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Designers shape the world around us. na hav Graphic create company logos, an e Think about the design of the building you are W a packaging for products and magazine layouts; in, the digital interface of your cellphone or the industrial designers create products like cell clothes you are wearing. These are examples of phones and kitchen appliances; and architects design that we can see and touch. But design design houses, apartment blocks and shopping is broader than this, and includes the design of centres. It is a designer’s job to come up with services and systems too. Think of the way a bus ideas that improve the way things work. service runs, the route it travels and where it stops. future? This is an example of transport system design. One of the most exciting things about design is that it is increasingly being used to help find solutions to tough problems. We need homes that use less energy, healthcare systems that serve patients There are many exciting careers in the broad field of design. better and products that are made using fewer resources. Using The aim of this poster is to give you information on design- creativity and skill, designers can play a role in helping solve each related career options to help you think about an area that of these problems. appeals to your interests and strengths. Use the directory to find art and design centres you can attend while you are at school, and tertiary colleges and universities to apply to after matric. 2nd floor, Harrington House, 37 Barrack Street, Cape Town, 8001 Tel: +27(0) 21 461 1488

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If you want to study design after school Entry requirements differ from course to Creative people often start successful there are many colleges and universities course. Some courses, like and businesses because they are able to see and to choose from. A lot will depend on your , will ask for specific grades in create opportunities that others may miss. finances as many design colleges can subjects such as Science and Maths. Others By using your creative skills and vision you be expensive, but if you are previously will ask for a National Senior Certificate and a can set up your own business and create your disadvantaged you may be able to apply portfolio of work to show your creative talent. own income, and one day hopefully employ for a bursary to help cover costs. It’s best to find out the entry requirements far others too! in advance so that you can be prepared. If funding is an issue, the Cape Peninsula University of If you are interested in business you can start small and slowly Technology (CPUT) is a good first option to explore as they Enquire about when your application needs to be submitted. grow your idea. If you become a graphic or web designer offer a wide variety of design courses and have good financial Applications can close as early as 6 months prior to the start of you can sell design services to other businesses, and if you support available. the course. If you can’t afford to study after Matric, find a mentor Download posters become a designer or industrial designer you can set working in your chosen field to give you advice and guidance. of each design up a store and sell your products. Once you have found a career you are interested in try to job Many designers are self-taught, and with determination, curiosity shadow for a few days to get first hand experience and see and good tutorials on the Internet, it is possible to create a character from To run a successful business you will need good design and the kinds of activities that are involved in the job. It will give portfolio of work to get your first job. our website business skills. You can acquire business skills through further you a chance to speak to designers working in the industry www.ccdi.org.za training or by collaborating with others. The Cape Craft + and ask for their recommendations on where to study. Design Institute (CCDI) exists to support creative businesses. To organise an internship you will need to contact a local Navigate to the ‘Design It is free to become a member and you can access subsidised advertising agency, design studio or other place of work and Support’ tab then ‘How do I become a designer?’ business workshops and other support that will help you take ask if you can job shadow. your business to the next .

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Elements of the Job Elements of the Job Elements of the Job Strong critical Elements of the Job The ability to function • Understanding • Switching between Understanding your skills • Plan and prioritise work, thinker • Sourcing different well under pressure current and future The ability to creatively tasks throughout the and talents, and using and work well under materials from tiles to Enjoy thinking about trends marry colour, texture and day, from designing, to them to create products pressure lighting complex challenges shape making, to managing A sense of style • Developing ideas The ability to set personal • Be able to consider and coming up with • Working closely with other people and confidence through sketching, goals and remain focused the social, cultural, ideas to solve them clients to understand mood boards and • Selecting the right on achieving them environmental and their needs An investigative, the creation of A holistic understanding of materials and health/safety aspects Creative and curious nature • Working within a Strong interpersonal samples the production process production techniques business-savvy • Work with a lot of detail budget skills to connect • Working with a wide Confidence to present • Being your own in a way others will with clients and Strong numeracy • Understanding current variety of people your creations to clients salesperson and understand skills contractors Confidence to believe in trends from machine and the market marketing your product Ability to manage your work and realise its • Work in multi- operators, to fabric The ability to solve • Drawing and creating multiple projects Good drawing skills • Managing admin like commercial value disciplinary teams buyers and planners problems using mood boards to at different stages invoices and ensuring • Use scientific rules rational and creative communicate to clients • Calculating costs you have cash flowing and methods to solve thought Highly organised to of manufacture, through your business Excellent time problems manage the detail management skills to shipping, storage to buy materials of all the different create, produce, market and distribution components of a job • Dealing with suppliers, and distribute your work • Working with Technical skills like manufacturers, retailers suppliers and sewing to make samples and clients manufacturers who may be in different parts of the world

