Visual Storytelling with Food: Designing New Perspectives
Prototype Building
A course by Nicole Vindel , Artist and Creative Director
About the video: Prototype Building
Overview
“With the prototype drawn out, let's move on to the next stage: lifting it from 2D to 3D! To achieve this, I will help you to define the interaction with the object and its ergonomy. I will give you some tips and show you how I prototype my project. But, when the time comes, feel free to use your own technique.”
In this video lesson Nicole Vindel addresses the topic: Prototype Building, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Storytelling with Food: Designing New Perspectives. Discover how to use food as a tool to inspire positive change by exploring creative and critical thinking techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Prototype Building In this lesson, we're going to play hands-on to build the prototype. I am going to build it in clay. You can find different kinds of clay, clay for molding, clay for scholar use. All of them work. Be sure to understand the instructions and follow them properly. We have been working in 2D with the sketches and the iterations. Now we're going to work in 3D. This will help us see other things that we haven't seen before, such as, sizes, ergonomics, the position of each of the holes, for example, something that we need our hands and we need to interact with the object to un...”
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Course summary for: Visual Storytelling with Food: Designing New Perspectives
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Design, Product Design

Nicole Vindel
A course by Nicole Vindel
Nicole Vindel Barrera is a creative director and artist specialized in food. From her Barcelona-based studio, she explores new narratives of food for a better tomorrow. After graduating as an industrial design engineer at Elisava School of Design, Nicole discovered her passion for gastronomy by designing tableware for the leading, 3-Michelin star restaurant El Celler de Can Roca.
She discovered the power food has to generate empathy, awaken critical perspectives on daily actions and choices, and create opportunities to reflect on the unspoken. Nicole has since collaborated with cultural institutions like FoodCultura Foundation, BCD Barcelona Center of Design, and El Tercer Paraíso. She is also the founder of Food Design Nation and Random Happiness Art Collective.
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