What is industrial design all about am how it connects with textile technology

Industrial Design is more of what is made from the industry. Say, automobiles, products, applicances, etc. The term "Industrial Design" is very broad and you can say more specifically what field. Say "Automobile Design". This one focuses on automobiles and related motorized vehicles such as trucks, vans, SUVs, even motorcycles. Product Design is you design things like computer (the shell part as I call that or hardware, not the software or boards in the computers--they are part of Electrical Design or Computer Engineering). Another example of Product Design is say, your flashlight. That is very simple part. The Mechanical Engineer who test the flashlight designed the componets in the flashlight such as wires, light bulb, the beam part, how it shines, things like that.

Designers do work with two other departments: Drafters and Engineers although now Drafters these days are merging into Engineers by trim out Drafters or CAD Drafters they use these days. Designers like myself use more of creativity part as Drafters draw out dimensions from renderings Designers illustrate.

You want to know more what Industrial Design is all about, check websites like core77 and cardesignnews and they can show you their work. Not to forget to mention coroflot. That is another Industrial Design website.

I forgot... how it relate to Texile Industry.. Say, again for automobiles, cars need seats for the drivers and passengers and cargo to sit in. They are pretty much common there. In Automobile Industry, they do have Interior Designers working with Automobile Designers to choose fabrics, materials, and colors in automobiles. Very good example was in 1950's, Harley Earl who was the VP of Design at GM Design Department, hired Female Interior Designers and they choose brightly colored (Whites, Fire Reds, and Yellows Hues) and pastal colors (Yellow, Greens, Baby Blues) because they are more toward Feminine. Product Designers usually looked up at Automobile Industry for trends and they all followed suit with the colors. Automobiles got darker after Earl retired and Bill Mitchell fired the Female Designers and replaced with Designers who were Male and had macho colors (Brown, Greens, Tans, etc). Today, automobiles colors are more neutral gender (Blacks and Grays)