Speaking of which, I was nervous when I received the invitation for the interview of St. Martin's Industrial Design 5.0, because it is a new major, and there are very few interviews online. I flipped through the Internet by myself and summarized a set of about 15 questions such as "What is Industry 5.0 in your eyes?", and memorized it until it was ripe.
As a result, I didn't expect the whole interview, and Mr. San Martin didn't ask anything!. Then they began to "self-promote", saying how good the scenery of London was, how well equipped St. Martin's was, how strong the professional background of the teachers was, and what good resources the students could enjoy when they came to study. I was solo for 20 minutes!
I was stunned for a moment, I forgot all the words I had memorized before, and I echoed the whole process: wow! wonderful! St. Martin is awesome!
We looked at each other and smiled, and the offer was there.
The interview was too smooth, and there was confusion
At that time, I was nervous, but now I think I should ask the interviewer, what is this new major going to teach? After all, it is new, and I should be their second batch of students this year, and the kid Industrial Design 5.0 has no information on the whole network.
So here are just some of my personal understandings.
Personally, I think that Industry 5.0 may be more biased towards thinking right. It has three core concepts: Focusing on these three cores, we will realize the upgrading and iteration of industrial production.
As you know, we are now in the era of Industry 4.0, and many particularly advanced technologies have emerged, and our human society needs to combine these advanced productive forces in the information age, such as AI, to improve our own production level. In the era of Industry 5.0, on this basis, it is more emphasized on the basis of attaching importance to technological innovation and innovation.
It's no longer just about how advanced new technologies we want to create, but how we integrate them. For example, it will focus more on "people-oriented", such as the survival of workers in the future, and more on "sustainability", how to maximize the use of technology, not waste, and so on. So I think Industry 5.0 is actually more concerned with a kind of design ethics thinking.
It's a pity that I should have asked more questions during the interview at that time! I don't know if there is a deviation in my understanding. I can only wait until I go to school and then slowly experience it.
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And the above content is actually something I learned from the previous articles on the Internet. I strongly advise younger students to be sure when learning new knowledge, especially new knowledge from the West.
Like the word "resilience", what it means in the context of Industry 5.0 is difficult to sum up in one or two sentences. Many of our domestic magazine articles are sometimes translated from the Internet, and you can't read them all. So. Although it is a bit time-consuming to learn this way, it really helps a lot when you learn it thoroughly!
Since the suggestions were mentioned, let's talk about them together. It's English!! English is very important!!
My lord and Mr. He often "hated iron and steel", saying that if it weren't for my English bias too seriously, it would be no problem to apply for the quality of my portfolio from those European universities.
You must know that my dream school was originally Aalto, but at the last moment of applying for DDL, IELTS still sent... (Looking back now, I still choke on a mouthful of old blood...)
Let's just say, if you want to apply to a university outside the UK, and your English is "not very open" like me, it is recommended that you get IELTS in advance in your junior year.
We are also people who have been admitted to graduate school
My whole journey to higher education was not smooth at first. At first, I didn't think about studying abroad at all, but I did well in my studies that year, so I made a brave decision with great ambition: to go to graduate school. Since I want to take the test, I will take the best school, and I will aim at Tongji Interactive Design.
And Tongji is worthy of Tongji, and 6 or 700 people in the entire examination room compete for more than 10 admission places. My score is not low, but English is a shortcoming, and those who are admitted to the exam have a score of 70 or 80 in any English politics, which is ridiculously high. My parents said that if I don't take the exam for another year, I won't take the interactive major and return to my old profession to take the industrial design exam.
But I feel that it is really quite good to take the exam for another year, purely brushing the questions every day, and I can't learn anything. Just prepare to study abroad. My parents also supported me in all the choices I made.
Who hasn't clicked on the darkest hour
Then I started looking for an institution, and I came to Hanyi because I had a senior here who applied for Mi Li and Huangyi, and he recommended me to come and audition, and I felt good so I signed up decisively. Later, I thought this decision was really witty~!
Because I really learned a lot of things in Hanyi. I used to think that my design level was good, but actually.
When I first started working on projects, I took the attitude of completing my school homework, but when I finished it, how did I feel that my things were so spicy?
In the past, we studied more of the most basic design processes and larger design directions in our undergraduate studies. For example, the skills of service blueprints and storyboards have never been touched upon, and they are all knowledge that I have only come into contact with in Hanyi. Specifically, undergraduate education can give students a "good lower limit", but it really lacks energy.
Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum to see the exhibition
In addition, I really feel that we have a very tacit understanding with Mr. He in class, and I have experienced the joy of being surrounded by teachers to learn.
After more than a year of preparing the portfolio, it can be seen to the naked eye that my design projects are better than the other, and my understanding of design has gradually deepened.
For example, my portfolio is not a simple product design portfolio. I did 2 speculative designs, 1 interactive service, and 2 product designs.
In the first project, I want to fully demonstrate to the examiner that I have mature product design thinking, design process, and mature design hand-drawing ability.
The "Desertification Terminator" project helped me win the IDA Gold Award
I completed this project with two other team members at the Hanyi Winter Camp. We also won a lot of design awards together haha.
This is also the first time that I have designed everything in great detail, and I used to focus more on the exterior and slightly rough internal structure, but that is not really a product designer.
Not only that, but I also gained a lot of extra growth through this group cooperation. Because there were relatively few people in our group at that time, and the other two students in the group had a background in visual communication and interaction design, they were not very familiar with production modeling. As the big brother in the group, I felt that I should shoulder the heavy responsibility, and I didn't say hello to them, and the team members recognized my version of the plan after reading it. Maybe it's because I have a sense of responsibility, and my expectations for group work are getting higher and higher.
Photographed during a visit to a winery in my hometown
When it comes to making a portfolio, try more to improve
Now that the first project has fully demonstrated that it is a producer, there is no need for the second project to continue to emphasize these aspects.
So I focused on showing that I have "system design thinking", did something related to system design and service design, and at the same time positioned the target users in the elderly group, and put forward my own suggestions and thoughts on the future development of the city.
Community projects for seniors
In the third project, I proposed the direction of critical design, expressing that I am a person who loves to think.
It's also one of my favorite projects. However, it is a bit sensitive and related to the topic. But the issues I want to explore may be broader, for example, when people are in a state of physiological depression for a long time, they may explode, leading to an increase in the crime rate, such as the occurrence of vicious crimes in South Korea and Japan.
Ang Lee also recounted it in the film, saying that the reason why such vulgar phenomena occur in some parts of China is actually the product of China's thousand-year-old repressive culture, which suddenly exploded at a certain point.
Lollipop Project
That's why I designed a lollipop in the shape of a leg, which has a very sweet filling, so that everyone can eat it more and more.
As for why the lollipop was designed in the shape of a "leg", the inspiration came from the fact that many of his films actually have close-ups of women's legs. In addition, I have found evidence to support why we have some unspeakable fantasies when we see "female legs", which is actually related to the cognitive structure of our brains.
Anyway, I was very happy with this project, after all, it was difficult to discuss such speculative things in school before. Although as a product student, it seems that some "pure art" things are amazing.
However, Mr. He also supported me very much, and he told me at that time that there were some things that might not be true, or that they were pseudoscience. But you can still explore it and give it a viable way that seems more convincing.
The scenery of the old winery is beautiful
Of course, my next two projects are different from the previous three, and I even made a particularly whimsical and futuristic project, which is related to space travel, and designed one like a science fiction movie. But the project caught up with DDL, and I really couldn't polish it finely, so I'm not really happy with it right now. Let's have the opportunity to improve again in the future.
All in all, I want to summarize this whole portfolio to show the examiner that I am a designer, I am an industrial designer, and at the same time I am also a multi-faceted three-dimensional all-round designer. I have a solid design foundation, innovative thinking, and a spirit of exploration for the future.
Of course, this is my opinion on the portfolio, so everyone should refer to it first!
Another one
Finally, let's talk about some learning methods and precautions for the younger students to help everyone realize their dream school next year!
One is that those who have taken the Tongji exam know that Tongji has a book called "Emerging Practices". I am grateful for this book, which can help designers establish the right design values and become a pioneer, socially responsible designer who constantly redefines the design category. And there are a lot of very professional opinions and corpus in "Emerging Practice". The terminology is relatively academic and obscure, and from the perspective of enriching the corpus (non-postgraduate examination), it is recommended that you extract the core ideas and sentences of each article, and then repeat them in your own words, without understanding them word by word.
The second is typography. I don't know if you know that Geyi has withdrawn part of the collection this year, and asked the applicant to retypeset it? And my typography accurately guessed the thunder point of others haha, although I originally wanted to go to Saint-Martin and didn't care much about this.
However, it is true that each school has its own style of typography.
Finally, learn English!!