The aim of this series is to stimulate interest in design and the application of technologies for a secondary school audience. designers explores the design process from conception to realisation in a broad range of settings. These programs present working designers solving real design problems. We see how they formulate their ideas and bring them to life as products or processes utilising a variety of materials, technologies and production methods.

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Date	Episode Information
Monday 28 July 10.30am	01. Ice Cream The design of a new range of ice creams is followed from the original marketing concept, into the development kitchen, through various taste testing sessions and finally to the factory for mass production.
Monday 4 August 10.30am	02. Web Site The ABC Online team design and implement a new look for the JJJ Oz Music Month website. The focus of the site is Australian music and features interactive streaming delivery of information. Students can visit the site online after viewing this program
Monday 11 August 10.30am	03. Timber Furniture A timber furniture designer shows us how she makes a bench and a screen. She takes us through the process including the selection of the right timbers and construction using traditional joinery. She uses woodworking machines for most of the production process.
Monday 18 August 10.30am	04. Car Two young automotive designers develop their concepts for the exterior and interior of a car. Their ideas are refined through the construction of full scale clay models, and finally we see the cars being built on the assembly line.
Monday 25 August 10.30am	05. Fashion A fashion designer for a street-wear label reveals the process that turns a sketch in his notebook into a garment hanging on the rack in a clothes shop. We see all the steps in the process.
Monday 1 September 10.30am	06. Shopping Complex The work of architects and interior designers is highlighted in this program. They plan and supervise the building of a new suburban shopping complex, with all the design considerations that entails.
Monday 8 September 10.30am	07. Jewellery An industrial designer shows us how he hand makes high quality pressed jewellery from silver and gold. His process is contrasted with mass produced jewellery cast from pewter for the surf market.
Monday 15 September 10.30am	08. Agriculture A framer shows us the system she designed for breeding alpacas and farming them for wool production. Another farmer details the system he has devised for growing and distributing hydroponic lettuces.
Monday 22 September 10.30am	09. Plastic Bottle Two industrial designers devise an innovative new plastic sports drink bottle and a special sealing cap. The program introduces plastic as a material and shows the most commmon methods of manufacture used in the plastics industry.
Monday 13 October 10.30am	10. Solar Kayak We meet a man who designs and builds solar-powered kayaks made from fibreglass. His craft is propelled by an electric motor that is powered by an innovative solar panel.