Materials for Product Design

A topic within Product & Industrial Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.

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Paper2009

Influence of Stakeholders on Industrial Design Materials and Manufacturing Selection

Owain Pedgley

Argues from studio fieldwork that a product's materials and manufacturing processes are chosen through negotiation among designers, engineers and clients rather than by the designer's technical judgement alone, and maps who actually holds that influence.

Design · Product & Industrial Design

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Paper2015

Material Driven Design (MDD): A Method to Design for Material Experience

Elvin Karana, Bahar Barati, Valentina Rognoli & Anna Zeeuw van der Laan

Argues that a material's sensorial and technical properties should be the starting point of product design rather than a late engineering substitution, and proposes a four-step method for designing the experiences and meanings a material evokes.

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Design · Product & Industrial Design

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Reading on Materials for Product Design

Influence of Stakeholders on Industrial Design Materials and Manufacturing Selection

Material Driven Design (MDD): A Method to Design for Material Experience

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