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Product design has helped define the culture of the 20th century. This text invites 30 designers to discuss their work, the creative process and their vision of the future. Each chapter includes personal and...
Nuffield Design & Technology 14-16 provides ideal preparation for excellent results at GCSE. The course is divided into four specialist areas: Food Technology; Product; Design; Electronic Products and Textiles....
Product Design offers a broad and comprehensive introduction to the field of product design and the key role of product designers. Following through all the stages and activities involved in the creation of a new...
Product Design (Resistant Materials)
A Nuffield design hexagon task focusing on product design (using resistant materials). Aiming to extend understanding of how to evaluate a design by thinking how it affects people and whether it performs as expected.
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Product Design and Mass Manufacture Design Optimization
This film clip introduces design optimisation and meeting a design brief. Chris Althorpe, a Senior Designer, was asked to design a highly attractive, small, market leading, multi-functional peak flow meter. Form and function were not the only requirements in the client’s brief. It also needed to be manufactured...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest...
Product Design and Sustainability
A presentation to support a project to design and make a useful item that incorporates throwaway materials.
This project, designed for 14-16 year olds, builds upon the previous age group's project, but its resources focus on each of the subject areas and provide students with a more in-depth study of these. This element shows pupils how to design and make products for lighting, seating, automata, toys and games, body...
Product Design, Testing and Modification: Trunki
This film clip looks at the British Safety Standards that had to be met by the ‘Trunki’ – a ride-on suitcase for children. The suitcase has to undergo the same tests which would be used for a bike, including the curb test. This involves placing a 50Kg weight onto the case and then swinging it into a curb edge at...