GMC Publications (Wood)

Books

WOODWORKING

Basics
Celtic
Furniture
General Projects
Pyrography
Routing
Scroll Saw & Intarsia
Slipcase Sets
Techniques
Tools
Woodcarving
Woodturning
Workshop

Making Furniture: Projects and Plans (Paperback)
by Mark Ripley (Author)

Furniture Making: Plans, Projects and Designs (Paperback)
by Kevin Ley (Author)

Making Authentic Craftsman Furniture: Instructions and Plans for 62 Projects (Dover books on woodworking & carving) (Paperback)
by Gustav Stickley (Author)

Magazines

+ Furniture & Cabinet Making
+ Woodcarving
+ Woodturning
+ Woodworking
Plans & Projects

Useful Design & Technology Websites [Knowledge]

• Mechanisms

1. CABARET Mechanical Theatre (UK)
2. Flying Pig (UK)
3. Martin Smith Automata (UK)
4. The Puppetry Home Page (US)

• Electronics

1. New Wave Concepts
2. Doctronics (UK) - PCB

• Structures
• Plastics

• General (related t0 DnT textbook topics)

1. FOSS WEB (Electronics, Force & Motion)
2. Technology Student (Comprehensive information)
3. Design Technology (Key Stage)
4. DT Online (Mechanisms, Electronics, Structures)

Useful Design & Technology Websites [General]

• How Stuff Works

A deep understanding on how stuff works.

• The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci

Most, if not all, of da Vinci's sketches.

• My Sketch Book (Little Red Dot - Singapore)

Some local political cartoon sketches.

• Isometric Grid Paper

Choose type of graph paper: Isometric Graph Paper

• Orthographic Grid Paper (Engineering)

Choose type of graph paper: Engineering Graph Paper

Useful Design & Technology Websites [Ideation & Development]

Ideation & Development

• I New Idea Homepage

This is an amazing site, which presents the up-to-date design ideas. The ideas are very interesting and innovative, and sometimes "weird". They are also classified into different categories for easy search. Not so lastest ideas are archived.

• Red Dot Online

Red Dot Publications

Some of the Red Dot Design Yearbooks are available at the Lee Kong Chian Reference
Library (Central Library near City Hall MRT) under the Call Numer English 745.2 RDDY
(2006 to 2008). Yearbook 2006 is also available at NIE library NK1160 Red (Level 4).

• Design Council - Better by Design (Channel 4, UK) (showcasing some common projects)

• Design London TV Channel (Quite a number of Videos)

• IFC Singapore (Furniture)

• 100 Chairs in 100 Days by Gamper Martino (Video clips available at YouTube)

• IKEA online catalogue 2010

• "after2 - humble beginnings" A collection of furniture prototypes, NAFA
• S U S T A I N A B L E T E C H N O L O G Y E D U C A T I O N P R O J E C T