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Graphic Products |
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Typefaces
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What
do different typefaces suggest? |
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Wow,
Try this!!! |
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Do we really read words?
or just recognise their shape? |
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1001
Free Typesfaces |
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Download
free Typefaces for you PC or Mac. |
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Evaluate
100's of logos online and see the results... |
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Create
your own graphics online |
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Info
about the origins of fonts |
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Printing
Processes
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The
basics about printing processes |
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Important
information you need to know! |
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Info about CMYK and colour
for GCSE and A'level |
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Info and diagrams of
Lithography |
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Loads of
info about Offset Lithography |
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What is letterpress?
How does it work? |
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See an old fashioned Letterpress machine. |
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What is screenprinting?
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See a T-shirt screen printed at home |
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See an industrial machine print t-shirts |
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What is Gravure? |
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What are registration marks? |
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How Laser and Inkjet printers work. |
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Printing Effects |
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Die cutting,
varnishing, embossing etc... The basics |
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Vinyl Cutting |
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What is vinyl
cutting? How does it work? |
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Lay Planning |
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Why is efficient lay planning
so important? |
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Card
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Info
about packaging materials |
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Paper
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Basic, easy
to understand, information |
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The basic
types of paper you will use |
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Measurements of all the main paper sizes. |
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History
of paper and descriptions |
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More indepth
information for KS4 and KS5 |
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How
to make paper in the classroom |
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A more indepth
description |
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Ideal for
KS5, very technical |
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Technical
explaination for KS5 |
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Glues and Adhsives |
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Adhesives you can use in Graphics |
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How to glue 'this to that' |
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Excellent quiz by Warrren
Design and Technology |
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Plastics
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Names, uses and
properties |
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History, Types and
uses |
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Covers most thermoplastics and Thermosetting
plastics. |
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Info about materials added to plastics to
change their properties. |
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Excellent quiz by Warrren
Design and Technology |
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Glass Reinforced
Plastic, Thanks to Hognosesam! |
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Info from Wikipedia |
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Technical Information
for KS4/5 as a Word 97 Doc |
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Information about
polymer structure |
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Plastic
Forming
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A great animation
showing the process in full. |
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Not
much to see, but gives you some idea of the speed these machines
work at. |
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Easy to understand animation. |
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See an industrial machine in
action |
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A very detailed PDF file. |
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Loads of info and diagrams |
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Simple animation of Injection
Blow Moulding |
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Another simple animation of
Injection Blow Moulding |
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A great animation. |
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Simple step by step information. |
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More simple step by step information. |
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Package
Design
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Information about matierials and uses |
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Materials and uses. |
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Loads
of packaging info from Europe |
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Check
out this companies designs |
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Produce a
wide range of card packaging...have a look |
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A
bit wordy, but you can see packages before they hit the shops! |
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Packaging
Nets
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From
the DT Online site |
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Ideas for
packaging nets at bottom of page. |
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about
tabs, folding techniques etc. |
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Folded
card models..fun ideas |
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but they
require Adobe Acrobat
to view them |
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How to make
a pop-up bird with a moving beak |
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Pop-up 3D
Card |
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Excellent
design, ideal for graphic products |
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A folding
puzzle that would make a cool flyer... |
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Noodles the
cartoon shows you how... |
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Make a CD
case (needs acrobat reader) |
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Colour |
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Simple info
about colour. |
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Loads
of info about colour |
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Loads of information
for school aged people |
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Bad
designs and why... |
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What is ergonomics? |
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What is Anthropometric Data? |
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Basic information and
a couple of cool experiments |
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Check
out the free CAD software in our free software section |
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Over
view of CAD CAM in schools by the company |
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CAD CAM
Examples from TEP |
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Thanks
to Mr Rowley, John Masefield High School |
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Examples
of what can be done with this program that is free to schools |
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What is so special about jpg
pictures? |
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Check
out how this graphic artist has constructed is photo... EXCELLENT |
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Excellent
site where you can submit funny, edited pics. |
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Enter a
competition on this site or just view the funny submissions |
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Homepage
of the company that makes Photoshop. |
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The first
34 lessons on video are free. EXCELLENT |
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Tutorials
for beginners. |
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Hundreds
of fun things to try from recreating matrix style text to complete
photo restoration. |
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Download
an evaluation copy of this excellent photo editing package here |
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Strange
name, but check out the excellent tutorial, WOW! |
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A very
simple intro to the functions of the program |
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A massive
archive of tutorials, and stuff to download |
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Free Photos to Edit |
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Probably the best way
to find a picture of something is to do a Google image search. |
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Catagories of photos
that are copyright free |
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More catagories of photos
to use.. |
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Advertising
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Ads
from past to present. Excellent research! |
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Drawing
Techniques |
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Most are
covered here, Thanks to Hognosesam! |
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A
tutorial on how to do it! |
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Clear and
simple help |
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Clear and
simple help |
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Thanks to technologypupil.com |
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Simple help, and how to draw oblique
cylinders |
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Shading techniques |
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Equipment
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Pictures
and diagrams from Howstuffworks.com |
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Pictures
and diagrams from Howstuffworks.com |
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Pictures
and diagrams from Howstuffworks.com |
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Starck, Stottas,
etc. Images of their products |
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Apple, IBM,
Alessi etc. Images of products |
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Japanese Design |
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A brief history of Japanese design |
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Images
from Ericsson and Siemens |
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Concepts
from lots of different companies |
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Info
about mobile phone communication |
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Scrolling
presentation of concept products |
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Thanks
to Howstuffworks.com |
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Product
Designers
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The UK's most famous
product design company |
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They design modern
products |
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Design
Challenge |
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Create an
advert for this comedy film idea |
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Create an
advert for this action flick |
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Design
History
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A poster showing products from that era. |
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Another poster. |
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Yet another poster. |
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Yep, yet another poster |
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The last poster. |
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Design
since the 1940's, loads of info |
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A company
that sells materials, ideal for getting prices |
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How fibre optics work. (very indepth) |
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How does thermocolour film work? |
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What Piezo electric materials can do. |
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Quality
Control |
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What are registration marks? |
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Everything about Q.A. |
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Detailed info about Q.C. |
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WEIRD, WEIRD, WEIRD video...but
educational. |
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The basic idea of TQM |
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Loads of info about TQM |
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What do the CE Marking and Kitemark actually
mean? |
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What is COSHH? |
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Let
you know what safety standards you must meet. EASY! |
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Copyright |
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A great video, but is a little biased |
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Moral Issues |
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What is planned obsolescence? |
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Is it right to set up factories in LEDCs? |
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Recycling and Environmental
Issues |
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Basic Information |
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Information from Wikipedia |
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More from Wikipedia |
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Convert cm, mm, feet, inches
etc... |
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Convert square cm, square foot
etc... |
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Gallons, litres etc... |
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