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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: industrial craftsmanship: metal spinning
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. Industrial craftsmanship: metal spinning. Spinning is a sheet metal forming process used to produce rotationally symmetrical parts, like hemispheres and cones. Undercut profiles and parallel-sided parts – like this base of a Mathmos. Lava Lamp made from a single piece of material – are possible with split tools (can be taken apart to be removed). Image from The Manufacturing Guides. Most popular materials and matter. Edge glow acrylic plastic. High-speed printi...
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: compostable versus biodegradable
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. Having added a couple of examples of bioplastics – see colourful moulded potato starch. And water-soluble packaging peanuts. 8211; it's worth noting the difference between compostable and biodegradable. Granules (a partially bio-based polyester used in packaging applications that is fully biodegradable) courtesy of BASF. Most popular materials and matter. Edge glow acrylic plastic. Traditional metal packaging, such as this tinplate (tin-plated steel) biscuit ti...
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: waterless printing
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. This technology is similar to offset lithograph, which is the most widely used mass production printing process. What sets it apart is that the environmental impacts are significantly less. Compared to conventional offset lithography the. Reproduction quality is very high and. Accurate, harmful emissions are reduced by 95% and water consumption is virtually eliminated. He use of water is. Process, similar to rotogravure. Most popular materials and matter. High-...
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: luminous yellow
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. High-speed printing processes, such as offset lithography and rotogravure, reproduce full colour graphics from a set of four "process" colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black), collectively abbreviated as CMYK. All of the colour groups can be reproduced from CMY and K is added for improved contrast and deeper blacks. Special colours, such as a very specific shade, metallic or fluorescent (see also fluorescent and reflective. Edge glow acrylic plastic.
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: metal-coated fabric
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. Most popular materials and matter. These colourful Smile Plastics sheet materials are manufactured by compression molding. They are made up of thermoplastic materials, which . Edge glow acrylic plastic. The edge of clear tinted plastic appears to glow in ambient lighting. The phenomenon, known as edge glow or lit edge. Colourful moulded potato starch. Traditional metal packaging, such as this tinplate (tin-plated steel) biscuit tin, is printed first and then em...
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: metalised plastic packaging
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. The striking metallic finish on plastic packaging, lighting and automotive trim is created by vacuum metalising – see also TieGuan Yin Tea packaging. It is used to produce a bright and reflective appearance on three-dimensional parts and is less expensive than manufacturing the same part from solid metal. Most popular materials and matter. Edge glow acrylic plastic. Colourful moulded potato starch. The minimum internal radius of a bend in wood veneer is determi...
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: colourful moulded potato starch
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. Colourful moulded potato starch. A truly sustainable alternative to plastic packaging,. Is produced from a mix of white powder starch, wood fibres, colouring and some proprietary ingredients. It is energy efficient to produce as raw material – requiring less energy to make than petroleum-based plastics – and derived from renewable sources. Image from The Manufacturing Guides. Most popular materials and matter. Edge glow acrylic plastic. Die cutting is a versati...
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: books
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR TEXTILE AND FASHION DESIGN PROFESSIONALS (2014). Sustainable Materials, Processes and Production (2013). This latest book in Rob Thompson's series of highly acclaimed reference guides for design students provides an understanding of the environmental impact of materials, manufacturing processes and product lifecycles, and a guide on how to select and use them in an intelligent way." Amazon UK. Graphics and Packaging Production (2012).
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Materials & Matter for Curious Designers: ripple of wood
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Materials and Matter for Curious Designers. Rotary cut birch veneer is used to produce engineered timber (similar to plywood) and lightweight laminated wood furniture - check out structural and decorative wood veneer. Veneer produced in this way is typically 1-5 mm thick, depending on the application. And the sheets can be very long, because the veneer is cut as a continuous piece from around the circumference of the tree (like unraveling a roll of paper). And bending wood veneer. Anodising is used to st...
