Abstract
Car design is a profession involved in the development of road vehicles. Designer led in creating products and bringing together features of aesthetics, ergonomics, materials, manufacturability, and environmental consideration to the vehicle. Design is intuitive and holistic and requires higher-order thinking. This research, wherein researcher will present in this contribution, has the objectives to develop guidelines and establish criteria to facilitate designers with a concept of formgiving on color and trim in car design. The main questions are the following: What is the process of color and trim of formgiving for car designer in car design? How can formgiving knowledge contribute with aesthetical appearance in car design based on color and trim? The study will be based on descriptive and empirical research through design activities including methodologies of “color and trim” through protocol studies. The process of investigation is expected to be interactive since there is continuous need to relook at the research questions and sources of data and refine them after verification with new findings.
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Authors would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Education for the financial support under Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (ERGS) and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) for the excellent fund scheme. Special thanks to Formgiving Design Research Lab members for their inputs and contribution.
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Azhar, F.E., Abidin, S.Z., Hassan, O.H. (2015). The Concept of Formgiving for Color and Trim in Car Design. In: Hassan, O., Abidin, S., Legino, R., Anwar, R., Kamaruzaman, M. (eds) International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2014). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-332-3_21
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