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Every dated entry in the encyclopedia, ordered by year. Grouped by decade so you can trace movements, people, and objects side by side.
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Raymond Loewy
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.
Form Follows Function
The principle — articulated by architect Louis Sullivan in 1896 — that an object's shape should derive from its purpose, material, and mode of production rather than applied ornament.
Streamline Moderne
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.
Dieter Rams
German industrial designer (born 1932) whose forty-year tenure at Braun and his Ten Principles of Good Design shaped functionalist product design worldwide.
Volkswagen Beetle
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.
Charles and Ray Eames
American design duo whose experiments with molded plywood, fiberglass, and mass production produced some of the most influential furniture of the twentieth century.
ABS
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene — the workhorse thermoplastic behind LEGO, electronics housings, and automotive interiors, prized for toughness, dimensional stability, and easy molding.
HfG Ulm (Ulm School of Design)
German design school (1953–1968) that bridged Bauhaus craft ideals and industrial practice, and whose partnership with Braun established the template for systematic corporate design.
Polypropylene (PP)
A crystalline thermoplastic produced from propylene — the second most widely manufactured plastic, valued for its chemical resistance, fatigue resistance, and low cost.
Braun SK4
1956 radio-phonograph combination by Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot, nicknamed 'Snow White's Coffin', that established the template for modern hi-fi equipment.
17 dated entries across 2 categories