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  1. Informative and incredibly easy to use, this bestselling book discusses more than a hundred production methods in detail. Making It appeals not only to product designers but also to interior, furniture, and graphic designers who need access to a range of production methods, as well as to all students of design.
  2. Chris Lefteri is Senior Lecturer in Product Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. He also runs his own packaging, furniture and product-design business in London. His previous books include five titles in the Materials for Inspirational Design series covering Plastic, Wood, Glass, Metals and Ceramics.
  3. Stretching a material to make it fatter 74. Regional materials Designers from around the world on the materials that de!ne their region 72. Material ef!ciency The science of reduction 46. Making It Excerpts from Chris Lefteri’s book on manufacturing processes 22. Supported by New materials 2007 Highlights from this year’s exhibition 10.
  4. Stretching a material to make it fatter 74. Regional materials Designers from around the world on the materials that de!ne their region 72. Material ef!ciency The science of reduction 46. Making It Excerpts from Chris Lefteri’s book on manufacturing processes 22. Supported by New materials 2007 Highlights from this year’s exhibition 10.
  5. Chris Lefteri is Senior Lecturer in Product Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. He also runs his own packaging, furniture and product-design business in London. His previous books include five titles in the Materials for Inspirational Design series covering Plastic, Wood, Glass, Metals and Ceramics.
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In this digital age, an encyclopedia seems downright archaic. Especially in the context of modern manufacturing techniques like EBM ('Electron Beam Machining'), where a beam of electrons bores holes denominated in tens of microns through thin materials—in a vacuum no less, because the electrons could be thrown off by air molecules (!). Into this neo-futurist world, Chris Lefteri has provided the second edition of Making It: Manufacturing Technologies for Product Design to catalogue all of the manufacturing tools modern designers have at their disposal. While it may be possible to find more detailed or technical information on the processes he describes, Making It stands as a robust resource for a product designer looking into a new manufacturing technique, an eye-popping compendium for a scientifically minded student, or, perhaps most valuably, as a vehicle for increasing designer awareness of new innovation in manufacturing.

Designers live in a mildly cloistered world where they can concentrate on form factors with a vague awareness of parting lines and minimum thicknesses, but really leave it to the engineers to complete their visions. Making It reads like a layman's engineering primer, not a product design book. Each manufacturing technology gets its own 2–4 page spread with a glossy product shot, accompanying text, our favorite buzzword 'process shots,' and a highlighted info box of the characteristics of the technology.

The overall book is organized in 8 categories: (1) Cut from Solid, (2) Sheet, (3) Continuous, (4) Thin and Hollow, (5) Into Solid, (6) Complex, (7) Advanced and (8) Finishing. We assure you that well before you reach the sections entitled 'Complex' or 'Advanced,' you'll be thoroughly convinced that the complexity of human ingenuity and tool-making prowess is unassailable, and that's even before we hit the cool stuff like Industrial Origami or Deep 3D Forming in Plywood.

Lefteri chooses some wonderfully evocative products as examples: Jeroen Verhoeven's 'Cinderella Table' for the compound curves multi-axis CNC can provide or Jasper Morrison's elegant air chair produced via Gas Assisted Injection Molding. His commentary also provides some amazing/quease-inducing insights (e.g. the 'boiled egg slices' in McDonald's salads are extruded. The only errant note to this industrial designer's eye were the hand-drawn process sketches. In all cases, the mechanics of the drawings are clear, but when Making It gets to the highly-technical Stereolithography ('SLA') process at the end, the drawing of the computer involved in the process seems laughably crude in comparison to the elegance of Arik Levy's 'Black Honey Bowel' on the opposite side of the spread.

By the end of a front to back read, we imagine that there probably isn't a single designer alive aware of all of the technology contained within, especially since some of them are proprietary or held only by one manufacturer. Of particular note were pcPRO (Precise-Cast Prototyping) where the 'mold' is created with a CNC tool in metal and then plastic is poured into the mold, then the same CNC head mills into the plastic to create a custom 'negative' interior space according to need. Whether you're seeking to learn the subtle differences between Sintering, HIP and SIP or you'd just like to see rapid prototyping where the input is a standard sheet of printer paper (page 242), Making It should serve as a valuable resource for designers, engineers or anyone who frequents the Discovery Channel's 'How Did They Do That?' We did it, as a culture, and it's all amazing.

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There are many different ways in which a product can be manufactured, but most designers probably know only a handful of techniques in any detail. Using contemporary design as a vehicle to describe production processes, this book covers a broad range of almost 90 production methods with descriptive text, specially commissioned diagrams, product shots, and photographs of th...more

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Aug 21, 2012Deborah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
How do I explain this book? It's just a compendium of the different ways to make things. Lathing (in the cut from block section), blown film (continuous manufacturing) , thermoforming, and on. It organizes techniques by high level category, introduced many methods I had never used, or seen in industry, and provides pros and cons for each. Readable for a layperson, and the kind of book I love to memorize, as it opens up a whole new world of wonder. We have grown too far from knowing how things wo...more
I was in dire need of a holistic book that covers all the materials right from its production process to its applications so that you could use appropriate materials for the problem statement. Thumbs up, Lefteri.
We take for granted how stuff are made. This book gives us a really brief view of what and how things can be made with our current technology.
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Consider this a reference book. It's not readable from front to back as it has no narrative. Not really what I was expecting.
It breaks down families of manufacturing processes, and within those families has a 2-3 page overview of the process, listing pros, cons, uses, compatible materials, constraints, types of products made with it, speed, complexity, scalability, tolerances, unit volume, and interestingly waste/sustainability. The drawings and diagrams are good; they have a nice hand-drawn fe
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This book was a nice, designerly overview of production techniques. Unfortunately, the second edition came out just after I bought it, so I couldn't enjoy its comparisons by environmental criteria. I found that it gives great suggestions about the potential applications of each approach, but the pros and cons didn't seem to be comparable in a systematic way. This book is great for the design researcher looking to think about new techniques or find an approach that they might follow up on, but no...more
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Thought it was a good overview of the various manufacturing processes, particularly from a design perspective. The only thing is that since it was released in 2007, and being that it's 8 years old, there are a number of newer techniques, such as 3D printing that were not in the book. Would be nice to see an updated version.
Good reference for many types of industrial fabrication. ((What the heck is pulltrusion, anyway?') Shows examples of how its done, applicable materials, pros and cons, as well as reference companies and websites.
Excellent reference book for some basic information on manufacturing.
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