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Building Bridges
The Physics of Construction
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The nuts & bolts of building bridges. What factors to consider when you build a bridge and what?s the Physics behind them? Introducing the concepts of Stress, Strain and Young?s Modulus to describe the structural properties of building materials. This program examines the variety of bridge designs that these materials can be put to: how they work and why. It examines a bridge plan and uses concepts of Torque and Static orces to see if it stands the test of its load. Finally it challenges students to design and test their own bridges from simple materials.
The nuts & bolts of building bridges. What factors to consider when you build a bridge and what?...
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Ceramics and Glasses
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There are three basic types of materials: Metals, Polymers and Ceramics. Glass is a subset of ceramics. Ceramics are crystalline, glass is amorphous. This fascinating, in-depth program looks at the process of producing both ceramics and glass, what they are typically used for and the advantages and disadvantages of both these materials.
There are three basic types of materials: Metals, Polymers and Ceramics. Glass is a subset of cer...
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Creating A Corporate Image
Graphics Series
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Why do companies and organizations spend large budgets on the design of simple graphic symbols? Who designs them and how do they go about it? This program follows the design process used by two leading Australian studios working on the creation of prominent corporate symbols.
Why do companies and organizations spend large budgets on the design of simple graphic symbols? W...
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Creating a Logo
A Process for Designers
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Using the VEA logo as a real-life example, the process of conceptualizing, designing and producing a logo is examined. Designers give their insight into developing a logo. Taken from the client arriving at the office with a design brief, through research and the creative processes leading to the presentation of a first draft and concluding with the production and launch of the logo.
Using the VEA logo as a real-life example, the process of conceptualizing, designing and producin...
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Design
A Team Approach
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In this program students apply techniques and processes to design, manufacture and assemble a product as a team, and then apply evaluation principles to assess the overall exercise. They examine how design teams and individual designers evaluate their use of materials, techniques and processes in transforming design options into a product range or team-designed product. Design: A Team Approach seeks to show how a team works towards a common goal beginning with a client interview through to the design stage, the planning and communicating of ideas, through to the actual production. The program concludes by demonstrating how evaluation can be a useful tool to monitor a team’s progress towards their common goal.
In this program students apply techniques and processes to design, manufacture and assemble a pro...
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Design and Technology at Work
Making Guitars
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This program examines the issues involved in small scale manufacturing by two Australian guitar making businesses. At the famous Maton factory both traditional and modern techniques are used, while Ian Noyce has managed to combine the craft aspects of guitar making with the development of a small scale, computer-controlled cutting machine. The issues addressed include problems of scarcity of timber, marketing, quality, use of computer technology, and training of staff.
This program examines the issues involved in small scale manufacturing by two Australian guitar m...
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Design for Sustainability
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Sustainable design is the art of designing physical objects to comply with the principles of economic, social and ecological sustainability. It ranges from the microcosm of designing small objects for everyday use, through to the macrocosm of designing buildings, cities and the earth?s physical surface. The essential aim of sustainable design is to produce places, products and services in a way that reduces use of non renewable resources, minimizes environmental impact and relates people with the natural environment.
Sustainable design is the art of designing physical objects to comply with the principles of econ...
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Designing a Chair
Sitting Pretty
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This program looks at chair design from two slightly different perspectives. One is presented by Julian Pratt, Co-ordinator Furniture Programs, RMIT University. His is a fairly standard 'by-the-book' kind of approach. The other practitioners take a more lateral, less academic approach to the question of design. Given their international reputation, their opinions provide a neat counterpoint to Julian Pratt.
This program looks at chair design from two slightly different perspectives. One is presented by ...
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Designing and Constructing a Kitchen
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Incorporating both general principles and practical advice, this valuable program takes a detailed look at the process of designing and building a domestic kitchen. The house owners discuss their requirements, the designer explains design principles and demonstrates the usefulness of CAD in providing 3-D images of his designs. During the construction process, we follow the main stages involved: the builder?s coordinating role, construction and installation of carcasses, wood and stone options for benchtops, details of drawers and cupboard construction, fitting of a interior-exterior servery with sliding windows and finishing touches. Throughout the program practical techniques, tricks of the trade and details of materials used are explained.
Incorporating both general principles and practical advice, this valuable program takes a detaile...
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Designing for Different Needs
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This program is aimed at the continuing changes in the designing and manufacturing world. New material and manufacturing processes are influencing what products we buy and how we use them. The use of robotics in manufacturing now allows more complex and intricate products to be made catering for wider range of differing needs. It also shows the impact that political, environmental, physical and social context has on the designing and manufacture of new products.
This program is aimed at the continuing changes in the designing and manufacturing world. New mat...
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Designing on Screen
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This program looks at the properties of structural materials, particularly their resistance to being broken apart. It shows how these properties can be measured, and used to predict the material’s response to forces. It also shows applications of these ideas in the real world of mining and demolition. This program is a novel treatment of core material that teachers need to cover. The real and dramatic images will interest and extend student understanding of this material.
This program looks at the properties of structural materials, particularly their resistance to be...
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Designing, Manufacturing & Evaluating a Product
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This program takes a careful look into the steps and processes involved in the Design and Technology course. It ? poses problems and actively identifies needs; gathers information and building knowledge about the nature of needs, wants opportunities and areas for improvement and best routes towards designing a solution; develops and uses design and technology skills knowledge of processes etc; assesses the outcomes of design and technology processes , and the resulting products in relation to environmental, social and economic factors.
This program takes a careful look into the steps and processes involved in the Design and Technol...
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