Thesis work - The ABT (Autonomous Baggage Train) awarded with a Red Dot!

It's with great joy that I announce that my BA thesis work has been awarded with a Red Dot from Red Dot Awards, which is probably the biggest international design competition in the world.

Please check out my online exhibition at their homepage via the link below:
https://www.red-dot.org/project/the-abt-autonomous-baggage-train-26699
For the complete sketchwall post about the process behind the project, click the following link:
http://simonlarsson-sketchwall.blogspot.com/2015/07/handling-of-air-baggage.html

Another step by step example of how I sometimes use photoshop, and in particular the tool liquify, to clean up and improve my sketches. I wouldn't say all cheating is allowed, but in these cases I think it's a matter of making a sketch as good as possible rather than cheating. Underlay is another trick that I should probably use more often...

Equipment: Black Biq ballpoint pen

Time: 30 min sketch

Equipment: Photohsop CS5 (Liquify)

Time: 20 min

Car Sketch NEVS Step by Step

This is a good example of how I use the awesome Photoshop tool Liquify to improve my sketches. The plan was really to end there, but I started playing with adding shades and I think the end result turned out really nice, as well as the sketch. Hopefully I can learn this style so I can use it more often.

I'm trying to get back to sketching more regularly because I see how big difference it makes, even in my professional projects. This sketch is simply a matter of starting with a white paper, no specific inspiration or other sketches, just drawing something from my imagination and experimenting with form until I find something interesting. That is why the sketch is quite messy and maybe a bit over worked. But design wise I'm quite happy.

Equipment: Green Bic ballpoint pen

Time: 1 hour

Drying Pen Car Sketch Perspective

Equipment: A drying STAEDTLER permanent Lumocolor M

Time: 20 min

Experimenting with sketch techniques

I'm trying to keep my sketching fresh by testing some different styles. For this one I tried to be really shaky on the hand. My oppinion is that the best benefits from this technique is that you get away from trying to make perfect lines, so it doesn't take to much focus. I also think that it's easier to experiment with form and to get a nice sketchy feeling, but as always I think the best is to be able to combine and switch between different styles when sketching in a project, because different styles helps you find different forms. Especially when you get stuck in a project it's very good to both work with different sketching styles and different sketching material, like different pens, analoge/digital...

I'm guessing that this technique suits quite well when you scan a sketch and render it in Photoshop. I might try to do that with the screwdriver to the right when I get time.

Equipment: Black ballpoint pen

Time: 2-10 min per sketch

SMILE!

I was playing around the other day with a black marker pen and decided to try to make a picture of a man in a sort of shadow-siluette way. I actually supriced myself with a decent result, concidering that I have always said that I cannot sketch humans..

Equipment: Black and orange Copic marker

Time: 2 Hours (underlay included)

Marker car sketching

Starting to sketch with the yellow marker to have greater freedom to change my mind while laying the base for the sketch. When I felt I found something interesting I went on to using the black pen to define the correct lines and to create som depth in the sketch as well. This particular sketch is actually an overlay, since I did the original sketch on lined paper and that's why you can't see so much of the yellow "sketch" lines.

Equipment: Yellow copic marker (Y19) and a black medium thick Staedtler pen.

Time: 20 min

Saving a car sketch with a marker

I did some sketching the other night and created this car sketch that I kind of liked, but felt it was too messy since I did some late changes of the form of the vehicle which ruined the sketch but in my opinion imporved the design. So I took a marker and filled in the "good" lines and managed to more or less save the sketch.

Equipment: Green ball point pen, a black Copic marker

Time: 1 Hour

Equipment: Green ball point pen, a black Copic marker, Photoshop CC (liquify tool)

Time: 1 Hour 10 min

Sketching some Helmet Cameras

Here are some sketches that I did my first week in ÅF. We didn't know exactly what the next incoming job would be, but we had clues that it might have something to do with helmet cameras so I started sketching some, just to get going after the summer. The incoming job turned out to be something completely different, but I still think it was a good product to do as a sketch/marker exercise.