#mass-production

Apple's 2007 touchscreen smartphone — the product that consolidated the phone, camera, media player, and pocket computer into a single aluminium-and-glass object, and reset the visual language of consumer electronics.

American design duo whose experiments with molded plywood, fiberglass, and mass production produced some of the most influential furniture of the twentieth century.

British industrial designer (born 1967) whose two decades leading Apple's design team produced the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad — the most influential product designs of the digital era.

Franco-American industrial designer (1893–1986), the self-styled 'Father of Industrial Design,' whose streamlining work for Studebaker, Coca-Cola, and the Pennsylvania Railroad defined American commercial aesthetics in the mid-twentieth century.

Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene — the workhorse thermoplastic behind LEGO, electronics housings, and automotive interiors, prized for toughness, dimensional stability, and easy molding.

Lightweight, corrosion-resistant metal — the defining structural material of aircraft, electric vehicles, and premium consumer electronics, prized for its strength-to-weight ratio and infinite recyclability.

A crystalline thermoplastic produced from propylene — the second most widely manufactured plastic, valued for its chemical resistance, fatigue resistance, and low cost.

The dominant manufacturing process for thermoplastics — molten polymer is forced at high pressure into a precision-machined steel mold, where it cools into a finished part.

Ferdinand Porsche's 1938 people's car — the best-selling single-platform automobile in history, whose rounded, functional form and mass-market ambition made it a defining object of mid-century industrial design.

American design movement of the 1930s that applied aerodynamic styling — teardrops, speed lines, and rounded corners — to everything from locomotives and automobiles to refrigerators and buildings.