Part 2: How to use Golden Ratio in Product Design?
Design Raised to Golden Ratio Part 2 is in a series to my earlier blog, Design Raised to Golden Ration Part 1. To know the reasons for the use of the golden ratio by designers, please read the previous blog. In this blog, I have shared the methods of applying the golden ratio.
Part 1: Why Do Designers Use Golden Ratio As Their Tool?
Golden Ratio in Nature
In my previous blog, you have read about the behaviour of the golden ratio in the world. I am going to share some details about the golden ratio in Nature. And then I will share how to reflect that in our designs.
Golden Ratio in the Human Anatomy
Artwork created by Pravin Ghodke
The essential characteristics are located in at a span in golden ratio to the next distance.
Golden Ratio in Nature
Golden Ratio in Nature image by Pravin Ghodke
In the above image, a radical shift in curves of the composition is situated in Golden Ratio or in Fibonacci Series.
There are many examples present in nature and our everyday surroundings. The main intention to focus on the above examples was to create awareness of the essential ways to replicate the way the golden ratio is present in nature. So following are the pointers
Three Important Observations & Their Application
1
Design the product in such a way that the height and the width of the overall outcome are in Golden Ratio.
Golden Ratio in Product Design image by Pravin Ghodke
2
Locate the essential elements of the product at a distance in the golden ratio.
Golden Ratio in Product Design image by Pravin Ghodke
Golden Ratio in Transportation Design image by Pravin Ghodke
3
The form switches its deflection in Golden Ratio.
Golden Ratio in Transportation Design image by Pravin Ghodke
The above 3 possibilities of using Golden Ratio as the tool for Product Designing are a gist of the enormous number of possibilities. Now it depends upon your creativity how to make your good design better by using these pointers.
Thank You.
Pravin Ghodke