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Sunday, May 21, 2006
Thursday, May 18, 2006
DDS - 2006
The Design Degree Show, (DDS)
This is being held at IDC, IIT Bombay during 10th, 11th and 12th of June 2006. New aspirants can go to IDC on these dates to get to see how and what the designers do at IDC. This is a showcase of the designers work where you can meet then and ask questions about the concepts as well as get to meet IDC faculty in person.
So any aspirants this is amust attend show!
This is being held at IDC, IIT Bombay during 10th, 11th and 12th of June 2006. New aspirants can go to IDC on these dates to get to see how and what the designers do at IDC. This is a showcase of the designers work where you can meet then and ask questions about the concepts as well as get to meet IDC faculty in person.
So any aspirants this is amust attend show!
Institute evaluation
Someone asked me about this.... so here is some more info on institutes....
Little about the design institutes
IDC – Best among all, can be compared to NID. One of the selling propositions of this is PD and VC study together and have very well equipped labs to try out most of things. Good faculty better get in soon to catch the sr. faculty for their inputs.
IDDC – Second best, good infrastructure blessed as 2nd design school in IITs.
CPDM – Descent, has more stress on functionality and working models. Job market for this after few yrs of experience is quite comparable with IDC.
IIT Kanpur – I do not have much data about this.
Just to complete the list I would not mind adding NID to this as they too have been doing great work and my personal opinion would be if you get into IDC fine or else try NID before anything else, but this is my personal opinion.
NOTE – Nid runs it’s own design test. I do not have much data about it..
have fun....
Little about the design institutes
IDC – Best among all, can be compared to NID. One of the selling propositions of this is PD and VC study together and have very well equipped labs to try out most of things. Good faculty better get in soon to catch the sr. faculty for their inputs.
IDDC – Second best, good infrastructure blessed as 2nd design school in IITs.
CPDM – Descent, has more stress on functionality and working models. Job market for this after few yrs of experience is quite comparable with IDC.
IIT Kanpur – I do not have much data about this.
Just to complete the list I would not mind adding NID to this as they too have been doing great work and my personal opinion would be if you get into IDC fine or else try NID before anything else, but this is my personal opinion.
NOTE – Nid runs it’s own design test. I do not have much data about it..
have fun....
CEED - While @ Exam
What's tested in CEED from the aspirants
This is what is tested in CEED, just a guideline not a bible or exam paper format. As you would see there is no definite answer for any of these questions it in addition to solution following does equally matter
What matters
1. Impression - overall impression (assume your paper like a business presentation asking 1 million dollar so you need to create best impression possible)
2. Presentation (avoid shabby paper work)
3. Structure of information
4. Though process – how did you come to it…
5. Any innovative way of presenting your paper
6. Consistency
7. Highlighting the USPs in your solutions
8. Creativity in answers and presentation - Remember pictures talk more but if you are not a good drawing expert better write in some creative way!..
9. Ability to think out of the box – Avoid general answers… the questions here are asked to get how your mind can think out of the box than the average person’s thinking. Thumb rule could be – if 2 of your friends can think the same about something it may not fly… but in some cases you may want to think what people think so better be cautious or awake answering them…
Some areas which typically tested are -
• Observation Skills
o How many circular objects can you think
o Make/draw objects from triangles
o For any public place photo you will be asked what will you be thinking if you go here as 10 yr kid, 20yr youth, 40 yr adult or say aged person
• Design capabilities
o Design a torch for kids
o Design the alarm bell be used for public places
• Quick thinking
o Solve many problems in bulk… as time is important for CEED tests, you need to think quickly and creatively faster while solving the paper…
• Problem solving
o At wash basins you will always see the soap in the mess, solve this problem
o Public place shoe racko How to avoid children putting fingers in the electric sockets
o Design the mobile for blind
• Resource utilization
o Come out with a school bag from a rope of say 10 meters
o Use paper to build a filing cabinet
o You have metal sheet of 1mtr X 1mtr and a wire come out with a shoe rack with maximum capacity to hold, avoid welding and screws etc.
• Drawing and rendering skills (got some wt for these too)
o Draw a 3d view of an iron
o Draw the earphone
o Design and draw the gas stove
Have fun....
This is what is tested in CEED, just a guideline not a bible or exam paper format. As you would see there is no definite answer for any of these questions it in addition to solution following does equally matter
What matters
1. Impression - overall impression (assume your paper like a business presentation asking 1 million dollar so you need to create best impression possible)
2. Presentation (avoid shabby paper work)
3. Structure of information
4. Though process – how did you come to it…
5. Any innovative way of presenting your paper
6. Consistency
7. Highlighting the USPs in your solutions
8. Creativity in answers and presentation - Remember pictures talk more but if you are not a good drawing expert better write in some creative way!..
