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Design Image classification

A. Architecture
C. Cartography
D. Decorative arts
G. Graphic design
H. Photographic arts
I. Industrial design
L. Landscape architecture
P. Painting & drawing
S. Sculpture
T. Textile & fiber arts
Z. Materials, concepts & sets

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Design Library Images Collection (Pennell-Kuhn) classification

  Class I. Industrial design

Constructing the call number

First line
  Region/Culture
  Period (Gross)
  [Place of origin] (country only [present boundaries])
Second line
  [Designer]
  Type of work
Third line
  Title of work
Fourth line
  [Date]
  [View]

Type of work

a Individual-use tools hand tools, electric tools
b Industrial equipment sewing machines, lathes, manufacturing equipment
c Transportation trucks, cars, aircraft, boats, rolling stock, light rail, trains
d Farm equipment harvesters, tractors, plows, milking machines
e Consumer electronics televisions, stereos, radio, VCR, PlayStation, WebTV
f Consumer goods staplers, tape dispensers
g Domestic appliances refrigerators, microwave ovens, sewing machines, white goods
h Housewares tableware, flatware, vases
j Furnishings lamps, coatracks, wineracks
k Furniture chairs, tables, workstations, armoires
m Medical equipment wheelchairs, adjustable beds, MRI equipment, radiography units, bed pans, monitoring devices
n Toys Lego, teddy bears, Barbie
o Sports equipment shoes, rackets, balls, clothes
p Computers iMac, notebook computers, virtual reality equipment
q Packaging boxes, containers
u Universal design
z Exhibition design (3D) trade shows, museums, structures

Examples

iBm-US
T76k
A86		 Trotman, Bob.
Atomic chair
mahogany, walnut, maple		 iBm-US
B74k
C47		 Breuer, Marcel
Cesca armchair
steel and upholstery