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How do you create depth and tone on paper? How do you create a cd case from scratch? Steve Garner, Professor of Design at The Open University answers these questions and others in this introduction to design basics. All design begins with translating ideas on to a canvas, and this collection encourages you to begin thinking about design principles from how letters are shaped to creating three dimensional models.
This material forms part of The Open University course U101 Design thinking.
By: The OpenLearn team (The Open University,)
- Duration 20 mins
- Updated Friday 27th May 2011
- Posted under Design & Innovation
Track 1: Shapes of letters
Steve Garner uses a newspaper to show how you can observe shapes of letters.
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Tracks in this podcast:
Track | Title | Description |
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1 | Shapes of letters | Steve Garner uses a newspaper to show how you can observe shapes of letters. Play now Shapes of letters |
2 | Tone in design | Steve Garner gives examples of how to create a range of tones. Play now Tone in design |
3 | The overlay technique | Steve Garner uses the overlay technique to replicate a picture of a chair. Play now The overlay technique |
4 | How to make a scale model of a chair | Steve Garner creates a scale chair from a cereal box. Play now How to make a scale model of a chair |
5 | How to make a CD case | Steve Garner explains how to make a CD case. Play now How to make a CD case |
6 | How to make a cardboard mug | Steve Garner creates a card board mug using a real mug as a template. Play now How to make a cardboard mug |
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Originally published: Friday, 27th May 2011
Copyright information
- Body text - Content: Copyright The Open University
- Audio/Video tracks: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 The Open University 2011
- Image 'Design for beginners' - Copyright: The Open University 2011
- Image 'The design of a school changing room' - Copyright: Deskcube | Dreamstime.com
- Image 'Tokyo 2015 looks a lot like Blade Runner's vision of the future - down to the rain' - Alan under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
- Image 'How to make OL content article image' - Image by Engin_Akyurt from Pixabay under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
- Image 'Invention and innovation: An introduction' - Copyright: Used with permission
- Image 'Building work in Milton Keynes' - Scorpions and Centaurs under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
- Image 'Selective focus on the word innovation' - Copyright:
- Image 'A convention held in a stadium' - Copyright free: tommumf
- Image 'Design' - Copyright: Used with permission
- Image 'Noses of a passenger jet at Heathrow' - Copyright: BBC
- Image 'Design in a nutshell image' - The Open University under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
- Image 'A scene from the Water Hall video' - Copyright: The Open University
- Image 'The Project Fear cover' - Copyright: Simon Bell, Charles Cutting & The Open University
- Image 'M World S World man running' - Copyright free: Charles Cutting and Simon Bell
- Image 'Rafał Sonik on an Abu Dhabi sand dune' - Łukasz Zabierowski under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
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