Product Design: Experiment with Color, Material, and Shape

Meet Lex Pott, learn about his journey towards becoming a product designer and understand how he develops his designs. Explore his sources of inspiration, including everyday life, people, and even work methods.

Start investigating the relationship between color and material. Explore how materials react with Lex’s experiments. Learn how a material’s properties influence the solutions for your designs. Discover how to blend colors into different materials, seeing how to work with tonality, blocking, and transitions.

Build a materials library to use in your future product designs using synthetic clay or Fimo. Then, see how to create a color palette and color combinations. Experiment further with different materials, seeing how to use some chemicals safely. Explore different ways of experimenting with wood, polyester, and wax to add to your materials library.

Time to reflect on all your experiments and analyze which can be applied to your product design. Discover how Lex comes up with his own projects by looking at who it was designed for and why. Then, work on your own product design using all your newfound knowledge. Finish the course with Lex’s advice on how to present your work to the world.