Edison Style?

As with any subject,the subject of industrial design must constantly reflect and review its own history and development in order to truly mature from the young.In contrast to the vigorous development of industrial design practice,the academic circles have been divided about the basic attribute of industrial design discipline and the boundary of discipline,especially in the depth of industrial design,the problem that theory lags behind practice is more prominent,which in turn restricts the development of industrial design practice and discipline.Based on the fact that the history of industrial design has long been in the writing of art history and the analysis of the new hotspot in the field of industrial design historiography,the author of the 19th century industrial design pioneer,as the representative of Edison,has a glimpse of some problems in the history of industrial design and its turn and confirmed the historical identity of Edison industrial designers and some of the core attributes of industrial design,through the above analysis to respond to the new industrial design History of the writing:specialized history and Cycle theory perspective.