Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair
Free idea sketching
A course by Muka Design Lab , Industrial design studio
About the video: Free idea sketching
Overview
“We are going to show you how we generate crazy ideas and concepts. We will teach you the method we follow to select them and how we are polishing them little by little.”
In this video lesson Muka Design Lab addresses the topic: Free idea sketching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair . Learn slow design techniques to build a wooden chair for artisanal production.
Partial transcription of the video
“Free idea sketching In this lesson I will teach you how to sketch free ideas to develop new concepts. It is time to explore your creativity. It is time to generate all the sketches that you can, do not rule out any that seem bad to you. We usually work the concepts individually, but, once we like the concept of the other, we polish it, evolve it and work together to develop ideas. To put you in context a bit, I'll show you some sketches that we developed during these years, Many times we usually sketch on notebooks. So we do not lose the concepts, because it is much easier to lose a page th...”
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Course summary for: Designing and Prototyping Your First Chair
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Product Design

Muka Design Lab
A course by Muka Design Lab
Founded by Lucas and Laxmi, Muka Design Lab is an award-winning industrial design studio specializing in furniture and consumer product design. Under the premise of slow design, the studio creates furniture and spaces with unique identity and character, working with local workshops and artisans to design everyday objects that reach people.
Their work has been featured in AD Architectural Design, Fast Company, Archi Expo, Dezeen, and El País. The studio’s projects have won international awards at exhibitions in Milan and Los Angeles, as well as a German Design Award and a RedDot Award for Design Concept.
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