For professional hair designers, design often begins with a client’s picture from a magazine. There are no instructions-just a celebrity smiling for the paparazzi. Other times the hair designer begins with the client’s descriptive words, like thicker, more glamorous or softer. There is only a vision, and it is the hair designer’s job to analyze the vision, mentally break it down into its parts, and systematically create it.
To help learners gain this vital perspective, the Design Analysis System provides models of the head and hair – elements that a hair designer must consider when first analyzing and then creating a design. Headforms represent the human head. Color-coded magnetic strips and color-codes wire represent hair.
When the strips are in place or the wires are inserted and cut, the result is a 3-dimensional design interpretation of a style. Now the learner can analyze the design-an organized method by which the form, direction, volume, texture and color have been arranged.
Eventually, learners will be able to mentally visualize their own designs, and the Design Analysis System provides the vital first step toward this goal. No other system offers this hands-on, dimensional transition between textbook and client.