Designer Mechanical Interior Fashion Maker Engineer Designer Designer A designer-maker is a creative and entrepreneurial individual who designs Mechanical engineers combine an understanding of mechanics, mathematics, An interior designer is involved in the design or renovation of internal spaces, A fashion designer fuses fabrics, colour, texture and shape to create and makes products for retail. They stand in the middle-ground between engineering, science and energy with design and manufacturing to create including structural alterations, furnishings, fixtures and fittings, lighting and interesting designs. There are many different areas within the fashion making purely artistic creations and producing commercial work by making products that have some kind of motion in them. To put it simply, mechanical colour schemes. They are also known as spatial designers. Interior designers industry ranging from clothing and accessory design to jewellery design. limited editions, once off or bespoke products for retail. Many people start engineering deals with anything that moves. They design and manufacture work closely with architects and clients to determine how a should Related careers include fashion buying and material sourcing. Many of the small businesses and grow incrementally as demand for their products everything from small individual parts to large systems. Mechanical look and feel. Like architecture, most people think interior design is about jobs that exist in this sector are with large retailers, or you can set up your increases, while others make a choice to remain small. You will need to be engineering is one of the broadest fields of engineering and offers a variety creativity alone. It’s also about being able to listen to clients, understand their own business and manufacture your own garments. You should have good a good planner, have both creative and entrepreneurial skills and be able to of career paths. This is a demanding degree with strict entry requirements needs and translate what they want into reality, as well as knowing how to run taste, confidence and sense of personal style. handle stress as you will be in charge of all elements of your business. for university. a business and manage contractors.

Elements of the Job Elements of the Job Ability to think creatively Elements of the Job Think about complex Elements of the Job A strong rational thinker with about everyday things systems and see patterns the ability to create simplicity, • Translating your An ability to think about • Working with others • Analyse systems, • Answer clients’ order and hierarchy from ideas into technical in creative teams processes and briefs through visual how objects work in 3D complexity drawings that others Strong visual awareness structures creations • Working with the See the big picture will understand and design skills but also understand the client to understand • Think about how • Work with different Flexibility and a willingness An eye for detail and smaller links • Working with the ability to refine ideas their product or systems can be production to compromise and work different service Ability to work under improved, while techniques and in with clients pressure, prioritise and manufacturers, An interest in understanding how different media, from • Coming up with meet deadlines locally and overseas sustainable and they currently function print to digital creative concepts An interest in human renewable materials • Understanding to sell products and Ability to understand a • Work on a wide psychology • Work with other Strong organisational and the features and services client’s business and variety of contexts creatives like Enjoying being hands- A love of detail planning skills limitations of position it within the market from distribution photographers, on and making your own • Collaborating with different materials systems programmers, copy- prototypes and models photographers, Ability to work well with to software writers and illustrators • Working within illiustrators and An understanding of branding, people, budgets and egos and the ability to translate production budgets filmmakers to create • Research how people • Research and develop concepts into visual messages An interest in how and and compromising An interest in different visuals for adverts interact with digital an understanding of where necessary devices, each other why processes work your client’s business materials to use in your • Understanding your and the broader from a strategic level • Trying to think of the products, from wood to client’s competition plastic and fabric environment most efficient and and how to make • Take a project from Ability to understand the eco-friendly way of them stand out from • Work with multi- concept, through client’s business and what making products the crowd. disciplinary teams production to final they require (over what you over long periods of product want to design) time

