The Concept Kit
$49.00
Learn the processes that create innovative and award winning work.
- Design Process Guidebook
- Concept ideas Catalog
- Concept Elements Resource
- Thesis Topic Finder
- 3D Concept Block Pack
- Special Bonuses
- Lifetime Updates
...is this you?
Not sure how to approach and start a new project?
Find it difficult to establish a design process and methodology?
Struggling to develop a meaningful design response?
Finding design projects difficult and/or daunting?
Don't understand how to develop a strong foundation for your project?
Your design concepts don't withstand scrutiny and require more depth?
...is your design project keeping you up at night!?
Feel confident...
...and create unique and meaningful design responses every time.
Learn the methods and processes behind the inception and evolution of a design concept by...
Learning the origins, influencing factors, purpose and importance of a design concept, together with the problems you can face and how to resolve them.
Be introduced to the four core principles of starting a design project and how they are used to develop a design project.
Be taught the workflow, methods, and tools to generating ideas for any given design project. Along with a complete catalog of ready-made tried and tested approaches and examples.
Understand how to take these approaches and systems and evolve them into concise and meaningful projects.
Understand how to successfully communicate and present each conceptual approach through a range of media and techniques.
and finally, learn how to consistently and continuously improve upon this whole process.
...these tools are built to equip you with design confidence.
What's inside?
Design Process Guidebook
This book provides a step by step guide on how to use deep analysis, research, and testing to generate consistent and successful design responses.
Start every new project with excitement and enthusiasm.
Understand the fundamentals of a design concept’s need and purpose, and how it can provide the starting blocks to a successful outcome.
Know that you can find a strong conceptual approach.
Learn the methods and processes behind the inception and evolution of a design concept by examining its origins, fundamentals, methods of development and presentation techniques.
...and develop an award winning design proposal.
Develop, craft and communicate consistent and successful design responses each and every time.
The key to design confidence is knowing the process.
Discover the core components, principles, and processes to form the foundations of award winning design work.
Learn the formulas that create unique and meaningful conceptual approaches
This, together with the rest of the parts contained within this kit, aims to add a greater depth and rigor to your conceptual process, build your confidence as a designer, and strengthen your overall approach.
Understand the methods and strategies.
Learn the processes that create unique and meaningful conceptual approaches not matter the brief.
Always start with a strong foundation.
Build your design projects on top of background research and disciplined investigation.
Always have confidence in your design process.
Learn the tools, techniques and principles required to put you in front of the starting blocks, and kickstart your design development each and every time.
Concept Ideas Catalog
This has been created to inspire not instruct, to evoke not prompt, and to provide not teach.
Stop using Google!
An internet search for concept examples will most likely lead to one of our online pages ...This book provides a much deeper and comprehensive catalog of ideas and breaks them down.
Instantly find inspiration.
Whether through lack of understanding, knowledge, confidence, or simply due to time pressures, every designer needs inspiration.
Start designing with a clear purpose.
The concept ideas and examples featured in this document aim to put you in front of the starting blocks, and kickstart your design development.
A library of ideas and literal approaches.
Very few resources truly provide workable approaches and strategies that can provide the right levels of illumination to generate consistent and innovative architectural responses.
Find inspiration.
Here we aim to equip designers and architects with essential methods and tools for developing
original and creative conceptual approaches.
This is not a cheat sheet
But a collection of ideas, examples and most importantly, inspiration.
These are methods & tools
This is a collection and resource that avoids temporary fashionable ideas.
Ready-made approaches
This is a primer to establishing and fine tuning.
Concept Design Elements
A comprehensive list of elements that are designed to ignite creative thinking.
Ideas don't just come from images.
This is an idea generation tool that uses words to provide alternative routes of creating thinking.
New avenues to explore.
Unveil new directions and possibilities that can be applied to surfaces, objects, and materials.
A world of in-between strategies.
Generate and combine adjectives with verbs, to create a design manifesto that can applied to your design projects.
Examine new forms of innovative conceptual exploration.
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Project Theme Ideas
This is a curated selection of predefined project themes, topics, and approaches.
Ready made design topics.
These are predefined working project theses, that have been selected and developed for independent design research.
Discover new creative directions.
Arguably one of the most important aspects of a project, find and narrow down a workable direction.
50 ready made themes and approaches.
These thesis topics can be taken literally, combined together and/or simply used as a source of inspiration.
Providing further examples and avenues to explore.
These can be taken literally, paired together and/or simply used as a source of inspiration.
3D Concept Models
An extensive library of experimental drag and drop 3D forms and volumes
Kick-start your spatial arrangement investigation.
This is a catalog of alternative physical starting points that enables you to remove yourself from the initial limitations and restrictions we can occasionally find ourselves facing.
Analyse volumetric relationships and factors with ease.
Design without limitations of preconceived architectural notions ...this is a limitless testing ground for a structured tangible presence.
Create simple and quick massing models.
This presents a set of virtual starting points with instant feedback that activates architectural inquiry and design inspiration.
Available directly in SketchUp
These blocks can be effortlessly copied and pasted into and onto site models, or adapted in isolation to provide the perfect platform for quick manipulation, testing, and development.
Special Bonuses
We've included three extra resources to help take your design process to next level.
Concept Diagrams
Here we provide a collection concept diagrams meticulously drafted in DWG format, providing intricate design and architectural details.
Spatial Organization Diagrams
Explore the critical role in facilitating a better understanding of complex relationships and systems across various fields of study.
Volumetric Diagrams
A range of volumetric diagrams, provided in the versatile and widely-used DWG format for convenient digital manipulation and interpretation.
...These are only available with this kit, and will never be available for sale anywhere else.
Plans & Pricing
Get the foundations right ...and rest simply follows.
Frequently Asked Questions.
For the handbooks and documents you’ll need Adobe Acrobat and/or any web based browser to open them, and for the 3D concept blocks; SketchUp. All of these programs are readily available for free via their associated websites.
This kit is for anyone looking to create a physical, digital, and online portfolio.
- Undergraduate students
- Graduate students
- Postgraduate students
- Architectural interns and assistants
- Architects of all levels
Our priority is to support you in reaching your goals throughout all of our programs and resources, but if you feel it is not providing you with what you need, we will happily provide you with a full refund.
We have full confidence in the quality of our products and its ability to assist you in creating an impressive portfolio that presents your work in the best possible light. However, we recognize that each individual has unique needs and expectations.
Therefore, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding this program.
The written publications require a PDF reader or web browser to open them.
Whilst focused solely upon architectural design, there are significant overlaps between all three of these professions, and so yes the processes and techniques discussed are very transferable.
Yes, this kit breaks down the complexities of the subject into bite-sized chunks that are extremely easy to digest and implement.
Just send us an email, or ask a question below any of the resources or courses in the course are of Teachable.
