Week 9: SCAMPER'ing - Some examples of 50 uses

Some examples taken from Royal High School in the UK on 50 ideas for an object:

Carrots

Banana

Bricks

Your lesson for the week:

Come out with 30 uses for ANY ONE of the following items. Sketch out your ideas in your sketchbooks and submit them within the lesson. Do apply the ideation techniques that have been taught in class, namely 'Shape Borrowing' and 'SCAMPER'. The items are:

• Paper Clip
• Shoes
• Spectacles/Glasses
• Water Bottle
• Stapler

Week 5: Drawing in perspectives: 1 and 2-points perspectives

Take a look at the picture below that shows a scene from my personal collection of desktop wallpapers. What do you notice about the pathway and the rows of benches placed alongside it?

In the previous sketching lessons, you have been exposed and practising your sketches in isometric orientation, where lines are usually parallel in nature. But as you see from the photo above, and most other photos, the human eye has a peculiar way of looking at things. For example in the picture above, although we are aware that the path does have a constant width, our eyes choose to see that the path and the rows of benches are CONVERGING to a SINGLE POINT. This is known as a single point perspective!

Similarly, in certain instances, there are occasions whereby things are seen with not a single, but a 2-points perspective. The examples below shows sketches in 2-points perspective:

How about the picture below? Can you see it having a 2-points perspective orientation?

Taken from: http://z.about.com/d/drawsketch/1/0/O/O/street_corner.jpg

HOMEWORK for the weekend:
Here is a YouTube clip that you can view to learn more about how to come out with  1, 2 and even 3-points perspectives:

Perspectives

Week 4: Sketching: Isometric and Oblique sketches

There are various specific ways that you can use to show the orientation of your sketches. What the lessons have shown you so far is the standard way of indicating your orientation of your sketches in an ISOMETRIC manner.

The other sketching orientation that is usually used, but not as frequently, is the OBLIQUE orientation.

The difference between the two can be shown by showing the following 2 examples:

Taken from: http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14069/css/14069_187.htm

• Could you state ONE advantage of using an Isometric projection/orientation in your sketches?
• Could you state ONE disadvantage of using and Oblique orientation in your sketches?
  

By using the 'Box' or 'Crating' method as demonstrated in class, complete the worksheet given to you during class, in your sketch books. In case you prefer the soft copy, the 12 isometric blocks that you have to complete are as shown below:

Week 3 - Sketching: Basic Primitive Shapes

The 5 basic shapes from the previous lesson's homework will form the foundation of most of your sketches in the future. Take time to practise sketching these 5 basic shapes, and please do combinations of them where necessary. You might just be surprised at what you can come out with!

Here are some sample sketches for your references (sources taken from personal notes):

BASIC SHAPES & FORMS

OBJECTS BASED ON CUBE-LIKE DESIGNS

ELLIPSES

SPHERES

Class work/Home work:

Practise the other 4 basic shapes of Cones, Square-based pyramids, Cylinders and Spheres in your sketch books. Sketchbooks are to be submitted on Week 4 of school.

Week 2 - Lesson 2 (Part 2) - Sketching Lesson: Lines and Shapes

For this first exercise in your design journal, each student will be tasked to sketch out any one of the 3 selected items below:

• Pen
  
• Mechanical Pencil
• Stapler

Take about 15 minutes to do this in class and highlight the following in your sketch:

• General details and features of the product being sketched
• Some key specific characteristics of the product that you would like to highlight and may not be seen in your sketch
• Any other details that you might want to include

Homework (To be done in your Design Journal):
Draw the following 5 basic shapes on a single page of your design journal:

• A regular cube
• A cone
• A square-based pyramid
• A cylinder
• A sphere

Deadline: Before the next lesson