From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC
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Exploring form through sketching: Kitchen utensils
From the course: Sketching for Product Design and AEC
Exploring form through sketching: Kitchen utensils
- Sketching, as I've been emphasizing throughout this course is a quick and efficient way to explore ideas and get them on paper or screen before they disappear. We don't sketch what we already know, we sketch what we're trying to envision. What we're trying to bring to life. Designers leverage the speed and simplicity of sketching to solve problems as well as to imagine new opportunities. And because this generally involves physical form, whether manifested in a hand held object, a piece of furniture, or a physical spaced interactant, designers need to believe they are manipulating and sculpting material in space. They actually need to receive feedback from their sketches to make quick, informed decisions. So how in the world do we do that? Well, to answer that question, I want to go quickly back to review a few critical topics covered earlier, as well as a few new ones. The first topic is canonical perspective, discussed in the movie, The Mechanics of Perspective. As mentioned…
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