Some good techniques to make your 2-D sketches look 3-D using only a normal pen…
Category Archives: Design & Manufacture
Design & Draw a chair
Custom desk build
Great video showing what can be done with mainly plywood.
Design sketching
Good video on how to make your idea and development pages communicate more information to your audience without adding more annotations…
Dovetail Bench
Another fab video from Jimmy Diresta.
Free trial software
In school we currently use SERIF pageplus for desktop publishing in graphic communication and creating research pages in design & manufacture folios and so on…
SERIF has recently re-branded as Affinity and due to the effects of COVID-19 pandemic they are currently offering a 90-day free trial on their entire software suite.
You can download for Mac or Windows desktops and also for your ipad.
They are also offering a massive 50% discount for users who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including iPad versions.
These products are equally as good (if not better) that the popular titles from Adobe such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
They also offer excellent downloadable guides and great videos: Videos and tutorials
Click here for the FREE TRIAL
or
Click here to purchase with a 50% discount
Car Manufacture
Ever wondered how cars are manufactured? Check out the video of the Mini car manufacturing plant in Oxford.
Design sketching: initial ideas
Product Design (developing ideas quickly)
See how it’s possible to take ideas from early thoughts, to developed concepts in super quick time.
Click here for lots more useful videos
