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Industrial Design - New Frontiers
Edited by Denis A. Coelho, ISBN 978-953-307-622-5, Hard cover, 190 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: November 09, 2011 under CC BY 3.0 license, in subject Technology
DOI: 10.5772/849
A new breed of modern designers is on the way. These non-traditional industrial designers work across disciplines, understand human beings, as well as business and technology thus bridging the gap between customer needs and technological advancement of tomorrow. This book uncovers prospective designer techniques and methods of a new age of industrial design, whose practitioners strive to construct simple and yet complex products of the future. The novel frontiers of a new era of industrial design are exposed, in what concerns the design process, in illustrating the use of new technologies in design and in terms of the advancement of culturally inspired design. The diverse perspectives taken by the authors of this book ensure stimulating reading and will assist readers in leaping forward in their own practice of industrial design, and in preparing new research that is relevant and aligned with the current challenges of this fascinating field.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1Technology as a Determinant of Object Shape
- Chapter 2Knowledge-Based Engineering Supporting Die Face Design of Automotive Panels
- Chapter 3Product Instructions in the Digital Age
- Chapter 4Culturally Inspired Design: Product Personalities to Capture Cultural Aspects
- Chapter 5Culturally Inspired Design Education: A Nigerian Case Study
- Chapter 6Biologically Inspired Design: Methods and Validation
- Chapter 7Product Design with Embodiment Design as a New Perspective
- Chapter 8Designing Disruptive Innovative Systems, Products and Services: RTD Process
- Chapter 9TRIZ-Based Design of Rapid 3D Modelling Techniques with Formative Manufacturing Processes
