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Industrial Design

The links below offer online access to academic, commercial and government sites with information on aspects of industrial design. Some of the sites are quite large and offer long lists of links to other sites related to a specific subject.

• General Industrial Design Sites
• Environmental Design
• Ergonomics and Universal Design
• Materials and Products
• Patents and Standards

General Industrial Design Sites

• Business Week Annual Design awards In search box, type "design awards".
• CORE77 Site with many links, including jobs
• Corporate Design Foundation
• European Design Centre
  
• International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) with calendar of congresses and competitions
• Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
• UIAH (University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki)
• Virtual Library-Design

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Environmental Design

• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development (U.S. Department of Energy)
• Consortium of Green Design and Manufacturing (University of California at Berkeley)
• Green Design Initiative (Carnegie Mellon)
• Design Sense online exhibit at Design Museum's Temporary Gallery page and other exhibits on sustainable product design
• Environmental Working Group Advocacy organization
• International Design Resource Awards Products with recycled content
• Metropolis Many links and articles on sustainability and community
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Recycler's World
• Sustainable Development page European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• United Nations Environment Programme Working Group on Sustainable Product Development (large site)
• U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Ergonomics and Universal Design

• Adaptive Environments Center Home Page
• ABLEDATA Database of assistive technology sources; links to universal design sources by The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education
• Bad Human Factors Designs
• The Center for Universal Design (North Carolina State University)
• Design for Ageing Networkfrom Netherlands Design Institute
• Designing a More Usable World (Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Ergoweb, Inc. A large site with many links, bibliographies, conferences, egonomics journal contents page
• SRM-Site on Research, Method and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences of Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Materials and Products

• ASM Materials Properties
• Design inSite: Smart Materials by the Danish Design Foundation
• GE Plastics Home Page
• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century timelines in 20 categories, by National Academy of Engineering
• HowStuffWorks.com
• Interpack.Net global packaging search engine
• Inventors' Digest online journal of United Inventors Association
• Materials Science & Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Medical Design Technology online trade journal
• The Plastics Network
• Polymers DotCom
• PDM Information Center for product data management
• Cahner's Product Design and Development with online newsletter Product Alert
• Rapid Prototyping resources page by Design-engine.com
• Thomas Register
• Titanium processing (an article sponsored by bicycle makers)

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Patents and Standards

• Patents & Trademarks

• Standards
  

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