🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

diseño radical

Pronunciation / Transliteration: di-se-ño ra-di-kal

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Radical design/ˈræd.ɪ.kəl dɪˈzaɪn/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La empresa apostó por un diseño radical para su nuevo producto."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An innovative approach to creation and planning that breaks entirely with traditional conventions to rethink products, systems, or architecture from their fundamental roots.

    "The architecture firm employed a radical-design methodology to achieve net-zero energy consumption."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Characterized by fundamental, sweeping departures from conventional styles or methodologies.

    "The new smartphone features a radical-design interface that eliminates physical buttons entirely."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'radical', derived from the Latin 'radix' meaning root (via Late Latin 'radicalis'), entering English in the 14th century to signify fundamental or thorough change, and 'design', from the Latin 'designare' meaning to mark out or designate. In modern discourse, 'radical design' emerged through architectural and industrial design movements in the 20th century, particularly associated with avant-garde Italian design groups of the 1960s and 70s that challenged conventional aesthetics and functionalism.

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