Product Description

Metals continues in the traditon of the Materials series by bringing people's attention to a range of inspirational products and materials that challenge the boundaries of traditional application. It will include both everyday and familiar products and those that are new, exciting and unexpected.

Hugely visual and easily accessible, even to those with no prior knowledge of the material, Metals introduces each application with authorial comment as well as interviews with the designers and manufacturers. Examples are featured from the areas of packaging, product design, and architecture. This is coupled with detailed technical specification tables, an internal index which points the way to linked pages of interest, as well as an extended glossary and resources section, for more in-depth study.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #773768 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

About the Author
Chris Lfteri 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, also in London. He is a senior lecturer at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design. Chris lives in Greater London, UK..

Customer Reviews

Nice starting point...
There were some very beautiful processes and materials that I didn't know about until I saw it in this book (such as metal foam, inflatable steel, etc.). There were also a few things that I felt didn't need to be in the book like commonly known metals such as gold, silver, copper, brass, and aluminum and very common processes like laser cutting (which was in there twice, in different chapters).

The book also has very beautiful photographs of products and the materials. Almost every page featured a product that illustrates the material or process. There is a quick info chart for each material and process that gives the pros and cons and common uses as well as a website.

When I bought this book I thought it was going to be a very in depth look at new and innovative uses for metal and new manufacturing processes for forming metal, but it's more of a book of things to google. I think it would be more valuable if there were pictures of the actual process they're talking about rather than one big pretty photo of the finished product.

Great resource
Like all of the books in this series, it is very well documented with the the right amount of writing and lots of pictures for quick reference. I personally use it when I need to get ideas on particular materials to use when working on an industrial design project (I'm a design student) or for product presentations.

I think this book could be helpful to industrial engineers and designers alike, as well as teachers, students and professionals in the field.