Education...

Have been taliking with Justyn Norek (Head Designer, ex deputy director @ IDEA Institute) quite a lot today and it has been very elightening. It was mostly non aesthetics stuff, for expale where the door appertures should go in relation to the people and where the hinges will hang and glass drops etc. This is the kind of stuff you kinda think you know but you don't really. These lessons are down to the process of design being undertaken. We have nearly the exact chassis, ergonomics and engine decided as well as some hard points and common parts. This means we are simply doing a clothing job, which is cool but is restrictive creatively in many ways. The points I've been learning are things I know I'll need in the future though and it's good to learn now. Some aesthetic tricks ive learnt, to keep the essence of a sketch and improve it without the shape disappearing through constant copying, have been useful too. You grab a sheet of tracing paper and just do the key lines and then do the rest around it as these will always be altered at some point. Also do the key lines quickly as this will mean you keep the energy without labouring them and loosing its "sparkle". Keep turning the paper so you see the other side, its the same (obviously) but looks whheeey different cuz you get used to seeing it all day. This alllows you to see any exaggerations in the shape you would never see....

(I know this was boring (not for me!) but I gotta keep a record of my work experience, it can't all be crazy lizzidz and fat faced cars, sorry!)