The history of man is recorded, recovered and remembered through the
designs he created and the materials he used. Materials are the stuff
of design, and today is not the age of just one material, but of an
immense range.
Best selling author M. F. Ashby guides the reader through the process
of selecting materials on the basis of their design suitability. He
and co-author Kara Johnson begin with the assumption that products in
a given market sector have little to distinguish between them in
either performance or cost. When many technically near-equivalent
products compete, market share is won or lost by the industrial design
of a product: its visual and tactile attributes, the associations it
carries, the image it creates in the consumer's mind and the quality
of its interface with the use and the environment.
Ashby and Johnson address the problem of selecting materials for
industrial design from a unique viewpoint. They acknowledge that
materials have two overlapping roles, in technical design and in
industrial design. The technical designer has ready access to
materials information. Industrial designers often do not have
equivalent support.
Materials Selection in Industrial Design presents groundbreaking new
information that, on one hand introduces engineering students to the
principles of Industrial Design and to the idea that the selection of
materials can directly affect the aesthetic qualities of the object.
On the other hand they introduce industrial design students and
practising industrial designers to engineering parameters through an
accessible and holistic approach.
* Easy to use systematic approach to the selection and uses of
materials
* Many excellent attribute "maps" are included which enable complex
comparative information to be readily grasped
* Full colour photographs and illustrations throughout aid the
understanding of concepts
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ISBN
9780750655545
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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