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Philippine Industrial Design's Steady GrowthThe creative industries have long been an unrecognized force in the national economy and in nation-building.
Industrial design is a little-known discipline within the scope of the creative industries, a profession with two aspects.
One aspect is communications design, which covers exhibition and spatial design, graphics, environment, packaging and photography.
The other aspect is product design, which includes the design of tools, agricultural and medical equipment, products, furniture, gifts, and houseware.
Unlike the single, one-of-a-kind works of fine art produced by painters and sculptors, the industrial designer's output is utilitarian and commercial.
Designs are not meant to be works of art or hand-crafted objects but are utilitarian objects designed for mass production and commercial distribution.
The Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines (PDDCP), organized in the early 1970s by the Philippine government, was charged with reviving vanishing crafts and improving the quality and competitiveness of Philippine export products.
To be able to implement its mandate, the agency pioneered the industrial design profession in the Philippines, eventually establishing professional degree courses at Mapua Institute of Technology, Philippine Womens' University, La Consolacion College (Bacolod),
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