Month: April 2015

5 phases to present your project to your design company

Question from Nur Aktas Industrial design student, Turkey As a designer, how do you present your product to the company? As a designer when you present a project to your company (or a client), we don’t straight away present a final project. We set up few meetings in advance to build the project TOGETHER. Why ? To make sure that the company and the design team share the same vision – and avoid to work for multiple weeks for nothing in case the project wouldn’t match. In that case, the spirit and...

How to Draw a Shoe (Side View in 3 Tips)

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Shoe drawing is difficult at the start for anyone. To make it easy, we start by learning how to draw a shoe from the side view. If you are wondering how to draw shoes, you might face at least one of these issues: You don’t know how to start. The shoe you draw has a bad proportion (both in perspective and side view). You have difficulty to visualize the shoe in 3 dimensions. The 2 stages to drawing shoes the right way What helped me to make a huge difference in my shoe drawing learning...

Palette. A Sketchbook for shoe designer |TIP118

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I am following a cool page about Footwear design on Instagram: @PaletteStudioCo Credit featured image on the home page from Rob Maston or @raw_mass @PaletteStudioCo on Instagram It showcased amazing works of pro, beginner or passionate of footwear design – drawing with the Sketchbook Palette. What is there so special in ? Palette offers 130+ pages of shoe template per sketchbook. (A set of common shoe templates of low cut, high cut sneakers…) We can drop in ideas instantaneously without caring...

Value of Sketching & Digital Tools in Design | Martijn van de Wiel | Eindhoven University of Technology

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Learn how to combine digital tools and hand sketching in product design with expert tips from Martijn Van de Wiel’s class and Chou-Tac Chung.

What Art material to Buy as a Student Designer

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When we first join a design school, we receive an art material list. After a visiting any art shop, you realize how the material is costly and that our budget may be quite limited as a student designer. We can’t possibly buy everything from the list. But we are so excited to start school in great conditions that we tend to be non-reasonable and buy a lot more than we need. Let’s do a tour of an art material shop: Blick We have the belief that more we get equipped, more we’ll do...

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