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Design Basics

From Ideas to Products
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Design Basics provides a professional yet concise introduction to industrial design, crafted by experts with extensive experience as product designers and educators. The book addresses the diverse interests of consumers, manufacturers, and designers, and covers all aspects of planning and designing industrial products. It explores historical roots and future outlooks, product functionality, the complex design process, theoretical foundations, and practical case studies.
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Ideal for inquisitive readers, committed entrepreneurs, technicians, and aspiring designers from various disciplines seeking a thorough understanding of product design.

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A professional yet compact introduction to industrial design, written by specialists in the field with years of experience.

A concise introduction to industrial design, written by an insider of the design industry with description of processes and product functions.

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Design Basics offers a professional yet compact introduction to industrial design, written by specialists in the field with years of experience as product designers and design educators at various universities. The book is aimed at enquiring users as well as committed entrepreneurs, interested technicians, and aspiring designers from a great variety of fields.

The central theme is product design, taking the conflicting interests of consumers, manufacturers, and designers into consideration. All factors of planning and design of industrial products are considered and presented clearly. The authors cover the entire fieldโ€”from the historical roots to the outlook in the near future, from a comprehensive look at product functions to analysis of the complex design process, from theoretical foundations to descriptive case studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783721209884

Publisher: Niggli Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 August 2019

Country: Switzerland

Imprint: Niggli Verlag

Illustration: 400 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 244

About the Author

Gerhard Heufler (1944-2013) was an Austrian industrial designer and co-founder of the degree program Industrial Design at the FH JOANNEUM in Graz. He received numerous national prizes for design. Michael Lanz , born in 1965, is one of the three directors of the strategic design con - sulting agency designaffairs GmbH. Since 2014 he has been head of the Institute for Product and Transportation Design at the FH JOANNEUM in Graz. Martin Prettenthaler , born in 1969, is free - lance designer and architect, and teaches at the degree program Industrial Design of the FH JOANNEUM. He organizes exhibi - tions and symposiums on the topic design.

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