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...
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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...
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...
Martijn Van de Wiel is an Industrial Design teacher at the Eindhoven University of Technology – I was pleased to be invited as a guest to converse with him and his sketching class. We did a Skype call in Singapore – Netherlands and had a great time sharing some points about Product Design and Photoshop. This course is about the value of sketching and digital tools in the creative process. Martijn Sketching class in the Netherlands – Industrial design, 2nd year Quick introduction Martijn is the...
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...
Hello! I'm Chou-Tac, a Product Designer from France.
If the sketching methods I’ve acquired aid me in my life and in my industrial design career, I believe that they can also help you reach your dream goal as a student or professional designer.
Leave a comment in the blog or send me an email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com : )
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