Eric's Advice

"We had fun discussing automobile design as a source of inspiration, which is incredibly relevant but one dramatic difference is that you wear a helmet. On your head! A helmet is unique compared to other product design categories, it's not enough to simply create a functional & beautiful object. That beautiful object has to look good in relation to someone's face.

During my career at Giro, we refined our approach to make sure that we were getting the prototypes onto people's heads as early in the process as possible.

Impossible to design a helmet only on the computer or in the model shop. Getting the design on a person, outside, in relevant apparel with appropriate eyewear, dramatically improved our success rate and saved us a ton of money on wasted tooling...

I would encourage the students to create as much "context" as possible by sketching the helmets on heads.

A small but incredibly important insight".

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