IDC [Industrial Design Center] at IIT Bombay just opened an undergraduate program this year (having had just a PG program till now). This is great for potential d-school students in India. Over 5 thousand students gave the UCEED,the entrance test for IDC.
The big catch is that there are only 30 seats (which I believe is a good number). Naturally this attracted a lot of students, to many of whom getting into an IIT means a lot. To many of whom, design is something very new.
Then it comes to designers being famous. Some say that car designers are the rockstars of the industry. It is true to an extent because you may know the name of the person (who led the team) that designed your favourite car. Its highly improbable that you'd know the names of the people who designed the biscuits you're dipping into your tea. Yeah, the tea-time snack Aliva was designed by a team!
Your earning potential doesn't always depend on your fame in public and the impact your work can have is definitely not limited by your compensation.
Your work as a designer will have a huge impact on people, on the world we live in.
Every decision you make as a designer has an effect- whether it's a product designer choosing sustainable materials to reduce the cost of manufacturing on the environment or a graphic designer choosing a font that can be read easily by elderly people with poor vision.
Design is meant to help people live their lives. It could be by making something that makes people happier or makes their lives easier or allows them to live without damaging the world.
Beta when do you have exams.
Its taken my grandparents a while to accept that there aren't any exams. Semesters are a string of assignments one after another and you're gauged by these. As a designer, your life becomes a series of assignments. Learning, observing, imagining and creating never stops.
The big catch is that there are only 30 seats (which I believe is a good number). Naturally this attracted a lot of students, to many of whom getting into an IIT means a lot. To many of whom, design is something very new.
Many websites began to put up information about this course and answered questions posted by aspirants.. Of course this led to a lot of the wrong questions being asked..
These Q-A conversations got so rabid in fervour that trying to reason out with would be pointless..
Anyway so here goes and I hope it helps clear the air around some of the most basic misconceptions about design school..
Anyway so here goes and I hope it helps clear the air around some of the most basic misconceptions about design school..
The syllabus is quite new for a 12th std
student.Can you suggest any books for this syllabus?
No, you mook. None whatsoever, this isn't
your typical entrance test! Each design school looks for something specific in
the people applying. It could be Creativity or Visual Awareness or your
Awareness about Arts and Crafts or your Logic and Reasoning skills, the list
goes on.
A good suggestion would be to look up
previous papers if they exist, not to look for patterns because there are
always new ways to test students, but to get familiar with having to put out
your best in a limited time span. That's the real challenge.
I will like to suggest you all that don’t
get deviated from your jee exam because its very crucial time for it .On the
other hand i like to say that for – in a company there is not as many
recruitment of designers as that of engineers so opportunity is more of an
engineer . Thus i would like to suggest not to deviate from your path
,concentrate on your pre-planned goal.
By looking some famous designers like Dilip
Chhabria we should not change our goal .Think about every other designer
qualified from an iit ,are every one famous like Dilip Chhabria ?
This takes the cake. Before I dissect this post, I've got to admit that the guy does have a point. Design is not an alternative to Engineering.
Design is a relatively new field and there are a lot of opportunities to build a good career out of it. I'm not the best person to tell you this, but once you start looking you'll find that almost every area can use design. You just have to figure out what matters the most to you.Then it comes to designers being famous. Some say that car designers are the rockstars of the industry. It is true to an extent because you may know the name of the person (who led the team) that designed your favourite car. Its highly improbable that you'd know the names of the people who designed the biscuits you're dipping into your tea. Yeah, the tea-time snack Aliva was designed by a team!
Your earning potential doesn't always depend on your fame in public and the impact your work can have is definitely not limited by your compensation.
Your work as a designer will have a huge impact on people, on the world we live in.
Every decision you make as a designer has an effect- whether it's a product designer choosing sustainable materials to reduce the cost of manufacturing on the environment or a graphic designer choosing a font that can be read easily by elderly people with poor vision.
Design is meant to help people live their lives. It could be by making something that makes people happier or makes their lives easier or allows them to live without damaging the world.
Beta when do you have exams.
Its taken my grandparents a while to accept that there aren't any exams. Semesters are a string of assignments one after another and you're gauged by these. As a designer, your life becomes a series of assignments. Learning, observing, imagining and creating never stops.
Being
a designer isn't just a career path, it is a lifestyle you choose- to
constantly question the norms and create new possibilities within the
constraints of the real world.
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