Information Files

Higher Past Papers

Homework

Homework 1 & 2

Useful Weblinks

Materials

Good in-depth plastics information
http://www.bpf.co.uk/bpfindustry/plastics_materials.cfm

Recycled materials information http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~kx19789/rematerialise/html_and_flash/searchwelcome.htm

Good resource with plastics information
http://www.pct.edu/prep/core.htm

Firm favourite from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/resistantmaterials/

Good information on a wide range of materials, can get a bit in depth
http://www-materials.eng.cam.ac.uk/mpsite/materialsdb/IE_main.html

Processing materials

Good information on a wide range of processes, can get a bit in depth
http://www-materials.eng.cam.ac.uk/mpsite/process_encyc/default.html

Good in-depth plastic manufacturing information
http://www.bpf.co.uk/bpfindustry/process_plastics.cfm

Good plastics processing, with interesting animations
http://www.pct.edu/prep/core.htm

Design

Design Addict ‘the’ database of classic designs
http://www.designaddict.com/design_index/index.cfm

Examples of bad design (the author seems a bit picky if you ask me)
http://www.baddesigns.com/examples.html#cellphone-lock

More classic designs
http://www.patricktaylor.com/design-classics

Covers a bit on all aspects of the course
http://www.ergonomics4schools.com/index.htm

General

A lot of useful information on all aspects of the course
http://www.design-technology.org/TVSKs5ASproductdesign.htm

Could not resist a bit of OCC. You either love them or you hate them!
http://www.orangecountychoppers.com/occweb_ver2.php#

These guys are the ‘Daddies’ of British design.
http://www.seymourpowell.co.uk/work/index.html

Anthropometric data

http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Human/Human_sizes.html

http://ioe.engin.umich.edu/ioe491/Refs/HFDGCh14.pdf

http://www.dinbelg.be/anthropometry.htm