Cutter Hutton is a designer, educator and co-founder and principal of Observatory, a studio consulting in the furniture and industrial design fields. His professional practice balances empathy, innovation and simplicity to foster meaningful connections with an audience. His work has earned numerous awards creating objects and experiences for companies such as Herman Miller, Google and Procter & Gamble. Cutter teaches in the Furniture Design and Industrial Design departments at RISD.
Drawing for Furniture 2D will focus on the ways in which drawing can help generate, evaluate and communicate design concepts. Students will be introduced to the conventions and techniques of technical drawing for Furniture Design while pursuing experiments that supplement and challenge established practices. Focus will be on two drawing systems, orthographic and paraline projection, working by hand and with computers.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Furniture Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Furniture Design
Drawing for Furniture 2D will focus on the ways in which drawing can help generate, evaluate and communicate design concepts. Students will be introduced to the conventions and techniques of technical drawing for Furniture Design while pursuing experiments that supplement and challenge established practices. Focus will be on two drawing systems, orthographic and paraline projection, working by hand and with computers.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Furniture Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Furniture Design
The 6-credit Advanced Design studios offer second semester juniors and seniors the opportunity to investigate product, socially responsible, and sustainable design; innovation through science and technology and other topics in contemporary practice. These studios are designed to strengthen the student's ability to conduct research, ideation, material exploration, presentation, and concept validation. Studios meet two days per week. Junior and Senior Industrial Design Students are required to take a total of three (3) advanced studios.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Junior, Senior or Graduate Industrial Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Industrial Design, MID (2.5yr): Industrial Design
This course continues drawing and concept development techniques, sketching with three-dimensional models, mock-ups and prototypes. Working in several scales and levels of articulation, students will expand pre-visualization and detailing skills. Basics of 3-D computer simulation will also be introduced.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Furniture Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Furniture Design
This course continues drawing and concept development techniques, sketching with three-dimensional models, mock-ups and prototypes. Working in several scales and levels of articulation, students will expand pre-visualization and detailing skills. Basics of 3-D computer simulation will also be introduced.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Furniture Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Furniture Design
