Taking a Look at Transportational Design

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Transportational Design
"It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better." Jonathan Ive. This best describes industrial design. To make things better than the last. I wish to make the simplest thing simpler and more useful. The main place I want to specify in is Transportational Design which is part of industrial design which includes designing cars, planes, boats, and motorcycles.
Overview
Transportational Design is the design of cars and other vehicles. Transportation design is a branch of Industrial design. The interest codes are AER which are Artistic, Enterprising, and Realistic. Artistic is someone who often use designs, forms and patterns. Enterprising involves starting and carrying out projects. Realistic is someone who enjoys working hands on real materials. Some related occupations are Industrial design and Architectural drafting.
Education
Education needed for Transportational design is most commonly a bachelors degree in industrial design or rarely transportational design ( which is a less common class.) Possible colleges for this occupation are Rhode Island school of design, Art Center college of design, and Ohio state university. The career cluster / pathway is architecture and construction.
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Knowledge/Skills and Task/Activities
Industrial / transportational designers usually develop concepts / blueprints for products that companies want to produce. Industrial designers / Transportational designers need to be able to develop their plans and bring them to life. The start with a sketch. For cars it would be a straight on side view then a draft in 2 point perspective. Then it is rendered in a CAD program. After
BMW concept I8 set to come out in 2015 ( Car an...

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Other Information of Interest
When creating the Hoover Dam enough rock was excavated to rebuild the great wall of china. Frank lloyd Wright designed over 1000 buildings and had over 532 built.

Conclusion/Reflection
I think that i would like to be an architect. The job lets me be creative and bring peoples wishes to life. I would love to be an architect because I’m greatly interested in buildings and how they are made.

Works Cited
“Architecture” wikipedia n.p n.d 17 november 2013
“Car and driver” caranddriver.com 17 november 2013
“How to design cars like a pro” Ryan Borroff 2003
“Falling water” Fallingwater.org n.p n.d 17 nnovember 2013
Hotrod.com 17 november 2013
“Industrial / Transportational Design” “architect” Onetonline.org n.p n.d web 16 november 2013
Naviance York High School N.p N.d web 16 november 2013

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