Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Hi all,
Here are some guidelines for our first pass at Umbra product concepts, due in class Monday Oct. 7.
- Each team member will generate a range of ideas. He/she will then choose the most promising three of them, and draw each in professional concept sketch form (i.e., good enough to show to a client).
- In addition, each team member will show drawings of his/her two "next best" ideas in a similar format but with much less polishing-- just enough to communicate them to us designers, not to a client. This way we can all review all of them, and perhaps promote some of the "next best" ideas if we decide to.
By "professional concept sketch form" we mean in this case:
- One 11x17 horizontal page per product idea. The concept should to be communicated as clearly and completely as possible, without other introduction or explanation, on a single page that is readable from a few feet away.
- Each page should have a clear title placed prominently, and text annotations wherever needed. Refer to Mike Leonard's drawing book, or online sources, for examples of good lettering and drawing practice.
- All pages by each student should be reasonably consistent in design, i.e. title size and placement, drawing style, etc. The design may (but doesn't have to) differ somewhat from student to student.
- It's OK to substitute any graphic techniques for communicating the concept, such as photos of sketch models, as long as the end result is a clear and well organized 2-D communication on an 11x17 page.
- Be sure your name and team number is on each page.
We intend to pin up the pages on the wall in columns of 5, one column per student, so we can cross reference the pages easily.
Please encourage your Lincoln team member to contribute any sketches he/she wishes as well; we can print out and pin them up. We will show whatever they would like shown. They need not choose to use our particular format if they do not wish to.
Good luck,
Charlie and Lyn
Here are some guidelines for our first pass at Umbra product concepts, due in class Monday Oct. 7.
- Each team member will generate a range of ideas. He/she will then choose the most promising three of them, and draw each in professional concept sketch form (i.e., good enough to show to a client).
- In addition, each team member will show drawings of his/her two "next best" ideas in a similar format but with much less polishing-- just enough to communicate them to us designers, not to a client. This way we can all review all of them, and perhaps promote some of the "next best" ideas if we decide to.
By "professional concept sketch form" we mean in this case:
- One 11x17 horizontal page per product idea. The concept should to be communicated as clearly and completely as possible, without other introduction or explanation, on a single page that is readable from a few feet away.
- Each page should have a clear title placed prominently, and text annotations wherever needed. Refer to Mike Leonard's drawing book, or online sources, for examples of good lettering and drawing practice.
- All pages by each student should be reasonably consistent in design, i.e. title size and placement, drawing style, etc. The design may (but doesn't have to) differ somewhat from student to student.
- It's OK to substitute any graphic techniques for communicating the concept, such as photos of sketch models, as long as the end result is a clear and well organized 2-D communication on an 11x17 page.
- Be sure your name and team number is on each page.
We intend to pin up the pages on the wall in columns of 5, one column per student, so we can cross reference the pages easily.
Please encourage your Lincoln team member to contribute any sketches he/she wishes as well; we can print out and pin them up. We will show whatever they would like shown. They need not choose to use our particular format if they do not wish to.
Good luck,
Charlie and Lyn
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