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This is the first of many episodes where we dive into addressing the top 10 questions young industrial designers face.
What skills are most important for a successful career in industrial design?Students are keen to understand which technical skills (such as sketching, CAD software proficiency, and model-making) and soft skills (like communication, teamwork, and creative thinking) are crucial in the industry.How do I build a strong portfolio?Guidance on what constitutes a compelling portfolio, how to showcase different projects, and what employers look for in a portfolio are common concerns.What are the typical career paths in industrial design?Information on the various roles an industrial designer can pursue, such as product design, user experience design, automotive design, and furniture design, and the progression paths in these areas.How can I gain real-world experience while still in school?Advice on securing internships, freelance projects, or participating in design competitions to build practical experience and a professional network.What is the job market like for industrial designers?Questions about employment prospects, industry demand, and geographic hotspots for industrial design jobs are common.How do industrial designers stay current with industry trends?Strategies for keeping up with design trends, technological advancements, and materials innovations to remain relevant in the field.What role does sustainability play in industrial design today?Understanding how sustainability is influencing product design and what designers can do to create eco-friendly and sustainable products.How can I develop my own style or design philosophy?Guidance on how to cultivate a unique design voice that stands out while meeting the needs of clients and consumers.What are the challenges of working with clients and managing projects?Insights into client relations, project management, and navigating creative differences or budget constraints in professional settings.How does industrial design intersect with other disciplines?Curiosity about how industrial design collaborates with fields like engineering, marketing, and psychology to create holistic product experiences.LINKS:
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There's a sea of industrial designers out there, how can you stand out? Everyone is trying to stand out... but how can you actually do it?
Skill Stacking
We talk about the ins and outs of skill stacking with the help of Sushant Vohra. You can read his LinkedIn post on the topic here.
We also address the question "should I show it all?" when it comes to your portfolio.
Are you interested in a fix the 'folio program? Be sure to reach out to us at [email protected] to let us know your thoughts!
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I used to enjoy my job, and now it's terrible. I aspire to be a great industrial designer, but I feel like I'm pigeon holed in my current role. I'm not growing as a creative. I feel stuck but I don't know how to get out of my rut.
Sound familiar?
Well.... there's good and bad news. Bad news is, you're the problem. Good news- you're also the solution. That's right, when it comes to getting where you want to go in your creative career, there's only one person behind the wheel YOU.
In this episode we talk about specific steps we've taken to get out of a rut and see positive progress in our career development and share advice on what you can do to get the momentum you're looking for.
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You won't always be able to give something 100%... heck sometimes 50% is all you've got. What do you do when you want to hit a home run, but you feel like you've struck out? In this episode we breakdown strategies for handling these kinds of situations with professionalism and share a few takeaways that will help you make those lemons into lemonade.
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In this episode we jump on a call with Jack Marple, the Associate Director of Industrial Design at Enlisted in Salt Lake City Utah to discuss design education and the top things that keep young (and old) designers from having job-winning presentation in their portfolios. We discuss eye-opening realizations we've had as educators and best practices on how to not only be able to identify good design, but apply it to your work.
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In this episode of The Variable Design Podcast we dive in and discuss Sushant Vohra's LinkedIn post:
If you are a design student in 2023 don't fall for these 12 traps ↘
1) Being first in your class and thinking that design life is gonna be easy.
2) Copy pasting ChatGPT responses to comment on a post just for 'networking' sake.
3) Having those slider scales for each software in your CV (seriously drop it).
4) Writing a wall of text in a cold email to a potential employer.
5) Only having college/academic projects in your portfolio.
6) Having no internships because you want to work on your thesis, or because you didn't get your dream studio.
7) Not putting yourself out there for the fear of being judged.
8) Strong arming your peers who might eventually be in a far better place than you.
9) Only looking at design in your own country. (Yes, even if you are in a western country)
10) Not having a website or a landing page as a student.
11) Not having opinions or curiosity around things because you don't have domain authority.
