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AUTUMN 2011

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DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY & TEXTILES

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Choosing Sustainable Materials: “All teachers will find this a very useful addition to their teaching resources as it can be used very effectively over a number of lessons.”Clive Wood, Inspector/Advisor Technology

26 mins / 2009KS 3-5 / £40

Resistant Materials

Choosing Sustainable Materials

This programme gets students thinking about the 6Rs and what makes a material sustainable, including its carbon footprint, whether it’s sourced from renewable or recycled materials and what happens at “end of life”. Materials discussed include, wood, plastic and textiles. Also, we look round the UK’s first zero carbon housing project and visit the Smile Plastics factory where anything from mobile phones to children’s wellingtons are turned into building materials.

33 mins / 2009KS 3-5 / £40

Designing with Recycled Materials

This resource looks at why and how specific plastics are recycled, regenerated and tested to fulfil the required characteristics for modern sustainable products. Includes: a chair made from Sony Playstations and washing machines that use parts made from recycled fridge plastic. The DVD also shows how new technology is used to process and convert waste products into high-grade polymers. We then see these plastics undergo destructive and non-destructive tests to identify their properties and characteristics.

40 mins / 2011KS 3-5 / £49

Smart Materials

Smart Resistant Materials

With extraordinary access to the latest research and development, this resource explores cutting edge smart materials finding out how they are made, how they work and what their potential applications are both now and in the future. Case studies include; shape memory alloys and thermochromatic plastics, as well as QTC and how it is being used by electronics companies to revolutionise touch screen technology and how smart organic compounds are making it possible to print electrical components onto plastic sheets.

57 mins / 2008KS 3-5 / £40

Smart Textiles: The Next Generation

New technology and processes are combining with traditional textiles to create a new generation of smarter, more technical products than ever before. Filmed with some of the world’s most innovative textile companies, this programme explores the properties, characteristics and functions of these new materials and shows how they are being used to revolutionise the world around us.

Smart Textiles: the Next Generation: “This is the best, clearest and most useful DVD I have ever come across.”Janet Kidd, Duchess’s Community High School

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31 mins / 2010KS 3-5 / £45

Product Design and Mass Manufacture: Design Optimization: “One of the best DVDs on design I have seen in years. Every D&T department should have this.”D&T Association

Sustainable Packaging: “Provides brilliant, up to date industry case studies, clear and well structured... ideal preparation for the AQA A2 Product Design, Unit 3 exam paper.”Malcolm Cross, Head of D&T, Peter Symonds School

Sustainable Design

Sustainable Packaging

This DVD explores what the food industry is doing to use less packaging. First it looks at the role and function of packaging. It then looks at the challenges of designing reduced packaging that not only looks good, but gets the product to the shelves in one piece. We also see how plastic bottles are recycled into new food grade plastic, before being formed into salad containers. An ideal resource for students studying Food Technology, Graphic Design, Resistant Materials, Product Design, Sustainability and Citizenship.

26 mins / 2009KS 3-5 / £40

Sustainable Design: Life Cycle Assessment

This programme provides a thorough insight into how industry is adapting its design and manufacturing methods to consider social, moral and ethical implications. It demonstrates how Volvo are: eliminating emissions, reducing energy consumption and minimising waste to reduce the carbon footprint of their cars during manufacture, use and at “end of life”. The importance of choosing sustainable materials is clearly explained as is the consideration of the product’s life cycle.

25 mins / 2009KS 3-5 / £40

Product Design

Product Design and Mass Manufacture: Design Optimization

Explains the design process within one easy context, from client brief to finished product. It shows how designers; work to budget, meet consumer needs, research existing products and use primary and secondary data. It explores; the role of aesthetics and function, the importance of ergonomics and anthropometrics and the benefits of using CAD/CAM in testing, modelling and rapid prototyping to reduce cost, material and time.

25 mins / 2009KS 3-5 / £40

Product Design, Testing and Modification: Trunki

Trunki failed to impress on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, but is now taking the world by storm. Its designer illustrates how further testing, evaluation and modification saved the product from failure. Includes footage of rotational and injection moulding and mechanical and physical tests.

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32 mins / 2010KS 3-5 / £45

Sustainable and Recycled Textiles: “Another great resource from Pumpkin that will support this key area of the curriculum.”D&T Practice, October 09

Industrial Design and Testing: Designing for Innovation and Safety: “Addresses the curriculum requirements and more. A valuable resource that brings industry even closer to the classroom.”Peter Simmons, Head of the Creative Design Faculty, John Cabot Academy, AST D&T South Gloucestershire

Product Design

Designing for the User: Inclusive Design for Graphics and Resistant Materials

Learn how to create products that meet user need and are inclusive. Designers explain how they: research their market; consider the values and needs of their users and work with ergonomic and anthropometric data. The resource also explores how designers are responding to the challenges of demographic change and inclusive design. It provides examples relevant for resistant materials, product design and graphics courses.

25 mins / 2009KS 3-5 / £40

Industrial Design and Testing: Designing for Innovation and Safety

A fantastic way to bring real and relevant industrial design into the classroom illustrating some of the considerations designers have to take into account. Footage of physical and virtual tests, filmed at Volvo’s crash testing facility, will provide an excellent starting point for students when testing, evaluating and modifying their own designs. It also reinforces how engineers work collaboratively with designers to ensure that new technologies are harnessed with aesthetics.

