Historical Review: Striking Trends--96 Best Product Design in the United States

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The selection of this year's Outstanding Industrial Product Design Award shows that the US design industry regains an important position in the world design industry. Its design represents the direction and trend of future design. For quite some time, the design of American products has been extremely outstanding. However, in the 1960s, European product design dominated the industrial design field. It took the United States about 20 minutes to catch up to Europe. According to the 1996 Industrial Outstanding Product Award, which was presided over by the American Institute of Industrial Product Designers and funded by the US Business Weekly, the flag of Pioneer Design has returned to the United States. In the process of transforming from the design of a single product to the design of the entire product and the design of the development process, designers in the United States have played a pioneering role. U.S. product designers have even used quantitative ethnographic research methods in their designs to achieve a satisfactory result in product design. That is, their design is functionally complete and convenient to use. The perception is heart-warming.

The Outstanding Industrial Product Design Award in 1996 shows that the concept of "industrial product design" goes far beyond our usual understanding and has a broader connotation. It includes the design of museums and other venues. In the design of museums and other venues, the United States has designed. The company took full advantage of interactive design, and interactively designed the main features of the American design company. The Rock & Roll of frame Museum, New York's American Museum of Natural History Dinosaur Hall, Qucken 5For Windows and Kenwood USA The company's KC-Z1 audio equipment is mainly awarded for the information they express. Whether the information is to help your housekeeper finance or guide you through the history of biological evolution for millions of years, interactive design enables visitors to come Environment, dialogue with history, and exchanges with stars that have only been in their hearts for a long time. This shows that in modern society, information plays an increasingly important role. The center of design is the use of high technology, through the means of art to reveal the object's connotation, so that the design and the content of the body as a whole, so that the object and the subject as one, the integration of history and reality.

Take the Dinosaur Hall of New York's Natural History Museum as an example. The Dinosaur Hall is based in New York City's Larfer. Designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associate Inc. The exhibition hall broke through the chronological order of natural history, but based on the natural features of dinosaur fossils. Lowell, director of the Department of Sugar Engineering. Lamps said: “The purpose of this exhibition hall is to make tourists sightseeing like dinosaur family rather than history.” From the evil Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park) to the pretty cute monks and nuns, dinosaurs have been embedded in our culture. It is that kind of dinosaur and it is that familiar. But what does this first creature that survived the tens of millions of years of fire on earth resemble? The exhibition hall introduces the evolutionary history of dinosaurs in both text and image. They can see, touch, and “exploration” in the strange world. This provides visitors with sufficient information to make them aware of Embark on the journey of "Paleontology."

Professor Laura Lynn, a professor and judge at Ohio State University’s Institute of Design. Jostig pointed out: "The beauty of this design lies in the way it provides information, and the mutual connection between the levels of information will be aesthetically pleasing. Its different levels of available research results make everyone, regardless of whether it is Experts who are familiar with the history of natural history or natural history can all benefit from it."

Indeed, modern design has made considerable progress in museums and genres, thanks in large part to the exhilarating sensation of interactive design technology. Of course, the use of interaction design is not limited to this. It has been promoted and applied in a wider range of fields, which has brought new vitality to the design industry in the United States. The ability of the United States to innovate in the global design industry has enabled many manufacturers in Asia and Europe to turn to US design companies. The U.S. design company conducts a complete production line design for companies that are trying to enter the competitive world of Taiwan and South Korean companies. These companies are no longer satisfied with producing machines for Western customers and then affixing their trademarks for sale. They want to create their own brand, and leading the trend in design is the first point they create the brand.

Different from previous years, this year's Outstanding Industrial Product Design Award opened the door for products that were designed abroad but sold in the United States. Companies in Germany, France, Japan, Canada, and Taiwan also showed strong results at the awards. Strength. Taiwan Acer’s ASPIRE personal computer won a gold medal for its design. The ASPIRE personal computer launched by Acer Inc. in April this year has changed the image of the gray square monitor and chassis of the computer. It has a rounded overall design with a dark green appearance and looks very stylish and stylish. The appearance and touch of household appliances give people a feeling of high quality. The design of the Acer ASPIRE personal computer is widely considered and praised by the computer industry and is considered to be a "century of work." Therefore, the Acer ASPIRE personal computer at this year's United States award for outstanding industrial product design awards should be crowned as a matter of course, for granted. Japan’s Sony Corporation won a silver medal for its arcade design, thus posing a powerful challenge to U.S.’s Sega and NINTENDO companies.

