The links below offer online access to academic, commercial and government sites with information on aspects of industrial design or product design. Some of the sites are quite large and offer long lists of links to other sites related to a specific subject.
General Industrial Design Sites
- Business Week Annual Design awards In search box, type "design awards".
- CORE77 Site with many links, including jobs
- Corporate Design Foundation
- European Design Centre
- International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) with calendar of congresses and competitions
- Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
- UIAH (University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki)
- Yahoo Directory: Industrial Design
- Green Design Initiative (Carnegie Mellon)
- Environmental Working Group Advocacy organization
- Metropolis Many links and articles on sustainability and community
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- Recycler's World
- U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ergonomics and Universal Design
- Adaptive Environments Center Home Page
- Bad Human Factors Designs
- The Center for Universal Design (North Carolina State University)
- Design for Ageing Networkfrom Netherlands Design Institute
- Designing a More Usable World (Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Ergoweb, Inc. A large site with many links, bibliographies, conferences, egonomics journal contents page
- ASM Materials Properties
- Design inSite: Smart Materials by the Danish Design Foundation
- SABIC Innovative Plastics
- Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century timelines in 20 categories, by National Academy of Engineering
- HowStuffWorks.com
- Interpack.Net global packaging search engine
- Inventors' Digest online journal of United Inventors Association
- Materials Science & Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Medical Design Technology online trade journal
- PDM Information Center for product data management
- Cahner's Product Design and Development with online newsletter Product Alert
- Thomas Register