12) Blaming your professors (feedback) for how a project turned out
Not only should we avoid these pitfalls, but we have to be able to be a good person and work well with team members... even if they give us feedback we don't really like.
How can you leverage interpersonal skills to come out on top? We discuss this and more with Andre Cotan.
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Steve Cozzolino, an award winning and distinguished industrial designer with over 25 years of consulting experience, earned a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Notre Dame in 1993. Early in his career, Steve collaborated with Eva Zeisel and was Design Director at Karim Rashid Inc. from 2002-2006. In 2006, Steve launched Cozzolino studio LLC. Steve has received multiple "Red Dot" Design Awards, the industry's highest standard of excellence, has been featured in The New York Times and was honored by the City of New York with a 2011 "Excellence in Design" Award. He's repeatedly won "Good Design" Awards, Housewares Design Awards, ID Magazine's "Design Distinction", and has received numerous design patents. Recently, Cozzolino studio has worked with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Grand Central Partnership, Rockefeller Center, New York Aquarium, and The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
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About Joey:
Be open to new paths: In design school, from shoe obsessed to story obsessed.Ugly design on purpose: In my first design job, I had to design ugly shoes for frumpy dads and learned early on that good design is not universal. Pivot and expand: How and why I transitioned to design consulting.Go on adventures / don’t make decisions based on fear: 1 year Sabbatical in Costa rica in the middle of the great recession.Go beyond things: Working at Smart Design really solidified my approach to storytelling and contextualizing tangible things.Design at different scales: Growing pains from the transition between small scale to large scale objects (Ford and Steelcase)Work in different cultures: Experience working at HP in Barcelona.Invest in yourself (and your side projects): Touchy/Feely, Coat Check Chair etc.Celebrate how far you’ve come
Prior to starting his own practice, Joey led design teams over the past 15 years while working for companies like Clarks, Continuum, Smart Design, Steelcase, and HP. His design work has been recognized with over 40 awards and featured in Design Milk, Dezeen, Fast Company, Interior Design, New York Times, TASCHEN and Wired. Joey graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA in Industrial Design.
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Recognized as 1 of the 50 most notable designers over the last 50 years, Brian Roderman is the President and Co-Owner of IN2 Innovation, an experience innovation design agency that provides a global range of services from inspiration to integration. IN2 Innovation currently has offices located in Dallas, Austin, and Atlanta.
Brian has worked in the design consultancy business for over 30 years and is frequently a featured speaker on design and innovation at events and symposiums worldwide. He has extensive design experience in consumer electronics, consumer products, housewares, transportation, telecommunications, and business-to-business industries for clients such as TopGolf, Frigidaire, Interstate Batteries, Newell Brands, Marriott, and many others.
He is active with the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), having held six terms on the IDSA National Board of Directors. He was recently awarded a Fellowship within the society along with the top notable designer’s recognition honor.
Brian’s Power statements on Experience Design:
UX design is more than just digital design.The experience revolution has begun, and we are in for a 30 year run.A True User Experience occurs when human senses are engaged (the more the better) and emotional responses are transmitted. A brand can intersect with the True User Experience through combined products and services in digital and physical means. We have long tried to adapt to technology, now we are asking technology to adapt to us.Experience design brings the human back into the center of the focus. We need designers who can create a balanced world of experiences. We need holistic experience designers.
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There are a number of ways that we as creatives can inadvertently keep ourselves away from progress. In this episode we talk about common ways we shoot ourselves in the foot as industrial designers, how to avoid them, and what to do to find balance and improve in our craft.
This episode was a recorded clubhouse session that took place on May 12,2022
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Questions we cover in this episode
When is it appropriate to let intuition trump validation? Is validation always necessary? We always hear about how prospective employers are looking for “good decision making skills” in student portfolios. What the heck does that even mean and how the heck do we show that we’re good at making decisions in our design work? Is that just subjective or can we establish some ground rules?
1- Industrial Designers do human factors testing and ethnographic research to drive all their decisions.2- Industrial Designers are expected to perform life cycle analysis on products under development.
