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Design and Technology

Design and Technology


HOW ALESSI, POSTMODERNISM AND MEMPHIS CHANGED THE WORLD

A guide through the sometimes diverse ideas, designs and innovations that developed during the postmodern era. Includes footage filmed at the Alessi factory and museum and other Milan design houses, and interviews with Alberto Alessi himself, Memphis designer, George Sowden and postmodern architect and designer, Mendini. We also take a look round the V&A's Postmodernism exhibition with its curator.

DVD / 2012 / 35 minutes

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HOW POP ART CHANGED THE WORLD

Explore the ideas, materials, colours and technologies adopted by Pop Art. Then examine how this movement created new images, shapes and forms that continue to influence artists and designers today. Filmed in the UK and New York this resource talks to leading designers about how the work of pop artists like Lichtenstein, Warhol and Sir Peter Blake, continue to influence design.

DVD / 2012 / 35 minutes

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SMART GRAPHIC PRODUCTS

This DVD examines the properties, characteristics and applications of some of the smart materials used in the graphics industry. Case studies include labels and packaging that use thermochromic inks, emergency and safety signage that incorporate phosphorescent and fluorescent paints and inks, and photochromic dyes that are used for anti-counterfeiting measures and reactive glasses.

DVD / 2012 / 30 minutes

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SMART RESISTANT MATERIALS

With extraordinary access to the latest research and development, this resource explores cutting edge smart materials finding out how they are made, how they work and what their potential applications are both now and in the future. Case studies include; shape memory alloys and thermochromatic plastics, as well as QTC and how it is being used by electronics companies to revolutionise touch screen technology and how smart organic compounds are making it possible to print electrical components onto plastic sheets.

DVD / 2011 / 35 minutes

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DESIGNING FOR THE USER: INCLUSIVE DESIGN FOR GRAPHICS & RESISTANT MATERIALS

Learn how to create products that meet user need and are inclusive. Designers explain how they: research their market; consider the values and needs of their users and work with ergonomic and anthropometric data. The resource also explores how designers are responding to the challenges of demographic change and inclusive design. It provides examples relevant for resistant materials, product design and graphics courses.

DVD / 2010 / 35 minutes

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SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING

This DVD explores what the food industry is doing to use less packaging. First it looks at the role and function of packaging. It then looks at the challenges of designing reduced packaging that not only looks good, but gets the product to the shelves in one piece. We also see how plastic bottles are recycled into new food grade plastic, before being formed into salad containers. An ideal resource for students studying Food Technology, Graphic Design, Resistant Materials, Product Design, Sustainability and Citizenship.

DVD / 2010 / 31 minutes

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CHOOSING SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

This programme gets students thinking about the 6Rs and what makes a material sustainable, including its carbon footprint, whether it's sourced from renewable or recycled materials and what happens at "end of life". Materials discussed include: wood, plastic and textiles. Also, we look round the UK's first zero carbon housing project and visit the Smile Plastics factory where anything from mobile phones to children's wellingtons are turned into building materials.

DVD / 2009 / 26 minutes

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DESIGNING WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS

This resource looks at why and how specific plastics are recycled, regenerated and tested to fulfil the required characteristics for modern sustainable products. Includes: a chair made from Sony Playstations and washing machines that use parts made from recycled fridge plastic. The DVD also shows how new technology is used to process and convert waste products into high-grade polymers. We then see these plastics undergo destructive and non-destructive tests to identify their properties and characteristics.

DVD / 2009 / 33 minutes

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND TESTING: DESIGNING FOR INNOVATION AND SAFETY

A fantastic way to bring real and relevant industrial design into the classroom illustrating some of the considerations designers have to take into account. Footage of physical and virtual tests, filmed at Volvo's crash testing facility, will provide an excellent starting point for students when testing, evaluating and modifying their own designs. It also reinforces how engineers work collaboratively with designers to ensure that new technologies are harnessed with aesthetics.

DVD / 2009 / 25 minutes

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PRODUCT DESIGN & MASS MANUFACTURE: DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

Explains the design process within one easy context, from client brief to finished product. It shows how designers; work to budget, meet consumer needs, research existing products and use primary and secondary data. It explores the role of aesthetics and function, the importance of ergonomics and anthropometrics and the benefits of using CAD/CAM in testing, modelling and rapid prototyping to reduce cost, material and time.

DVD / 2009 / 25 minutes

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PRODUCT DESIGN, TESTING AND MODIFICATION: TRUNKI

Designing products that meet rigorous safety standards is an increasingly important skill - especially when it comes to products used by children. Trunki, the child's pull along suitcase, may have failed the BBC Dragon's Den test, but thanks to further testing and modification it's now taking the world by storm. We film with the product designer and at one of the world's leading test centres, to find out about the different tests carried out on children's products, why calibrating equipment is so important and how clever design reduced costs and time to market. Includes footage of rotational and injection moulding and mechanical and physical tests

DVD / 2009 / 25 minutes

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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN (VOLVO): LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

This programme provides a thorough insight into how industry is adapting its design and manufacturing methods to consider social, moral and ethical implications. It demonstrates how Volvo are: eliminating emissions, reducing energy consumption and minimising waste to reduce the carbon footprint of their cars during manufacture, use and at "end of life". The importance of choosing sustainable materials is clearly explained as is the consideration of the product's life cycle.

DVD / 2009 / 26 minutes

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