First Thoughts

Form Development

Make sure you have completed your design brief and the design elements sheets before starting this step.

Work especially from your FORM sheet and work through changes and iterations. WHAT IF this was longer, shorter, rounder, curved, turned sideways .. .etc

Working from your inspiration drawings.

You first thoughts ideas need to show that they have been inspired by the work you did with your observational drawings and starting points. Have your form development work in front of you when you start your first product ideas.

These links are Pintrest collections and show some ways this has been done. You need to also look back on the exemplars to see how past DVC scholarship students have approached this.

What to Include

Do some sketches and notes about these sections.

This will help you realise what else you need to know and what you need to research. 

This research will be included in the development of your design ideas.

Examples

This folder is full of examples of these first ideas. This stage is called different things by different people. Concept ideas, ideation. What it is called is not important. What is important is that you allow yourself to EXPERIMENT and TRY things out.

Accept that not everything will work or be to your liking.