Colour proposals consistency in the CMF for car design education

The aim of this work is to investigate the learning processes of the CMF project, through the analysis of the methods of colour representation in thesis of students of courses in Transportation Design. In car design, the eventual richness in students’ representational abilities is crucial for them to best express their ideas. In the CMF design field, in which the choice and combination of chromatic variables play a fundamental role, the representation richness is even more important because of the need to express ethereal concepts such as emotions. A first result described in this work identifies a recurring difficulty by students in the graphic restitution of the chromatic concepts, stated in the moodboard of their own projects, with style and quality consistent with the other parts of the project. At last, the areas on which the teachers will have to take action to reduce these difficulties are highlighted.