Furniture and Object Design for Beginners
Course final project
A course by Juan Pablo Fuentes , Industrial Designer
Joined July 2018
Joined July 2018
About the final project for: Furniture and Object Design for Beginners
Design of furniture and objects for beginners
“We arrived at the end of the course! I thank you for having done this journey with me and I hope you have had as much fun as I did when doing it. Remember: you do not have to be a professional to make a design. Get inspired, look for references, research and experiment! If you make a mistake, it does not matter, go ahead with your ideas and your concepts. We all learned, and we continue learning, making mistakes! I look forward to your progress in the forum! ”
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“Hi. We have arrived at the end of this course. I hope you have had a great time. Well, I've had the most net, thick, "cool" or the coolest thing in Paraguay. Now we will make a revision of the contents seen in this course. First I told you who I am, where I come from, my loves, my professional bark. And then I told you about my influences. Then we saw industrial design, its origins and how it influences in the current world. We went on to define what a concept is, what it is for and how it influences your design. Then we saw how a concept connects to a collection. How the products come toge...”
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Course summary for: Furniture and Object Design for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Retail Design
Juan Pablo Fuentes
A course by Juan Pablo Fuentes
Juan Pablo Fuentes is an industrial designer from Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile. Founder of the FUENTES+ASOCIADOS brand in 1997, he's developed projects for clients such as: WOOL, CODELCO, MIDEPLAN Government of Chile, COINTER Chile and Spain, VESTO de Arauco, among others.
In 2008, he founded CÓMODO, a pioneering design store focused on the production, manufacturing, and marketing of Chilean designs. He currently collaborates on the editorial project Nuevos Creativos Chilenos, which focuses on showcasing the best talent of the last ten years of design in different specialties; Products (2015), Clothing (2017) and Graphic Design (2019). In 2017, he founded END—Espacio Nacional de Diseño—the first design gallery in Chile, a space to promote, share, and market limited design pieces and design series.
Within the academic field, he is a professor at various Chilean universities, and between 2010 and 2014, he was Director of the School of Design at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA). He has participated in exhibitions, fairs, conferences, and seminars in Chile and abroad (Argentina, Colombia, Spain, England, Italy, and Peru). What's more, he was involved in developing the radio program on Chilean design called Design for All.
Among his most important awards are the Avonni Award for Kitchen Design (2017), the Innovation in Design Award from the Ministry of Culture (2016), the Designer of the Year Award from ED magazine (2012), and the Fondart Book Contest Prize for Nuevos Creativos Chilenos (2015-2017).
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