Industrial design
Industrial designers are prodigies of products, bosses of business, and masters of market. Creative careers. Consumer electronics designer Design strategist Innovation catalyst Interaction designer Marine designer Medical devices designer Product designer Toy designer Transportation designer User experience designer
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They dream up new inventions and tangibly improve everyday items to transform the consumer experience. At SCAD, industrial design students give existing products new meaning. Students worked with Lenovo to create a “Build Your Own PC” kit for children age 12–14, and collaborated with BMW to research and develop vehicle concepts for aging populations through SCADpro, the university’s in-house design studio. They also partnered with AT&T, Clayco, Char-Broil, The Coca-Cola Company, Dynacraft, Fisher-Price, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Mattel, Microsoft, and Reebok to generate imaginative, workable concepts and prototypes for real-world design challenges. As SCAD industrial design students conceptualize and create, they have access to the same resources as the research and development labs they will command at global companies. In Savannah, students transform everyday products like cars, eyewear, headphones, and even boats at The Shed, a think tank where computer programming, mixed reality, design thinking, and STEM collide. The SCAD Gulfstream Center for Design’s 10,000-square-foot model shop provides students with ample space to work with wood, metal, plastics, and composites. In Atlanta, students shape their ideas in a leading-edge wood and metal shop, a foundry for bronze and stainless steel, and a computer lab with 3D rapid prototyping and a laser cutter.
SCAD industrial design students and alumni have earned awards and recognitions from 20 diferent competitions, including the Core77 Design Awards, Industrial Designers Society of America International Design Excellence and Student Merit Awards, International Design Awards, MakerBot’s NYCxDESIGN Challenge, Red Dot Design Concept Awards, Spark Awards, and Walt Disney Imagineering’s Imaginations Design Competition.
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