Design is whatever it is made into. Its importance can be life and death or what color socks you want to wear that day. Design can rule the structure of an entire billion dollar building; it can be as unobtrusive and unthought of as a free ballpoint pen. Design is what you make of it – but no matter how loud or soft design speak to you, it rules the world.
Industrial Design tends to be the driver behind any product. “Industrial Designers look for innovative and better ways to do things. They approach their work as problem solving, asking, “How do people want to travel?” rather than, “Let’s build another car.” To answer such questions, Industrial Designers explore a broad range of alternatives through drawings and models, steadily refining their designs as they test them against the user’s needs and manufacturer’s capabilities.”
Design is necessary. Whether it be loved, loathed or ignored, design is everywhere in the built environment that is our world. ”Design, stripped to its essence, can be defined as the human capacity to shape and make our environment in ways without precedent in nature, to serve our needs and give meaning to our lives.” Design gives designers a meaning to what they do. Though some designs are a fluke, someone somewhere is thinking about its intentions and development.
“A brief outline of the historical development of designing – that is, the practice and activity of creating forms – is therefore necessary.” Design is necessary for life. Some need design to live, some need design for a place to live. Either way, design is crucial to existence.
