Product Design Sketching

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Product Design Sketching

• Course overview

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Professional Diploma Series

• Product realization appreciation
• Product design sketching
• Product digital mockup
• Form exploration from art to part

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Course Aims

• to develop students knowledge and skills in
• exploring product ideas
• communicating the ideas
• Students become competent in visualizing and
  presenting ideas using
• freehand sketches
• colour rendering
• technical drawing
• computer imaging

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Art VS Product Design Sketching

• We sketch for a purpose (to help us think, to
  communicate, to persuade, etc.)
• We sometimes sketch existing things, but mostly
  we sketch things we imagine
• We sometimes play with optical illusion, but we
  never draw impossible objects

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Module Web Site

• Access via http//lmes.cl3.ust.hk
• Directly to http//tds.ic.polyu.edu.hk/digital_des
  ign/site_icu208_sketching/index.htm
• Calendar
• Venue
• Handouts
• Announcements and reminders

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Assessment

• Class Attendance 75 or more (absent for no more
  than four 3-hour sessions)
• Assignments Students must submit ALL assignments
  before the corresponding due date.
• Module Grade Students must get a total mark of
  at least 50 (D grade) in this module.

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Assignments

• Assignments (60)
• 3 drawing home-works
• 4 graded class activities
• Individual project (40)
• Includes a series of sketch developments
• Digital image enhancement
• Final oral and visual presentation

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Subject Ground Rules

• Build up your art materials
• Bring your sketch pad
• Be bold
• Practice, practice, practice