Reddit reviews Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design
We found 5 Reddit comments about Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Laurence King
We found 5 Reddit comments about Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Essentially this is what a degree covers. I assume you are not studying ID yet?.
Pulling apart things is a fantastic way to learn, and every ID professional will do it. We have boxes and boxes of disassembled products at my work, and that’s pretty standard.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manufacturing-Techniques-Product-Design/dp/1856697495/ref=nodl_
Making it is a good book that shows basic manufacturing processes, and from there you can learn how to design for them.
Check out Making It by Chris Lefteri
A few things off the top of my head:
Creative Confidence By Tom and David Kelly (IDEO) - In fact, anything by these guys as IDEO are a great resource for design thinking.
Wacom Pen and Touch S Perfectly adequate starter tablet for sketching on a laptop.
Sketchbook Pro to go with it
Product Sketches - Great book with sketches of everyday things from Ideation to presentation quality.
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design - Really good book covering the basics of industrial processes to manufacture objects.
Copic Multiliner set - maybe with some stationary. I fucking love stationary. Could combine this with a Moleskin or Field Notes notebook
Steal Like an Artist - cute, short book with a great message about how its not what you steal but how you steal it.
Kor 'Hydration Vessel' - I've had one for like 3 years.
Here are a few terms, as well as some convenient flash cards someone assembled.
As a previous poster mentioned those are engineering/machining terms.
I also recommend blogs such as Core77 or the Fictiv Blog which talk about a broad range of manufacturing and design topics.
If you’re just dying for more product terms, there are plenty of terms that fall under plastic injection molding
For a good overview of materials and processes, the book Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Designersis a good balance of interesting content, pictures, and examples, and isn’t too boring for the layman.
I'm in a similar position. I'm working on a PhD in Electrical Engineering, so that boat has pretty much sailed for me. I LOVE manufacturing processes and design. I hear these two books are good:
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design
and
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
I might want to do a post of my own to see if I can get some advice for myself. Does anyone have ideas of how I can get into product design? I'm interested in things such as those that are posted on Yanko Design.