Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish
Materials and Finishes
A course by Laura Perryman , CMF Design Consultant
About the video: Materials and Finishes
Overview
“You will see the common material groups, the common finishes, and visual aesthetics. That way, you can be more aware of the importance of material details and textures. Your own observations are important in this one, so please open your eyes and use your touch and senses to find nuances and subtleties you might not have seen before! ”
In this video lesson Laura Perryman addresses the topic: Materials and Finishes, 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
“Materials and Finishes In this lesson, I'll cover materials and finishes and demonstrate how they're an important and integral part of CMF design. We're going to go over all the different properties of materials and a lot of extra resources where you can find out how to use materials in your projects, too. In this lesson, we'll cover three different material groups: metals, plastics and fabrics. Materials are an incredible component of any product design. But more and more, we're needing to understand where and how materials are used, and where they're sourced. It's incredibly important in ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish
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Category
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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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