Industrial design aims at the development of industrial products.
Industrial design is the discipline aimed at the creation and development of industrial products (which can be produced in series and on a large scale). Like any design activity, creativity and inventiveness come into play.
Currently, industrial design is a fundamental field in areas such as the automotive, toy, electronics industry or the furniture sector, among others. In the latter case, for example, industrial design is essential when it comes to creating ergonomic, functional and comfortable furniture that allows any user to not only use it in a simple way but also make it comfortable.
The importance of industrial design
Design is part of human development. With the application of design notions, man has been able to evolve and satisfy his needs. The emergence of the industry implied the emergence of a new area of application for design.
Design always involves expressing thought through drawings, sketches and diagrams that can be drawn on various supports. It is possible to differentiate between the verb design (the process of creation and development) and the noun design (the result of the design process).
Currently you can study Industrial Design at the university level.
University education
Currently, industrial design is a university degree in most countries, in which specialists in electronic, metallurgical, electrical, plastic and industrial products in general are trained.
Mathematics, Physics, Descriptive Geometry, Anthropology of Design, Computerized Drawing, Digital Modeling, Technological Innovation , Composition and Graphic Expression are some of the subjects that are part of the university studies in the Industrial Design career.
The industrial designer acquires the necessary knowledge to produce industrial items according to the needs of the market and society .
Industrial design and technology
With the expansion of new technologies, a large number of computer programs, applications and software have appeared with the clear objective of facilitating the tasks of industrial designers. Thus, in a simple, effective way and with very attractive results, they have the ability to capture their projects and proposals digitally.
At the moment, however, among the computer programs with the most presence in the field of industrial design in recent years are Illustrator , In Design , Corel Printer , Photoshop , Corel Draw , AutoCAD , 3D Max , Solidworks and Form Z. These are all applications that not only allow you to achieve quality proposals but also, for example, objects in two and three dimensions so that you can know more exactly what the final result of the design of any piece or element would be.
Patents and copyrights
It should be noted that the creations of industrial designers are usually protected by copyright and patents, which recognize the person who devised the product and grant him the power to exploit it commercially. This prevents a person from appropriating another person's invention and trying to profit from someone else's work.
It is important to keep in mind that the action of designing requires investigative tasks, analysis, modeling and adaptations until the final production of the object, so the designer's effort must always be recognized.