The industrial design portfolio is very important for both graduating college students and art students preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. It is your image spokesperson, and whether it is done well is directly related to whether it can be applied for or admitted to an institution by a favorite company. So how to make a collection of industrial design works? Let's share the production skills of industrial design portfolio and teach you how to make a tall portfolio. First, who needs to make a collection of industrial design works?

1, graduating college students

Students in school, of course, refer to students who are about to graduate and practice in their senior year; However, students who are about to enter the workplace, especially those who are new to the workplace, are the most vulnerable compared with the "old drivers" in the workplace. If you have been in contact with enterprises and companies in school from freshman to junior, and you are an art student, your experience in school can fill the hole in your portfolio; If you are a non-art student of science and engineering, or an interdisciplinary student, it is easier to find your favorite job and complete your dreams with structured resume expression and skillful portfolio production. Your resume is an introduction, your portfolio is a display, and it is also your business card to find the target company.

2, industrial design graduate students in the second interview stage

The re-examination of industrial design postgraduate entrance examination needs to collect works, which can usually be divided into three parts. The first part is to try to collect and sort out different works when preparing for the second interview; The second part, choose your most representative and targeted works; In the third part, you are a work, that is to say, the work has been tied with people, and the combination of people and works in the re-examination statement has won the favor of teachers.

3. study abroad party

Basically, foreign industrial design art colleges need to prepare a portfolio before they can apply. But foreign design schools pay more attention to the record of your design process, not just the final effect.

Second, how to make industrial design portfolio

1, determine the theme

(1) Personal interest: Choosing the interest direction as the design theme can make the whole design process full of creative motivation.

(2) Social phenomenon: choose the products that are currently under hot discussion or seize the development trend of mainstream products. Because there are many people concerned, the new design can easily arouse everyone's resonance and make people shine.

2. Preliminary investigation

Investigation is a process of discovery and divergence. Students can do industrial design research, on the one hand, they need to do market research from the product direction (history, development trend, competitive product research, etc.). On the other hand, they need to do user research from the user's point of view (user psychology, user needs, etc.). ).

Step 3 determine the direction

After a lot of research, students will find out the problems and opportunities faced by the project at the same time, and thus summarize the research direction into several executable design schemes with their own creativity and ideas under the framework of existing themes.

4. Design scheme

After determining the direction, students can design different schemes around different directions to achieve the final design goal, and can assist the presentation of the scheme through visual means such as storyboards, hand-drawn sketches, role-playing and grass model making, so as to scrutinize the feasibility of the design.

5. Drawing making and final typesetting

For the drawing production of industrial design portfolio, it is necessary to integrate the whole design process and combine the market research data to show the results, the key information of user research, the process of design scheme and the final scheme in the most appropriate form.

Three. Matters needing attention in the production of industrial design portfolio

1, logical thinking is meticulous

Industrial design is different from pure art study. From the establishment of design direction to the output of design results, every step in the process and the relationship between each step require students to maintain careful logical thinking.

The ultimate goal of design is for users, so in the process of design, it is necessary to fully consider all links, deeply understand the market environment, analyze users' behavior and psychology, and support and optimize the design scheme with scientific theory and a large number of statistical data. This is the focus of portfolio assessment in foreign universities, and it is also the main training content in the process of studying abroad.

2. Draw design inspiration from the surroundings of life.

Many students will have no inspiration at the beginning of the design project, even if the design direction is established, they will often encounter a "bottleneck" period. At this time, you can ask people around you for help, organize brainstorming and focus groups regularly, or communicate with friends who have used similar products around you to understand their feelings and observe their use process.

In addition, students can learn design inspiration and direction from teachers, industry experts, enthusiasts and other more experienced people.

3. The importance of grass mold in design conception.

Most students' design scrutiny may be reflected in sketches and computer modeling, but the information transmission given by grass molds is relatively direct and effective, which is also encouraged by foreign university tutors. The information in the model is not only the visual communication of spatial organization and streamline, but also some emotional factors including architecture: vision, sound, light and so on. Are all gathered in a model.

It is difficult to transform one's design ideas into three-dimensional space with two-dimensional sketches, so the process of making grass patterns can straighten out ideas well and provide great help for later design scrutiny. You can also save a lot of time by putting together the scraps you have with you. You don't have to go to a model factory, but you can show your personality with materials from home.

4. Show your design process.

The portfolio should be based on the complete project works, and the techniques and production processes used should be intertwined in the project process, rather than being displayed as independent parts, which would be very unconvincing. You should remember that you are not selling designs or products, but recommending yourself to the interviewer.

Don't just include a series of creative works in your portfolio page, you should try to show some thinking and design processes, and explain to the interviewer how you chose the theme to produce the final solution. If you only show the finished pictures, the interviewer can only judge you by these pictures, and can't know how much effort you have put into the design process.

So record and show some design processes as much as possible, which can be daily photos, semi-finished products or manuscripts and drawings.

Fourth, the design direction of undergraduate and graduate works

The portfolio of industrial design undergraduate pays more attention to your hands-on ability, so as to examine whether you have the ability to study industrial design in depth.

Graduate students pay more attention to professionalism, which requires you to mainly include some works related to industrial design in your portfolio to show your understanding and research on industrial design.