Essays about: "craft production"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 40 essays containing the words craft production.

  1. 6. Enamelled steel

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Steneby - Institutionen för Konsthantverk och Design

    Author : Johannes Postlmayr; [2021-01-05]
    Keywords : Enamelled Steel; Glass on metal; Enamel; Emaille; Emalj; Enamelware; Kitchenware; Householdware; Hollowware; Public health; Lead-poisoning; Industrial Revolution; Design; Functionalism; Gestaltung; Gestaltning; Contemporary Sculpture; Applied craft; Object art; CAD; CNC water-jet cutting; Augmented reality;

    Abstract : This exam project is about a material that developed with the rise of the industrial revolution, became almost obsolete in recent decades, and that I now use in the field of applied art, craft, and design. Enamelled steel is a material mostly known for its use in domestic kitchenware and colourful road and advertising signs. READ MORE

  3. 7. Rocks in Vogue : on material flows within electronic devices

    University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för design, inredningsarkitektur och visuell kommunikation (DIV); Konstfack/Industridesign

    Author : Giorgia Burzio; [2021]
    Keywords : Design research; Material flows; Electronics; Energy; Battery; Care; Waste; Recycling; Craft; Critique; Landscape;

    Abstract : Landscapes have been exploited and polluted by humans in order to obtain metals. Materials are treated as commodities: extracted, used inside our devices and appliances, then discarded as useless matter. The timespan of efficiency is shortened more and more due to obsolescence, material desire and constant innovation. READ MORE

  4. 8. Investigation and implementation of rapid prototyping in development of a high-speed light craft

    University essay from KTH/Marina system

    Author : Ulrik Sköldkvist; [2021]
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    Abstract : Designing and constructing boats or ships is a slow, iterative process where the design goes through several steps in each iteration, and every loop in the process leads closer to the result. However, to verify if the boat's design functions, it must be built if there is no possibility to design, build, and evaluate smaller prototypes during the development. READ MORE

  5. 9. How is craft a tool for humbling and empowering humanity? : An investigation into learning, and empathy building through material relationships.

    University essay from Konstfack/Textil

    Author : Hannah-Molly Brown; [2021]
    Keywords : Culture; Empathy; Colonialism; Community; Disposability; Value; Traditions; Tools; Relationship;

    Abstract : Our value of people and craft are linked. With the rise of fast production  industry, and the lack of transparency when it comes to a role of consumption, we have become detached from making processes. This detachment is  detrimental to our understanding and empathy for other people but also to ourselves. READ MORE

  6. 10. Craft brewing and financial expansion – a study of the Swedish market

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism

    Author : Anders Lingensjö; [2021]
    Keywords : Microbreweries; craft beer; craft beer brewing; small business financing; Sweden;

    Abstract : Craft brewing has seen a remarkable growth, from the first steps in the late 1960s in the USA until today. Breweries in the USA and Western Europe saw a long period of brewery fusions, concentration and closings from after the 2nd world war until roughly late 1990s/early 2000s. READ MORE