Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching

A course by Reid Schlegel , Industrial Designer

Industrial Designer. New York, United States.
Joined February 2021

Bring your ideas to life with a 5D approach to product design that combines a 3D prototype and 2D sketches to enhance color, material, and finish

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1,708 students
Audio: English
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Bring your ideas to life with a 5D approach to product design that combines a 3D prototype and 2D sketches to enhance color, material, and finish

If you’ve got a design concept you want to share, you need to know how to get it ready for presenting to the real world. Industrial designer Reid Schlegel works with 2D and 3D to create clear visualizations and models that explain and sell his ideas. Reid is a process drawing and digital presentation professor, and director of industrial design at HUGE. He believes his mission is to improve the human experience through design.

In this course, Reid teaches you his 5D ideation process; creating a 3D prototype paired with a digital render, ready to present to clients. See how to use different materials to build a model, and how to draw a realistic concept drawing that successfully and efficiently illustrates your complex ideas.

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What will you learn in this online course?

17 lessons & 8 downloads

Materials and Tool Collection
18 minutes, 8 seconds
Digital Tools
7 minutes, 2 seconds
Design Process
13 minutes, 28 seconds
Thinking with Planes
11 minutes, 49 seconds
  • 100% positive reviews (32)
  • 1,708 students
  • 17 lessons (4h 18m)
  • 8 additional resources (0 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: English
  • English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

Create a physical prototype and digital render of a computer mouse design.

Who is this online course for?

This course is for those interested in industrial design, or architecture and engineering fields, especially students and recent graduates.

Requirements and materials

Some experience in related fields would be beneficial.

To take this course you will need X-ACTO knives, box cutters, tape, a ruler, french curves, construction materials (such as foam core and cardboard), a tablet, a stylus, and access to graphics software such as Sketchbook.


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Reid Schlegel

A course by Reid Schlegel

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Industrial Designer

Reid Schlegel is an industrial designer based in NYC. He believes that the purpose of his career is to consistently improve the human experience through design, finding the perfect balance between creativity and engineering. He found industrial design through his passion for solving problems through artistic means, working between both 2D and 3D.

For Reid it’s important to teach the power of design — a passion he fulfills as a professor of process drawing and digital presentation at The New School at Parsons. He has worked for leading creative and design consultancy firms Frog Design, and Smart Design, and is currently a director of industrial design at HUGE. Reid also showcases his work and shares design content with over 130K Instagram followers.


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • About Me
    • Influences
  • U2

    Design Tool Kit

    • Materials and Tool Collection
    • Digital Tools
    • Design Process
  • U3

    Time to Prototype

    • Thinking with Planes
    • Prototyping with Cardboard and Foamcore 1
    • Prototyping with Cardboard and Foamcore 2
    • Prototyping with White Foam 1
    • Prototyping with White Foam 2
    • Frankenstein Prototypes 1
    • Frankenstein Prototypes 2
  • U4

    Digital Sketch Rendering

    • Photograph Underlays
    • Sketch Foundations
    • Adding Reality 1
    • Adding Reality 2
    • CMF Exploration
  • FP

    Final project

    • Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching

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Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching. Design course by Reid Schlegel

Product Design: From 3D Prototyping to 2D Sketching

A course by Reid Schlegel
Industrial Designer. New York, United States.
Joined February 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (32)
  • 1,708 students