A two-week intensive design workshop run by Magnus Long at Central St Martins in London for people
interested in learning and applying a process. Click here.
This two-week intense design course aims to provide you with a deep
overview of design as a process, allowing time to explore and understand
each of the stages of design using practical methods. Many of the most
successful designs are based on sound research and insightful
observations. In this course you will learn methods of gathering and
using research to produce ideas and solutions to develop into design
concepts ready to show to a client. This course will teach design's
potential to be relevant, stimulating and useful, and can be far more
than simply 'designer' objects.
Throughout the workshop you will use
methods to open up creativity to generate ideas ranging from the
conservative to the far-out. You will learn methods to control and
manage those ideas to produce design concepts in paper and card
sketch-models as well as 2D presentations suitable to show to a
potential client. You will practice developing your work using a
process, mixed with learning about essential design principals
including, emotional design, visual language, semiotics and ergonomics
as well as design for manufacture. You will have the chance to debate
and discuss issues such as sustainability and inclusive design. The
course will ultimately concentrate on product design for manufacture,
but the process learnt will be applicable to other disciplines within
the broader design field.
