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| Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Lefteri
Publisher: Laurence King Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 18562
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1856695069
Dewey Decimal Number: 670
EAN: 9781856695060
ASIN: 1856695069
Publication Date: June 28, 2007
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Product Description
There are many different ways in which a product can be manufactured, but most designers probably know only a handful of techniques in any detail. Using contemporary design as a vehicle to describe production processes, this book covers a broad range of almost 90 production methods with descriptive text, specially commissioned diagrams, product shots, and photographs of the manufacturing process. It will appeal not only to product designers involved in lighting, consumer electronics, packaging, domestic accessories and tableware, but also to interior designers, furniture and graphic designers who need access to a range of production methods, as well as to all students of design.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
Great book October 21, 2008
The book is great for people who are interested (or involved) in the manufacturing or production of goods. As an Industrial Designer, I'm taught a lot of the processes, but it's still great to have a book like this one handy for any project.
However, it does not delve very deep into each process, instead it gives a brief 1-2 page summary of each method. The part that I like, however, is that it includes things like the suggested appropriate quantity of production for each process, as well as the pros and cons of each.
Awesome, a top buy September 22, 2008
I bought this book from Swipe Books in Toronto because I actually got the chance to read through it and I saw how awesome it was. When I got back to Australia it got to the stage where so many people were borrowing "Making It" from me that I've bought them all their own copies. It's an awesome book, an unbelievable snap shot on every type of manufacturing process out there and why you would use one instead of another. For anyone studying or in ID, just buy it, you won't regret it and will no doubt have to buy your mates a copy because you get sick of them borrowing it too.
great book!! August 16, 2008
this is an excellent book, it has good pictures and images that describe step by step all the processes.
A good refererence catalog for manufacturing processes June 28, 2008
A catalog of processes is essentially what this book is. It's broken into 7 process sections: Cut from Solid, Sheet, Continuous, Thin & Hollow, Into Solid, Complex and Advanced. Each section has from 6-20 subset processes, eg, 'Cut From Solid' includes CNC machining, Turning, etc., 'Into Solid' has Forging, Sintering, 'Thin and Hollow' processes such as Blow Molding, Filament Winding, etc. The range of processes seems quite comprehensive and includes some I'd never heard of before such as Inflating Metal under the Sheet section, which is basically using air to inflate sheets of metal in a mold.
Each process is typically described in 2-3 pages and follows a common layout. There's a picture of a typical item produced, some text describing the process, and an information section which includes economic production volume, type of surface and finish, and the typical sizes and tolerances of parts produced. This is followed by a '+' and '-' list of advantages and disadvantages of the particular process.
A Further Information section on each process lists web addresses of manufacturers who supply the process and/or provide more information on it. This is a great resource, but you do wonder--given the fluidity of the web--how long some of these addresses will be viable.
For the price this book is a great catalog of many of the manufacturing processes available. It doesn't go into any detail on how to design for the process (as a designer) or make it function (as a machinist/manufacturer), but it's a great reference as an overview of available processes, their benefits and limitations, and where to go to get more information.
An excellent book April 19, 2008
I am a 1st year student in an industrial design dept. the book really gives a wide review over production methods and in a very elegant non-exhaustive way. It maps the methods of production and gives cross-refrences that describes a reliable picture of the industrial processes and their characteristics. In conclusion - analitic and kind. highly recomended.
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