Monday, August 29, 2011

Seeds for CEED


Finally my planned book on CEED is published online. Soon you can buy it online on pothi.com and some other leading online portals.

http://pothi.com/pothi/book/bhushan-patil-seeds-ceed











Book Index
  • Understanding the Streams
  • Future with Master of Design Courses and market-scope
  • The Essentials
  • Drawing skills
  • Imagination and Creativity
  • Design communication
  • User understanding
  • Be different
  • Interview questions or Trick Questions
  • Introduction to Materials and Mechanics
  • What will I do in the Design Course
  • Final Preparation checklist and Tips
  • General awareness
  • Sample Questions
  • Contributor Profiles

Hope you all find this useful. For any comments and feedback about the book you can write comments to this post.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

CEED 2011

Hi Students and Aspirants for CEED 2011...

Use this post to ask questions using "Add Comments" link and I will answer them online here on the blog as well as post to the yahoo our group ceed_india (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ceed_india/)

Enjoy and best of luck
Admin, CEEDINDIA

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Color Circle

Useful color circle, to know visually what makes up of what,


For those who may not be that well versed with colors...

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

CEED 2010 QNA

Please post your questions as comments here and I will revert with answers to all your exam related queries here as well as on the ceed_india group. Try to ensure not to post duplicate questions!

CEED question papers

Here are the question papers for last 3 years for CEED examination

Paper - 1

Paper- 2

Paper-3

Please refer the same, you can also get these papers online on http://www.gate.iitb.ac.in/ceed2010/old_qp.htm

Admin
CEEDINDIA

Saturday, May 16, 2009

General Gyaan on selection Procedure?

Question - Sir,
I have done B.V.A.(B.F.A.) in applied arts and have applied for the VC course in IDC......I got CEED AIR 140.
What is my chance of getting a call for the further rounds from IDC??
Also can u pls tell me what do they see in a VC applicant??
How should i prepare for the further rounds...n what kind of portfolio should i have for the interview....i have done a little photography during my college and have made campaigns and also some illustrations......what all should i bring and how many sheets as the interview last 10-15 mins. as is written in the IDC site.
PLEASE HELP!!
Thanks

Answer

First of all as you are BFA you need to really stand out of at least many who pass every year and given it's a direct art course you better have best skills almost ranking in top 15/20 across India.

Secondly, you have to have a very good communication skills, as it's must many BFA lack on this.

Third on your portfolio - typically for VC they would look for your skills on themes, what you say is it really in there in your portfolio from idea, metaphors etc. MOre than how many what can you cover best may be top 5/6 works you can showcase but ensure you can showcase them well in about 10/15 mins. Try to cover different aspects in works like photogrpahy, sculptures, sketching, concept, abstracts etc. Do not bore the examiners with tonnes of work but just one type. In general typically interviews long for good candidates, so do not worry much about the interview time...

Also in general it's seen that if you are over confident or show you know everything under the world - you may even be asked "ehy you want to join design course? you knwo it all already?"

Another note for all - no of KGs of work does not matter, you may even see people before interiew showing work to all other students around, with huge portfolios etc. don't worry about it. I know even a candidate who just did 2 scupltures in soap got selected

Best of luck!

Bhushan
Admin
CEEDINDIA

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

CEED 2009 - question paper sample questions

Hi Friends and CEED aspirants am adding some sample questions here for this year's junta!

1. Draw 20 quick line drawings of things which has triangular shape
2. Draw / Render an Iron in 3D drawing. Use of perspectives is plus.
3. See the following picture and give 10 observations for the various personas
a. Indian person
b. Someone from USA
c. Someone from say nepal



4. You know many times the tooth brushes after use remain wet, and also remain open and has a chance of catching air contaminations or insects. Try to solve this problem by designing a new toothbrush

5. Small Kids in the school forget many things like pencils, books, rubbers etc. Write your views about how would you solve this issue?

6. You may know various shapes like triangle, circle, random shapes, tree like etc. Assume you ask a scientist, mill worker, army man, female fashion model to draw any one shape, can you draw what would they draw?

7. Draw 3 sample titles with showcasing different font and names which you can think of for following,
a. Action movie title
b. Romantic movie title
c. Sci-fi movie
d. A Movie based on world war

8. Imagine you are leading a team for an astro-mission, and you are a lead designer of the space vehicle. What are the top 5 design factors you have to focus while building it?

9. Write how a straws are made? If you know there are straws which can bend with corrugations in the middle, write how can they be made?

10. Draw a circle, pentagon, rectangle by hand

11. Indian railway tickets has advertises behind the tickets. Can you give your thoughts on what brands should advertise there and why?

12. Draw a cell phone

13. You have a a wire, some metal sheets, and some screws - come out with a design using this material for a newspaper stand. Try to use as minimum material as possible and denote how much material, sizes, any other salient points of your design too

14. There is a metal pillar with 100 screws holding it at the bottom, One of the screws always get's broken due to some reasons. How do you solve this issue.

