Materials
for Design

Materials
for Design

Materials
for Design

Th is book is for anyone interested in or involved in
designing with physical materials. It is not a scientifi c or
historical analysis of materials, but instead serves as an aid to
understanding the current state of materials – which are the
most commonly used and which are potentially the materials
of the future. It embraces all areas of design and production,
from products made as one off s to those mass-produced in the
scale of millions of units per year, from highly desirable design
pieces to some of the everyday objects that we take for granted.
I fi rst started writing about materials in 1999 and I stated
then that we were only at the beginning of our exploration
into this area: fourteen years later this still remains true, and
a signifi cant development is that material innovations are not
just coming from the science community but increasingly from
designers themselves. Th is book is a celebration of the range
of established materials that designers are innovating with and
materials that they are creating from scratch.

Chris
Lefteri