Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces

Inspiration, expiration

A course by Gema Casado Olea , Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas

Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas. Madrid, Spain.
Joined April 2016
98% positive reviews (214)
5,496 students
Audio: Spanish, English
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About the video: Inspiration, expiration

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you my creative process and we will make a WoodBoard with the materials we have and all the inspiration we have collected. We will stress the importance of our WoodBoard being physical, that we can touch, feel and smell the materials. This will give us additional information to the digital format since we can understand the textures, warmth, thickness of our woods, fabrics and papers.”

In this video lesson Gema Casado Olea addresses the topic: Inspiration, expiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces. Learn DIY techniques to create a desk and a storage stool from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“According to what we like and we like, we are going to configure a moodboard like the one here. This we use as reference when we want to mix the colors that make us cool, the materials that we like, In this case, we used a wood, we always use a wood because it is our main material, our main material. We almost always try make our moodboards physical. It is important that they are physical, we are linked with the handmade world. Touching the materials provides us with additional information that the computer does not, right? This way, if we put certain fabric, that fabric can be warmer or co...”

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Course summary for: Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (214)
  • 5496 students
  • 4 units
  • 16 lessons (2h 23m)
  • 3 downloads
  • Category

    Craft
  • Areas

    Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Woodworking

Gema Casado Olea

Gema Casado Olea
A course by Gema Casado Olea

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Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas

Gema Casado Olea is an economist by profession and creative by passion. After doing a 180º turn in life, her work involves creating functional and decorative pieces for spaces where energy flows.

Her passion for creating things with her hands led her to found the DIY agency "El Tarro de Ideas", write 3 books about DIY with the Penguin Random House publishing house, in addition to creating and presenting the "Creative Decoration" program on Canal decasa and Más Chic TV (already with 2 seasons broadcast in Spain and Latin America) and finally, founding and decorating the Coworking Handmade Refuge “13 Manos”.


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Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces. Craft course by Gema Casado Olea

Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces

A course by Gema Casado Olea
Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas. Madrid, Spain.
Joined April 2016
  • 98% positive reviews (214)
  • 5,496 students