Design Fundamentals: An Introduction to Furniture Design

Design Fundamentals: An Introduction to Furniture Design

“Congratulations! You have managed to reach the end of the course. Thank you so much for sharing this part of your journey in the world of furniture design with us. We hope you enjoyed it, and we look forward to seeing your designs out in the world. As a reminder, we have summarised the main steps you should follow to complete your project. Of course, our project can serve you as an example, but you should create something different. Remember, keep your eyes open, observe consciously, and build your own image archive—you can find inspiration anywhere. The Type of Chair Think about the different chair typologies and related different materials and production techniques. Choose a type of chair for your project and consider its dimensions and proportions. Inspiration and Briefing Inspirations and references are important on the way to your own idea. Write your briefing and create a mood board to visualise your ideas. Look for reference images that illustrated the points in the briefing.

Sketching Sketch out your ideas and develop your project further by doing more focused research. Define the design concept and the main design outline. Then make a more accurate sketch with dimensions ready to be transferred to the computer. The 3D Model Work on the design of the chair in a 3D programme; modify and refine it until you reach the point of the final result. Make a couple of renders on a neutral background. The Presentation Create a presentation of your chair design. Remember, the goal is to make the audience understand your idea, your concept, and your design, and in case of a client relation, obviously to convince the client to take on your project. Don't forget to upload your finished project to the forum! You can do so by clicking on "Create your project". We will be more than happy to answer any questions you might have along the way and give you feedback whenever we can. In the meantime, participate in the forum and interact with the community. Domestika has a great community where we all want to grow and learn. So join in, share your process, ideas, and doubts, and comment on others' work. See you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Thank you so much for joining this course. We hope very much that you enjoyed our little tour doing a chair. We can't wait to see your projects in the forum and we get back to you as soon as possible. Before we close down the course, we want to go again through all the key steps and also give you some additional advice. In the beginning, we talked about ourselves, introducing ourselves, and as a next step, about inspiration and influences. After that, we talked, and this is really important, about how to see, how to perceive your environment consciously. And that's where we think it's still...”

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Course summary for: Design Fundamentals: An Introduction to Furniture Design

• Level: Beginner
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• 2218 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (4h 31m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  KeyShot, Rhino

• Areas

  Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Product Design