Materials and manufacturing processes remains an essential component of industrial design education. But for many students and young designers, they are still unsure of their comfort with these complex issues and how they affect their designs.
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In recent years advanced materials have emerged and are having a major impact on the products around us. Coming from science and technology advanced materials can outperform traditional materials as they for instance can be tougher, can withstand higher temperatures, and can be tailored into new shapes.
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The increasing availability of product environmental information provides an opportunity for consumers to choose more sustainable products and for designers to be rewarded for selecting more sustainable materials. Here are some tips on how to do this.
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Biomimetics is on everyone’s lips and it is now difficult to imagine a future where it does not play a key role in the development of our society. The development of new materials is not unconcerned with this new discipline, though we must be aware of what we can obtain (and what we cannot) from […]
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One of the most significant future transformations in the material sphere will be the development of a carbohydrate economy. This will be a global economy based primarily on renewable material feedstocks—as opposed to our current economy, which is founded largely on fossil fuels.
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If you carefully observe designed objects around you, perhaps you may find the unspoken process of their birth. Their ingredients and parts should come from somewhere in this globe, and mixed and combined together in a factory of somewhere, through hands and ideas of somebodies.
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Controlling the Regulator Mike Galiazzo, RMI, Kelly Schulz, Secretary DLLR, Abba Poliakoff, Co-Chair Regulatory Reform Commission, Roger Campos, Governor’s Business Ombudsman “Great Meeting” Roger Campos, Governor’s Small Business Ombudsman “This kind of meeting is exactly what Governor Hogan wantsus doing with industry.” Kelly Schulz, Secretary Maryland DLLR Manufacturers told their stories today and the Governor’s […]
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Nimble Maryland Manufacturer Sees Tide Turning For more than 100 years, Murray Corporation has turned out clamps used by the automotive, agricultural, plumbing, irrigation, beverage and marine industries. Murray sells both domestically and around the world and calls big Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) like Volvo and Watts as clients. During the company’s heyday from 1960-1980s […]
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On October 7, more than 40 manufacturers including General Motors, Chesapeake Bay Candle, Proctor & Gamble and Prime Manufacturing Technologies, Inc., RMI partners and government leaders attended a presentation by Tenax Corporation President & CEO Steve Petrides on the company’s success on energy savings through RMI’s Energy Efficiency Program. In 2014, Tenax spent more than […]
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On October 2, 2015 Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford presented Mike Galiazzo of RMI on Maryland and Brian Sweeney of the Maryland Manufacturing Extension Partnership a proclamation from Governor Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., which declared the day Maryland Manufacturing Day. WHEREAS, The citizens of Maryland are proud to recognize the contribution of Maryland manufacturing to the […]
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