9. Ability to think out of the box – Avoid general answers… the questions here are asked to get how your mind can think out of the box than the average person’s thinking. Thumb rule could be – if 2 of your friends can think the same about something it may not fly… but in some cases you may want to think what people think so better be cautious or awake answering them…
Some areas which typically tested are -
• Observation Skills
o How many circular objects can you think
o Make/draw objects from triangles
o For any public place photo you will be asked what will you be thinking if you go here as 10 yr kid, 20yr youth, 40 yr adult or say aged person
• Design capabilities
o Design a torch for kids
o Design the alarm bell be used for public places
• Quick thinking
o Solve many problems in bulk… as time is important for CEED tests, you need to think quickly and creatively faster while solving the paper…
• Problem solving
o At wash basins you will always see the soap in the mess, solve this problem
o Public place shoe racko How to avoid children putting fingers in the electric sockets
o Design the mobile for blind
• Resource utilization
o Come out with a school bag from a rope of say 10 meters
o Use paper to build a filing cabinet
o You have metal sheet of 1mtr X 1mtr and a wire come out with a shoe rack with maximum capacity to hold, avoid welding and screws etc.
• Drawing and rendering skills (got some wt for these too)
o Draw a 3d view of an iron
o Draw the earphone
o Design and draw the gas stove
Have fun....
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Product Design
You will find this useful to get data on product design and where you would find yourself ones you opt for this course....
Product design in India today is still assumed to revolve around pysical products like a vaccum cleaner, autos, mixers, furniture, interiros etc. but this is no more true with many software products getting built now out of India there is a potential to excel in the software area too. So now with this kind of education nothing would stop one to start designing an application like MS word or excel. So with IT sector the spectrum os what you can do with this kindof study has gone much beyond it's scope in Indian context. So do bank of this...
For new kids it would be great to take this as a applied course and see how they can extrapolate using the creative skills in various industry sectors... nothing stops you from designing some stock broking financial model and I think with creative mind you can defnitely do better... again this course offers some way of out of the box thinking which may never has happaned so far taking the best or somecases revolutonary out of someone... example has any one thought of watch for blinds in usual study material ... this course may make you think of it!.... and there are various such creative problems which a normal huam may never think in his lifetime and this course triggers your thinking in this directon making you tap in more opportunities as comapred to other courses....
This may sound like selling but real crux lies in the word "extrapolation" (I think) how can you take something or learn something to bring in new innovations which are usful to human or any human function.
Switching the grears a bit if you are wondering what have been people from IDC doing outside ... there are many who have achieved greater positions like people at GM, Ford, Microsoft, Oracle, Yahoo, Telco, elephant design and many also have started on their own....
Few have struggled but not so long I have ot met any IDCan yet who says it was a waste!.. so cheer up and give it a shot!
Bhushan
Product design in India today is still assumed to revolve around pysical products like a vaccum cleaner, autos, mixers, furniture, interiros etc. but this is no more true with many software products getting built now out of India there is a potential to excel in the software area too. So now with this kind of education nothing would stop one to start designing an application like MS word or excel. So with IT sector the spectrum os what you can do with this kindof study has gone much beyond it's scope in Indian context. So do bank of this...
For new kids it would be great to take this as a applied course and see how they can extrapolate using the creative skills in various industry sectors... nothing stops you from designing some stock broking financial model and I think with creative mind you can defnitely do better... again this course offers some way of out of the box thinking which may never has happaned so far taking the best or somecases revolutonary out of someone... example has any one thought of watch for blinds in usual study material ... this course may make you think of it!.... and there are various such creative problems which a normal huam may never think in his lifetime and this course triggers your thinking in this directon making you tap in more opportunities as comapred to other courses....
This may sound like selling but real crux lies in the word "extrapolation" (I think) how can you take something or learn something to bring in new innovations which are usful to human or any human function.
Switching the grears a bit if you are wondering what have been people from IDC doing outside ... there are many who have achieved greater positions like people at GM, Ford, Microsoft, Oracle, Yahoo, Telco, elephant design and many also have started on their own....
Few have struggled but not so long I have ot met any IDCan yet who says it was a waste!.. so cheer up and give it a shot!
Bhushan
Where you can go with CEED
- IDC - Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay;
- IDDC, IIT Delhi;
- CPMD, IISc Bangalore;
- IIT Kanpur
- Some design school in dharwad - this is little suspicious as some of the ceed qualifiers got direct admission calls from this school in 1996 when I passed out
CEED
CEED - Comman entrance examination for design.
This is an exam taken by IIT to let aspirants who wishe to make their future in design. It has got product design (PD) and visual communication (VC) as two cources.
This blog is created to help promote, help asiprants to know more about it, IDCans to suggest career options.
- Bhushan
This is an exam taken by IIT to let aspirants who wishe to make their future in design. It has got product design (PD) and visual communication (VC) as two cources.
This blog is created to help promote, help asiprants to know more about it, IDCans to suggest career options.
- Bhushan
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