Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design

Industrial Design operates within a capitalistic system. Industrial Designers create things to be made, purchased, and used by consumers. In the end, this exchange most frequently benefits the corporations and other entities who hold power…

Over the past few decades, a quiet inversion has taken place that few notice. During the industrial age, the value of the physical content of goods was enormous compared to the value of the mental content. The bending of steel and other metals, the welding or bolting of them together, the processes of replication-- the smelting, pounding, twisting,... See more

It happens that I am one of those that believe that contemporary buildings are generally speaking less aesthetically pleasing than older buildings, and I think that this is a genuine social problem - the point of human progress is not merely to exist but to create beauty, and in fact an essential value of modernization is that greater efficiency a

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