form lab
draw with a ruler and a compass. build a chair, a teapot or a poster from nothing but basic shapes.
room
what you learn
- the three elementary forms: circle, square, triangle
- seeing an object as the shapes inside it
- balance without symmetry: weight, tension, the diagonal
- taking one shape away and checking what survives
lessons in the form lab
4a chair from a squareform lab · 6 minutes · draw a chair using only bars and one square of space.5a teapot from circlesform lab · 5 minutes · build a teapot from a half circle, a ring and a cross.6a poster from three shapesform lab · 7 minutes · compose a poster from one circle, one square and one triangle.