[sdiy] Designing front panels for synths

[Roman Sowa]

But I like panels "designed by engineers". OTOH I'm disgusted by panels 
made by "crazy dude on too much weed", there's a ton of that in 
eurorack. They say "symetry is an aesthetics of fools". Then I'm a fool 
squared, as my best looking panels are symetrical over several axis.

Leaving aside what CAD package or what laser to use on what anodized 
aluminium etc. one important process in my panel design is to let the 
design soak a bit. Leave it for a week or month (that's personal DIY so 
it can wait) then look back at it. If it looks like crap, move knobs 
around or start over. If it's so good I can feel unused regions of my 
brain tickle, then adjust only minor stuff, add what was forgotten and 
let it soak again.

My son is graphics artist and he would gladly help me, but I cannot 
imagine having a synth panel look like another Spiderman comic book.

Roman

W dniu 2020-10-13 o 21:38, Gordonjcp pisze:
> No, no, not whether you should use Inkscape or Excel or some CAD package, actually designing them so they look good.
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> There's got to be some overlap on this list with people skilled in the visual arts.  How do you lay out the controls, connectors etc. on a panel so they look good, and don't look like the nightmarish "designed by engineer" crap that a lot of stuff seems to be?
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> I'm guessing there's some simple but non-obvious principles at work that could be explained if you could get past all the forum discussion of whether toner transfer is better than photoresist or Eagle is better than Illustrator or whatever.
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