Resources by Pumpkin Interactive
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Forces and Motion: The Physics of Car Crashes *suitable for home teaching*
This film clip uses slow motion footage filmed during car crash testing to explore how energy is distributed during the fractions of a second when cars crash. The clip explores ideas of inertia, resultant forces, energy and momentum, but applies it in the real world context of designing air bags, crumple zones...
How Pop Art Changed the World
This film clips describes the technical innovations that enabled pop art to change the look of peoples’ homes. Being able to print bright colours...
How Postmodernism Changed the World
In this film clip, George Sowden talks about how in the 1960s, modernism placed a lot of rules on design and restricted research. In an attempt to break away from feeling trapped by modernism, he produced a series of paintings which later formed the basis for the decorative finishes he added to the modernist...
ICT inTextiles, Design Practice and Process
This film clip describes the latest Size UK survey. This was last carried out in the 1950’s, when all the measurements had to be taken by hand. Today each person is measured in a 3D body scanning machine. This is being used to scan thousands of men and women of different ages and ethnic backgrounds the team have...
Industrial Design and Testing Designing for Innovation and Safety
This film clip goes to Volvo’s advanced test facility. As safety is the most important element of the Volvo brand, they have invested heavily in what may be the best crash test centre in the world. They can reconstruct almost any collision that may occur in the real world, even re-creating crashes between two...
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Product Design and Mass Manufacture Design Optimization
This film clip introduces design optimisation and meeting a design brief. Chris Althorpe, a Senior Designer, was asked to design a highly attractive, small, market leading, multi-functional peak flow meter. Form and function were not the only requirements in the client’s brief. It also needed to be manufactured...
Product Design, Testing and Modification: Trunki
This film clip looks at the British Safety Standards that had to be met by the ‘Trunki’ – a ride-on suitcase for children. The suitcase has to undergo the same tests which would be used for a bike, including the curb test. This involves placing a 50Kg weight onto the case and then swinging it into a curb edge at...
The film clips in this collection were produced by Pumpkin Interactive, whose aim is to provide specification-specific resources for product design, resistant materials, graphics and textiles courses, including innovative and exciting examples of the very latest industrial textile practices and processes from...
The film clips in this collection were produced by Pumpkin Interactive, whose aim is to provide case studies of real life applications to illustrate some of the more complex scientific concepts and theories. Themes covered include: forces and motion, waves and imaging and electricity generation, transmission and...