A Welcome Note
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This document provides an orientation for second year design students at IIT Gandhinagar. It discusses establishing a department culture, making the most of available resources, addressing preconceptions about design, and the differences, benefits, and nature of design. It encourages students to explore diverse areas, document their work, collaborate with their batchmates, gain experience through side projects, and connect with those outside their department to continue improving as designers. The overall message is that design is an iterative, thought-driven process requiring hard work and experimentation to reach world standards.
A Welcome Note
- 2. 00 Hello World WHAT is this session about ? to SHARE experiences of our II year to SETUP a department culture to HELP in the improvement of DoD
- 3. 01 The Department the physical entity the mental image FIRST comes the department classes lectures WORKPLACE = dod, the place for activities fun HOME = the DOD connection helps to feel connected inspirational sometimes ## neatness, organisation ... RESPONSIBILITY of DOD JUNIORS ##
- 4. 02 The Resources What does the department do for me ? How can I make the most of whatever I’ve got ? complaints Start counting -> plenty of things will seem missing wor dissatisfaction k frustration aro und ... the EIGHTY percent the WiSEST act the CHANGE you want to see #believe
- 5. 03 The Preconceptions दूर के ढोल सुहावने : grass greener on other side all sorts of opinions from non-DoD people DISTANT view from 1st year biasing design is ART Chill Sketching horrors Cool Software misconcept Easy ... Effortless ...
- 6. 04 The Facts conceived to create DIFFERENT kind of designers this SHIFT, places you in a CUTTING-EDGE position DESIGN @ TECHNICAL institute @IIT = HUGE potential advantage #they say - india future ... put your TECHNICAL DISPOSITION to work do something PATH-BREAKING, world standard ... EXPECTATIONS from you LEAD design IS cool and it DOES require efforts EFFORTS = indispensable 80% career = self made #DoD freedom following is easy, leading is not GENUINELY exceling (anywhere) is NOT easy the BOTTOM LINE
- 7. 05 The Different, The Good & The Cool the DIFFERENT : challenges perspectives methods results have FUN, along with putting efforts in #lab the GOOD : you can blend in, what you enjoy, with your work the SPOTLIGHT for your efforts #KVKK the COOL : you have direct INTERACTION of your work with the user
- 8. 06 Design : What is ? NEW DIVERSE discipline, A DIFFERENT as compared to others. INTERDISCIPLINARY (!) RADICALLY CHANGING
- 9. 06 Design : What is ? things happen in CYCLES the better next an ITERATIVE process # assignments not always about addresing problem a designer’s perspective a THOUGHT process making a greater whole of individualities #poster # India a COLLABORATIVE process the efficient-default ways the results of their experiments a METHODOLOGY #exp-evo
- 10. 06 Design : What is ? ART DESIGN TECHNOLOGY common man
- 11. 06 Design : What is ? “ Design is the fundamental soul of a human made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. ” Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
- 12. 07 First Year what you’re GOOD at what already EXISTS what can you CAPITALISE on DIVERSE design & its diversity (!) WHERE it may lead to all the BUZZ, the ‘HAPPENING’ finding a about the WORLD standard NICHE DESIGN the EXPLORATION vv important can EXPLORE people schools firms books internet journals # be OBSERVANT be CURIOUS
- 13. 07 First Year which tools to choose anything that can completely upto you ASSIST your abilities learning a tool helps bring your idea out is a long process WHICH WHAT INTACT from your mind to existence video tutorials learning by doing the minimises the losses TOOLS in translation EXAMPLES ... adobe CS web dev technologies softwares coding sketching colors psychology ...
- 14. 07 Second Year not always about END RESULTS things that already exist more of an exploratory VENTURE that have already happened ## how you do > what you do how about mainly about visual aesthetics (!) the planning, the method matters how to see & observe things TO DO WHAT meant to teach the process CREATIVITY (!) iterate to get better results the is totally upto you ASSIGNMENTS SUGGESTION before doing an assignment drive the tools explore those already done do not be driven by them then do THE NEXT develop new relationships suspend judgement while creation
- 15. 08 The Documentation a documentation of your work the from its INCEPTION TRACK to its FINAL DESTINATION with whatever had you TANGLED in between you learn from your own self you learn from your own methods quite you learn from your own mistakes IMPORTANT you get insights later (!) helps build portfolio the plog vlog tlog alog >> blog HOW TO develop your documentation systems
- 16. 09 The Batch understanding the mutual differences 1. the different styles, perspectives, ambitions VARIETY birds of a feather concept - groupings (!) INDIVIDUALITY CRUCIAL the ‘individual’ treasure 2. the interesting VARIED dataset UNITY the class rep (!) INFORMALITY whole > sum of parts 3. the putting your individual strengths to workv COLLABORATION the energy of the ‘company’ #prayukti 123 organize mini events among yourselves #group sessions
- 17. 10 The Fear asking speaking up in class, group discussions OF taking INITIATIVES #egs interacting with unknown people ...... because its natural & good to feel fear (!) seminars, conferences, events WHY ^ being intellectually interactive > fear RIGHT : as a student of design right to info that makes you a better SoD HOW Be humble = remove self from the equation ASK & SPEAK, from your own little class eventually ... the ascent to THE NEXT # darr ke aagey jeet hai
- 18. 11 The Outside Connection rmal external relation lop info s deve Seniors -> Juniors -> Faculties what’s Other schools of design NEXT The industry BOND people in design outside, of DoD, carried by you the contribute constructively IMAGE (!) imp the knowledge & experience EXTRACT of everyone out there in design match upto world standards
- 19. 12 Other* very PRECIOUS & FLEXIBLE a resource GENIOUSLY well planned use = work wonders TIME (!) be VERY clear & informed about your time its about EXPLOITING time / about FREEDOM (!) venturing, experimenting, trying new things an attitude #try it and see #this EXPERIMENTATION “CALL IT AN EXPERIMENT & GO AHEAD” # fear # failure humans function by comparison, on a relative scale a way no best, but always a better RELATIVITY know whats happening around, be updated matching upto world’s standard #nothing short match up to classmates->dept->college->country->wrld compare to better things, set better standards for urslf
- 20. 13 Side Projects all other things at IITG manthan, kriti, techniche, alcheringa, other events WHAT small little design projects - banners, brochures websites, identities, fliers, posters, tshirts #grouping n idea of you get a undertaking a formal work which is not so professional in nature WHY you can see your work been implemented for real you can get a hang of dealing people you get experience for later use, DPs.... etc invlolve into some of such projects (!) work as a team HOW study the working of other such teams share among yourselves, discuss your works get feedbacks, learn
- 21. 14 End 1. Utility of this ppt. 2. The EIGHTY percent. 3. IITG is hosting Typography Day in March 2013 = LOT of work 4. Doubts ?