Industrial / Product Design
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Industrial / Product Design
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than a dictionary
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For example,
+industrial +design
- Use + before a word to indicate that the word must be included
- Another way of doing this is to combine keywords with AND (the AND must be in upper case)
- If a keyword search gives you too many results, you could add another keyword with +
For example, +industrial +design +Australia
Truncation is generally not needed as entering any version of a word will retrieve many variations.
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Databases and journal articles for Industrial / Product Design
Use databases to search for journal articles, book chapters, conference papers or
research reports
Key databases for Industrial / Product Design
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Databases |
Notes |
Help |
| Design and applied arts index | In addition to the periodicals index, contains four directories: periodicals database, education database, organizations database, and museums/archives database. | Help is available via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts webpage. |
| Avery Index to architectural periodicals | The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. | Help is available from the Avery webpage. |
| Iconda | ICONDA is a bibliographic database covering the worldwide literature of all fields of building construction, construction engineering, architecture and town planning. | Help is available from the ICONDA webpage. |
| Ergonomics Abstracts | Currently 65,600 records in the database. Includes all abstracts published in print title: Ergonomics abstracts since 1986. | Help is available from the Metapress webpage. |
Complete list of Design databases. Also check the multidisciplinary databases as they cover a wide range of academic topics. You can select other subjects from the database subject list
Full text not available?
When the full text is not available, search for the journal title in the Library
catalogue to discover if print or online copies are available
Database search tips
- Define your topic and identify the main concepts involved
For example product design and ergonomic*
- Make a list of keywords for each concept
For example
industrial design, product design
ergonomic*, human factors
- Think about how you can combine these keywords in your search using OR, AND or
NOT
Keywords on the same concept combine with an OR
Combine different concepts with an AND
For example
industrial design OR product design
and
ergonomic* OR human factors
- Appropriate truncation symbols can be used in databases to find variations of
a word, for example ergonomic* finds ergonomic, ergonomics, ergonomical, ergonomically and so on
For help with searching databases see Connecting and Combining Search Terms or Truncation/Wildcards/Phrase searching: Basic or Online training or Ask the Library
It is important to critically evaluate all information you find particularly
information found on the web.
This is a starting list of internet sites. You may want to do your own searches
using
search engines
- Design-engine.com A resource for industrial designers, ID students and anyone interested in design. Includes links to designers, online magazine, firms, and discussion lists (US).
- Intute : arts and humanities : Design Links to a number of resources on design.
- AECasia An architectural and design resource for Asia and the Asian region.
- Australian Design Awards Examples of product design, application forms and a search facility.
- Core77 Resources relating to industrial design such as examples of designs, the latest news and articles.
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum The collection covers areas of applied arts and industrial designs, drawings and prints, textiles, and wall coverings from around the world.
- Australian Building Codes Board Joint initiative of Australian governments, responsible for developing and managing a uniform, national approach to building codes and building standards
- Marc Newson Design An Australian industrial designer. This site showcases some of his work and provides a short bibliography on the designer.
- Achille Castiglioni An Italian architect and industrial designer. This site is produced by the Museum of Modern Art
- Alessi An award winning Italian design company, this site includes the company's history, new products, special projects and designers.
- Design 4 Plastics Ltd UK based company with extensive experience in the design and development of products, includes examples of their work
- Raymond Loewy American industrial designer. Includes images of selected works and biographical information.
- The Ergonomics Society UK organisation for professionals using information about people to design for comfort, efficiency and safety.
- ISO Online International Organization for Standardization is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies.
- SpecSimple.com Provides manufacturing and product information for architects, interior designers, furniture dealers, facility managers.
- Buildingindex.com Lists Australian suppliers and products. Includes a useful links page.
- infolink.com.au Profiles new and existing products in the design and the building industry.
- ReSources.Com Architecture, design, facilities and property management industries rely upon this site for access to the widest range of Contract Interiors Industry products, services and information.
- Selector.com Australian directory of architectural, interior design, building & construction products.
- Ergonomics A searching facility where you can find sites relating to design and ergonomics.
- Ergonomics in Australia This site includes resources for ergonomics projects, services and links to ergonomic sites all over the world.
- Ergoworld Provides links to information on office ergonomics, industrial ergonomics, human factors relating to transportation and product design.
- Bad Human Factors Designs A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.
- Cornell University Ergonomics Web Focuses on ways to improve usability, comfort, performance and health, through the ergonomic design of hardware, software, and workplaces.
- Usernomics Provides links to relevant internet sites.
- Human Interface Technology Lab A research and development lab at the University of Washington, the HIT Lab focuses on human computer interfaces and virtual interface technology.
For further information about any of these resources please contact the
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