Industrial Design

Industrial design means any composition of lines or colours or any three dimensional form whether or not associated with lines or colours, provided that such composition or form gives a special appearance to a product of industry or handicraft and can serve as a pattern for a product of industry or handicraft [Procl. Art. 2(2)].  According to this definition the design can be two or three-dimensional and is solely concerned with the external ornamental appearances of the article it is applied to or embodied in. It should be noted that the design is not related with the function of the article.

Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production. Its key characteristic is that design is separated from manufacture: the creative act of determining and defining a product’s form takes place in advance of the physical act of making a product, which consists purely of repeated, often automated, replication. This distinguishes industrial design from craft-based design, where the form of the product is determined by the product’s creator at the time of its creation.