Intuitive and objective processes in automotive design

Tovey, Michael

doi:10.1016/0142-694x(92)80003-h

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“…A step-by-step approach in the form giving process is in line with the analysis carried out with stylists from various automotive and consumer appliance companies in Europe (Fiores II 2000. They concluded that, when defining the shape of a new product, designers look first at the global appearance and then they refine it with local details to provide the final complete shape of the product (Tovey 1992, Fontana et al 2000, Catalano et al 2002. Experienced designers generate their ideas almost intuitively and focus while designing on the means of the translation of their ideas into visuals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Measuring the effectiveness of a design method to generate form alternatives: an experiment performed with freshmen students product development

Corremans

2011

Journal of Engineering Design

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This article presents a 'hands-on' method, targeted towards freshmen product development (or industrial design or engineering design), to create basic form alternatives. The hypothesis that the knowledge and the application of a rational form-generation approach improve the ability to create more and more varied designs is verified by means of an experiment. In this experiment, the effectiveness of the initiated method was measured by comparing the results of a first design session (before initiation of the method) with the results of a second design session (after initiation). The outcome shows definite progress in the basic skills to generate form alternatives: after the initiation, subjects generate more proposals with more variation in surface composition. Parameters like the overall amount of design solutions and the evolution in the variation in surface composition were considered. The experiment indicates that the application of a method can enhance a design process and shows that an analytical and rational approach contributes to the basic skills in the study of form. The two-step manipulation method extends the repertory of possible tools and methods that a designer can implement to cope with the problems concerning the creation of form alternatives.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Measuring the effectiveness of a design method to generate form alternatives: an experiment performed with freshmen students product development

Corremans

2011

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…Stylists introduced the concepts using sketches and then enhanced them using hand rendering. Stylists drew the full-scaled outline curves of a vehicle for the evaluation by using a technique called tape drawing [4], and then made scaled or full-size clay model to "experience and evaluate a design more completely" [5]. This method gives little real 3-D information at early stages, limits the varieties at late stages and opportunities for management intervention.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The combination of two consecutive strokes in automotive styling from 2-D to 3-D

Yang

Wang

2010

2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design &Amp; Conceptual Design 1

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This paper presents two novel algorithms, the distance comparison algorithm and the stroke analysis algorithm, which try to combine two consecutive raster-based 2-D strokes into one vector-based 2-D curve which can be used then to form a 3-D surface. The data is obtained from digital sketching. Each stroke contains several sequential 2-D points which can be used as the control points or nodes in the stroke. However, the data in the different strokes belongs to the different data spaces. The combination of two strokes is to connect the data from the different data spaces into one data space with a new sequence of aU the original points. The methods give a feasible way to join many strokes during sketching in the conceptual design stage of automotive styling.

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“…Schön and Wiggins (1992) emphases that there can be emergent properties in the design medium: each new gesture creates new problems to describe and to solve. All these considerations create a common ground among designers, of which the holistic activity is connected to a wide action of information's searching, hand in hand with artistic competence (Tovey, 1992(Tovey, , 1997. During the making of the final sketches, mental representation consists of a succession of accurate and detailed images (shape, constituents, aspect, impressions linked to the environment, as well as a coloured background or a detailed environment of the vehicle), which offer more acuteness and realism.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Visual designers have the use of a holistic thinking, and the development of an overall solution proposal conceived as a hole seems to be fundamental in the process (Tovey, 1992(Tovey, , 1997. This first overall point of view is a condition for creativity.…”

Section: Figure 17mentioning

confidence: 99%