Design-bites - Illustrated product design booklets by Andrew Taylor

Design-bites is a series of illustrated booklets by industrial designer Andrew Taylor, covering themed topics in product design. The booklets contain practical design guidelines backed up by hard-to-find data, using anecdotes and real product examples to illustrate good and bad solutions to common design problems. Topics cover both arts and engineering approaches and are presented in an easy-to-read style, of interest to student, professional and layman alike. Download from here, or contact us to order the complete set on CD.

• Material and process-specific guidelines, with examples.
• Fasteners, adhesives, and melt joining.
• Natural finishes, surface treatments, paints & lacquers.
• Applied graphics and labels.
• Conversion tables and miscellaneous data.
• www links to suppliers, organizations and resources.
• American, European, British and global standards.

• Industrial design and design engineering.
• Over 500 pages of hints, guidelines, and hard-to-find data
• 200 illustrations and 130 data tables.
• Product design process and methodology.
• Design Directions (Design for X).
• Human factors
• Styling, Aesthetics and Color.
• International materials database.