Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design
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Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design is a product-design manufacturing reference for students, designers, and educators who need to understand how production methods relate to the objects they develop. Written by Chris Lefteri, the book focuses on manufacturing techniques and their bearing on design choices, providing a framework for thinking about how materials, processes, form, and function interact. For industrial design students, this connection is central: a concept has to be considered not only as an image or model, but also in relation to how it could be made, assembled, used, and evaluated. The book is relevant to coursework that links visual exploration with technical and production considerations.
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Students can use the reference while researching processes, comparing possible approaches, or preparing a project for critique. It encourages practical questions about what a chosen method means for a product's geometry, surface, construction, and intended use, without implying that one technique is right for every brief. Read alongside studio work, it can help connect material and process research to clear design decisions and make manufacturing considerations part of development rather than a final afterthought. Its practical value is as a desk-side resource for building process awareness, supporting discussions with technical collaborators, and explaining the reasoning behind a product proposal.
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