# Design Encyclopedia

> A reliable, interconnected reference for industrial and transportation designers. Entries cover designers, materials, methods, products, movements, and concepts.

This file indexes every entry in the Design Encyclopedia at https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com. All content is static and freely accessible.

## Industrial

- [ABS](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/abs/): Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene — the workhorse thermoplastic behind LEGO, electronics housings, and automotive interiors, prized for toughness, dimensional stability, and easy molding.
- [Aluminium](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/aluminium/): Lightweight, corrosion-resistant metal — the defining structural material of aircraft, electric vehicles, and premium consumer electronics, prized for its strength-to-weight ratio and infinite recyclability.
- [Bauhaus](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/bauhaus/): German art and design school (1919–1933) whose fusion of craft, industry, and functionalism founded the modern design discipline.
- [Braun](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/braun/): German electronics manufacturer founded in Frankfurt in 1921, whose postwar partnership with Dieter Rams produced the most coherent product language of the twentieth century — and the ethical framework later codified as the Ten Principles of Good Design.
- [Braun SK4](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/braun-sk4/): 1956 radio-phonograph combination by Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot, nicknamed 'Snow White's Coffin', that established the template for modern hi-fi equipment.
- [Charles and Ray Eames](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/charles-and-ray-eames/): American design duo whose experiments with molded plywood, fiberglass, and mass production produced some of the most influential furniture of the twentieth century.
- [Dieter Rams](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/dieter-rams/): German industrial designer (born 1932) whose forty-year tenure at Braun and his Ten Principles of Good Design shaped functionalist product design worldwide.
- [Form Follows Function](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/form-follows-function/): The principle — articulated by architect Louis Sullivan in 1896 — that an object's shape should derive from its purpose, material, and mode of production rather than applied ornament.
- [HfG Ulm (Ulm School of Design)](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/hfg-ulm/): German design school (1953–1968) that bridged Bauhaus craft ideals and industrial practice, and whose partnership with Braun established the template for systematic corporate design.
- [Injection Molding](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/injection-molding/): The dominant manufacturing process for thermoplastics — molten polymer is forced at high pressure into a precision-machined steel mold, where it cools into a finished part.
- [iPhone (Original)](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/iphone-original/): Apple's 2007 touchscreen smartphone — the product that consolidated the phone, camera, media player, and pocket computer into a single aluminium-and-glass object, and reset the visual language of consumer electronics.
- [Jony Ive](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/jony-ive/): British industrial designer (born 1967) whose two decades leading Apple's design team produced the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad — the most influential product designs of the digital era.
- [Polypropylene (PP)](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/polypropylene/): A crystalline thermoplastic produced from propylene — the second most widely manufactured plastic, valued for its chemical resistance, fatigue resistance, and low cost.
- [Raymond Loewy](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/raymond-loewy/): Franco-American industrial designer (1893–1986), the self-styled 'Father of Industrial Design,' whose streamlining work for Studebaker, Coca-Cola, and the Pennsylvania Railroad defined American commercial aesthetics in the mid-twentieth century.
- [Streamline Moderne](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/streamline-moderne/): American design movement of the 1930s that applied aerodynamic styling — teardrops, speed lines, and rounded corners — to everything from locomotives and automobiles to refrigerators and buildings.
- [Ten Principles of Good Design](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/ten-principles-of-good-design/): Dieter Rams' ten principles define what makes a design good, from usefulness and honesty to environmental responsibility and minimalism.

## Transportation

- [Volkswagen Beetle](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/glossary/vw-beetle/): Ferdinand Porsche's 1938 people's car — the best-selling single-platform automobile in history, whose rounded, functional form and mass-market ambition made it a defining object of mid-century industrial design.

## Learning paths

- [Introduction to Industrial Design](https://encyclopedia.mahanrasouli.com/learn/introduction-to-industrial-design/): A guided tour of the people, principles, and products that defined industrial design — told through five interconnected entries.

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