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Material light: exploring expressive materials

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The control of material appearance has become richer than before, giving designers new expressive freedom. Designers need tools and techniques to handle this freedom when designing products. We present a simple but powerful technique to explore material expression in the conceptual phase of the design process. Colours and patterns are projected on foam and paper models to enable designers to quickly visualise and judge materials in context of the products shape.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Jouke Verlinden for his feedback, Edwin Branbergen and Inge van Bruinessen who helped to build and test the prototypes.

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  1. ID-StudioLab, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Daniel Saakes

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This paper is part of the 3AD design colloquium creative connections.

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Saakes, D. Material light: exploring expressive materials. Pers Ubiquit Comput 10, 144–147 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0021-z

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