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Product design / Paul Rodgers and Alex Milton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodgers, Paul.
- Series:
- Portfolio (Laurence King Publishing)
- Portfolio
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Product design.
- Commercial products.
- Industrial design--History.
- Industrial design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- [Enhanced Credo edition]
- Place of Publication:
- London : Laurence King Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Product Design offers a broad and comprehensive introduction to the field of product design and the key role of product designers. Following through all the stages and activities involved in the creation of a new product from concept design to manufacture, prototyping to marketing this book also explores the diverse nature of product design, including new and emerging forms of practice.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- What is product design?
- What does a product designer do?
- Creating a product
- The main stages of product design
- Interview: Julia Lohmann
- About this book
- 1. Historical and cultural context
- The Industrial Revolution: 1750's to 1850's
- The Great Reform movements: 1850's to 1914
- Modernism to pre-war luxury and power: 1900's to 1945
- The post-war period: 1945 to 1970's
- Post-Modernism: 1970's to present day
- Interview: Satyendra Pakhalé
- Emerging twenty-first century design trends
- 2. Research, brief, and specification
- Product design research
- Research methods
- The brief
- Identifying customer wants, needs and demands
- Interview: Stuart Haygarth
- The Product Design Specification (PDS)
- Common elements of the PDS
- 3. Concept design
- What is a concept design?
- Concept generation
- Concept generation methods
- Drawing techniques for product design
- Technical drawing
- Interview: Nendo
- Modelling
- Prototyping
- Concept evaluation and selection
- 4. From manufacture to market
- Detail design
- Design and manufacture
- Common materials
- Manufacturing processes
- Interview: Raw-Edges Design Studio
- Marketing and selling
- 5. Contemporary issues
- Green issues
- Interview: Max Lamb
- Ethical issues
- Universal design
- Emotional design
- 6. Design education and beyond
- Studying product design
- Design rights
- Interview: Tim Brown, IDEO
- Developing your design skills
- Engaging with industry
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Further resources
- Useful addresses
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785391668
- 1785391666
- 9781780670850
- 1780670850
- OCLC:
- 908338230
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