Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish
Selecting Materials and Finishes
A course by Laura Perryman , CMF Design Consultant
About the video: Selecting Materials and Finishes
Overview
“I will teach you how to go through the mood board from the previous lesson and establish which materials and finishes you will pull for two different colour palettes or moods. You will learn how to start to consider context and discuss materials and finishes that are appropriate for product design and application.”
In this video lesson Laura Perryman addresses the topic: Selecting 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
“Selecting Materials and Finishes In this lesson, we're going to be looking at choosing materials, finishes and textures for our product. We'll consider the visual mood that we've built up on our mood board and we'll look at the product as well. I'm going to be focusing on a set of headphones. You may have another product in mind for your project. You have to consider the context of the materials and finishes. Look at products that are similar to the project that you have chosen too. I've chosen headphones for this specific project, so I'll have a look at what's happening with materials and ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish
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Category
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Software
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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