Object Design: Combine Material, Form, and Narrative

Overview

“The first step will be to draw on paper the ideas and material concepts that come to mind to find the direction in which you will take the rest of the project.”

In this video lesson Jean-Baptiste Fastrez addresses the topic: Researching through Sketching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Object Design: Combine Material, Form, and Narrative. Break the rules of design by experimenting with materials and shapes to look beyond how objects are used and allow them to transmit real emotions.

Partial transcription of the video

“Research by sketching In this lesson we will move on to drawing to try to establish what the possibilities are available to us in textiles to create the frame of this mirror. For me, drawing is not the occasion to do something necessarily aesthetic, which we will display on the wall. On the contrary, it is rather a tool that I use to discuss with myself, discuss, reflect, put on paper concepts that are just ideas at the moment. The goal is not to make pretty drawings which you will then be able to display at home. On the contrary, it is to try to disentangle good and bad ideas to try to rea...”

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Course summary for: Object Design: Combine Material, Form, and Narrative

• Level: Beginner
• 90% positive reviews (10)
• 619 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 8m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe InDesign, KeyShot, Rhino

• Areas

  Furniture Design & Making, Product Design