it’s not always easy to design. we are going to look at a range of tasks that hopefully will help...
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It’s not always easy to design. We are going to look at a range of tasks that hopefully will help you with designing skills. We call these tasks, design strategies. These strategies can be helpful when you are designing any product. We are going to look at the following design strategies:
• Morphing
• Inspiration sources
• Modelling
• Development
Your client Celtic Creations have asked for your design to have an organic theme and be as original as possible.To help give you some inspiration for this project we need to look at organic shapes and what nature’s got to offer us as a stimulus.
Patterns in nature
Designers often get inspiration by looking at things around them. They may look at books and magazines, visit exhibitions and museums or look at the environment around them.
• Inspiration sources
Morphing Shapes
It’s not always easy to design. To help you come up with some ORGANIC shapes and patterns from nature to use for your Tea Light/Candle Holder we are going to do some morphing.
Start off with an image of something curved. Then, begin morphing it into a number of different shapes. Consider flipping it, rotating it, repeating it,
reducing or enlarging it. Think about ‘C’
shapes and ‘S’ shapes:draw a shape
flip it
repeat it & flip it again
join them together
repeat it & flip it again
one original design!!
•Morphing shapes
Modelling
Modelling is important as it gives us an idea of the size,
proportion and overall look of the design.Add natural
scrol – fern here
• Modelling
• Developments
Your client Celtic Creations have asked for your design to have an organic theme and be as original as possible.To help give you some inspiration for this project we need to look at organic shapes and what nature’s got to offer us as a stimulus.
Patterns in nature
Designers often get inspiration by looking at things around them. They may look at books and magazines, visit exhibitions and museums or look at the environment around them.
Inspiration from an innovative designer - Raewyn Harris
Designers can also get inspiration from looking at the work of others – artists or craftspeople in particular. Raewyn Harris is a New Zealand based artist who is inspired by her local landscape, coastline, hills, trees and the sea. She includes the patterns of nature in her paintings.What do you think of her work? Will it inspire you?
Morphing Shapes
To help you develop organic shapes and patterns from nature, for the Tea Light/Candle Holder we are going to use a strategy called morphing .
Start off with an image of something curved. Then, begin morphing it into a number of different shapes and designs. Consider flipping it, rotating it, repeating it,
reducing or enlarging it. Think about ‘C’
shapes and ‘S’ shapes:
draw a shape
flip it
repeat it & flip it again
join them together
repeat it & flip it again
one original design!!
Morphing shapes
stretch it & rotate it slightly
break it
up in half
rotate it
draw a shape
repeat it & flip
simplify the shape & add a curve on the end
repeat it & flip
add an extra curve
add extra holders
Repeat & flip
vertically
add an extra curve
another original design!
This is an example of using organic forms as a source of inspiration for design ideas.
Organic inspiration source for design ideas
Sioned Davies
A further example of using organic forms as a source of inspiration but a different presentation style – which do you prefer?
Organic inspiration source for design ideas
Ben Watkins
Modelling
Modelling can be a helpful way to design. It can help you to
judge the size, proportion and overall look of a design.
inspiration
final product
Once you have a design that you are pleased with and answers your design specification, you need to think about how you can make your product. Think about e.g. which materials you are going to use and how to join them together. You will need to annotate your drawings.
Look at the next slide to see how to annotate your work effectively.
Kim Lewis