Made to Be Held: A Designer's Guide to Physical Products

Every object you touch was once a sketch, then a material, then a process. Physical products have constraints screens never face: weight, grip, cost, moulds, tolerances and what happens when they break. This is a guide to how objects are drawn, shaped, made and finished, and to the decisions that make them comfortable to use and worth keeping.

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