How Industrial Can A Design Be?

21 May 2007

Think of what draws your attention when we talk about a product. Is it its shape? Its color? Its suppleness? Its simplicity? Now also think of the fact that what looks good must also be functional and have a special, particular type of comfort. There are some things that maybe come into your mind when you’re looking at a product, at machinery. How accessible are the buttons and the accessories during the practice? Why do the handles have that particular shape? Is that machine suitable for all the body shapes and weights of the users?

Industrial design gathers a team that is part of a careful and inventive world where form and functionality are combined in order to create the best machines. Take for example the fitness items. You can see that they are specially designed to fit and to satisfy any type of user, and what matters the most is their shape and degree of comfort.

The industrial design is a major, essential component in all the stages of the development process of a certain product. The industrial design accompanies this process from the very beginning when the initial idea is born. The industrial designers are meant to work close to the engineers, to all the persons implicated in the process of creation and of development of a product. What you see is the finite product that hides beneath its surface the collaboration of hundreds of people, it encompasses the talent and the hard-work of a handful of professionals.

An important trait of the creative industrial design is that it finds inspiration in everything, in the line of a piece of furniture, in the supple shapes of a bottle, or even in the body shape of the celebrities. These market trends and pop cultural elements help the industrial designers to establish a unique, functional view on the manner in which the products look like.

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