Materials and design : the art and science of material selection in product design /
"This book explores the role of materials and manufacturing in product design. We have placed particular emphasis on how the materiality of an object (what it is made of and how it is made) can be manipulated to create aesthetics and functionality of a product. We are equally concerned with iss...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann,
2010.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Function and personality
- What influences product design?
- Design and designing
- The stuff ... multi-dimensional materials
- Other stuff ... shaping, joining and surfaces
- Form follows material
- A structure for material selection
- Case studies in materials and design
- New materials
- the potential for innovation
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Exercises for the eye and mind
- Selected material maps
- A practical reference for inspiration
- Material profiles
- Shaping profiles
- Joining profiles
- Surface profiles.