How do we balance sustainability and time constraints for production? Especially consumer electronics product dev, it’s like a flash in the fire. So LSA is usually glazed over, especially with smaller startups that aren’t held to the same scrutiny as big corporations.3- A design grounded in research findings is the best solution that should always be pursued.
In the long run, is it more helpful for one’s career growth to make a habit of presenting very solid, research based (or very intuitively grounded) solutions or do we think that being a designer that regularly pushes the envelope by presenting ideas waaay out in left field that you’ll see quicker gains in notoriety and skill?4- Industrial Designers regularly are carving foam in the shop to create mockups.
5- Industrial Designers who sketch well are better at communicating ideas.
6- Working at a design consultancy right after graduation is the best way to polish a wide variety of skills.
7- Working for a name brand company developing their own products means you’ll design only one thing and your creative diversity is limited.
8- The best way to move up the career ladder is to spend a good amount of time in one place to specialize. TS- Unfortunately no. Most designers will find that the only way to move up is to get out. My experience has been that in spades.
9- You studied ID, but will likely spend most of your time creating graphics for presentations and marketing collateral to promote products.
About Tony Shoemaker:Tony has been in various roles, across the country, in the ID industry for over 25 years. He came to Milwaukee Tool after 10 years with Sears, working for over 8 years in the Kenmore Brand unit, and 1 ½ years in the Craftsman team. Prior to Sears, Tony worked in consultancies such as Bally Design in Pittsburgh, and Ignition in Dallas. His experience includes medical design, toys, communications equipment, consumer electronics, housewares, packaging, graphic design, retail, and exhibit design.
Once described by a mentor as a “thoroughbred” designer, Tony has always sought to absorb as much information from the world as he can. He seeks odd knowledge and the synergy between its crossings to create those “ah-ha!” moments key to the design process. Just as comfortable in a pile of parts and shop dust as at his desk sketching fervently, Tony is a self-described “mad designer,” a hybrid of a Mythbuster and a Concept Artist. His real energy comes out when recognizing the human link to a concept’s genesis. He strives for those moments that are genuinely transformative to his work.
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If you've been in the field of Industrial Design or you're just about to enter the field, then you've probably already noticed that there is a very traditional expectation you must meet. In MANY aspects.
- How you present.
- How you draw.
- How you act or express your opinion.
- How you 'live and breathe design'
When you don't fit this mold:
- It's frustrating to experience AND to watch happen to someone else.
- It's already a competitive field, and this just adds to the mental load.
- It has a dramatic effect on your perceived value to the industry.
In this episode we share our thoughts and experiences on this matter.
The Variable is a top 10 Industrial Design Podcast! Special thanks to feedspot for this publication featuring The Variable Design Podcast.
https://blog.feedspot.com/industrial_design_podcasts/
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As a designer how do you find the balance? Should we expect to always be grinding into the late hours of the night working on designs? Or should there be a clear separation of work and personal life?
In this episode we talk about the realities of design work, how we can be authentic to ourselves, and how to find balance and leverage all the seasons of career development to our advantage.Support the show
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Dave Joseph is the founder of Ovie Smartware and Camp design.
It's his mission to make meaningful products that impact people's lives. His design philosophy is to reach for the fusion point between aesthetics, brand, and function. The harmony between these elements turns a product into a treasured object in a person's life.
People can support Dave and his ventures by visiting/following his various channels.
https://www.instagram.com/fridgesmarter/
www.ovie.life
The Variable is a top 10 Industrial Design Podcast! Special thanks to feedspot for this publication featuring The Variable Design Podcast.
https://blog.feedspot.com/industrial_design_podcasts/
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OTHER VIDEOS
How to win jobs you've never done before: https://youtu.be/bOsE7ZaZTEo
Stop 3D printing Crap: https://youtu.be/wpCdp0Ny0ys
5 tips for a better portfolio: https://youtu.be/je94gIJQuMc
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Stephen Wurth jumps in the deep end and shares the power of design thinking within a corporate environment.
