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  1. Challenge, The: To Build the World’s Fastest Round-The-World Yacht (2002)

    Subject
    Design; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 29 minutes), £34.99

    Pete Goss’s ‘Team Philips’ was a catamaran built to an ultra-radical, high-tech design, and was supposed to be the fastest ever round-the-world yacht. This programme tells the story of the design, the...

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  2. Challenge, The: Engineering a Million (2002)

    Subject
    Design; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 29 minutes), £34.99

    Follows four industrial design students whose designs were entered for the prestigious New Designer Award. They are competing against hundreds of students to win this award and a chance to work with the...

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  3. Designing Dream Machines (1995 Video)

    Director
    Richard Burke
    Producer
    Richard Burke
    Subject
    Design
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1998 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the work of British designers Richard Seymour and Dick Powell, who aim for the ‘X-factor’ - that bit extra that makes the product irresistible to the consumer. In the past Seymour and Powell...

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  4. Introduction to Mechatronic System Design with Applications (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 120 min.

    A video course in mechatronics, a concept in product design, allows engineers to integrate mechanical engineering, electronics and computer science into a fundamental design process, rather than engineering...

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  5. Creativity and Conceptual Design (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Spratley
    Subject
    Design; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    In three sections: 1) the history of the bicycle from the hobby horse to the streamlined human-powered vehicle. At Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, bicycle historian John Pinkerton demonstrates some of the most...

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  6. Gallium Arsenide: Pulled from Obscurity (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Kevin Newport
    Subject
    Design; Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Traces the role of inventor, product champion and commercial developer, using as a case study the ‘high pressure crystal puller’. This machine enabled the development of gallium arsenide wafers on which...

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  7. Innovation on the Rails (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Kevin Newport
    Subject
    Design; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The process of researching and developing fast trains takes time; the idea for the Advanced Passenger Train came 20 years ago. Yet business needs are changing all the time. Shot on location in Derby, and on...

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  8. New Pillar Box for the Post Office (1986 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Design
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, 80 slides., 1993 sale: £30.00 +VAT +p&p

    Looks at the work of industrial designer Tony Gibbs of Hop Studios and the development of a design for a pillar box. Describes each stage of development from presentation drawings, model making and...

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  9. Ken Grange: Product Designer (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Design
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 min.

    Ken Grange is the designer responsible for many leading British products. Looks at the development behind some of them, including an innovative design for Wilkinson’s Sword disposable razor and a winning...

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  10. Marketing Today (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Director
    Tristan Allsop
    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min., 1998 hire: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1998 sale: £995.00 (+VAT +p&p) set

    1: Introduces the marketing mix, with comment by Professor Leslie Rodger of Heriot-Watt University, John Harvey-Jones, Chairman of ICI and Tony McBurnie, Director General of the Institute of Marketing. The...

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