“This is a time when old ideas of manufacturing are being re-evaluated by the design industry and new possibilities are surfacing, which have the potential to alter dramatically the way we make, choose and consume our products,” says Chris Lefteri, industrial designer and author.Products can be manufactured in many ways, and most product designers know only a handful of techniques. This expanded 2019 edition includes six new processes and a new section on joining. With specially commissioned diagrams, case studies and photographs of manufacturing processes, Making It uses contemporary design to describe over a hundred and twenty production processes. Each process is evaluated in terms of sustainability and its effects on the environment.Spreads from Making It by Chris Lefteri“Increasingly manufacturing is seen as a tool for designing new opportunities, to bring new materials and ideas to new methods of production and to experiment with preconceived volumes of production,” Lefteri says.Making It is divided into sections based on the shapes of components that can be produced using each process.
The baptist hymnal 1991 piano edition. It provides clear and basic instructions with visuals to describe the principles of each process and the steps that are taken to produce a component. The key points are listed for each manufacturing process and the pros and cons are provided in bullet-point notes.Ideal production volumes for each process and unit price versus capital investment details are indicated. Speed of production, surface treatments, shape complexity, tolerances, relevant materials, example products, similar production methods and sustainability issues are included for each process.“ Making It is an invaluable addition to the designer’s toolbox.
A creatively stimulating and deeply informative resource for bringing ideas to life.” Tim Brown, CEO and President of IDEO.Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design Third Edition by Chris Lefteri is available at. For the first time ever in Australia, Sydney will be hosting the Enabled by Design-athon 2014 on 25–26 July. Teams of industrial designers, engineers, inventors and people with disabilities will work side-by-side.,What do you think will be the ‘game-changers’ in industrial design and product development in the next two to five years? Twenty design experts tell you what they think.,The design team behind the Ostrich Pillow has now launched a special kids’ version – Ostrich Pillow Junior.,hipKey is a keyring that helps users keep track of their valuable belongings.,© Beesting Communications Pty Ltd.
In this digital age, an encyclopedia seems downright archaic. Especially in the context of modern manufacturing techniques like EBM ('Electron Beam Machining'), where a beam of electrons bores holes denominated in tens of microns through thin materials—in a vacuum no less, because the electrons could be thrown off by air molecules (!). Into this neo-futurist world, Chris Lefteri has provided the second edition of to catalogue all of the manufacturing tools modern designers have at their disposal.
While it may be possible to find more detailed or technical information on the processes he describes, Making It stands as a robust resource for a product designer looking into a new manufacturing technique, an eye-popping compendium for a scientifically minded student, or, perhaps most valuably, as a vehicle for increasing designer awareness of new innovation in manufacturing. Designers live in a mildly cloistered world where they can concentrate on form factors with a vague awareness of parting lines and minimum thicknesses, but really leave it to the engineers to complete their visions. Making It reads like a layman's engineering primer, not a product design book. Each manufacturing technology gets its own 2–4 page spread with a glossy product shot, accompanying text, our favorite buzzword 'process shots,' and a highlighted info box of the characteristics of the technology. Lefteri chooses some wonderfully evocative products as examples: Jeroen Verhoeven's 'Cinderella Table' for the compound curves multi-axis CNC can provide or Jasper Morrison's elegant air chair produced via Gas Assisted Injection Molding. His commentary also provides some amazing/quease-inducing insights (e.g.
The 'boiled egg slices' in McDonald's salads are extruded. The only errant note to this industrial designer's eye were the hand-drawn process sketches. In all cases, the mechanics of the drawings are clear, but when Making It gets to the highly-technical Stereolithography ('SLA') process at the end, the drawing of the computer involved in the process seems laughably crude in comparison to the elegance of Arik Levy's 'Black Honey Bowel' on the opposite side of the spread. By the end of a front to back read, we imagine that there probably isn't a single designer alive aware of all of the technology contained within, especially since some of them are proprietary or held only by one manufacturer.
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Of particular note were pcPRO (Precise-Cast Prototyping) where the 'mold' is created with a CNC tool in metal and then plastic is poured into the mold, then the same CNC head mills into the plastic to create a custom 'negative' interior space according to need. Whether you're seeking to learn the subtle differences between Sintering, HIP and SIP or you'd just like to see rapid prototyping where the input is a standard sheet of printer paper (page 242), Making It should serve as a valuable resource for designers, engineers or anyone who frequents the Discovery Channel's 'How Did They Do That?' We did it, as a culture, and it's all amazing.