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OTHER VIDEOS
How to win jobs you've never done before: https://youtu.be/bOsE7ZaZTEo
Stop 3D printing Crap: https://youtu.be/wpCdp0Ny0ys
5 tips for a better portfolio: https://youtu.be/je94gIJQuMc
Kickstarter sucks? https://youtu.be/QQAJER0sGNcSupport the show
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Watch the Original YouTube broadcast: https://youtu.be/y8KCHmiDBzU
Read the article mentioned in our food for thought segment https://vanschneider.com/blog/portfolio-tips/the-old-case-study-is-not-working/
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OTHER VIDEOS
How to win jobs you've never done before: https://youtu.be/bOsE7ZaZTEo
Stop 3D printing Crap: https://youtu.be/wpCdp0Ny0ys
5 tips for a better portfolio: https://youtu.be/je94gIJQuMc
Kickstarter sucks? https://youtu.be/QQAJER0sGNcSupport the show
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A degree in industrial design gives you many career options. One of the paths we don’t mention often- but is in high demand- is retail and environment design. As designers, we have the power to influence shoppers, drive sales, and solve unique problems for retailers through innovation and design thinking.
Neon Carrot is a design studio full of creative thinkers who are professional problem solvers. We are passionate about the world around us. We are enthusiastic learners and encourage each team member to pursue and share new experiences. We believe that continuously learning from the people and the world around us helps us to offer unique perspectives and creative solutions to complex human-centered challenges. Our focus is helping retailers and product brands connect with guests. Insights, strategy and design...we work to help clients solve problems and achieve their goals.
Chris is an innovative and creative design professional with 23+ years design and management experience who applies the latest professional design thinking to business opportunities and challenges. He posses extensive business knowledge and experience in the research, concept, development and implementation of processes leading to new and enhanced consumer products and retail marketing solutions. Chris leads diverse teams to accomplish business goals.
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OTHER VIDEOS
How to win jobs you've never done before: https://youtu.be/bOsE7ZaZTEo
Stop 3D printing Crap: https://youtu.be/wpCdp0Ny0ys
5 tips for a better portfolio: https://youtu.be/je94gIJQuMc
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The best designers are able not only to create noteworthy concepts, but present it in a compelling way that tells a memorable story. That's why we reached out to James Adams and Thomas Manning, the leadership team at Epic Light Media, to help lead our Design Breakroom discussion on storytelling.
This event was hosted on Clubhouse and broadcast live on YouTube.
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John Mauriello is an intensely driven independent industrial designer and adjunct professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts. John works with clients to create best-selling designs that display quality, function intuitively, and meet real-world constraints around manufacturing, deadlines, and cost. John's industrial design skills have allowed him to help clients create new brands and ship groundbreaking products in new and unexplored product categories. John strives to achieve the highest standard in his design work. Never shying away from the tough questions in design, he takes great pride in his design decisions and the principles he uses to make them.
John's work has been featured in several top-tier publications such as Forbes, Tech Crunch, Venture Beat, Design Boom, Popular Science, and many others. He has demonstrated his ability to deliver game-changing industrial design work for companies like Amazon, Qualcomm, Logitech, and Motorola, as well as with several startups like Eatsa and ElectroSpit.
John is the founder of Design Theory, a YouTube channel where he discusses various ideas around design and culture. The channel has been very successful, growing from 100 subscribers to over 48,000 in the space of 16 months.
John's design philosophy is simple: Tools and products should be an extension of the body, requiring no conscious articulation or thought to use. These tools must also inspire us through their carefully crafted forms and surfaces. John's passion is to give people the intuitive and beautiful physical objects they need in order to achieve mastery in whatever activity they engage in.
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About Reid
A NYC based Industrial Designer with a solid history working in the design consulting and education space. Currently an Associate Design Director at Aruliden and an Adjunct Professor at The Parsons School of Design, teaching process drawing+digital visualization and Studio 4. In his spare time Reid partners with brands and shares his design work on his instagram account (138k followers), creates online design curriculum and is designing and building a bespoke cabin in upstate NY.Support the show
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