Furniture and Object Design for Beginners
What will we design? Unit or collection?
A course by Juan Pablo Fuentes , Industrial Designer
Joined July 2018
Joined July 2018
About the video: What will we design? Unit or collection?
Overview
“In this lesson we will decide what to do, if a unit or a collection, and we will define with what type of furniture we will start. ”
In this video lesson Juan Pablo Fuentes addresses the topic: What will we design? Unit or collection?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture and Object Design for Beginners. Learn to design a set of furniture and objects from the concept to the model.
Partial transcription of the video
“It is time to make decisions. Today we design a product. Or, better yet, a collection. I always give as an example that, If we already have an idea in mind, Why not transfer it, transpolate it, make it grow? Example: if we want to make a coffee table, Why don't we do the auxiliary shot? What is this for? For our base concept, so that our mother idea can grow, it can work. As much as you later want to make one thing or other. What does it depend on if it is a unit or a collection? It depends on you. From your budget, of your energies, of your desire. Because I assure you that, paying attenti...”
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Course summary for: Furniture and Object Design for Beginners
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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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