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Design research has also become the main job of the United States today's big design company, the United States of America's industrial design expert organization and the Xuhang company's customers have maintained close ties, the United States industrial design expert organization senior design staff have basically joined the management Instruct corporate customers to create future office products. An industrial design expert organization guides the design and innovation process of Samsung's electronics producers, David, the chairman and chief executive of the Industrial Design Experts Group. Koehler said: "Customers demand that we help them to be more innovative and innovative, and we just want to use design to make the future concrete and thus determine our direction."

The U.S. Ziba Company is a well-known design company that has strong research capabilities and can provide excellent designs to its customers. Fujitsu Corporation of Japan is a company that specializes in the distribution of computer terminals (POS) in the retail industry. To enter the fast food industry in the United States, Fujitsu The company asked Qiba to design its computer terminals. Before the design, Ziba assumed that the fast-food restaurant employees had zero computer knowledge and high turnover. Based on this assumption, the designer's design results are: interactive touch screen and video software that can provide employees with a simple path, enabling employees to know how to use computer terminal information and how to input information. The terminal system uses both icon and text menus, so it is itself a training system.

For design-oriented design companies, the design is more and more. Salty is a consulting business. With the continuous reduction of prices for several years, those companies’ customers are seeking help in order to catch up with new products. Ferrard Design's president, this year's outstanding industrial design award judge Curtis. Barre said: "We are in the transition period from industrial design to product development. Before Sichuan, designers designed their own products for their own sake. They are the expression of their artistic ideas. Today, we just need to design and engineering technology as well. The combination of research has focused on the market viability of products, not only for American design companies, but also for European companies to expand their research efforts. Philip Electric’s amazing future film and television technology won a gold medal in concept products. Of course, research is not necessarily linked to high technology. Among the gold-winning products was a seemingly insignificant tub designed by Anderson Design Associates. Many young parents know that it is not easy to bathe a baby with one hand holding the baby's head and the other with a bath towel. The product of the study showed that there was a small hammock in the small tub, and the cradle and its head rest supported the baby's head and whole body safely. This freed the hands of the parents and could be used arbitrarily. Baby bathing.

Indeed, as evidenced by this year's award-winning industrial design products, avant-garde design is not limited to automobiles, computers or other high-end consumer products. Quality design has begun to tend to non-high-end products. Chairman of the Jury of the Outstanding Industrial Design Jury. Stemoff pointed out: "Now, excellent design has crossed the line between the top and bottom of the product. Excellent design is reflected in all areas from high-end computers to simple household appliances." Drive the design trend towards non-high-end products These are small design companies who have found that as large competitors grow stronger and stronger, they can also find areas where they can exploit their business to be profitable. In addition to Anderson's design company in Connecticut, the EKCO design company in New York also made the same effort. The doughnut knife designed by EKCO Design Co., Ltd. was well received at this year's awards. Cutting the doughnuts is the most common and common work in the kitchen. However, if it is not handled carefully, it is very easy to cut your fingers and you have to hurry to the hospital accident and emergency department. When bagels were popular in New York, it was a New York phenomenon. When bagels became popular in the United States, it became a national problem. EKCO Design has designed a V-shaped cutter with a plastic edge. The plastic side bends inwards to hold the doughnut. It prevents the doughnut from rotating when cutting the doughnuts. In addition, it is designed by Staubitz Design Associates. Students use a pencil sharpener because of their practicality, beauty, and novelty. They won the Silver Award in the Consumer Products Award.

Every year, the awards for outstanding American product design awards from the United States leave a lasting impression on us. However, they are all photos. We must make new ideas and methods in the design community reflected in our own product designs. It is still a long way to go before it is implemented in products, and it requires the efforts of our country's design community.