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A brilliant site crammed with vital information for your project work. Everything from woodwork joints, to structures, health & safety, drawing and colouring techniques to CAD/CAM. It’s all here, and also has a few test questions for revision!

This is the best site for researching plastics manufacturing techniques. It contains lots of animations that make the learning of the processes easy. A vital site for GCSE and A-Level RMT and Graphics.

Ever wondered how a refrigerator works? This site will answer all of your queries from CD burners to gas engines and much, much more.  This site is called 'How Stuff Works!'

Graphics made simple. This is an excellent site for revising graphics. This link takes you to a list of graphic topics which you can click for explanations and animated drawing sequences in a number of regular drawing conventions. Examples include, for example, one and two-point perspective, printing techniques etc.

BBC Bitesize revision and test questions for GCSE in Food, Textiles, RMT and Graphics.

An extensive database of design words with explanations and links to other sites.

D&T Online is crammed with information and is particularly useful for graphics packaging, food and manufacturing.

Graphics point of sale displays, digital screen printing.  Inspirational ideas.

Automatic self-assembling point of sale displays.  Manufactured in a range of materials.

An excellent site for point of sale display ideas.  Details about packaging materials etc.

This is also a useful site for packaging ideas.  Lots of useful information.

British Standards Institute.  This important site will provide you with information about the British Standards Institute and specific information that you might need for your project work.