Materials for inspirational design: ceramics

Exploring the myriad possibilities of materials for today's designers, each book in the series "Materials for inspirational design" introduces the properties of a material and demonstrates some of its extraordinary possibilities.

This title on ceramics includes gorgeous images of classic and new products and applications combined with solid technical information and practical advice. It introduces a wide range of ceramic materials, concentrating not on the predictable craft areas but the more advanced and surprising applications of interest to professional designers.

Featured items are basins and toilets, scissors and knives, heat protection tiles as used on space shuttles, composites, conductive and wearable materials and advanced building components.

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Subject(s)Design and technology
Author(s)Chris Lefteri
Age14-16
Published2003
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Shelf reference745.4 MAT
ISN/ISBN9782880466688
Direct URLhttps://www-dev.stem.org.uk/x8tuv

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