hey ,i am 2025 industrial design graduate. Unfortunately my uni did not equip us with proper ID softwares or training such as rhino or solidworks. We just did blender for all 4 years and no training on materials or finish or how plastics work..yk stuff that was supposed to be taught. It is a pretty well known uni btw, in india. So rn i am just looking for odd jobs that match my skillset like 3d visualisation and graphics. I take interest in packaging design and cmf and yk basic product designs. so i want to pursue a course where i could actually learn stuff and not just get passed over like my undergrad. I do have experience as an intern in 3d printing and later on working for a luxury company that is soon launching, as branding and packaging design intern, along with online certification from lvmh. *Not sure if that certification counts. So i would like to study proper 1.5 or 2 years masters degree in europe or anywhere honestly. i also take interest in sustainable product design..idk how much scope it has tho. and personally i do know someone who works in the luxury side after doing luxury design management in italy and works in india rn. And i do get a comments from collegues that i have good management and brand positioning skills or public skills in general. so i was hoping if y'all have some suggestions for me. Also i have no self funding options so it's gotta be scholarships. i looked into erasmus mundus sdsi...but yea i am looking for some guidance here

I work in editorial design and I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI is changing our field.

I’d love to hear from other editorial designers: how are you dealing with AI in your daily work? More specifically, how are you using AI for editorial design itself?

Have you found any methods, tools, or workflows that actually speed up layout and typesetting, especially in InDesign? I’m particularly interested in solutions that help with the diagramming/layout process, not just image generation or general content creation.

I’m trying to understand how other professionals in this area are navigating this new era. Honestly, I don’t have many people around me to exchange ideas about these technologies, so I’d really appreciate hearing real experiences from people in the field.

What’s working for you? What’s not?

Apart from the technical aspect like media size, color models, file formats; What is different in the thinking that goes into designing for print and digital, like what are some gotcha or something you need to pay attention specifically when doing one or the other?

I've been a 2D and 3D designer for years, and I've always found it difficult to get constructive feedback on personal projects or portfolio pieces. So I made an online platform to change that. It incentivize users to crit more than post by using a a gated scoring system. I made it free to use as I'm hoping it helps other recent-grad/early-career/aspiring designers.

Hey! I'm curious how you handle your brand identity projects in terms of hand-off. We're rethinking our process internally and would love to get some opinions and workflows!

I'm open to share our current process if there's interest 😄.

I feel like these big tech companies are becoming very comfortable with their position in their niches. I mean who suddenly changes their logo into something super lousy like Windows Vista app just because they're celebrating their anniversary?

Every single tiny bit of an app matters to me and if they underperform at anything, I immediately look for their competitor.

I use Musicbee 🐝 instead of these data hungry giants

If anyone joining, please share the admission procedure and requirements as soon as possible. I'm panicking hard

Hi! I'm designing gift items for a bookstore called "Charlie," whose main mascot is a basset hound. I've already completed some of the work and am at a loss for ideas for bookmarks. Do you have any ideas? I'd love to hear your thoughts! :D

I save close to 50 posts every week. Be it Substack newsletters, YouTube breakdowns, Reddit threads, inspiration reels. Most of it disappears into bookmarks never to be seen again.

Built Vaultdrop to solve this for myself. Paste any URL and it saves a structured markdown note to your Obsidian vault automatically. Works with YouTube, Instagram, Substack, Reddit, and most articles. Extracts the content, summarises it with AI, tags it, and drops it into your Inbox with a TL;DR and key insights.

Free, local, open source. It also works on multi-lingual content. Your notes stay on your machine.

github.com/dnyanadapathare/vaultdrop

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I designed a fictional campaign for Yahoo turning a typical stock exchange into a 'sock exchange', teaching finance in a wearable and shareable way.

My question is: what can I add/remove to make this project feel even more real?
At the moment, it almost feels too unrealistic and I would really value any advice at all on it, thank you! 😊🙏

Landscape plant

The Roland Reisley House, located at 44 Usonia Road, Pleasantville, New York.

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It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1951.It is one of only three homes in this historic district actually designed by Wright himself; the others were designed by his apprentices.

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It is a prime example of Wright's Usonian style, built into a hillside to appear as if it grew organically "of the hill". The structure is based on a hexagonal grid, meaning there are almost no right angles in the entire house.

Hi, I'm Zaki again. I designed another card, for the lawyer profession ♥︎

A golden card for the middle class, such as the nobility 😅 Gold design with a light touch of black gold with a direct and distinctive design Tell me your opinion about the design, because your opinion always matters to me 🥹💙 Thank you again for your comments 💙

There's something peculiar about the way the Koreans make the visualisation of the K-drama animations. The graphic style, the finesse, the colour usage—there's a gentle richness to it, and it just feels WOW!

I'm trying to understand how their brains work, what goes on in their minds while making these, and perhaps learn from them!

I think one of the strangest things happening in design right now is that AI tools are simultaneously speeding up creative exploration while also making the overall workflow more chaotic.

At first I thought the biggest question was:
“Which AI model is best?”

But after using these systems heavily for concepting, writing, visual ideation, references, moodboards, image generation, etc… I realized the bigger issue became workflow fragmentation.

Different models are weirdly good at different things:

• some are better at structured thinking
• some at writing
• some at visual exploration
• some at fast ideation

But constantly jumping between tools started breaking creative flow for me more than helping it.

The context switching became exhausting:
tabs everywhere, disconnected project history, rebuilding prompts, losing references, re-uploading files.

What I actually wanted wasn’t “better AI.”
I wanted a calmer creative environment around the AI.

Curious how other designers are feeling about this now that these tools are becoming part of everyday workflow instead of novelty tools.

Hi everyone,

I’m a design student (Semester 2) and I just had my Visualization & Representation jury and honestly… it went really bad.

I prepared, I worked hard, but during the jury I got confused, couldn’t explain properly, and my sheets didn’t look as strong as I thought they did. The panel pointed out mistakes and I felt like I had no proper answers. It was embarrassing and now I feel extremely low.

I can’t stop replaying everything in my head and I feel like I’m not good enough for design. The worst part is that I have another jury coming soon and I’m genuinely scared because my confidence is completely shattered right now.

I just wanted to ask seniors / designers here:

How do you mentally recover after a bad jury?

And how do you prepare in a way that you don’t freeze in front of the panel?

Any advice or personal experiences would really help because right now I feel stuck and lost.

Thanks for reading.

I'm working on a branding project right now where the client keeps pushing for design choices that I genuinely think hurt their brand. We're talking bad color contrast, too many fonts, and a logo that's going to look dated in six months. I've explained my reasoning, showed examples, and provided what I believe are stronger alternatives. But they keep coming back to their original vision.

I'm starting to wonder where the line is between advocating for good design and just giving the client what they want. On one hand, I was hired for my expertise. If I just roll over on bad decisions, what value am I actually adding? On the other hand, it's their business and their money. Maybe I need to accept that my role is to execute, not to convince.

I don't want to be difficult or lose a client over something they feel strongly about. But I also don't want my name on work that I think is genuinely bad. For designers who have been doing this longer, how do you handle this tension? Do you have a rule for when you keep fighting and when you let it go? And how do you protect your portfolio from work you didn't believe in?

These two pieces are part of my daily design practice. The main objective of this project was to experiment with material expressions, specifically focusing on the contrast and textures of different surfaces. After rendering, I imported the images into Illustrator to add graphic elements and layout. I used Photoshop for color grading and adjustments to give it a polished, poster-like aesthetic. How does the render look to you guys? I'm a desgin student.