15. There is a spherical tank which needs to be calibrated and sent to a big company. How would you calibrate this tank without really filling it with any liquid.

16. You have some bamboo sticks and paper. Create a Kite which can fly with it. Do not have the kite shape same as usual square shape. Ensure take care of all considerations like air flow, where you will tie the strings, any special techniques needs to fly it. Show it with pictures.

15. "I want to eat" - you need to message this to someone only using hand movements. Draw some key hand sketches. Communication is very imp here, drawing skills are secondary.

16. Write approx. sizes for the following items in cm or inches. You can give range if you wish to
a. Diameter of a 100 watt bulb
b. legth, bredth, height of a camel compass box which kids use
c. Legth of a pencil
d. Height of a table
e. Height of a typical room
f. Legth of say a maruti car


I think this would be a good start for this year. You may walso want to read and observe various objcets in and around you. Prepare to draw human elements, full body or parts (develope your own skills for this do not try to mimic what others can draw) you can even use human figures in differenet postures some example are

Example -1
Example-2
Example-3
Example-4

Feel free to write to me by adding comments to this post.

Monday, September 22, 2008

CEED 2009 Bells ring on CEEDINDIA blog

Welcome people!

Hope you are fine, am coming back here almost after an year, soon I would be posting material, content, samples like last year on this blog. Hope it would be useful for you.

Just to get a count how many people from this group/blog are appearing for CEED 2009 please post comments with your names for this entry!

Enjoy and best of luck
Bhushan

Thursday, August 02, 2007

CEED 2008 - Material

Hi All,

Based on various requests from many of you last year and even this year, I'm going to offer the material on the following topics this year staring end of August 2008 with a series of monthly booklets prepared by qualified professionals, Sample Question papers and a summit where you can meet many veterans who have qualified CEED in past and recent times as well as completed the courses.

Material Structure for CEED 2008

  1. All about CEED and how do you prepare for the same
  2. Future with CEED and market-scope
  3. Product Design
  4. Visual Design
  5. Drawing skills -These are important and may take a while so will be done earlier
  6. Imaging
  7. Colors
  8. Design flow - story boarding, user scenario, user experience design
  9. Presenting the design - Aspects of design
  10. Writing skills - how to write about design, concept presentation
  11. Thought process - Think in depth as well as thinking shallow but wide
  12. Design keys - Evaluation of a design, know what to look for
  13. Design analysis
  14. Problem solving
  15. General awareness - more guidelines than actual read outs
  16. Design models, metaphors, theme to design, function to form
  17. User understanding
  18. Being different - make your solution stand out of the crowd, differentiators, communication
  19. Introduction to Materials, products
  20. Final preparation checklist

Contact: ceedindia@gmail.com

- Enjoy!

Friday, May 04, 2007

CEED Qualifiers

Hi Junta!

Finally I got a material for you to read on for the nest steps after qualifying CEED this year! I'm happy to post the same on the blog today! Do have a careful read of the same and take help of it for your preperation!


http://www.slideshare.net/gofull/45475/1

Enjoy and Best of Luck!

Saturday, April 07, 2007

CONTRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to all the CEED qualifiers!

If you are qualified please add a comment below with your Name|Score|AIR








As mentioned earlier I'll post soon what after qualifying CEED here. Meanwhile if you have any questions and clarifications please send me email!

Bhushan

Friday, January 19, 2007

To carry to exam....

For the material

You can take with you

1. Colors - Try using pastels or pencil colors... water colors unless you can use them is not a good option
2. Cesors (imp- sometimes there are quetsion like if you cut a folded paper say on croner how ill the final thing look like on opening so it helps... but ideally i would recommend you should solve this mentally too...)
3. Different color sketch pens to highlight text or image borders n all...
4. Scales / stencils - circles, triangles etc....
5. Compass to draw circles (indeally any drawing tool....is allowed)

What is or may not be allowed - chitsheets, papers, symbol sheets, stickers, (air bursh ;-) ), etc....

Ideally you will not need calculators, logtables etc. too...

Remember: Time is the key! as the questions are open ended some time you may like a question and want to answer in too much detail which may not let you finish the paper.... answer based on the marks each question has... Also there are ticky quesitons... sometimes the question looks too simple but may carry lot of marks so assume that this question's answer may not be simple....(like I'd one simple question abt faces.... with some options to choose what's the the next face... and it has 8 marks.... atually the crucks there was they were mirror images than simply shape changes...)

Bhushan

Saturday, January 06, 2007

CEED 2007 - Material

Hola!

Finally I could get some material!

Find the prepration files power point presentation at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ceed_india/files/

You may have to join the yahoo group to get to the file. It will also be published to the members of the group.

How to join:
Send email to: ceed_india-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
or visit goup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ceed_india/ and click on join button.

Or View the same below! - Click on the full screen mode to open in bigger size!



Bhushan

Monday, December 18, 2006

Cancelled: Ceed Summit on 23-24-25th December @ Bangalore

Hi Readers!
Due to inadequate show up for the summit/session for 23-24-25th I could not conduct this session. Also there is a global IIT Alumni meet in Mumbai ( http://www.paniit2006.org/ ) where some of the speakers would like to go as it's business critical for some of us.

