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“Industrial Design”?
What is industrial design in the broader context of a corporation, and how can designers use this information to be more effective?
07/23/2007
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Images from the New World
Welcome to Bose Corporate HQ in Framingham, Mass. Impressive? I don’t work here.
07/23/2007
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Lessons Learned at BDK
After two years as an Industrial Designer at Black & Decker, my last day has arrived. As a way of closing up shop, I thought I might write a few lessons I’ve learned during my time here.
06/29/2007
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Illustrator: Shoe Rendering
Lets explore some advance AI techniques to make rendering products super simple. Shoes are really easy to render in Illustrator, and I’ve had a special request to show some shoe design techniques, so check out the final image and lets get crackin’.
06/27/2007
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Illustrator: Sketching
06/22/2007
You might have figured out by now that I use AI for most of my 2D rendering these days. But what about sketching? I admit that I don’t use it all the time, but increasingly frequently I’m finding that sketching in Illustrator can actually be extremely effective for very fast, clean, EDITABLE, scalable thumbnails. Here are a few of my tricks.
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Illustrator: ID Template
adam_seed.zip
This is the beginnings of a library of Industrial Design graphic styles, brush presets, swatches, and symbols for your convenience in Adobe Illustrator sketching and rendering.I’m hoping to expand this with time for my own use, so I figured I’d make them available to the public. It’s just a start, but hopefully it will be more useful as I expand. If you come up with any good ones, send them over to me and I’ll add them into the library. Enjoy!
06/22/2007
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