Introduction to CMF Design: Color, Material, and Finish
Applying Finishes to Headphones
A course by Laura Perryman , CMF Design Consultant
About the video: Applying Finishes to Headphones
Overview
“In this lesson you will be using Adobe Illustrator and tools, to create a simple illustration of the final product adding colours and material textures to create a visual impression of the final CMF on a product. Are you ready? ”
In this video lesson Laura Perryman addresses the topic: Applying Finishes to Headphones, 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
“Applying Finishes to Headphones In this lesson, we'll be covering how to apply colours and materials and textures that we photographed already into Illustrator and apply them on the form. I'll show you some tools and techniques and ways that you can do this. Let's get started. I'm going to show you how you can use Adobe Illustrator to create a simple outline or a series of blocks to represent a product from a certain viewpoint and how to use some of the tools to create semi-realistic ways that colours and materials interact on the product so you can give a visual impression of how they migh...”
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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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