{"id":11765,"date":"2025-06-19T21:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/a-suggested-industrial-design-student-assignment-design-and-build-a-minimalist-chess-set\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:32:24","slug":"a-suggested-industrial-design-student-assignment-design-and-build-a-minimalist-chess-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/a-suggested-industrial-design-student-assignment-design-and-build-a-minimalist-chess-set\/","title":{"rendered":"A Suggested Industrial Design Student Assignment: Design and Build a Minimalist Chess Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think a good Industrial Design student assignment, particularly for sophomores, would be: Design and make a set of minimalist chess pieces&#8211;no digital fabrication nor individual sculpting\/carving (unless making the pattern for a mold) allowed. This would cover a lot of skills that industrial designers need to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Sketching: What is the minimum amount of form\/gesture\/surfacing required to have an object read as the six different types of chess pieces?<\/p>\n<p>Materials: What materials can you easily source and, most importantly, batch-produce using the tooling available in the shop?<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: What repeatable process will you use to make your pieces? A table saw with jigs? Lost-wax casting? Soldering of cut metal pieces?<\/p>\n<p>I probably wouldn&#8217;t ask them to make the board, as I think they&#8217;d have their hands full designing and making the pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Minimalist chess sets exist in the real world, and a lot of them look like they could&#8217;ve been designed and made by a first-year ID student. Some cases in point:<\/p>\n<p>This Check-Chess Set (no longer made) by design studio <a href=\"https:\/\/origins.work\/\">Origins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Mid-Century-Modern-Chess-Pieces\/\">Mid Century Modern set<\/a> by Heyimamaker on Instructables.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/1832302410\/designer-chess-pieces-minimalist-modern\">unnamed chess set<\/a> by Schichtwunder Designs. While this one was 3D-printed, as previously mentioned I&#8217;d not permit digital fabrication, so that the students could develop hand skills. I would allow them to carve or sculpt workpieces if they were going to make a mold from them, but I&#8217;d not allow them to simply carve the finished product; the idea is for the students to learn about repeatable manufacturing processes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/1815998750\/mid-century-modern-wood-chess-pieces-and\">Mid Century Modern set<\/a>, this one by Nordeast Design Co.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chessbaron.com\/product\/M2111\/\">York Chess Set<\/a> offered by Chess Baron.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manopoulos.com\/products\/bauhaus-style-black-white-chess-set-40x40cm-medium-with-chessmen-8-5cm-king\">Bauhaus Style chess set<\/a> by boardgame manufacturer Manopoulos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I know the bulk of these are made out of wood, which I&#8217;m sure many students would opt for, but I&#8217;d also encourage them to investigate metal, ceramics, and whatever else the school&#8217;s ID shop is equipped to work with.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an ID professor and you actually assign this, be sure to keep us posted\u2014we&#8217;ll happily post the results here. <\/p>\n<p class=\"at_end\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think a good Industrial Design student assignment, particularly for sophomores, would be: Design and make a set of minimalist chess pieces&#8211;no digital fabrication nor individual sculpting\/carving (unless making the pattern for a mold) allowed. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[147],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.7 - 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