Hi Miles,
Might be worth talking to staff at the Royal College of Art, as they have had courses called Industrial Design Engineering and Design Products. Both of which are variations on the terms you are interested in. But, imply that these terms are inadequate and other more diverse and distinctive terms are needed
Of course there is writing on the terminology of design, esp. the difference between design, craft and art (Lees-Maffei in The Journal of Design History; Paul Greenhalgh, Peter Dormer, Culture of Craft) and Raymond Williams Keywords.
I wonder if the term 'industrial' seems anachronistic and was dropped for this reason in terms like Design Products and Product Design. On the other hand, it survives in terms like the culture industry, which is used as an all encompassing phrase, esp. in higher education.
This is a great question. I'm looking forward to the responses.
Nic
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> Hi all,
> Is anyone aware of any scholarly writing about the preference for the use of the terms 'Industrial Design' or 'Product Design' or otherwise - be it to describe professional practices, educational programs and regional differences? There appears to be a number of posts on such matters on various design forums, and these opinions are important, but is there any work out there that addresses the specifics of each, maps or compares what each term may mean and its differing perceptions in various contexts or locations?
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