1. Morphing Modelling Development
Inspiration sources
It’s not always easy to design. We are going to look at a range of tasks that hopefully will help you with designing skills. We call these tasks, design strategies. These strategies can be helpful when you are designing any product. We are going to look at the following design strategies:
Morphing shapes
Modelling
Inspiration sources
Morphing
Modelling
Developments
Development 1

2. Patterns in nature
Designers often get inspiration by looking at things around them. They may look at books and magazines, visit exhibitions and museums or look at the environment around them.
Your client Celtic Creations have asked for your design to have an organic theme and be as original as possible.
To help give you some inspiration for this project we need to look at organic shapes and what nature’s got to offer us as a stimulus.

3. Using organic shapes for inspiration

4. Inspiration – Line & Pattern
Inspiration – line and pattern
Inspiration – Line & Pattern

5. Inspiration – Shape & Form
Inspiration – shape and form
Inspiration – Shape & Form

6. Inspiration from an innovative designer - Raewyn Harris
Designers can also get inspiration from looking at the work of others – artists or craftspeople in particular.
Raewyn Harris is a New Zealand based artist who is inspired by her local landscape, coastline, hills, trees and the sea. She includes the patterns of nature in her paintings.
What do you think of her work? Will it inspire you?

7. repeat it & flip it again
Morphing Shapes
To help you develop organic shapes and patterns from nature, for the Tea Light/Candle Holder we are going to use a strategy called morphing .
Start off with an image of something curved. Then, begin morphing it into a number of different shapes and designs. Consider flipping it, rotating it, repeating it, reducing or enlarging it. Think about ‘C’ shapes and ‘S’ shapes:
flip it
draw a shape
repeat it & flip it again
repeat it & flip it again
join them together
one original design!!

8. Repeat & flip vertically another original design!
Morphing shapes
simplify the shape & add a curve on the end
repeat it & flip
draw a shape
Repeat & flip vertically
stretch it & rotate it slightly
repeat it & flip
rotate it
break it
up in half
add an extra curve
add an extra curve
add extra holders
another original design!

9. Organic inspiration source for design ideas
This is an example of using organic forms as a source of inspiration for design ideas.
Sioned Davies

10. Organic inspiration source for design ideas
A further example of using organic forms as a source of inspiration but a different presentation style – which do you prefer?
Ben Watkins

11. These are some examples of creative, quick idea generation.
Sara Thomas

12. Modelling
Modelling can be a helpful way to design. It can help you to judge the size, proportion and overall look of a design.
inspiration
final product

13. Once you have a design that you are pleased with and answers your design specification, you need to think about how you can make your product. Think about e.g. which materials you are going to use and how to join them together. You will need to annotate your drawings.
Look at the next slide to see how to annotate your work effectively.
Kim Lewis

14. Annotating your design work
Annotation is when you write short comments to explain your design work, a sort of “design chatter”.
What could you include in your annotation?
shape
size
style details
colours
materials
how easy or difficult the tea light holder is to make.
Caryl-Anne Davies