VNIITE

VNIITE (Russian: ВНИИТЭ), named after the acronym for the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Industrial Design (Russian: Всероссийский научно-исследовательский институт технической эстетики), was the chief Soviet design research institute, established in April 1962, and closed in June 2013.

[3] Large design offices (of 50 to 200 employees) were attached to the main industries, and other 200 smaller laboratories worked with individual factories.

[4] These initial concepts were for the most part directed towards industrial equipment, office furniture, transportation, and some consumer goods.

From 1964 on, the VNIITE produced its own magazine, called Technical Aesthetics (a term invented in Russia to speak about industrial design).

From the mid-1970s, the institute focused on a greater integration with the economies of the Eastern Bloc countries, and in particular with East Germany and Czechoslovakia.