Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish
CMF Design
A course by Laura Perryman , CMF Design Consultant
About the video: CMF Design
Overview
“In this lesson, I will help you define and understand what CMF is. I will tell you where CMF was originated and what a CMF designer does on a day-to-day basis. You will learn to look for CMF examples in products and start to understand the CMF design process for your project. ”
In this video lesson Laura Perryman addresses the topic: CMF Design , 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
“CMF Design In this lesson, I'm going to cover a little bit about what CMF design is; the history of it; why CMF design matters and what it stands for; what it means today; more in line with design user experience; the role of the CMF designer; how they work within teams and brands as well; and also an introduction to the CMF process. This is just a starting point, an introduction to CMF design and to the process itself, and we're going to start with what it actually means. CMF design is a specialised area of design that focuses on three elements: colour, material and finish, and it supports...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish
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Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Industrial Design, Product Design
Laura Perryman
A course by Laura Perryman
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.
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