Creating a New Custom Compound—by Design Design collaboration lends a sweeter sound to cellulosic composite guitar bodies

摘要

Design thinking and plastics compounding: These two distinctly different concepts and activities have seldom, if ever, been linked—until now. Scott Clear, chief design and innovation officer at Los Angeles-area RKS Design, says that he, with the robust support of custom compounder Rotuba Extruders Inc. (Linden, New Jersey, USA), has developed a new, "uncompromised" cellulosic material by approaching the task from a designer's perspective, while working alongside technologists in the materials lab and on the shop floor.