Exploring the myriad possibilities of materials for today's designers, each book in the series "Materials for inspirational design" introduces the properties of a material and demonstrates some of its extraordinary possibilities. This title on ceramics includes gorgeous images of classic and new products and applications combined with solid technical information and practical advice. It introduces a wide range of ceramic materials, concentrating not on the predictable craft areas but the more advanced and surprising applications of interest to professional designers. Featured items are basins and toilets, scissors and knives, heat protection tiles as used on space shuttles, composites, conductive and wearable materials and advanced building components.
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Chris Lefteri graduated with an MA in Industrial Design from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1992, and has since been running his own industrial design company. He is a senior lecturer at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and the author of all titles in the acclaimed Materials series.
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Ceramics are generally hard, dense, stiff and strong, but not very flexible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ceramics are generally hard, dense, stiff and strong, but not very flexible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thermal shock resistance, advanced ceramics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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