Intro to Sustainable Product Design with Wood
Form, Function, Material, and Production
A course by Thomas Schnur , Industrial and Product Designer
About the video: Form, Function, Material, and Production
Overview
“Function, material, production and form are always directly related and thus shape the shape of a piece of furniture. You will learn more about this in this lesson. ”
In this video lesson Thomas Schnur addresses the topic: Form, Function, Material, and Production, which is part of the Domestika online course: Intro to Sustainable Product Design with Wood. Discover a holistic approach to product design and learn to make furniture that meets your design, sustainability, and functional needs.
Partial transcription of the video
“Form, function, material and production In the following lesson I'm going to the ratio between material, manufacture, form and function. But before I go any further, I will present you with an object which includes all these parameters and we will based on that talk about these proportions. We see a lantern slide here, which I designed for the glassworks in Meisenthal. At the beginning of this design was the need to design a lantern, which differs from other lanterns and solve the problems as much as possible the one with the lanterns generally go hand in hand namely that you need extra lon...”
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Thomas Schnur
A course by Thomas Schnur
Thomas Schnur is a product designer and has been living and working in Cologne, Germany, for more than ten years. He trained as a carpenter and later studied product design at the FH Aachen. His educational background allowed him to develop the awareness that people design their environment on a daily basis and to realize that he was also part of this group of designers. His projects, which often surprise people with their simplicity and originality, open up new perspectives on the concept of everyday objects.
In 2014 he started to mass-produce his first designs and in 2016 they were part of an exhibition entitled Funktionsraum at the PASSAGEN design festival. Over the next few years, he started teaching at ECOSIGN in Cologne, as well as at HBK Saar, UdK Berlin, and Kunsthochschule Kassel. Thomas designs products for the craft and industrial sectors as well as for exhibitions, books, and spaces. This wide range of activities gives him a comprehensive overview of product design at each moment. In his book Common Things he shares his experiences, reflections, and thoughts on some objects from everyday culture. In Chairman, published in 2021, he offers insight into his collaboration with craft professionals and clients for whom he has created designs.
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