Design Solutions
This four-part series takes students through the crucial stages of the design process.
Each program follows a fascinating project at a cutting-edge company from start to finish,
illustrating how design teams work together to analyze a project, plan and create a
product, and evaluate the prototype. 4-part series, 15 minutes each.
Closed captioned: No
Year: 2003
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Electronics: Polaroid’s Passport Photo Business in
a Box Part 1
The task: design and build an all-in-one camera with an integrated printer that produces
instant digital pictures. This program follows a team of industrial and electronics
designers at Polaroid’s U.K. headquarters as they take on this challenge. The whole
process unfolds neatly as the idea jumps from paper to 3-D model to computer-assisted
design program to prototype. Eventually, the designers debug the prototype and a
professional photographer puts the production model through its paces. (15 minutes, color)
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Graphic Design: What’s in a Logo? Part 2
Graphic designers with the consulting firm Navy Blue must produce a new corporate identity
for Digital Animations Group, a Scottish company on the cutting edge of 3-D technology.
Their task is to create a logo that captures the company’s spirit and works across
different formats, such as on paper, signs, windows, and Web pages. This program follows
the entire process, from sitting down with the client to determine the mission, to
brainstorming and pitching proposals, to unveiling the finished product. (15 minutes,
color)
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Product Design: A Hand-Made Stereo for a Hand-Made Car Part 3
The sound system that goes into a hand-assembled Aston-Martin sports car must be special
indeed. In this program, designers at Linn, a precision-engineering company specializing
in state-of-the-art sound reproduction, draft and build a compact stereo for this elite
automobile. Project leaders demonstrate the use of 3-D CAD in the drafting process. The
outsourcing of a component provides a good example of how to work with subcontractors. (15
minutes, color)
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Systems and Control: Design in the Abstract Part
4
Hydrovision specializes in the design and manufacture of remotely operated vehicles, or
ROV, for use underwater. The company has decided that it is time to come up with a new and
improved version of their long-standing, highly successful model. This program looks
specifically at how electronics and software engineers at Hydrovision use block diagrams
to organize the onboard component systems of the ROV. The designers also get a chance to
test and debug the prototype. (15 minutes, color)
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