This course is designed as a must course for the second year industrial design students. The first part of the series, which is offered each year within the spring semester, covers mainly the time period from the 19th century industrial revolution until about the years between the two world wars. The main objective of the course is to develop a perspective on the historical concepts and significant issues related to design and industrial design. Particularly, change, transition and transformation occupy the agenda of the course as formative keywords; for the social and cultural domains of human life underwent a considerable transformation within the changing economic and production relations through the course of the 19th century industrial revolution. This opened a niche for the emergence of “industrial design” as a recognized profession later in the 20th century, which, during the 20th century, became an indispensable part of industrial; more a proper term, post-industrial, socio-technological and consumer culture in the West. Furthermore, this situation is gradually becoming similar for Turkey. As a candidate industrial designer, to reflect upon these issues will eventually help to place the role of oneself generally within the technological and consumer culture of today’s system of industrial, economic and social relations.