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Brief Introduction to Industrial Design Aesthetics 　　中图分类号:TB47 B832.1 文献标识码:A文章编号:1673-0992(2009)12-100-02 　　Abstract:The paper proposes the idea that in the primary stage of industrial product design, the aesthetic nature of the product should be grasped. In addition, the paper poses two questions about aesthetic nature industrial design: first, what is the object of industrial design aesthetics? Second, what are the characteristics of design aesthetics of industrial products? 　　Key words: industrial design, aesthetics 　　 　　As an emerging subject, industrial design aesthetics started to flourish after the Second World War. It first appeared in UK, and then spread across the whole Europe, and then to US and Japan. Unlike traditional aesthetics, industrial design aesthetics goes beyond philosophical abstract discussion, and centers on the practical field of industrial production, operation, construction and management, etc, dealing with laws of product design aesthetics of the industrial sector. To understand what product design aesthetics is, we first need to understand what industrial product design is. 　　As we all know, design is an inter-disciplinary subject which involves many aspects such as society, culture, economy, market and technology, and the aesthetics standards also vary with changes of these aspects. 　　In 1983, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design defined the industrial designer as follows: 揳n industrial designer is one who is qualified by training, technicall knowledge, experience and visual sensibility to determine the materials, mechanisms, shape, colour, surface finishes and decoration of objects which are reproduced in quantity by industrial processes.” 　　1. Object of industrial product design aesthetics research 　　Each discipline has its own object of research so that it can become an independent branch of science, so does industrial design aesthetics. The focus of industrial design aesthetics research is, of