Mass Produced Object of Industrial Design

 

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Designs, such as spoons, have been mass produced all over the hardware industries. Although mass production gives us the idea that every object is identical, there are various objects of the same type with different designs that aim to achieve a specific goal. Some designers, for example, create spoons just for utility purposes, while others seek ways to incorporate visual effects into the utility itself. In considering its purpose, design usually involves the variety of shape and form that gives the difference in spoons we see today.

Almost everything we see exhibits a shape, or form. Shapes and designs of spoons can range in various forms depending on the designer. It can be fancy, or it can be something as simple as the spoon in the left picture above. This spoon has a simple handle with no given fancy designs, while every bowl of spoons is shaped into a three-dimensional semi-circle. Although spoons are mass produced hardware, it can come in many different sizes and designs, such as the spoons in the right image, which exhibits a bowl ranging from ovals with sharp tips, curved tips, or wavy edges. The tips of the handle are also incorporated with design to produce a visual effect that makes it different from all the ordinary spoons. Whatever their designs are, all spoons are curved at the bottom to serve the purpose of a scooping utility.

In industrial designing, proportion and balance are usually incorporated because the designer not only goes for how the object will look, but also how well it functions. The size and shapes of spoons are what they are because designers consider the convenience of its use when designing it. Different sized spoons are created either for the different hand sizes or for the purpose of scooping different sized food. The bowls of the spoon all exhibit a roundish shape because that would best fit into our mouths comfortably. From narrow to wide spoon handles, large to small bowls of the spoon, the designer considers all aspects of its use to design something that will be efficient and comfortable to the consumer when it’s being used.

Different designs in mass production bring out the uniqueness of each spoon, whether designed to achieve fanciness or simplicity. Differences in forms of industrial designs are created to improve the daily lives of people as designers constantly look for ways to enhance an ordinary idea for the benefit of their consumers. Design is about people, and so one way designers connect to society is by thinking of designing things that will satisfy the people.