A timeline documenting significant events in the history of the Industrial Design profession.
Created by rebang on Jul 9, 2008
Last updated: 03/12/10 at 06:26 AM
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First Industrial Design class in Mexico, held in the UNAM in Mexico City.
http://ce-atl.posgrado.unam.mx/
Formed by the merger of three American designer associations: American Designers Institute (IDI), American Society of Industrial Design (ASID) and Industrial Design Education Association (IDEA).
http://www.idsa.org
An ergonomic reference produced by Henry Dreyfuss
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471099554.html
The mission of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design is to:
* To research design principles and the evolution of design.
* To further the profession of design, its status in society, and the protection of intellectual property rights.
* To further design education and the continuing development of practising designers.
* To promote design activities and well-designed products, services and systems in the world’s regions.
* To develop a better understanding of design for the benefit of all human beings.
http://www.icsid.org/
Dieter Rams, one of the most influential industrial designers in the 20th century, joined the electronic devices manufacturer Braun where he became chief of design in 1961, a position he kept until 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams
I.D. Magazine hits the stands for the first time.
http://www.id-mag.com
Founded in 1930 as Society of Industrial Artists, the Society, which is headquartered in London, exists to promote concern for the sound principles of design in all areas in which design considerations apply, to further design practice and encourage the study of design techniques for the benefit of the community. It also seeks to secure and promote a professional body of designers and regulate and control their practice for the benefit of the design industry and the general public.
http://www.csd.org.uk/
Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York. As one of the celebrity industrial designers of the 1930s and 1940s, Dreyfuss dramatically improved the look, feel, and usability of dozens of consumer products. As opposed to Raymond Loewy and other contemporaries, Dreyfuss was not a stylist: he applied common sense and a scientific approach to design problems. His work both popularized the field for public consumption, and made significant contributions to the underlying fields of ergonomics, anthropometrics, and human factors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dreyfuss
Loewy receives his first industrial design commission: modernize the appearance of a duplicating machine by Gestetner.
http://www.raymondloewy.com
The Bauhaus school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, a school in Germany which combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus
Werkbund Exhibition held in Cologne, Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Werkbund
"The Werkbund was less an artistic movement than a state-sponsored effort to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Werkbund
After extensive experimentation Michael Thonet releases Chair No.14 one of the most successful and iconic industrial designed products of all time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._14_chair