30 mins / 2011KS 3-5 / £49

Textiles: Sustainability

Textiles: Eco-Design

Finisterre’s designers Tom and Debbie are on a mission – to create the most eco-friendly surfwear brand in the world. From their HQ in Cornwall to fabric suppliers in Japan and manufacturers in Portugal, we follow the pair as they explain how they reduce the environmental and ethical impact of their clothes. We see how they; source and develop eco-friendly technical materials - from recycled polyester to organic wool and cotton, we follow Tom on environmental factory audits in Portugal and we find out how Finisterre work with customers to reduce the carbon footprint of products throughout their life-cycle.

34 mins / 2009KS 3-5 / £40

Sustainable and Recycled Textiles

This resource shows how textile designers are meeting the challenge from government and consumers to meet the 6Rs. Case studies include: shoes made from old tyres and seatbelts; bags made from recycled airline seats and high fashion tailoring created from second hand shop finds. The DVD also shows jute sacks being reprocessed into fibres then manufactured into needle punched technical textiles for use in the construction industry.

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26 mins / 2011KS 3-5 / £45

Textiles: Industrial Dyeing and Printing: “If you are thinking of purchasing new resources to support industrial processes and practices, this is a good buy.”Just4Textiles, Issue 7

Textiles: Environmental Impacts: “A highly relevant and much needed resource that fits extremely well with the new D&T specifications… well supported with excellent notes and work-sheets.”Ria James, Head of Art, Design and Technology, Churston Ferrers Grammar School

Textiles: Sustainability

Ethical Textiles

Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories, it explores the issues of sweatshop labour, poor working conditions, a fair wage and the right to unionise and asks who is responsible? It then compares the social impacts of this mass-scale textiles production with the benefits brought to a small rural community in Bangladesh by a fair trade textile initiative.

26 mins / 2011KS 3-5 / £45

Textiles: Environmental Impacts

Filmed in Bangladesh and in the UK, this resource assesses the environmental impacts of the textile industry both here and abroad. It looks at how companies in the UK are working to meet government targets to reduce their environmental impact by using state of the art water recycling plants and by making better use of their waste streams. The resource then explores the environmental impact of textile production in Bangladesh, and shows how the true cost of cheap textiles is being felt by the very poorest living downstream from polluting textile factories.

30 mins / 2011KS 3-5 / £49

Textiles: Industrial Design and Manufacture

Textiles: Industrial Finishing Processes

This resource looks at the different types of industrial finishes available and their applications. It explores the reasons for finishing, and when and why different processes might be used. It then goes on to look at how the range of finishes now available is creating ever more technical materials, enhancing the role of textiles in today’s society. The DVD provides examples of a variety of chemical and physical finishes and their applications.

33 mins / 2004KS 3-5 / £40

Textiles: Industrial Dyeing and Printing

This resource provides clear explanations and footage of: dye recipes being developed and tested in the laboratory; industrial printing methods including flat-bed, carousel and roller screen-print, as well as transfer printing and flocking. The final section looks at how factories manage the environmental impact of their waste products.

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27 mins / 2004KS 3-5 / £40

CAD/CAM in Textile Manufacturing: “....will enhance knowledge and understanding of CAD/CAM and how it is used in the textile industry today.”D&T Practice

Textiles: Mass Production: “For those whose industrial experience is limited, this is a good product to have in the classroom.”Just4Textiles, Issue 7


Textiles: Mass Production Systems and Techniques

This DVD provides examples of job, batch, mass and JIT production systems. Includes footage of: hot drill, hand/digitized pattern laying, cutting/marking up, and straight, rotating blade and computerized laser cutting. It covers assembly and illustrates how CAD/CAM is used in quality control and management information systems.

33 mins / 2005KS 3-5 / £40

Testing Textiles

Filmed at an industrial textile testing laboratory, this resource shows the tests fabrics and products undergo before they hit the shelves. Includes footage of tests for: care labelling, e.g. shrinkage and colour fastness; flammability; abrasion; pilling; tear and tensile strength; burst and drape. Also includes tests for insulation, breathability, wickability and resistance to wind and water.

27 mins / 2007KS 3-5 / £40


ICT and Textiles: Design, Practice and Process

This resource looks at the impact of new technology on the global fashion industry. A top fashion design house shows how ICT, CAD and CAM has revolutionised the way they communicate with their global manufacturing partners – from speeding up the design process to improving accuracy and efficiency of production – enabling them to turn designs around from initial idea through to shop floor in a matter of weeks. It also shows how 3D body scanners enable retailers and catalogue companies to create more accurate size charts and 3D patterns.

27 mins / 2007KS 3-5 / £40

CAD/CAM in Textile Manufacturing

This resource looks at how CAD/CAM is transforming all sections of the textile industry, from digital printing and embroidery to knitting and laser cutting. For each case study, designers and manufacturers explain how they work in function of new technologies and discuss the benefits CAD/CAM brings to their business.

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At least 25 mins of video material that is:Broadcast quality and copyright clearedResearched and structured to match UK exam board GCSE and GCE specificationsDesigned to be watched in its entirety or delivered as a number of short, 3-5 minute sections Created to engage and inspire students aged 13-19

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Offer advice on how to encourage active learning and full student participationEnsure that individual points are easily accessible to all levels of abilityInclude suggestions and further background material for development of research tasks and debates at A level

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Enable teachers to extend the ideas actively in class Give scope for imaginative and exciting lessons to developOffer opportunities for individual, group and whole class involvement Encourage key skills of listening, understanding and thinking

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