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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

plastics, industrial designer, graphic images

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Technology

Abstract

Plastics for Designers is a basic survey of the industry of plastics specifically written to address the questions and needs of the industrial designer. It is interesting that most people understand and are much more familiar with materials such as wood, metal, glass, stone, etc., than they are with plastics. This is quite amazing when we consider how much we surround ourselves with the very substance of which we are so ignorant. For the industrial designer this unfamiliarity with plastics is an especially vulnerable position as the number of products specifying the use of plastic grows exponentially. It is therefore the purpose of this document to present to the student industrial designer a concise course on the history, chemistry, properties, design, and use of plastics in society.

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