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The Two Meanings of Industrial Design
When you search for "industrial" products on AliExpress, you're not tapping into an aesthetic—you're tapping into a parallel supply chain built for workshops, labs, and hospitals. This episode unpacks the confusion between industrial design as a professional discipline (designing products for mass production) and the "industrial look" as a borrowed visual language (exposed brick, raw steel, visible fasteners). We trace the roots of functionalist design from the Bauhaus to the Centre Pompidou, explore how the same skillset can produce heirloom-quality tools or planned obsolescence, and explain…
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