Furniture Graphic Systems Designer Art Director Designer Art directors work in advertising agencies. The aim of advertising is to create Designer Furniture designers design the objects we use everyday in our homes, interest and drive sales of products and services. Advertising can therefore Graphic designers create visual concepts by hand or computer to communicate at school and in offices such as tables, cupboards and chairs. Furniture make the difference between business success and failure as it educates is about understanding how complex systems work and ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They combine image and not only adds function and practicality to a space, it also adds style and buyers about the benefits and features of a product or service. Within then improving these systems or designing new ones. Systems design is text to appeal to a specific target audience and are skilled at conveying personality. You need to have a love of materials, a strong understanding of advertising agencies work is usually split between marketers who develop used in disciplines from urban planning to computer science: wherever there different feelings and emotions through design. As a graphic designer you the production process and a good sense of form (what makes something the marketing strategy, art directors and designers who work on the visual are complex systems and processes at work. Systems designers create need to be a visual thinker in order to be able to translate your client’s ideas look ‘right’ and appealing). Some furniture designers set up their own concepts and copywriters who work with words and language. You should be frameworks to manage complexity. A good example would be the design into visual creations. There are many related careers like animation, illustration, and produce their products independently while others go and work for creative and business-minded. The advertising industry is highly competitive of a transport system in a city. Systems designers can work with networks, website design and art direction. Many graphic designers set up their own architects or retailers. and suited to energetic and ambitious individuals. computer systems and websites. businesses or go and work in design studios or advertising agencies.

Elements of the Job Elements of the Job Elements of the Job Elements of the Job The ability to work on • Understand your client’s The ability to work alone • Using your creativity to bring • Managing multiple teams Combining analytical and • Working in different A pragmatic yet long-term projects needs and translate and self-motivate digital worlds to life of contractors working on creative thought contexts, from businesses creative thinker these into a website a project to NGOs • Using storytelling techniques An ability to teach • Plan how users will and game-theory when Good storytelling and • Communicating your • Carrying out hands-on The ability to think yourself new skills as Drive and motivation to navigate a website creating concepts narrative skills vision clearly to clients, research with customers about complex technology develops work on projects that have colleagues and builders systems, and how to • Programme and design • Spending long hours creating long timelines • Quickly learning about A good sense of through detailed drawings interchangeably computer graphics and a company’s systems to improve them design and layout and documentation animation A vivid imagination plan how to improve them • Keep up with new Good negotiation and • Working with large mediation skills to solve An interest in human developments in • Working with other team • Writing reports showing budgets under time building issues behaviour technology members to achieve goals your research findings pressure and recommendations • Help clients to maintain • Testing the game with Strong planning skills • Selecting appropriate and manage their An interest in technology user groups • Taking photos and A passion for gaming design solutions and websites and digital media and IT keeping journals to materials An interest in green/ document how users An ability to work on • Understanding and sustainable technology experience a brand or projects with long interpreting the history, and materials organisation An interest in timelines culture and context of business A strong work ethic the environment you A good grasp of to work incrementally are working in composition, balance, towards an end goal flow and form

Web Gaming Service Designer Designer Architect Designer Web designers are responsible for creating websites, apps and user Gaming design is a broad field bringing together teams of programmers, is a relatively new discipline that focuses on how people interfaces. Web design embraces many of the same principles as graphic illustrators, project managers, writers and musicians to create entire Architects play an important role in shaping the urban world around us. experience a service or a brand. Service design puts the user at the centre design but in the digital realm. Websites are made up of a ‘back-end’ and a 3D worlds. There are three main components to : concept They plan the way a building looks, how it works, how it fits in with its of the design process, making services as user-friendly as possible to ‘front-end’. Web designers mainly work on the front-end, which is the part development, the creation of the graphics in the animation, and surroundings, and the materials used to construct it. A career in architecture provide the best quality customer experience. Service design asks: What of a website that users see. The back-end is all the programming that makes programming of the game. A lead designer will set up the storyline and brings together creativity, problem-solving, environmental awareness, is the customer experience? How can it be improved? Service designers the site function. Some web designers handle both the front and back end. concept for the game. A team of designers is then responsible for creating engineering, technology and business. A large part of what an architect aim to identify and improve the interaction points between a customer and Web designers need to fuse technical knowledge with creative expertise to all the elements of the game-world like characters, scenes, buildings, cars does is project management. There are strict subject and mark requirements a brand or organisation. Service design is still new in South Africa but is create an easy to use, interactive product. and props. A team of animators will then add motion to these elements. needed for an architectural degree. beginning to be used by municipalities and businesses.

