Glass: Top Creative Material Among the 5 Top Industrial Design Materials in Europe and America

Author: Leofte Ry
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: No other material possesses the adaptability of this super mixture. Glass holds a place in the vast majority of industrial fields: from transportation, packaging to fashion and decoration. When combined with other materials, glass offers endless possibilities for enrichment, reinforcement, and expansion. From fine art to core industry, this book showcases a series of extraordinary glass products and application examples, proving a point: the only thing that fundamentally limits this material is our imagination. This book includes the following information: the manufacturing process of specific materials or products; key features; typical uses of specific materials; and a quick reference index on each page, allowing you to easily find related information about a specific material on other pages. This book is the second in the "Five Creative Materials of Western Industrial Design" series, following Plastics, and will be followed by Wood, Ceramics, and Metal.