Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching
A course by Reid Schlegel , Industrial Designer
Bring your ideas to life with a 5D approach to product design that combines a 3D prototype and 2D sketches to enhance color, material, and finish
Bring your ideas to life with a 5D approach to product design that combines a 3D prototype and 2D sketches to enhance color, material, and finish
If you’ve got a design concept you want to share, you need to know how to get it ready for presenting to the real world. Industrial designer Reid Schlegel works with 2D and 3D to create clear visualizations and models that explain and sell his ideas. Reid is a process drawing and digital presentation professor, and director of industrial design at HUGE. He believes his mission is to improve the human experience through design.
In this course, Reid teaches you his 5D ideation process; creating a 3D prototype paired with a digital render, ready to present to clients. See how to use different materials to build a model, and how to draw a realistic concept drawing that successfully and efficiently illustrates your complex ideas.
What will you learn in this online course?
17 lessons & 8 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (32)
- 1,702 students
- 17 lessons (4h 18m)
- 8 additional resources (0 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Autodesk Sketchbook ProWhat is this course's project?
Create a physical prototype and digital render of a computer mouse design.
Who is this online course for?
This course is for those interested in industrial design, or architecture and engineering fields, especially students and recent graduates.
Requirements and materials
Some experience in related fields would be beneficial.
To take this course you will need X-ACTO knives, box cutters, tape, a ruler, french curves, construction materials (such as foam core and cardboard), a tablet, a stylus, and access to graphics software such as Sketchbook.
Reviews
A course by Reid Schlegel
Reid Schlegel is an industrial designer based in NYC. He believes that the purpose of his career is to consistently improve the human experience through design, finding the perfect balance between creativity and engineering. He found industrial design through his passion for solving problems through artistic means, working between both 2D and 3D.
For Reid it’s important to teach the power of design — a passion he fulfills as a professor of process drawing and digital presentation at The New School at Parsons. He has worked for leading creative and design consultancy firms Frog Design, and Smart Design, and is currently a director of industrial design at HUGE. Reid also showcases his work and shares design content with over 130K Instagram followers.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Design Tool Kit
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Materials and Tool Collection
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Digital Tools
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Design Process
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U3
Time to Prototype
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Thinking with Planes
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Prototyping with Cardboard and Foamcore 1
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Prototyping with Cardboard and Foamcore 2
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Prototyping with White Foam 1
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Prototyping with White Foam 2
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Frankenstein Prototypes 1
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Frankenstein Prototypes 2
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U4
Digital Sketch Rendering
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Photograph Underlays
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Sketch Foundations
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Adding Reality 1
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Adding Reality 2
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CMF Exploration
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FP
Final project
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Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching
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Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
mezcalyt
Explicaciones amenas y detalladas. Bueno para iniciarse en el diseño de productos de básicamente cualquier industria que requiera mostrar fisicamente el producto.
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dcoria1967
Excelente, te enseña el proceso basico de como encarar un diseño de un producto.
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elyse.couture
It's really interesting and I learn a lot. Thx for this course! I appreciated and I recommanded, also.
ginny0727
PlusReally helpful for my product design!
rosn5911
EXCELENTE METODOLOGÍA DE ENSEÑANZA
BUEN TRABAJO!
GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR TUS CONOCIMIENTOS
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