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| Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals | 
 enlarge | Author: Rob Thompson
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
List Price: $95.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 73880
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.7
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 8.9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0500513759
Dewey Decimal Number: 670
EAN: 9780500513750
ASIN: 0500513759
Publication Date: November 30, 2007
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Product Description
An encyclopaedic guide to production techniques and materials for product and industrial designers, engineers, and architects.
Today's product designers are presented with a myriad of choices when creating their work and preparing it for manufacture. They have to be knowledgeable about a vast repertoire of processes, ranging from what used to be known as traditional "crafts" to the latest technology, to enable their designs to be manufactured effectively and efficiently. Information on the internet about such processes is often unreliable, and search engines do not usefully organize material for designers.
This fundamental new resource explores innovative production techniques and materials that are having an impact on the design industry worldwide. Organized into four easily referenced parts?Forming, Cutting, Joining, and Finishing?over seventy manufacturing processes are explained in depth with full technical descriptions; analyses of the typical applications, design opportunities, and considerations each process offers; and information on cost, speed, and environmental impact. The accompanying step-by-step case studies look at a product or component being manufactured at a leading international supplier.
A directory of more than fifty materials includes a detailed technical profile, images of typical applications and finishes, and an overview of each material's design characteristics. With some 1,200 color photographs and technical illustrations, specially commissioned for this book, this is the definitive reference for product designers, 3D designers, engineers, and architects who need a convenient, highly accessible, and practical reference.
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Excellent book, feel like reading a magazine rather than a text book. September 18, 2008
This book give a great overview (not in detail) of many manufacturing process with lots of case studies. For me, it felt like reading a magazine, which keep me excite every time I read it.
Great book September 1, 2008
This is an excellent book for designers, well worth buying. It is a great reference guide for all material manufacturing processes, highlighted by colorful photos of processes and products. Over all it is awesome and I've found it very useful.
Another great book that has a bit more on material properties and useful stats is Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design. These two books make an unbeatable combo.
The best ever! June 27, 2008
About time someone made a book this good! Most of the other books on the subject are incomplete, out-of-date, or just plain butt-ugly. This is the new standard! In fact, I just recommended it to the department chair at the design school where I teach, so we can make this part of the curriculum. I give it six out of five stars.
Attractive and complete overview of production techniques April 18, 2008
This is the best book I've seen so far about this subject. Attractive for (industrial) design students, but also for professionals. Very good graphics, photography and printing quality. The choice of examples is not too technical -mostly consumer products- and therefore recognizable for designers. Low price for such quality, the only disadvantage is that with 2,6 kg the book is not easy to carry!
Best book I've seen on the subject February 23, 2008
It is an excellent book on manufacturing processes and materials. Not overbearingly technical, just the right thing for designers. A step in the right direction, like Ashby and Johnson's book Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design
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