Precursors
For several millennia before the onset of industrialization, design, technical expertise, and manufacturing was often done by individual craftsmen, who determined the form of a

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Product design and industrial design overlap in the fields of user interface design, information design, and interaction design. Various schools of industrial design specialize in one of these aspects, ranging from pure art colleges and design schools (product styling), to mixed

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Industrial design studies function and form—and the connection between product, user, and environment. Generally, industrial design

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Although the process of design may be considered 'creative,' many analytical processes also take place. In fact, many industrial designers often

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A number of industrial designers have made such a significant impact on culture and daily life that their work is documented by historians of social science. Alvar Aalto, renowned as an architect, also designed a significant number of household

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• Automotive design
• Designer
• Creative engineering

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Industrial design rights are intellectual property rights that make exclusive the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. A design patent would also be considered under this

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