Product Design

Editor/Author Milton, Alex and Rodgers, Paul
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Laurence King

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-85-669751-4
Category: Technology & Engineering - Engineering
Book Status: Available
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Product Design offers a broad and comprehensive introduction to the field of product design and the key role of product designers. It follows through all the stages and activities involved in the creation of a new product -- from concept design to manufacture, prototyping to marketing.

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Table of 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: 1750s to 1850s
  • The Great Reform movements: 1850s to 1914
  • Modernism to pre-war luxury and power: 1900s to 1945
  • The post-war period: 1945 to 1970s
  • Post-Modernism: 1970s 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