IDC output is the journal of the Industrial Design Centre. Man has always had to assimilate and integrate objects into his culture to maintain its continuity. His culture must also continuously create new objects and qualitatively better environments. A designer does not merely produce a good design: a good design delivers a higher standard of living. The engineer is usually concerned only about the object. This leads to certain anomalies: engineer-designed products often create friction between the object and the user. The basic concern is to harmonise the relationship between man, the user, and the products that he creates and uses. All those who forget the importance of industrial design also forget that it is the industrial designer who links the product with its user. At the industrial design centre, we are aware of the enormous task of asserting the industrial designer’s role in emerging India. If recognition of the industrial designer were delayed, we would be delaying recognition of the vital human aspects of the technological revolution. The main contents in this edition are: Editorial; Environment; Design and Man by V.N. Adarkar; An Emerging Profession – Industrial Design by S.N. Ramachandran; A City: A Machine? An Organism! Diploma Projects; Faculty Projects; Design Survey|Letter Box; People and Events by Dilip Chitre.