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Welcome to When Design Never Ends
I, Prof Richard Bibb and Dr Francisco Tapia started this journey into investigating the impact of Additive Manufacturing on Industrial Product Design Practice on March 2022 thanks to the support from AHRC. We are 6-months in, and we are ready to start reporting back to the community some of the ideas, findings, opportunities, and…
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Is Industrial Product Design evolving?
Industrial Product Design (IPD), i.e., the practice of designing end-use physical products that are industrially manufactured, has evolved since its beginnings in the eighteenth century. The introduction of Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM) in the nineties was a revolution that set the emergence of new design skills and processes. Nowadays, are we living through…
When Design Never EndsEmergent product design practices in the era of Additive Manufacturing