From the course: Design Foundations: Physical Materials
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Creating a product from a sustainable material
From the course: Design Foundations: Physical Materials
Creating a product from a sustainable material
- In this movie we're going to talk about how we select materials when we're facing a major challenge. When the challenge is that the materials aren't available, or the resources are now depleting. And so, in this case, in this example, we were looking at making a musical instrument that used tonewoods, and the tonewoods are becoming more scarce. And so we researched some solutions on how we would develop a new musical instrument with a different way of looking at it. And, so, we discovered that there are some farming industries that are creating these types of tonewoods in more of a sustainable manner, rather than going out and finding them on their own. But we weren't able to take it to the next level of what we wanted to do. And the thing we wanted to do is we found out this design, we wanted this open architecture. Even though it's an electric guitar, we wanted it to be a lot more like an acoustic guitar where it had this open body system inside of it, so it has an active skeleton…
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