Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish

Selecting a Colour CMF Palette

A course by Laura Perryman , CMF Design Consultant

97% positive reviews (37)

2,200 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Selecting a Colour CMF Palette

Overview

“Now that you have your visual trend inspiration, you are going to build a colour palette for your project.”

In this video lesson Laura Perryman addresses the topic: Selecting a Colour CMF Palette , 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

“Selecting a Colour CMF Palette In this lesson, we'll be adding to our visual mood board by adding a colour story to it. We're going to select colour swatches and build up a range of six colours for each of our colour moods. Adding colour to mood boards is one of my favourite things to do. I like to look at the visual images and see a palette underneath that conveys exactly what the visual mood is. You might've started this process a little bit in the previous lessons. We did some colour tasks where we went out and found original colour and painted them or expressed those in different ways. ...”

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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.