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Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture [Paperback]

Jennifer Hudson
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May 1, 2008
This book provides an in-depth study of the creative and manufacturing processes behind 50 contemporary domestic design objects. Chosen from all around the world, they span furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and other products. Featuring the work of both long-established and emerging designers, each product is selected for its significant use of new technology,unorthodox or complex production process, use of innovative materials (or traditional materials adapted in new and unexpected ways) and, in some cases, for the creative concept behind it.

Beginning with a general introduction, each project is then presented through explanatory text as well as aninspirational image, sketch, detail shots of production processes, and the completed product. A glossary of production methods is also included. Process offers an interesting and useful insight into how products are designed, for students and professional designers alike.


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About the Author

Jennifer Hudson is an author in the fields of contemporary design and architecture, and has been the general editor of The International Design Yearbook for the last 15 years. Her books include 1000 New Designs and Where to Find Them (2006) and Interior Architecture Now (2007). As a freelance writer she has contributed to Frame, Canadian Interiors, and Azure.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Laurence King Publishers (May 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1856695417
  • ISBN-13: 978-1856695411
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1 x 11 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wide ranging and inspirational May 31, 2009
This is a great book. I haven't read it all yet but am impressed at the wide range of inspirational design case studies. Jennifer Hudson has chosen interesting designs that vary from craft to true mass production and all of them seem to have a good reason for being in the book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but there is a better one. May 18, 2010
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Pretty good book, but there is a better one.

This book essentially gives you a definition of each process, but does not go into any real depth on how to execute the process. It leaves you with an impression of "ok, so now what?"

If you want a good visual dictionary of processes and are willing to do more research to learn how to 'do it' then this is a good product.

Photos are excellent and overall production of the book is quite good.

I would recommend "Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals" as a better choice. While it too is a good 'visual dictionary' it has more meat to it and more processes covered.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book August 1, 2009
Very very good. 50 is a lot of products, and they are all explained very well with good text and images. Not superficial and it focus on something new in design books: the ways that designers find to achieve a certain form.

This book shows what a designer really want to see, that is not the concept isolated or the process within the corporate team, but the cases where the designer used the process to inovate creating good product design.
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