However for those who have shown the interest in the sessions I'm planning to send you the material sometime in next 2 weeks which will be collected for private circulation only, please do not circulate the same as it has got views from the speakers and is not a public information.

I'm really sorry to call this off for this year, next year it'll be planned better. Do feel free to send your questions and will be happy to answer them.

- Bhushan

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

23/24/25 December CEED Counseling

23/24/25 December CEED Counseling

Registration info

How to register: send email to ceedindia@gmail.com with Your Name, Phone, eEmail ID.

NOTE: You will get a call for comfirations on registrations so phone is IMP.

Registration fees: Rs. 2000 , paid during the registration at the venue on 23rd December(Includes program fees, cost of the material /hand outs, lunches for all 3 days, any travel or stay is not included)

Last day for registration: Decemeber 10th 2006


This program is subjected to the # of sign up the following program is planned in Bangalore, venue will be published soon.

Details of the sessions,

23 December
10:00-11:00 Registration
11:00- 13:00 Introduction about the counseling sessions
14:30- 19:00 How to go about CEED in 2007, talks on creativity, ideation, thinking process, problem solving, using metaphors, etc.

24th December
09:30 – 13:00 How to solve and what is expected form the answers, key criteria for answers etc.
14:30 – 19:00 Sessions by various sr. people who have cleared CEED in last 8-10 years.

25h December
09:30 – 13:00 Sessions by various sr. people who have cleared CEED in last 8-10 years.
14:30 – 19:00 Sample paper solutions, Question and answers, preparation for ceed, panel discussions about creativity
19:00 – 20:00 Program material/ hand outs hand over

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

CEED training/councelling session in December in Bangalore

Hi Ceed Aspirants

I'm planning to conduct a concelling session than classes on CEED this year in december @ Bangalore. This session will be conducted by experienced people who qualified ceed and got passed out from IDC and IDDCs.

Mostly this will be a 3 day session where sr. people will share their views on not just ceed but what beyond that too.

As of now I've a confirmation from about 6 speakers from different yrs of batches which will help you know what have they been asked and what ere their answers which make them qualify. Again as my blog says there are no definite answers for design questions so there is plan to give you a guidance on what are some key points which you would worry about while answering the questions.

Moreover you will get a dedicated time from these people to ask questions in person during these sessions.

So i would like to see you all in bangalore in december. the tentative dates are 23, 24 and 25th December.

- Bhushan

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Very IMP update for 2007 CEED

Do read this brochure very carefully it has lot of useul info!

http://www.iitb.ac.in/~pge/ceed2k7/ceedbro.pdf


Bhushan

CEED Sample Paper

Comment below saying "Yes" with your name and email if you would be interested to get sample question papers or question bank for ceed....

Enjoy!

Quick thinking skills

This time am going to talk about “quick thinking” which is another essential need for the CEED entrants. Let’s start with a simple question – how may linear objects do you know in the world which you have seen so far (example- pen, pencil etc) can you think of more than 20?, it’s looks really simple but equally hard to think and come out with different objects in the world which are linear in shape.

This is where how you look at things comes into picture? Have you even worried if a TV is a cubical, spherical object or how a TV box and say Maruti Van possibly related in shape?... again these are very drastic examples but as a future designer world looks upon you to think both in actual world as well as abstract world, have you ever though why some cars have animal names, what’s metaphor?, why someone says this truck looks like a monster etc. This is one of the key skills which is sometimes tapped in CEED examination. Now you may say huh! I wish I knew about this earlier I would have started doing this from many years, but believe me this knowledge is not simple to store in the smaller few gigs of our human database, but yes again it’s not impossible too. I cannot say if this skills cannot be developed but I’ve seen people born to see things in a different way than a typical average person whom we meet day n day out. But my assumption here can be wrong and so assuming that I can put some pointers which you may want to try out to get some assistance for your examination and later if you become a designer tomorrow…

Your exam may give you some shape and ask you to generate many objects from that shape, so do start looking at things around you from small battery in wrist watch to planes and missiles. Think about them a bit and leave it! While doing this do not think of any exam paper, just analyze few things from your know how like – shape, color, purpose, function, how it functions etc. Try to ask one simple question – do I know now something about this “thing” which if I ask 100 people only one would know or have thought about it! – if the answer it yes you have achieved the knowledge J again this looks hard, but it’s not so hard… if I tell you the inc pens functions based on the fundamental of gravity as well as when the ink is on paper it’s because of molecular attraction or adhesion, you may have got it! But again this may be controversial to say – but something like this keeps your designer side of brain ticking which helps you apply same principles elsewhere.



Have fun and best of luck!

Friday, September 22, 2006

Online Tele-session for CEED aspirants

Online Tele-session for CEED aspirants

INVITATION:
Be online on Yahoo @ 2:00PM on 24th Sepetember 2006 to get called into the online conference!

So be prepared with your qurestions, queries, doubts!

- Bhushan