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Industrial Design

Find information about Industrial Design topics, including sustainability, advanced manufacture, interaction design, and sound interfaces and environment.

Academic journal articles

Find journal articles on a broad range of design subjects including product design, industrial design, and furniture design. 

Search using the main keywords that describe your topic. For example: “speculative design practice”.

Try the advanced search options for combining keywords and refining your search to find the most relevant search results in the following databases:

Material and product information

Find and research suitable materials and products for design projects.

Standards, patents, and intellectual property

Standards provide detailed guidelines to ensure that materials, products, and processes are safe, reliable and fit for purpose.

Patents protect the intellectual property rights of inventors. They can be useful for finding the latest developments and competitive product information, including technical specifications and diagrams that may not be published elsewhere.

Academic study skills

Assignments: get started

Assignments: get started is your guide to finding, evaluating and referencing sources of information.

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Learning lab

Access the Learning lab to develop skills in writing, critical thinking, assessment tasks and much more.

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