The Future Laboratory

A really really interesting Blog!.. driving most of my research for this project and future direction I guess!! anyway it's really cool so take a look and read about tomorrow!!!.....

http://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/blog/

Daniel Forsgren Interior Workshop

Today we had a quick Interior workshop with Daniel Forsgren, looking at work flow, taking a quick top view sketch in Photoshop and putting it into Maya and Alias to create very quick very basic CAD models to sketch over. It was really good, need to learn Maya though!!!.. here's the quick top view sketch I did... kinda cool... looks like a kinda retro British sports car to me!..

Oh... and take a look at Daniel's website... really cool!!

http://www.petfactory.se/

KIska Workshop with Christof Täubl - Soapbox_Racer

Tuesday last week we started a Tutorial/Workshop with Christof Täubl from Kiska. Christof was just introducing us to the way Kiska work in the initial idea generation stage of a design brief and how they think about and incorporate "lightweight" from the get go! On Tuesday we all worked on our small thumbnail sketching on posti-it notes... a really good technique for quick idea generation and stops you getting to precious about individual sketches!.. I then took my favourite sketch and did a quick Photoshop rendering... branding it KTM.. of course! lol...

Kiska - "Visual Lightweight" - Living Moodboard

Right so how did it go?.. well freaking awesome actually, really liked my final display and the feedback was really productive. Aim is now to take this research forward, keeping thinking about the 3 themes, Static Motion, Delicate Stance and Layered Translucency.... I've been also asked to look at how these same principals can be used in a structural sense and how heavier looking structural items can help improve the overall feeling of lightweight... anyway, that's enough writing... the pics!

Kiska - "Visual Lightweight" - Living Moodboard Mid Review

Today was our Mid Review for the Living Moodboards!!.. I got some really positive feedback and a couple of really clear design directions/themes to explore over the next couple of days before Kiska come in on Monday!!.. Gunna be some long nights but I love it!!! below are a few photos from the review, taken by Mitsu!.. Cheers Mitsu!.. I'll be taking some more interesting pics of the models, playing with lighting etc. over the next few days and will put them up once finished!!!.. once again watch this space!

Kiska - "Visual Lightweight"

Today's our 1st day our 1st main 10 week Project at UID!!!.. working in collaboration with Kiska (freaking awesome I know..) the brief is "Visual Lightweight". Started this morning with my Living Moodboard which I'll will be presenting to Kiska in a weeks time... exploring the ideas around "Static Motion" thinking about "Stance", "layering", "Translucency" and "Colour"... really really interesting... I'll add some photos as the Moodboard evolves.. Watch this space!!!