Product Design
About
Product Designers improve lives by creating consumer products—from game-changing wearables to life-changing medical devices to everything in-between. Our Industrial Design Program is rigorous, all-encompassing, and designed by experienced industry and education innovators. Our course will help you think about how people will use your product as you take it from idea to prototype to presentation.
Our Product Design Students Got Into…
With Icon’s Product Design program, our students show an amazing result in college acceptance. They are accepted by the following programs: ArtCenter College of Design, College of Creative Studio, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and other many schools! We feel very proud to have contributed to this success of our students.
Possible Careers for Product Design Major:
Advertising Art Director | Automotive Engineer | CAD Technician | Clothing/Textile Technologist | Color Technologist | Exhibition Designer | Furniture Conservator/Restorer | Furniture Designer | Graphic Designer | Interior and Spatial Designer | Materials Engineer | Product Designer | Procurement Manager | Product Manager | Production Designer…
Learning Objectives
By the end of the program, you should be able to:
Translate ideas into 2-D and 3-D form; implementing their aesthetic sensibility, critical thinking, and use of digital/analog tools.
In-depth lesson of the design process according to current professional practice including research, ideation, refinement, prototyping and presentation, individually and in teams, using contemporary design thinking in the creation of superior products.
Work knowledge of materials and methods of manufacture that incorporate principles of sustainability, ethics, and the global consequences.
Curriculums
Level 1: Introduction to Product Design
Level 2: Product Design Portfolio
*Prerequisite: Introduction to Product Design
Why are prerequisites important?
Prerequisites are a way of making sure that students, like you, enter into a course or subject with some prior knowledge. This, not only helps the instructor to teach at a certain level, but it also helps students to feel more comfortable and confident with the subject matter.
Instructors
Mike Yun
Academy of Art University, BFA in Automotive Design
Senior Exterior Designer at CALTY Design Research (Toyota Lexus Design)
Tim Song
ArtCenter College of Design, BS in Transportation Design
Senior CAD Modeler at Oakley