Wacom Cintiq Companion - Demo

Bernie Walsh, staff and industry guests had the first live demo in Victoria of the new Wacom Cintiq Companion today at Monash Art Design and Architecture MADA.

Wacom Cintiq Companion demonstration with Ian Wong, Bernie Walsh and Vaughan Stott in the MADA Wacom Lab.

Wacom Cintiq Companion

The Cintiq Companion combines the immersive, on-screen creative experience of a Cintiq creative pen display with the mobility of a high-performance Windows 8 creative tablet - giving you the power to produce professional results from anywhere. The demo also included staff from CobaltNiche and Design + Industry who were able to ask questions and see the demo live via FaceTime.

Bernie Walsh demonstrates the portability of the new Wacom Cintiq Companion.

John Warwicker, Ned Culic, Bernie Walsh and Tony Stolfo demo the Wacom Cintiq Companion at Monash Art Design and Architecture - MADA.

Vaughan Stott outlines the product features of the Wacom Cintiq Companion to John Warwicker, Ned Culic, Bernie Walsh and Tony Stolfo at Monash Art Design and Architecture - MADA.

Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus for iPad

Dr Ethan Wang demos the Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus for iPad

http://cintiqcompanion.wacom.com/CintiqCompanion/en/

Samsung Smart PC - Bernie Walsh demo

The latest developments in tablet technology for industrial design were on show at a demonstration by MADA Monash Art Design and Architecture lecturer Bernie Walsh to key Victorian industry professionals. The use of the Samsung Smart PC and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablets will feature in the delivery of the Master of Industrial Design program due to commence on March 4th in Suzhou China.

MADA Monash Art Design and Architecture lecturer Bernie Walsh demonstrates the Samsung Smart PC and Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet to industrial design industry professionals.

Program Director Ian Wong was particularly keen to seek feedback from industry leaders on the potential of the new devices for the practice of industrial design. "The Master of Industrial Design program units have been developed to provide students with the latest industry practice and technology, and the feedback today was very valuable' said Ian Wong 'Digital freehand sketching in meetings is for the first time enabled with the combination of portability and pen technology in these new devices'

Bernie Walsh sketch demo on the Samsung Smart PC tablet.

Samsung Smart PC 700T1C-A02

Samsung Smart PC 700T1C-A02

The program based in Suzhou China will also feature engagement with Victorian industry through the application of tools like Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Facetime. Facetime was used to allow industry professionals unable to attend the forum in person to join in from their studios across Melbourne. 'Industrial design programs have always engaged directly with the profession and tools like facetime will allow studios across Victoria to work directly with students in Suzhou' said Ian Wong.

The latest 3D printing technology, wikis, blogs and Wacom Cintiq tablets as well as applications like QQ will also feature in the delivery of the new program.

MADA Master of Industrial Design program staff Bernie Walsh, Dr Ethan Wang and Program Director Ian Wong.

The Master of Industrial Design program is offered at the Southeast University - Monash Univeristy Joint Graduate School (Suzhou).

Full course details on SEU website here. http://yzb.seu.edu.cn/s/352/t/1754/09/b2/info68018.htm

Students interested in the Master of Industrial Design (Double Masters) delivered in Suzhou should contact ian.wong@monash.edu

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Industrial Design - Transport concept sketches

Sketching and sketching techniques are vital skills for industrial designers and automotive designers.

The final model or prototype in a graduate exhibition is the result of hours of creative design work and these sketches by MADA Monash University industrial design graduate Frederik Dallmeyer share some of the skills and techniques he has developed in his undergraduate studies. The Paraton-e project is the development of award winning work by Frederik as part of the GM PACE program. Presented in July the project was awarded most innovative concept for future transport design.

Industrial design concept sketches by Frederik Dallmeyer from Monash University industrial design.

Exterior automotive concept sketches by Frederik Dallmeyer from Monash University.

