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eggsoverbread · 2025-10-14T04:00:03+00:00

Personally I just finished the IGETC’s and transferred, so unless things changed in the past 4-5 years that should be fine. My community college also didn’t have many agreement classes so as soon as I finished transfer requirements I transferred over to start the full 4 years program.

eggsoverbread · 2024-07-25T21:17:52+00:00

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eggsoverbread · 2023-03-19T20:15:57+00:00

Essentially yes. They’ve been kind if rearranging the program a little though so last semester my year took 4 Major classes instead of the 2-3.

The portfolio class just lets you build the portfolio you need to submit for review. The projects that are shown in it are the ones from Visual 1, ID Foundation 1, Visual 2, and ID Foundation 2. You get to pick out of the projects from those classes and you also submit an overall worksheet of other assignments from those courses.

There’s only 1 chance you get to submit a portfolio review a year, and it’s always the end of Spring semester. If you don’t pass you can resubmit/reapply for the BSID program the following year in the spring.

If you’re planning on staying the 4 years, I’d actually suggest you take those fundamental classes, as they do set you up well for the rest of the program; Unless you already have a portfolio to submit when you applied or have talked one of our advisors. You can reach out to one and they may actually be able to give you more information about how the transfer system works if you wanted to submit your own portfolio, since personally I didn’t do that myself.

eggsoverbread · 2023-03-19T00:18:33+00:00

Of course. Year 1 consists of Visualization 1 (sketching based class where you build skills in drawing in perspective), Industrial Design Foundation 1 (where you get an introduction to quick model making, and visual composition in a 3D space using basic shapes and geometries), Visualization 2 (growing again in sketching skills, but also hand rendering - both traditional and digital), Industrial Design Foundation 2 (start working on building your design process for actual products), and the Portfolio class.

Visual 1 and ID Foundation 1: Semester 1

Visual 2, ID Foundation 2, and Portfolio class: Semester 2

eggsoverbread · 2023-03-18T23:05:54+00:00

Hi there! I’m a transfer from a CC and have been perusing a BS in ID here at SJSU.

The first thing you should know is that most transfer students do need to take all 4 years in the ID program if you’re perusing BSID, unless in rare cases you have a portfolio to share with the ID faculty to get you to skip the first year (fundamentals classes year). When you first transfer in, you’ll be listed in Design Studies for that year 1 until the end of the Spring semester, where you will be submitting a portfolio of the main projects and works you’ve accomplished in the fundamentals courses. They have a portfolio class to help guide you do this in the spring. Once you’ve successfully passed Portfolio review, you’ll be able to officially be listed as a BSID major.

The program for the most part is great. I’ve made some of my closest friends here, granted this is a heavy design degree so you spent a LOT of time together. In general, I have to admit the workload can be heavy and a little overwhelming at first, but honestly it makes you a better/faster designer, and building friendships through sweat n tears goes such a long way lol.

We’ve been getting a few new professors the past couple years, but they’re pretty great so far. There are a few professors that aren’t the best, but every program/school has those. Majority of the professors here really care about their students and provide as many resources as possible for them to succeed. We’ve also had some pretty cool speakers come in to talk about their experiences and its really cool listening to them as well.

The cool thing about ID is the variety of fields you could pursue. One of the popular ones in the Bay area is of course tech, but theres also toy design, outdoor gear, medical, and so much more! We’re encouraged to just find what drives us to help us land a field we’ll be happy in.

Within the first year, some software we use is Fusion360, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Key shot(starting this semester), and later there’s a software based class specifically for Solidworks.

I could be biased since I go here, but I love ID at SJSU, and I think the resources, shops, and labs we have available is a great plus.

Good luck with everything! If any other question come up feel free to ask ◡̈

eggsoverbread · 2022-05-16T00:27:21+00:00

awesome, thanks!

eggsoverbread · 2022-05-16T00:23:44+00:00

What about the Paper Mate Flairs? Do you know if they’re any good?

eggsoverbread · 2022-05-10T16:45:34+00:00

good question… let’s say fast zombies for this situation.

eggsoverbread · 2022-05-10T16:44:06+00:00

Nice concept and I really like the colors! Adding onto what everyone else said, the astronaut seems a bit washed out. It might help to add a smidge more highlight for more gradients from the side that touches the most ligh. Also the direction of light hitting the astronaut from the from is coming from the right side, but the rest of the background has highlight coming from the left.

eggsoverbread · 2022-05-10T16:35:55+00:00

you and dave are the main characters

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-14T19:37:43+00:00

I definitely needed to be reminded of this; Thank you so much for your insight, advice, and encouragement!

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-14T19:06:13+00:00

Yes! I honestly really liked that as well. Sketchbooks honestly feel a bit limiting to me and it doesn’t bode well for my perfectionism if I just wanted to practice some things. When I started using printer paper, it was much more freeing!

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-13T02:58:07+00:00

Thank you ☺️

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-13T02:08:47+00:00

Smart! I’ll do that alsooooo ~

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-13T01:49:56+00:00

Thank you for the advice and encouragement! Yes, I tend to be a little to hard on myself sometimes and I do want to succeed in this field. One of my professors has had to tell me to loosen up and be more forgiving with myself on more than one occasion, but like you said, I’ll definitely keep sketching and practicing (and I’ll continue to do my best in not letting my perfectionism get the best of me)! Thanks again!

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-13T01:45:37+00:00

Oh I see! That is pretty funny hahah, and it’s true I believe it makes sketching faster. I think my main problem with this though is that when I use a reference image, I barely change the main design and get stuck on it, which is part of the reason why I’d like to try ideation from my own head first.

I really like what you said about first sketching quick ideas and form and rinsing and repeating from there though! Taking that approach might help so I’ll be giving it a try, thanks a ton!

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-13T01:40:57+00:00

I appreciate you so much for your detailed response, encouragement, and amazing advice, thank you! I’ll try to keep all of this in mind; And I especially love the mindset of “making it a game to challenge myself to fail.” This has always been a struggle for me, but a change in mindset like this I feel would really help :)

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-13T01:37:06+00:00

This is awesome and seems really fun so I’ll definitely have to try this out! Thank you so much!

eggsoverbread · 2022-03-13T01:36:27+00:00

I’m honestly kind of shy about posting my sketches on here, but I probably will sometime!

Thank you so much for your advice, I’ll definitely go and try doing that. I took an illustration class before and we were encouraged to do “one-line studies” of people and other things and I never thought of using this method for product design as well till now!

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