Product Design
Introduction to Product Designing
Product designing program in College of Art accepts students without household registration restriction but those cultivated artistic program in high school. The schooling lasts four years. The program is subdivided into model design and furniture design. It bears ecological and intellectualized futures and concentrates on household product and furniture designing. It aims to cultivate excellent application-oriented talents with solid theoretical foundation, good-command of practical skills, a strong sense of career ethic and innovative and integrated thinking. They are competent for general design management and project execution. The main courses include Product Design, Ergonomics, Material and Technique, Furniture Model Design, Furniture Structure Design etc. There is no idle in any lab including product model lab, wood processing lab, metal processing lab, material lab, ergonomics lab. There are three innovative workshops set up for students, eleven training and practicing bases available for twenty to thirty students per year, completely reaching the demand of instructional practice. There are one professor, six associate professors, and four of them were granted doctoral degree and seven master’s degree.
Advantages:
The college gains membership of administrative council Design Education Committee of China Industrial Design Association, membership of administrative committee of Innovation Design Alliance of China, membership of executive officer council of Guangdong Furniture Design Educational Major Committee. It has developed models of “innovative workstudios for students”, production-teaching-research and united competition on the basis of results. Students have won dozens of awards in top-level professional competitions, such as Red Dot Design Award, iF Product Design Award, China Universities Industrial Design Competition, Governor Cup Industrial Design Competition, International (Yong An) Bamboo Products Design Contest, China Famous Furniture Design Competition, Goldaxe Furniture Design Competition China etc. Collaborating with nonschool tutors, the department constructs instructional practice bases outside the school. The education pattern of multilateral communication plays a prominent part in instructional practice. The implement duration and credits of courses are in accordance with program scheme. The rate of courses which are approved can achieve 100% in ways that ensuring cultivating students with professional foundation and qualities. Most graduates continue their career in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and some further their study at home and abroad.