Industrial design sketching and concept folio skills by Frederik Dallmeyer

Automotive exterior design sketching and concept folio skills by Frederik Dallmeyer

GM PACE Forum - Most innovative concept design 2012 Shanghai China.

L-R: Monash University transport design lecturer Mark Richardson, Wulin Gaowa GM China Design, and Frederik Dallmeyer.

Ian Wong Monash University Program Director - Master of Industrial Design and Frederik Dallmeyer with the Paraton-e presentation and scale model.

Sketching - Sketchbook Pro 6

Sketchbook Pro 6 has been released.

The award-winning application for everyone who loves to draw! Sketch, paint, and draw with a professional-grade app that is easy-to-use for every artist.
Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro sketching software for Windows or Mac computers is a fun and intuitive paint and drawing app, and can transform your computer into an ideal artist’s toolkit. With tools designed for professional artists, illustrators, and designers, the easy-to-use interface can help unlock the artist in everyone. SketchBook Pro is specifically designed to work with pen tablets, such as Wacom® Bamboo™, Intuos®, and Cintq® products, or with Windows® tablet devices to deliver an authentic drawing experience.
• Free up the sketching process with ultra-responsive digital pencils, pens, markers, paintbrushes, and airbrushes. Even customize your own brushes.
• Draw Styles & Guide tools, like French curves, help you create clean and nearly precise strokes.
• Layers let you build up and organize a drawing.
• Incorporate your own images by dragging and dropping, or import into layers.
• Familiar tools, like pencils, paintbrushes, markers, airbrushes, erasers, flood fill tools, and smudge brushes make it easier to get started.
• Easy access to tools and commands in the intuitive and customizable menus.
• Annotate images quickly by importing images and adding comments on top.
What's New in SketchBook Pro 6?
• Streamlined interface delivers an unobstructed and discoverable environment, keeping you in the creative zone.
• Multitouch navigation support on the latest Wacom devices.
• Synthetic paintbrushes that behave more like traditional paint mediums.
• Smudge brushes for blending colors.
• Even more brush controls to customize.

Bernie Walsh - Workshops and tutorials

Bernie Walsh workshops are highly recommended and suitable for beginners, design students, or practicing designers. Folio preparation for interviews in Communication Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design or Architecture can be significantly enhanced given Bernie's experience in lecturing at RMIT University and Swinburne University's industrial design programs.

Check out Bernie's blog if you have not already and consider enrolling in one of his upcoming workshops.

Sketching tutorials and workshops by Bernie Walsh. 

http://berniewalsh.blogspot.com

Bernie Walsh - Wacom Lab success

Concept sketching by industrial design students in the RMIT wacom lab has proven to be highly successful with graduates and undergraduates attaining industry positions with GM Holden. Bernie Walsh is to be congratulated for the success of this facility in providing the high quality outcomes acknowledged by industry. It is also a credit to Bernie that past students, Ryan Fonceca and Glen Tay, are supporting current students by attending evening elective classes and sharing their industry skills. Ryan was successful earlier this year being recruited by GM as a designer in the advanced design studio. Glen Tay is currently an intern with GM Holden, also in the advanced design studio.

Concept sketch by industrial designer Bernie Walsh

Concept sketch on wacom tablet by Bernie Walsh.

Automotive design sketch by Ryan Fonceca.

Ryan Fonceca demonstrates automotive design sketching in the RMIT wacom lab.

Concept car sketch by Glen Tay.

Glen Tay demonstrates sketching in the RMIT wacom lab.

http://berniewalsh.blogspot.com.au

Mario Bellini - Shanghai

The practice of Mario Bellini has long been of personal interest to me as a collector, academic and industrial design practictioner. The Kartell - Work in Project stand at Salone Internazionale del Mobile this year profiled outstanding designers and exhibited sketches, models and prototypes of design projects. I was more than delighted to see Mario Bellini's most recent work up close and personal. The project explores the idea of the lights of Shanghai, which given my new role in China, I will see these lights a lot in coming years. The existence, in 2012, of the white polystyrene model is evidence of the continued importance of this design modelling practice and it supports my interest in this technique and it's influence on design practice in Victoria. (see previous post)

Mario Bellini Shanghai Vase for Kartell 2012.

