Product design
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 exp...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Laurence King Pub
2011.
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| Edición: | [Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Colección: | Portfolio (Laurence King Publishing)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628837906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
