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. 24
Luke Feast
MDes Candidate
School of Design
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
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