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Article: PROTOTYPING: All change.(Graphic arts industry use rapid prototyping)
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- Design Week
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- September 20, 2007
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Likened to 3D printing, rapid manufacturing and rapid prototyping technologies are changing the way designers make things. It's a paradigm shift that will alter almost everything we know about the creative process, reports Scott Billings
Certain people in certain circles are talking about a revolution. Not quite a political uprising, but something that could change the nature of manufacturing on a global scale, not to mention fundamental rules of design. This agent of change is known as rapid manufacturing and it's born of rapid prototyping, a system that has increasingly aided product design since its introduction in the mid-1980s.
At its most ...