
Learn how to seriously become a professional car designer by assessing your status, choosing schools wisely, preparing effectively, pursuing internships, and exploring diverse design roles and networking with professionals.
Identify where you stand as a car designer by honestly evaluating your sketching, artistic eye, and design intent. Embrace realistic improvement through practice and feedback, avoiding arrogance and false expectations.
Prepare for life-changing realities of becoming a car designer, including moving abroad, visa hurdles, and costs. Face intense competition and option to pivot to product, industrial, or user interface design.
Explore a global overview of car design schools, from Germany to the USA, detailing bachelor and master options, portfolio requirements, and cost considerations across Europe, the UK, and North America.
Prepare for school by polishing drawing, sketching, and rendering skills, while exploring design thinking and tech trends to inform future car design and portfolio.
Form a strong design incubator in school by learning from the best, collaborating with ambitious peers, and pursuing design competitions, internships, and outreach to pros.
Explore the wide range of car design jobs, from exterior and interior designers to studio cast modelers, with collaborative teamwork across engineering, safety, and marketing.
Pursue internships to build industry connections and learn from professionals. Proactively reach out via Instagram, Behance, and LinkedIn, share your portfolio, and attend design events to explore OEMs and studios.
Learn how internships sponsor your thesis with a company, securing mentors, resources, and potential job offers, and understand cost considerations for high-end models and industry sponsorship.
Avoid being an idiot in the car design industry; stay professional and positive as the field is small and career moves are common. Handle conflicts calmly and network wisely.
Stay curious and motivated to become a car designer, embracing continuous improvement across sketches, modeling, and color material design, and prioritizing passion, energy, and a positive mindset.
Hi there, I am Kai, a professional car designer with OEM experience at companies like Ford, SAIC, Nio, Honda and I am here to help you out! Ever wondered what it is like to become a car designer?
This job is unlike many others, it is a passion job and very difficult to understand what it means to start this journey and what to expect. There are a lot of compromises and difficult steps you will have to take in order be successful.
In this course I will teach you how to start your journey of becoming a car designer, and how to deal with all the stages and hardships that come with it. Throughout my personal journey I have collected a lot of knowledge about the industry, especially how to approach it to ensure a positive . Everything from how to develop your skills, the life changing risks and also how to behave professionally and get the most out of your studies. It is not about sketching or drawing this time, it is about showing you what it means to embark on this adventure that is car design.
I promise if you are serious or curious about becoming a car designer, this course might just change your life.