Hi Luke,
Your post about Sinel is very pertinent and interesting not only because
Sinel himself denied the paternity of the term but because that were people
that considered that the term "industrial design" was invented around the
1920's.
Reading the monumental Gideon's (1948) "Mechanization Takes Command" he
places in Sir Henry Cole (1808-1882) an influence of Design in the industry.
According to Gideon, Cole wrote for a publication called "Design Journal"in
the mid 1800's. Maybe this publication casted the term...
Another research track are obviously the industrial exhibitions. Design was
pretty much something of the Arts (the American National Academy of Design
was an Art Academy). Maybe some "artistic objects" in Industrial Exhibitions
were designated as industrial design...
Anyhow, I find the reception, use and fortuna of the word design very
interesting.
Thanks for your post,
Merry Xtmas everyone and a happy new year,
Eduardo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Feast" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:45 AM
Subject: Industrial Design - Joseph Sinel
fyi:
The term "industrial design" is sometimes said to have been coined by the
New Zealand born designer Joseph Claude Sinel around 1920 in the USA,
however Sinel denied this in an interview in 1969.
"... that's the same time [1920] that I was injecting myself into the
industrial design field, of which it's claimed (and I'm in several of the
books where they claim) that I was the first one, and they even say that I
invented the name. I'm sure I didn't do that. I don't know where it
originated and I don't know where I got hold of it."
Joseph Claude Sinel, interviewed by Robert Harper. Jo Sinel: Father of
American Industrial Design. California College of Arts and Crafts, 1972. p.
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Luke Feast
MDes Candidate
School of Design
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
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