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Design and Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods

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This book has some great resources for the product designer looking for guidance on sustainability and reducing the environmental impact of their work. There's a good coverage of looking at the life cycle of a product and approaches to analyzing a product. The sections on materials and their impact is good, but a bit basic: I was hoping for something with a wider range; this covers overall material categories (aluminum, steel, pvc, pteg, etc) and their pros and cons. It could go deeper here. Its a great book to read through in a day, and has some valuable insights. Print quality looks like a bad b&w photo copy, so for the high price that was a let down.

I heard that the information in this book is really good and even more for me that I'm studying product design, but the only thing is that I order this product and I never received it, still waiting for it, that's only the bad part. I got to read some chapter from one of my classmate's book and I do recommend this reading.