Kartel - Work in Project. Mario Bellini

Mario Bellini Shanghai vase development process, sketches and models. 2012.

Concept sketches by industrial designer Mario Bellini.

Concept sketch by Mario Bellini for the Shanghai vase for Kartell. 

Original polystyrene concept model by Mario Bellini for the Shanghai vase.

Kartell - Work in Project exhibition Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012.

Mario Bellini 'Shanghai' vase inspiration - Shanghai night sky.

Kartell Shanghai vases designed by Mario Bellini.

my valentine exhibition features the work of Mario Bellini

King & Miranda - Milan

Perry King and Santiago Miranda founded King & Miranda Design in 1975. I was fortunate this week to meet Perry King at Salone Satellite and to visit the design studio in Milan to conduct an interview for my PhD.

I have particular interest in design practice and asked Perry to reflect on his UK education and how over time his practice was influenced or changed by his work in Milan. The influence of early career work with Ettore Sottsass for Olivetti and in particular the Valentine typewriter project were of great interest to me.

The collaboration between Perry King and Santiago Miranda over more than 37years has yielded a great many award winning projects for clients and is represented in the studio logo of two hands. The strength of this bond was evident in an instant as Perry and Santiago kindly agreed to shake hands for my photograph in the studio foyer.

Santiago Miranda and Perry King founders of King & Miranda Design.

Arin Chair - Winner of the iF Product Design Award for 2011 designed by King & Miranda.

Industrial designer Perry King discusses a concept prototype for the award winning Arin chair. Flos classic Jill lamp by King & Miranda also pictured.

Innovative wall heater panels for Runtal designed by King & Miranda and featured at Salone Mobile 2012.

Video here outlines innovative design developments behind the Runtal Folio heater panels.

This video provides insight into the King & Miranda Design studio practice.

I recognised immediately the Jill lamp for Flos in the studio meeting room as I prepared for my interview with Perry. During my studies in the early 1980s this lamp featured regularly in international design magazines and showrooms in Melbourne. Designed in 1978 the Jill lamp is a classic from Flos.

Jill lamp designed by Perry King and Santiago Miranda for Flos. 1978.

Original concept sketch for the design of the Jill lamp designed by Perry King and Santiago Miranda for Flos. 1978.

www.kingmiranda.com

RAPID CAD - Sketch to Model

This week was my last class at RMIT industrial design with first year students in the Communications Course and we had fun.

During each of the six one hour sessions in the new Advanced Manufacturing CAD Lab we explored the capacity of CAD systems to realise ideas rapidly. Each group generated sketches on paper for 10 minutes of either a bottle, a coffee cup, or a bike light. I then modelled these concepts live in SOLIDWORKS and saved a jpg screen capture of the model or render created in the session. Images were saved to the class blog as soon as they were completed. Students then began experimenting in photoshop with these source images developing important photoshop skills. Through the day we created the models and images shown below.

The real time realisation in 3D models of design concepts that did not exist before the class sort to emphasise the potential of contemporary practice to realise creative ideas generated by sketching. Teaching in the location of the Advanced Manufacturing Precinct reinforced the notion that these models could then be realised as prototypes.

CAD modelling generated live in solidworks by lecturer Ian Wong from in class concept sketches by first year industrial design students.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard visits RMIT University Advanced Manufaturing Precinct.

Teaching Pods in RMIT University AMP building 55

The examples below demonstrate in class image manipulation of the concept after it was posted to the blog.

Photoshop manipulation of green bottle render above by Elise J.

Photoshop manipulation by Aidan P.

Photoshop manipulation by Nha H.