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• Thinking creatively • Taking ideas from • Working on interesting • Working with clients, about how cities are An interest in fabrics Personal drive and concept to prototype, Ability to work with and infrastructure projects Enjoyment of working technicians, marketing and materials used patience to work on through to final design trust others aimed to improve through complex staff and buyers long-term projects quality of life • Possibly working in • Sketching, modelling challenges • Understanding the Strong 2D drawing skills politically-sensitive and making prototypes Attention to detail • Project management technical side of Good 3D visualisation areas Strategic thinking to digitally and in real life to keep teams of other production, and an A willingness to skills marry environmental, professionals on time ability to design with experiment and play • Thinking about systems • Have a good Patience to go social and political and on budget this in mind with colour, texture, and relationships that knowledge of locally Ability to communicate elements through many cycles of form and pattern exist in large areas available materials, prototyping, testing and • Using varied skill-sets with many different people • Working with colour, what can be made refining ideas to solve problems texture, form and • Designing for current The ability to negotiate Strong maths and A knowledge of techniques and future needs with them and costs pattern to create a such as knitting and weaving and compromise Empathy to be able • The satisfaction of statistics combined with involved a good visual sensibility desirable product are useful • Understanding human to connect with and seeing a project • A good technical understand the needs develop from a plan to • Experimenting with new behaviour A strong leader who knowledge of different of the people you are reality production techniques can manage others production methods designing for and fabrics • Working with others to Strong analytical and • An ability to fuse achieve a big vision • Creating new designs planning skills creativity and business- Efficientmulti-tasker to that develop and build An ability to understand thinking manage many different on existing product how your designs work in projects, all at different ranges a larger context like in an The ability to think stages of design and interior or a fashion range creatively within production boundaries

Urban Industrial Civil Textile Designer Designer Engineer Designer Industrial and product designers create most of the everyday objects in our lives, from TV Civil engineers use their skill in science, mathematics and technology to design and build Textile designers create patterns and designs for materials and fabrics. These fabrics An urban designer shapes the physical setting for life in cities, towns and villages. They sets to knives and forks, cellphones and the ATM you withdraw money from. As a product/ major infrastructure projects like roads, airports, tunnels, dams and bridges. Civil engineers may be used in home-ware products such as cushions and blinds, clothing ranges plan places and precincts (buildings, spaces and landscapes). is the art industrial designer you can choose to specialise in a specific area such as automotive must have strong leadership skills to work with teams of surveyors, construction managers, and accessories. Textile designers can work for large companies where their designs of making places, and is essential in creating community identity. It involves , the design of medical equipment or the design of electronic goods like sound technicians, contractors, architects, urban planners and transportation engineers. As are made by high-tech machines, or they can operate planning and design. Urban designers take into account services, transport routes, public systems and household appliances. You need to have an understanding of the full cycle government commissions most large infrastructure projects, they need to work closely independently using small-scale production techniques spaces and movement flows for people and vehicles. You could work in the public sector of product development, from coming up with ideas, to designing the product on the with local officials too. Civil engineers have good visualisation skills to see how complex such as hand-printing and silk screening. Many small (for government) or in the private sector (for a consultancy or a developer). Related fields computer, thinking about the kinds of materials you can use as well as where it will be components will come together and can analyse complex problems, seeing the strengths local companies exist and are successfully selling include: town and regional planning, and architecture. made and how it will be distributed and then disposed of after it has been used. and weaknesses of possible solutions, thereby identifying the best way forward. their products to local and international clients.