Roger Arquer

This course aims to provide an introduction to the language of technical drawing with the necessary drawing tools, principles and techniques used by designers. Technical drawing is an essential skill to communicate with other people and to be able to understand each other. You will learn the basic language of drafting through a series of set drawings and projects and will be introduced to drafting equipment, basic geometry, line type, scales, views, sections, lettering and dimensioning, perspective drawing, as well as the sketches to assist in problem solving and the visualization of spatial relationships. Despite the development of ever more sophisticated CAD programs, manual drafting is the traditional means of creating representational graphics for furniture, product and all forms of three dimensional design and remains as relevant today as it has ever been. Manual drafting is essential to get a strong foundation which later on can be applied on computer drawing.

Roger Arquer graduated in Design at ESDI, Barcelona (1994-1998). A year after his graduation, he moved to New York City (1999-2003) to work as industrial designer. After New York, he moved to London to attend an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art (2003-2005). During the summer break in RCA he worked as designer in Zurich (Switzerland). He set up his own design practice in London after RCA. Since he was student he has received design awards, such as Opus Design Award (Japan), Coram Design (Netherlands), Adi-Fad (Barcelona), RCA Society/Thames Hudson Book Prize (London), among others.