Making a cardboard mug using different shapes and techniques.

Experimenting with shapes

How do you start to design a product? Can drawing techniques be learned? And why is modelling such a useful technique? This album introduces the basic skills necessary to communicate ideas on paper, as well as revealing the step-by-step processes for making three-dimensional models of objects, showing perspective in drawings and sketching complex objects. It also features a case study of the Strida folding bicycle, an idea taken from initial drawings to marketed product. This material forms part of The Open University course T211 Design and designing.

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Design and designing

Transcript -- Design and designing

Controlling fingers and wrist to draw shapes and letters.

Introduction to drawing

Transcript -- Introduction to drawing

Shading and toning

Design and Designing - for iPad/Mac/PC

Experimenting with shapes

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