AS91627 - Starting Concepts - Prep for students

Planning for AS91627 - Producing concept sketches for their chosen product design.
We are moving onto concept ideas. This can be done as drawings on paper or the iPad (Procreate) or as 3M sketch models to help them to visualise their ideas.

We are focussing on the form of their concept ideas first so there is not much colour or details yet.

Resources

Link to blog post planning - Pattern and Texture
Link to blog post planning - Form
Link to blog post planning - Colour and Shape

Link to blog post - Form Development

Link to class site

Link to help page on the class site - includes worked examples and screencasts of explanations

Learning Outcomes

• To produce a wide range of different design concepts that could fulfil the design brief they have written.
• Use a wider variety of media to create their work and rely less on the standard use of drawing pencil and coloured pencil.
• Create 2D and 3D sketches or models to explore different ideas.
• To be able to use the information from the design brief and the needs of the client to guide them in their ideas.

Materials and Equipment

Drawing pencils - only to be used in a support role, not as the main media for the work
Black outliner pens
White pencils

Brown graphics marker pens
White paper, brown paper, coloured sugar papers

Clear acetate for tracing.

Card , glue and scissors

Plasticine and 3D modelling tools

iPads and stylus's with Procreate installed


Form drawings and models in pencil and various media.

Form development drawings and models.
Look at these drawings as a base to find forms to use in the design concepts.

Examples

Initial concepts. A photograph of my hand was traced to provide the ergonome for the drawing.

We are using quite a monochrome approach to the concepts so we can focus on just the form to start with.

This is brown paper, brown marker pen and white pencil.

To see what kind of shapes can be held easily in the hand and how big they could be, I made some sketch models in plasticine and photographed them being held in my hand.

Some of the students have started using the iPads, with an app called Procreate.

This small example is going over a few of the key elements we have been looking at on the app. Using the airbrush pen, the smudger and the eraser. Using the colour picker and layers.

The notes that will go with these concepts will explain how they relate to the design brief. The students then need to take these back to their client to get feedback. The direction they take their design developments will depend on what the client says about their concepts.