Drawing for Product Designers (Portfolio Skills: Product Design)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1856697436 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. About the Author Kevin Henry is an Associate Professor in the product design program at Columbia College Chicago. His design work has received both the IDEA and the Good Design awards, and he has lectured and conducted workshops in the US, Canada, Europe, and Mexico
A lot of this information you can find in books like How to Draw and How to Render in a Amazon Customer I'm torn about this book. On the one hand, some of the sections are extremely helpful. There is a section about line weight that I actually find to be almost indispensable. But then there's the rest of itit's over-complicated and a bit of a slog to read for a drawing book. A lot of this information you can find in books like How to Draw and How to Render in a much more digestible format, and this book has multiple paragraphs of text for concepts that are maybe better explained in pictures. Overall I'd say worth picking it up and looking through it; . Awesome book for beginners and even advanced designers. There will be times when even as good as you are a sketcher or renderer, you will forget how something is supposed to be done or the best way to go about achieving it. Happens to me all the time. This book is definitely a great reference as well as learning tool. There are many books out there these days on sketching for product design but not every book covers it all. Think of this book as filling in the gaps of the "Koos Eissen" books (which I own) or any other book on ID sketching you might have in your library. Some of the content you might be f. I spent over an hour with this book trying to I spent over an hour with this book trying to figure out what this guy is even talking about I don't have a clue! All I wanted was basic book on sketching that I could use to sketch wood projects but this one sure isn't it.I guess if you are very educated in sketching this book would advance your already advanced knowledge.
Practical tutorials give guidance in creating simple and complex forms, as well as rendering and providing context using scenarios and storyboards. Hundreds of hand-drawn sketches and computer models have been specially created to demonstrate critical geometry and show how to develop sketches into finished illustrations. This is both a practical and theoretical guide to the visualization techniques used by contemporary product designers, including freehand sketching, digital rendering, information graphics, and presentation skills. Insightful case studies of leading designers illustrate the full range of different visualization options available.
His design work has received both the IDEA and the Good Design awards, and he has lectured and conducted workshops in the US, Canada, Europe, and Mexico. . Kevin Henry is an Associate Professor in the product design program at Columbia College Chicago