This book was a nice, designerly overview of production techniques. That point doesn't seem to be well communicated anywhere else that I've seen.more I just want to get across that for MOST people, this will only be a reference book. But that is a very limited application.įor personal or small businesses, it is merely informative of many processes that you will never be able to afford.
If you had a college class where the professor said "you have to design this factory from the ground up to make these types of products, what machines/processes would you select?" Then this book would be useful.
If you were teaching a class or lecture on the *theoretical* number of ways to produce a certain part or geometry, then this book would be an asset. It seemed to be glossed over in this book. I find this particularly odd, since some of these processes can be done in your garage or back yard for cheap, and others would probably cost millions to setup and are only available to massive industrial manufacturers. Or have several ideas of options that the designer could have used. If you read it back to front, you should be able to look at any object, commercial or industrial, civilian or military, and have a pretty good idea of what type of process was used to make it. Pictures are useful and the book makes good use of color and font to communicate meaning. The drawings and diagrams are good they have a nice hand-drawn feel to them and are not too stiff like many unreadable blueprints and 3-views are. It breaks down families of manufacturing processes, and within those families has a 2-3 page overview of the process, listing pros, cons, uses, compatible materials, constraints, types of products made with it, speed, complexity, scalability, tolerances, unit volume, and interestingly waste/sustainability. It's not readable from front to back as it has no narrative. The drawings and diagrams are good they have a nice hand-drawn fe Consider this a reference book.
Thanks to the author for organizing so much so well.moreĬonsider this a reference book. This book will help me reconnect with the ways we build our modern world. We have grown too far from knowing how things work. Readable for a layperson, and the kind of book I love to memorize, as it opens up a whole new world of wonder. It organizes techniques by high level category, introduced many methods I had never used, or seen in industry, and provides pros and cons for each. Lathing (in the cut from block section), blown film (continuous manufacturing), thermoforming, and on. We have grown too far from knowing how things wo How do I explain this book? It's just a compendium of the different ways to make things. How do I explain this book? It's just a compendium of the different ways to make things. It will appeal not only to product designers involved in lighting, consumer electronics, packaging, domestic accessories and tableware, but also to interior designers, furniture and graphic designers who need access to a range of production methods, as well as to all students of design.more Using contemporary design as a vehicle to describe production processes, this book covers a broad range of almost 90 production methods with descriptive text, specially commissioned diagrams, product shots, and photographs of the manufacturing process. Using contemporary design as a vehicle to describe production processes, this book covers a broad range of almost 90 production methods with descriptive text, specially commissioned diagrams, product shots, and photographs of th There are many different ways in which a product can be manufactured, but most designers probably know only a handful of techniques in any detail. There are many different ways in which a product can be manufactured, but most designers probably know only a handful of techniques in any detail.
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