Colour, Material and Finish consistency for car design students

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the learning processes of the Colour, Material and Finish (aka CMF) design project by analysing the representation methods in the thesis of students of courses in Transportation Design. In car design, the eventual richness in students' representational abilities is crucial to express their ideas best. In the CMF design field, where the choice and combination of chromatic variables play a fundamental role, the representation richness is even more critical because of the need to express ethereal concepts such as emotional attributes. A first result described in this work identifies a recurring difficulty by students in the graphic restitution of the concepts, stated in the mood board of their projects, with style and quality consistent with the other parts of the project.