45 MODULE 1: TERM 1 – Introducing the world of design Design jobs and careers
Every man-made object can be classified under product design. What we do with it, determines the other three design categories.
Product design includes jobs such as basketry, bead workers, carvers, wood turners, mural designers, stained glass designers, ceramic designers, fashion/costume designers, industrial designers, jewellery designers, paper workers, wireworkers, furniture and glass-blowers. Careers at engineering companies, industrial engineers and designers developing new and interesting products for the consumer market from vacuum cleaners to teaspoons.
Environmental design includes industries like architectural designers, urban and landscape designers, visual merchan- disers, event managers or exhibition designers, interior designers, theatre and set designers, interior decorators and even sculptors, especially when we look at public sculptures and land artists. Designers can be in service of the private sector, corporate companies or even municipalities for community and regional planning.
Places to look for a career in design aſter graduation in architecture might include architectural firms, engineering firms, architectural units within engineering firms, construc- tion management firms or design/build firms. Also cultural and historic
resource contracting companies, corporations, hospitals, universities and colleges.
Municipal and state offices that have building codes and inspection agencies, municipal and state offices that have planning, urban design or architectural divisions are also opportunities for the architect.
Architectural firms, corporations, institutions, and other multi- building owners, interior design firms, product manufacturing companies, computer-aided draughting speciality, contract
Activity 9
Find and collect pictures or other visual examples to explain the diversity of the following four categories that represent the creative industries:
• Visual communication • Product design • Surface design • Environmental design
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(commercial) design, design presentation speciality, design project management, facilities design and management, furniture design, health-care facility design, interior design business management, interior illustration or photography, kitchen and bath design, office systems design and sales, product manufacturing sales, residential design, retail design and transportation design. Lighting design, restoration or historic preservation, theatre, movie, or television set and scene and prop design, university or college teaching and research and administration.
Most of these career opportunities are also applicable to the careers in the surface, visual communication and product design sectors.
Surface design includes jobs such as appliquéers/embroiders, bead workers, mural designers, stained glass designers, tapestry designers, textile designers, weavers, ceramicists, graffiti artists and mosaic designers. Designers will work in a textile, interior, decorating and lifestyle environment. Individual assignments for the corporate industry are also a possibility. Décor journalism, lifestyle exhibitions, fashion industry and architectural industry offer challenging career opportunities to the talented designer.
organisations, design sections of facility departments within private
Visual communication design includes careers in advertising, animation and digital design, film and video, graphic designer, brand communication designers, illustrators, information designers, packaging designers, photographers, multimedia designers and web designers. Tis can be done as a freelance designer or within a formal job structure at a large private or corporate company, or small business outlet or agency. All businesses need to have a marketing division or an ad agency that does marketing, branding and advertising campaigns on their behalf. Every business needs at least a name or recognisable logo and identity.
Graphic design as a career and the role of the advertising agency as visual communicator, will be discussed in more detail in module two.
WHAT IS DESIGN?
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