These materials provide an overview to the Product Design technical principles and design and make principles which is part of the Design and Technology A level specification and the Design and Technology AS specification. These resources are provided to support teaching and learning and give an introduction to the main concepts of the theory of the subject and should be used in conjunction with other resources and sound classroom teaching.
The authors have attempted to use images that are free of copyright restriction however if there are omissions or inaccuracies please inform us so that any necessary corrections can be made. The authors are also grateful to those businesses and agencies including Dyson, Blackpool Creative, Rob Law CEO Trunki (images and text provided by Trunki.co.uk), PROTO 3000 and Matthew Cooke that have given permission for images from their websites to be used in this work.