design
• Modernist design
• Design
• Raymond Loewy
• Form follows function
• Danish design