Retaining basic sculptural education within an industrial design curriculum may seem a bit odd. A design theory focussed on creating objects might also be considered oldfashioned. But it obtains its right to exist from future generations, who will still be surrounded by objects. And these objects will have to be designed. An education in design basics includes instruction in drawing, graphics, colour, and three-dimensional form with one common goal: teaching a basic design methodology and equipping students with sensitivity for fundamental aesthetic, syntactic and semantic qualities of products. This is of great importance when students with an engineering design background are taught in industrial design, where two significant differences to usual design curricula can be found: first, there is less time available to teach these students in product design; second, these students are marked by technicalfunctional problem solving and used to getting precise instructions. Within a three-year design curriculum, which supplements two years of mechanical engineering education, we offer a coherent education in design fundamentals. In this paper we will describe the Two-Step Method, which is used as a fundamental design method in our education program. Furthermore we will show how this method is applied to educating industrial design students in creating aesthetic three-dimensional forms.