INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Around the world

2017 BCE

Nowadays, this career is in almost all around the world.

Bauhaus

1907 BCE

The first and the most important school of industrial design was the Bauhaus. It was founded in 1907 by Deutscher Werkbund (a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists)

The Central School of Arts and Crafts

1896 BCE

The Central School of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1896. It was one of the earliest attempts to develop a critical understanding of objects and architecture.

Great international exhibition in London

1851 BCE

There were the advances of the technology of the time and everything that the technique allowed to produce, from locomotives and mechanical looms to objects of the daily life were exposed.

Industrial Revolution

1800 BCE

In the 18th century, the industrial revolution in Great Britain took place. The rise of industrial manufacture changed the way objects were made. It changed the hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes.

Art & Design

1600 BCE

In the 17th century, the art started to influence in the products. Hundreds of craftsmen and artists started to decorate products under the creative supervision of the King’s leading artist Charles Le Brun.

First drawings

1500 BCE

In the early 16th century, they started to use drawings to specify how products were done and their characteristics.

Creation of societies

500 BCE

In big cities like Florence, Venice, Nuremberg and Bruges, the craftsmen’s started to make objects with common forms and repetitive duplication of models.

Creation of objects

1 BCE

Before the industrialization, the craftsmen’s were the people who determined the form of a product according to their own manual skills from their own gained experience.