Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish

Influences

A course by Laura Perryman , CMF Design Consultant

97% positive reviews (37)

2,200 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Influences

Overview

“I will talk to you about some of my favourite designers, materials, colours and brands, besides, I will tell you why they are important to me and why. ”

In this video lesson Laura Perryman addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish. Learn to create successful product design projects by combining all your senses and bringing them to life in InDesign and Illustrator.

Partial transcription of the video

“Influences In this lesson, I'm going to cover my favourite designers and my favourite brands and how they've influenced me along the way. My favourite designer is Hella Jongerious. She's a Dutch female industrial designer and product designer that has colour and material at the heart of all of her products and practice. I've learned a lot from her. She has an incredible knowledge of materials and processes and she really studies colour and the interaction of materials in every product she does. Some of my favourite pieces of hers are vessels and also ceramic surfaces, where she looks at the...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish

Level: Beginner
97% positive reviews (37)
2200 students
5 units
16 lessons (2h 49m)
6 downloads

Category
Design
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Areas
Industrial Design, Product Design

Laura Perryman

A course by Laura Perryman

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CMF Design Consultant

Laura Perryman is the founder and creative director of Colour of Saying, a design studio dedicated to color and materials in experiential design. She studied textile design at the Royal College of Art in London in 2007, and has worked in the CMF industry since. In 2008, she was a senior designer in the color and material concept department for Nokia for two years. A few years later, she was the CMF lead designer at Arrival, an electric vehicle technology company.

Since then, she has gone on to curate CMF palettes for the tech, home, footwear, and interior design industries for clients like Nolii, Vivo footwear, Graphenstone, Panasonic, and Sky. She is also the author of The Colour Bible. She is currently on the board of trustees for The Colour in Design Awards, a non-profit organization for design graduates.