This book really is a college course in ceramic design boiled down to its essentials. Studio potters and clay artists who have experienced the process of designing through trial and error, and are looking for alternatives will find helpful tips in this guide book. Instead of making a pot, then looking at it to see how the next one could be better, a designer first makes a series of sketches, a maquette, then a technical drawing, then a prototype, then a model, then perhaps a mold, in order to come up with a finished product. While this entire process is only necessary when designing for industrial production-and plenty of potters do design for industry in addition to making one-of-a-kind work-the fact is, we all can benefit from some understanding of the design process.
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