“Learning Curves - An inspiring guide to improve your design sketch skills” is a just-released title
“Learning Curves - An inspiring guide to improve your design sketch skills” is a just-released title that joins a small niche of books which deal with sketching for the industrial and product design fields. In 177 pages Scania Trucks senior designer Allan Macdonald and studio engineer Klara Sjölén go through all the aspects involved in design sketching, presenting a rich collection of information, tips and inspiration, alternated with explicative sketches from 60 designers working in different fields, from automotive design to product and fashion design. The first chapters provide an introduction on sketching and the reasons and philosophy behind it, and cover some basic theory such as perspective, lighting, line weight, traditional and digital tools. The second half of the book is fully dedicated to design presentations, and presents many communication techniques and tools as well as some case studies that demonstrate the ideation and development process. Each chapter is filled with general and specific tips, as well as suggestions of practical exercises that can help the reader improve his/her design skills. Some chapters also include sections dedicated to specific designers, who in a semi-interview style explain their approach and workflow and share some personal experiences. “Learning Curves” is not targeted to total beginners, nor is it intended to provide an in-depth guide on the any of the covered topic – which would require en entire book for each subject. Instead, all the techniques are concisely presented in the context of their contribution to the main goal, which is to present ideas in the best way possible and bring them to the next step towards production. -- source link
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