Do You Recognise This Tea Flask? Transformation of brand-specific product identity through visual design cues

To create a recognisable and distinctive brand and product identity through design is a challenge for companies. What are the design elements through which users distinguish between products? What is the content of design that users employ to make this recognition? To explore this issue, a Master-level student design project was organised. In the project, design students first analysed the brand,

Towards a Theory-Based Method for Evaluation of Visual Form Syntactics

STEPS towards a sustainable future of plastics

Relational Modes Between Industrial Design and Engineering Design – A Conceptual Model for Interdisciplinary Design Work

Focus on customer and market needs has initialized changes in product development work, which involve integration of industrial design and engineering design functions. Interdisciplinary teams are considered a prerequisite in order to achieve collaboration, and a necessity to meet market demands in new products. However, interdisciplinary teams are inherently associated with collaborative shortcom

Evaluating the potential of biotechnology for production of speciality chemicals and polymers from renewable resources

Survey on Product Development Methods, Design Competencies, and Communication in Swedish Industry

This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey carried out during the spring of 2000. The results are based on the answers provided by a total of 99 respondents. Among other results the survey revealed that more than half of the responding companies have a formally documented strategy for product development work. Regarding disciplinary competencies, it is shown that design engineers

Methodology Support for Form Design Development in Industrial Design Engineering

Cold adapted yeasts as producers of cold adapted polygalacturonases

Managing Product Identity and Form Development Issues Using Design Format Modeling

Emergent Form Design Development Modeled by Design Syntactics Theory

Design Syntactics - A Contribution Towards a Theoretical Framework for Form Design

A Model for Visual Form Aesthetics Based on Form Entities

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Introducing a Use-Perspective in Product Design Theory and Methodology

Treating Industrial Design Issues within Existing Design Procedures

Design of a new jar for jam and herring. Preparatory studies, user requirements and a design brief

Design for Desirability Pilot Study Report: Tait Electronics Inc

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