Envisioning new future.

Universe is a constantly evolving field of energy and everything in our known reality is evolving with it. Although nature is a self organising, self evolving system, we humans tend to create new future by imagining it.

Sometimes inspiration comes suddenly and from nowhere, sometimes it comes from necessity to solve a certain problem and other times it comes simply by imagining a brighter future we want to live in. And once the vision for the new future is present in our mind we can start to design it into life.

With the Internorm our goal was not just to create a few new door designs, but to make designs that will also positively impact our quality of live.

Our inspiration was to make the designs that will be more timeless, more inspiring and more friendly to interact with.

Putting vision into words is fairly easy thing to do, however to really feel the future and to imagine it to such a degree that you can execute on it and bring it to live is a process not everyone is familiar with.

And at this point I am inviting you to dive in a little deeper with me, and explore few secrets of our design process.

Are you ready?
OK…

As you have read above we have set few characteristics which we want our design to reflect and then we have substitute those with values such as … , …,
(You can read more about them at our “About design” page.)

Once the mission was set we started with our so called “discovering possibilities process”
Within this process we let our imagination to flow without any limits, we make unlimited amount of sketches and try to encapsulate the feeling off all wanted characteristics and values in one design. And the more sketches are done within this process the more we know what we want and need and in which direction we have to move further.

At one point, in our case we have stopped at our 174th sketch, where we believed we have generated enough ideas and concepts to fulfil our initial vision. At this point we have chosen the best sketches, the best designs and we went ahead with a new layer of development and we started to mould those designs into reality.

Moulding imagination into reality.

Here comes the time in the process where you actually start testing and predicting how the product could look like in real world. Although the imagination has no limits, there are certain rules in our three-dimensional reality, that you kind of have to take into consideration in order to give a life to a product.

Again not everyone has the skillset to move across this point of process, and those who do, they hold a responsibility to design a product that at the end is genuinely worth making and has a positive impact on the world.

Are you curious how we have navigated through this process?

Here you go…

For this process we took our sketches (174 of them if I am exact), our best ideas and start to moulding them within the rules of physics, usable dimensions, and requirements of mass production. By the end of the selection only 33 of 174 sketches were eligible to be translated into 3D CAD models.

Modelling involves crafting the lines from sketches into the shape of metal, glass and other materials, working endlessly to enrapture the emotions from the sketch, and simultaneously making the design aesthetically attractive and comfortable on touch and intuitive to use.

There is not much secrets to this process though, but it involves a lot of playing around, testing the aesthetics, different material combinations, trying out different handle sizes, different positions of the windows, different radiuses, panel widenesses, etc,…

The goal is to recreate the feeling from the initial sketches which were driven by sheer imagination. And to come as close to this point as possible you have to test a lot of different variations of shapes and proportions to really see what will work the best.

I have tried to write this to you in a bit more exciting way, yet the truth here is that within this process there is a lot of failed attempts for synchronising the designs and a lot of beautiful design sketch concepts that had to be left behind because they were only beautiful and exciting on a paper and were not scalable for requirements of the real world.

But if you take into account that this is only a part of the process which in the end leads to the creation of something beautiful, then it actually becomes exciting, because you know that it will lead you to creating something worth making.

As you can translate from the title of this paragraph the point of this process is to seamlessly transfer initial imagination, initial feeling and impression from your mind and later your sketch and to mould it in our three-dimensional world where it will serve a greater purpose.

From 33 of the chosen sketches there were only 15 of the designs which made it through all of the requirements into usable 3D CAD models. And those were the models which made it to the finals. Those designs were realistically rendered in computer and were presented to the Internorm where they took final inspections and choose a selection of the top 6 really great designs which fit their needs the best.

Once the final design selection were declared, it was time to really polish the designs and make them truly unforgettable.