Industrial Design Techniques and Materials

Name: Industrial Design Techniques and Materials
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ISBN: 9782080305190

ISBN-10: 2080305190

ISBN-13: 9782080305190

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jean-Baptiste Toulard, Jean Grenier, Raymond Guidot, Jean-Jacques Salomon

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This comprehensive work traces the history of design materials, from the origins of mass production during the Industrial Revolution to contemporary use of wood, metals, and synthetics as well as their potential applications for the future. This exhaustive reference covers late nineteenth-century design implications, contemporary design materials and their uses, and design trends-from the influences of information technology on design conception to ecological design considerations. Raymond Guidot (editor), an eminent design theorist, has organized exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou's Center for Industrial Creation and he has written and contributed to numerous books and exhibition…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Flammarion et Cie
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



A Brief History



Distant Past and New Materials


Military Advances in Peacetime


Groundbreaking Materials


United They Stand: The Strength of Composite Materials


The Virtual in a Material World


Towards Ecological Design


From Materials to Design



Natural Materials


Minerals


Metals


The Uncertainties of Research


Shape Memory Materials


Plastics


Composite Materials


Polymer Nanocomposites


A Word About Stock-Removal Technique


So Which Materials Should We Choose?


Digital Material



The Computer in the Service of the Designer


The Digital Image in the Search for a Cultural Identity


Slot Machines


Interactivity


The Designer in the Service of Computing: First, the Box...


...Then Software Design, the Art of the Interface, and the Icon


Digital Material


Silicon, a New Raw Material?


Ecology Sells



The Era of Industrial Design


A Time of Questioning


The Paradigm of New Materials


Appendices


Biographies


Selective Bibliography


Index