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Career Details :: Commercial and Industrial Designers

Description

Develop and design manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and children's toys. Combine artistic talent with research on product use, marketing, and materials to create the most functional and appealing product design.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

• Confers with engineering, marketing, production, or sales department or customer to establish design concepts for manufactured products.
• Prepares detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drawing instruments or paints and brushes.
• Integrates findings and concepts and sketches design ideas.
• Designs packaging and containers for products, such as foods, beverages, toiletries, or medicines.
• Creates and designs graphic material for use as ornamentation, illustration, or advertising on manufactured materials and packaging.
• Modifies design to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
• Directs and coordinates preparation of detailed drawings from sketches or fabrication of models or samples.
• Reads publications, attends showings, and studies traditional, period, and contemporary design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and design concepts.
• Prepares itemized production requirements to produce item.
• Fabricates model or sample in paper, wood, glass, fabric, plastic, or metal, using hand and power tools.
• Presents design to customer or design committee for approval and discusses need for modification.
• Evaluates design ideas for feasibility based on factors, such as appearance, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.

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• Fashion Designers
  
• Interior Designers
  
• Landscape Architects
  
• Model Makers, Metal and Plastic
  
• Orthotists and Prosthetists
  
• Set Designers
  

Important Abilities

• Written Comprehension
• Visualization
• Oral Expression
• Originality
• Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Thinking Creatively
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Drafting & Specifying Technical Devices, etc.
• Communicating With Persons Outside Organization
• Communicating With Other Workers

Important Skills

• Reading Comprehension
  
• Operations Analysis
  
• Idea Evaluation
  
• Equipment Selection
  
• Critical Thinking
  

Frequent Work Context

• Objective or Subjective Information
• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Consequence of Error
• Indoors
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

Related Majors

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Apparel Design	[ add ]
Art/Graphic Design	[ add ]
Cartooning	[ add ]
Commercial Art	[ add ]
Commercial Art/Computer Design	[ add ]
Commercial Design	[ add ]
Commercial Illustration	[ add ]
Computer Art	[ add ]
Computer Graphics	[ add ]
Costume Design	[ add ]
Design Graphics	[ add ]
Digital Media	[ add ]
Fabric Styling	[ add ]
Fashion Apparel Studies	[ add ]
Fashion Design	[ add ]
Fashion Design/Merchandising	[ add ]
Fashion Illustration	[ add ]
Fashion Studies	[ add ]
Fiber Arts	[ add ]
Fine Arts/Computer Graphics	[ add ]
Fine/Applied Arts	[ add ]
Graphic Arts	[ add ]
Graphic Communication	[ add ]
Graphic Communications	[ add ]
Graphic Design	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Commercial Art/Illustration	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Illustration/Advertising Art	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Multimedia	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Photography	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Technology	[ add ]
Graphic/Advertising Design	[ add ]
Graphics/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Illustration	[ add ]
Industrial Design	[ add ]
Interactive Design	[ add ]
Jewelry Design	[ add ]
Menswear	[ add ]
Packaging Design	[ add ]
Packaging Science	[ add ]
Packaging Technology	[ add ]
Patternmaking Technology	[ add ]
Photography/Graphic Arts	[ add ]
Product Design	[ add ]
Textile Design	[ add ]
Textile/Surface Design	[ add ]
Transportation Design	[ add ]

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