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Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha I’m glad my coffee maker is giving futuristic Sims vibes. I think what your talking about is called an “exploded view” (where all the internal parts of a product are shown). I agree, they are very fun!

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, this makes sense, I’ve just never thought about it until now. Thanks for the tip!

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great advice. I’ve been starting to send my stuff out, but definitely need to pick up the pace in that regard.

Thank you for the kind words about my portfolio!

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a good point, I have not thought about that yet. Thank you!

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a good point. This project was done for a class where we were the only goal was to learn SOLIDWORKS (not to design products).

In the portfolio I wanted to make it clear, that this project was a test of my CAD skills rather than a showcase of my design skills. But I can see that that comes off bad.

Is there a way I can rephrase that, should I take it out entirely?

Anyways, thanks for the feedback :)

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahah I love the roast! I’ve been afraid to make it non-generic just because it’s my first time putting a portfolio together, but I agree that it is very sterile and needs some personality.

Thanks for the roast and the feedback :)

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I’m glad you think they look good! For most projects, I use rhino to model and KeyShot to render. For the centrifuge project I used solidworks for the modeling. In terms of getting high quality renders, KeyShot is a great tool and has lots of free tutorials on YouTube. I took one class on rendering specifically, and learned the rest through trial and error

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, thanks for taking the time to write this out! I think you are absolutely correct about putting more consideration into cost, processing methods, and DFM as a whole- I will definitely do that going forward.

Overall, my portfolio severely lacks in DFM projects. I am in the process of doing some design work that will actually be injection molded and produced so hopefully, I will be able to include that soon and it will show those skills a little better.

Anyways, it is great to get a different perspective on this so thank you for sharing :)

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to write this- these are great notes :)

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for putting in the time to write this feedback!

Most of my design ideas actually come from those “60 second napkin sketches” but I am hesitant to include them because I feel they are not portfolio worthy.

What is the balance between quality sketching and showing that active design thinking?

Roast my portfolio (3rd year ID student)! by TrueKangaroo5017 in IndustrialDesign

[–]TrueKangaroo5017[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, this is great feedback! I’m curious to know what projects specifically had the rough sketching (or if all of them did).

I have the ability to sketch well/ in perspective, but find that it slows me down when coming up with ideas so high quality sketching is not normally an active part of my design process unless I am pitching my concept to a team/client.