Academic year/semester: 2024/25/1

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 4
Seminarium:0
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 0
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Prerequisites: Form Design I.

Course Leader: Daniella Koós DLA

Faculty: Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, 1034 Budapest, Doberdó utca 6.

Course Description:
Product life cycles and the product environment. Design schools. The product development process, exploring and defining the product idea. Optimisation of product characteristics.
Developing a product concept. Product features. Product functions, technical (materials, technologies, ergonomics), economic (marketing, energy optimisation, technology), psychological (impact on the consumer, safety), sociological (prestige, brand), ecological (resource management), and documentary (historical and contemporary stylistic interpretation) functions and methods for the design of industrial products. Cost factors in design. Design for manufacturability.
Historical periods, subjects and creators of industrial design. Design aspirations and opportunities in the past and present. Design principles. Functions of industrial design, design process. Industrial Revolution. Art Nouveau.
Functional design. Progressive and conservative modernism. Industrial design after the First World War. Avant-garde, Constructivism, Bauhaus. Art Deco in Europe and America. The American model of commercial design. European design after World War II. Design in the second half of the 20th century. Organic design. Systematic design. Design trends in the early 21st century.

Competences:
- Knowledge of basic design principles and methods, major manufacturing processes and operational procedures. - Knowledge of the basic rules and technological constraints for shaping products and finding the right balance between content and form. - Knowledge of the main raw materials used in product design, their production and conditions of use. - Knowledge of the basic construction designs and the principles of their sizing. - Knowledge of learning, knowledge acquisition, data collection methods, their ethical limitations and problem solving techniques in product design. - Knowledge of the historical periods of industrial design, its prominent designers and typical subjects. - Knowledge of the basic rules of intellectual property management. - Ability to apply the principles and methods of calculation and modelling of industrial product design literature. - Understand and use online and printed literature in Hungarian and at least one foreign language typical of his/her field of specialisation. - Know and use the language and special terms of his/her field of specialisation in Hungarian and at least one foreign language. - Knowledge of the main analogies between natural and technical systems and their application in design. - Ability to take into account the historical, cultural, socio-economic and industrial environment aspects in the process of industrial design and product development.

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Final Exam

Compulsory bibliography: 1. Luz Del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel: Design Methodology: Theoretical Fundamentals. Authorhouse, 2014. ISBN13 (EAN): 9781463391782 2. https://elearning.uni-obuda.hu/ electronic notes and aids prepared by the instructor

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