Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish

Material and Finishes

A course by Laura Perryman , CMF Design Consultant

97% positive reviews (37)

2,200 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Material and Finishes

Overview

“Now you will be using Adobe Indesign to refine the materials and textures in the palette and move into trying out CMF combinations ready to apply to a 2D visualisation of the final product. ”

In this video lesson Laura Perryman addresses the topic: Material 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

“Digital Material and Finishes In this lesson, we'll be refining our materials, textures and palette, setting that into the mood board and creating a strong visual mood. I'll get started now. It's really important that we start to refine down our choices now. We've set our CMF direction in the previous lesson and I'm showing you again, reviewing that mood board that we created. I have since then added in all of my keywords, I've finalised my palette, I've added in my colour names and suggestions and I've also created a keyword title, "CMF Direction Modern Balance." Really clear and simple, c...”

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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.