The Good Form. Digitization and indexing of outstanding photographs on product design 1950-1990

该项目旨在索引与设计历史高度相关的德国设计委员会的历史档案，并将其发布到网上。这些是20世纪下半叶德国和国际产品设计的重要照片。该摄影集内容高度丰富，全面展现了20世纪50年代至80年代的消费世界和生活世界，聚焦战后现代性，是一个独特的、保存独特的设计档案，用于出版和教学。系统地收集了典型工业产品的照片，重点是德国，但也考虑到国际制造商。该档案丰富了有关图片内容的背景信息以及照片的使用历史。物品的范围从日用消费品部门的日常用品，如餐具和陶器，到工作世界的产品，如办公机器、汽车和资本货物部门的产品。几乎所有权威设计师和公司的重要设计都记录在这个集合中，它影响了20世纪下半叶西德的产品设计。总共大约。大约20000个图片图案。在项目范围内，将处理15000个历史照片档案登记文件夹。这些录音的出版及其背景化将以可持续的方式改善相关的信息基础设施，从技术和科学的角度为正在进行或计划中的设计和艺术史研究项目提供新的动力。特别是将这些图片资源放到网上，将首次对设计与主题摄影之间的互动问题进行广泛系统的分析，例如产品设计、美学和当代产品设计的媒体舞台之间的互动。

The project is designed to index the historical archive of the German Design Council, which is highly relevant for design history, and to publish it online. These are significant photographs of German and international product design in the second half of the 20th century. The collection of photographs, which is characterized by a high degree of content, comprehensively shows the consumer and life-world of the 1950s to 1980s, focusing on post-war modernity, as a unique and uniquely preserved design archive for publication and teaching purposes. Photographs of exemplary industrial products were systematically collected, focusing on Germany but also considering international manufacturers. The archive was enriched with contextual information about the picture content as well as the utilization history of the photoprints. The spectrum of objects ranges from everyday items in the consumer goods sector, such as cutlery and crockery, to products from the working world, e.g. office machines, motorcars and products from the capital goods sector. Almost all important designs of authoritative designers and companies are documented in this collection, which influenced the product design in West Germany in the second half of the 20th century. A total of approx. 20,000 picture motifs from approx. 15,000 register folders of the historical photo archives are to be processed within the scope of the project. The publication of these recordings and their contextualization will improve the relevant information infrastructures in a sustainable way, giving new impulses to ongoing or planned design and art history research projects from a technical and scientific perspective. Making these image sources available online will in particular present extensive systematic analyzes on questions of the interaction between design and subject photography for the first time, such as the interactions between product design, aesthetics and the media staging of contemporary product design.