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Choosing Sustainable Materials
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Designing with Recycled Materials
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How Alessi, Postmodernism and Memphis Changed the World
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Product Design & Mass Manufacture: Design Optimization
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Product Design, Testing and Modification: Trunki
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This DVD examines the properties, characteristics and applications of some of the smart materials used in the graphics industry. Case studies include labels and packa... |
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Sustainable Design (Volvo): Life Cycle Assessment
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Volvo: Designing for Innovation and Safety
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This programme gets students thinking
about the 6Rs and what makes a material sustainable, including its
carbon footprint, whether it's sourced from renewable or recycled
materials and what happens at “en...
Learn how to create products that meet
user need and are inclusive. Designers explain how they: research
their market; consider the values and needs of their users and work
with ergonomic and anthropometri...
This resource looks at why and how
specific plastics are recycled, regenerated and tested to fulfil the
required characteristics for modern sustainable products. Includes:
a chair made from Sony Playstat...
A guide through the sometimes diverse
ideas, designs and innovations that developed during the postmodern
era. Includes footage filmed at the Alessi factory and museum and
other...
Explore the ideas, materials, colours
and technologies adopted by Pop Art. Then examine how this movement
created new images, shapes and forms that continue to influence
artists...
Explains the design process within one
easy context, from client brief to finished product. It shows how
designers; work to budget, meet consumer needs, research existing
products and use primary and seco...
Designing products that meet rigorous safety standards is an increasingly important skill – especially when it comes to products used by children. Trunki, the child’s pull along suitcase, may have ...
Due for release June 2012
With extraordinary access to the latest
research and development, this resource explores cutting edge smart
materials finding out how they are made, how they work and what their
potenti...
This programme provides a thorough
insight into how industry is adapting its design and manufacturing
methods to consider social, moral and ethical implications. It
demonstrates how Volvo are: eliminatin...
This DVD explores what the food
industry is doing to use less packaging. First it looks at the role
and function of packaging. It then looks at the challenges of
designing reduced packaging that not only ...
A fantastic way to bring real and
relevant industrial design into the classroom illustrating some of
the considerations designers have to take into account. Footage of
physical and virtual tests, filmed at ...
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