3d Printing for Product Designers - Innovative Strategies Using Additive Manufacturing

This book provides practical strategies to support the adoption and integration of 3D printing into professional practice. Written by experienced industry professionals and academics, this is a fundamental reference for product designers, industrial designers, design engineers, consultants and makers.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Demystifying 3D printing processes and workflow 2. Working with a design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) consultancy 3. Strategy 1: Working with existing production 4. Strategy 2: Product redesign and new product design 5. Strategy 3: Digital business innovation 6. Case studies: 3D Printing from the product designers’ perspective 7. DfAM: Design guidelines for product designers 8. 3D printing sustainability and digital ecosystems 9. Making the future/remaking product design

About the author

Jennifer Loy is Professor of Digital Business Innovation at Griffith University, Australia, 3D printing specialist, and a product designer by training and at heart.
James Novak is Senior Research Fellow – CranioFacial Biofabrication at the Herston Biofabrication Institute, adjunct lecturer at The University of Queensland, Australia, and self-confessed 3D printing geek with a background in product design and architecture.
Olaf Diegel is Professor of the Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab, at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, a principal author of the Wohlers report, and an avid product designer.

Summary

This book provides practical strategies to support the adoption and integration of 3D printing into professional practice. Written by experienced industry professionals and academics, this is a fundamental reference for product designers, industrial designers, design engineers, consultants and makers.

Product details

• Authors: Olaf Diegel, Jennifer Loy, Jennifer Novak Loy, James Novak, Novak James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9780367641115
• ISBN: 978-0-367-64111-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Product Design, NATURE / Ecology, DESIGN / Product, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, DESIGN / Industrial, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / Product, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / General, DESIGN / Furniture, ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, DESIGN / Reference, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Technology, Printing & Reprographic Technology, 3D Printing