“工业造型设计”在我国还称为“工业设计”、“工业产品造型设计”、“工业美术”、“技术美学与艺术造型”、“工程美学”等。名词的不统一,反映了“工业造型设计”在我国还是一门尚未为人们深入了解的新兴边缘学科,以致在名词本身上也未及完全统一起来。人们在理解上还往往偏重注意“美术”、“美学”、“艺术”等字眼,甚至把“工 “Industrial design” is also called “industrial design”, “industrial design and design”, “industrial art”, “technical aesthetics and artistic modeling”, and “engineering aesthetics” in our country. The inconsistency of the nouns reflects that “industrial modeling and design” is still an emerging marginal discipline that has not yet been thoroughly understood by the people in China, so that the noun itself has not been completely unified. People also tend to pay attention to the words “art”, “esthetics”, “art” and even “work” in their understanding.