“The Power of Design "is a core foundation course for industrial design students. The objective of the course is to make students understand human history, especially the development and evolution of design since the Industrial Revolution, including various design schools, design styles, famous designers and their works, and the historical conditions of design development. Students need to grasp the direction of industrial design in the future.
Lecture1 Design and Civilization
1.1 Survival Design
1.3 The Origins of the Western design
1.5 Baroque and Rococo
1.4 Middle Ages and Gothic style
1.2 Chinese Handicraft Design
Lecture2 Productivity Revolution
2.1 Industrial Revolution
2.2 The Great Exhibition of 1851
2.3 Design Reform
Lecture3 Defining New Aesthetics
3.2 Modern Art and Design Change
3.4 The Cradle of Modern Design-Bauhaus
3.3 Le Corbusier and Machine Aesthetics
3.1 Standardization and Assembly Line
Lecture4 Out of the Great Depression
4.2 Professionalization of industrial designers
4.3 Art Deco
4.4 Streamline style
4.1 The Great Depression
Lecture5 Shaping a New Life
5.3 American modernist design
5.4 The design revival of European countries after World War II
5.2 Earl and automobile design
5.1 Commercial design
Lecture6 The Prosperity of Design
6.2 Neo-modernism
6.4 Pop style
6.5 Post-modernism
6.3 High-Tech
6.7 Minimalism
6.1 Rationalism
6.6 Deconstruction
Lecture7 From Manufacturing to creation
7.2 Korean design
7.4 Soft power of design
7.1 Japanese design
7.3 Chinese design
Lecture8 The Sharp Tool of Innovation
8.4 Internet thinking and design ecology
8.3 Smart planet
8.2 Business model design
Coursework:Design study
8.1 Service design
Lecture9 Social Innovation
9.2 Sustainable design
9.1 Green design
9.3 Social innovation design
Lecture 10 The Future of Design
10.1 Interaction and socialization
10.2 Intelligent transportation
10.4 The future of design
10.3 Smart home
Reading a brief history of art and focusing on the cutting-edge technology.
The website of Industrial Design History: https://design.hnu.edu.cn/hid/;
Design Cases: https://design.hnu.edu.cn/pinwall/