Woodworking for Furniture: Carving and Dyeing Techniques
Creating the Design
A course by Urvi Sharma , Furniture Designer
About the video: Creating the Design
Overview
“Now that you've familiarized yourself with the basic tools and techniques, gathered inspiration, and created a mood board, it's time to get started with the course project. In this lesson, I will help you to finalize your design on paper and then create samples of your final piece using scraps of wood. These will be used to explore the texture and color.”
In this video lesson Urvi Sharma addresses the topic: Creating the Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Woodworking for Furniture: Carving and Dyeing Techniques. Learn how to carve, dye, and apply patterns onto wood to create unique pieces of furniture that are both beautiful and functional.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating the Design In the last lesson, I talked about how to get inspired and create a mood board for your design. In this lesson, I'll talk about creating your design on paper. Now that you've finished the exercises and created a mood board, it's time to start the final project. Here I have a set of tools and materials that I need to help figure out a design for my final project. I want to mention again if you have a different idea or source of inspiration that you want to work with, I encourage you to do so. I want to know about your background from the piece you create and share at the ...”
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Course summary for: Woodworking for Furniture: Carving and Dyeing Techniques
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Furniture Design & Making, Woodworking

Urvi Sharma
A course by Urvi Sharma
Urvi Sharma is a furniture and lighting designer from New Delhi, India. Her mother is a graphic and interior designer, so she was introduced to art and design from a young age. She later went on to study furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design, where she focused on color and pattern. After graduating, she and her partner showed their work under the studio name INDO- at a trade show in New York City. Encouraged by the positive feedback they received, they kept designing alongside their jobs which they left a year and a half later to focus on INDO- full-time.
Since then, Urvi’s work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Interior Design Magazine, and Dwell. She was also a contestant on Ellen’s Next Great Designer, a furniture design show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, and has received several awards and nominations for her designs.
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