Materials in Spanish Design

This work presents the results of a project carried out during the last academic year (2011/2012) with students in the first year of their Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering undergraduate studies at Universitat Jaume I (Castellon, Spain). It was an educational project focused on coordinating two subjects from the first year of the above-mentioned degree, namely, Materials I and Artistic Expression I. In this project, students had to work in groups on an assignment dealing with the materials used by renowned Spanish designers in some of their designs. The design was chosen by the students themselves. Each group was then asked to develop a Google Site about their chosen product, where they were to post the information about that product, the type of material used for each of the parts the product consists of, and the effect that choice of materials has had on the novelty of the design.