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Students must give 20-minute presentations of their work in
front of ajury of designers
College Exhibition: ISD Degree Show 2014by Nick Hull 20 Feb
2014
Just before Christmas Car Design Newswas invited to join the
final assessments ofthis year's graduate cohort from Institut
Suprieur de Design (ISD) in France.
This year has seen changes at ISD withRemy Constantin replacing
PhilippeDelvigne as principal after 25 years and the
recruitment of Jean-Philippe Berlencourt as new head of
Transport Design, while
the year ends with the graduation of 31 students in Product
Design, 22 inTransportation Design and 23 in Digital Design after
five years of training underthe Bac+5' system.
An unusual aspect to ISD is the final assessment through a
formal jury
presentation to professional designers, giving 40 percent of the
final diplomamark: students have 20 minutes to present (in English)
a complete digitalportfolio of work from three years, including
their internship work. This is followed
by an intensive Q&A session, with jury members interrogating
the students'
methodology and process in particular. Because professional
designers seethis level of work every day they're far more critical
about the work's presentation,looking for new shapes and more novel
graphic treatments at every turn.
This year Andreas Wlasak led the two Transport Design juries
from Faurecia andCarole Favart from Toyota. Joining them were
Luciano Bove, ChristopheBeaumont and Antoine Genin (Renault), Bjorn
Schuster (Kiska), Yann Jolly(Toyota Kansei), Gilles Rougan (EDF)
and Benoit Morin (PSA).
A typical 20-minute presentation takes the form of My process,
My universe, Myapproach to Design', and ends with a short summary
video of their work. Typicaljury questions centered on the passion
of the presentation or the need for morecareful selection of images
and, while the feedback is always constructive, attimes the
comments can be blunt: "The result is nave", "Nice sketches but
theselection and refinement of renderings is poor" and "The video
was too rushed,music too loud, exhausting to watch". It's a tough
grilling for any young designer,not least because all your student
peers are sitting in on the session too, but itcertainly offers new
graduates valuable feedback that will benefit them for
thechallenging world of professional design.
In all, the six simultaneous juries meant it was only possible
to attend a few ofthe student presentations during our visit.
Here's a selection:
Clment CarbonneCouach 4400 Fly
Carbonne showed a number of quick sail boat projects that had
each typicallytaken him just 10 days to design. Other projects
included an Opel Ampera for
2020 (pictured left) and a Seatec river cruise boat. Having
completed aninternship at Couach yachts in 2011-12 he intends to
resume his career at
Couach in future.
Anton-Lawrence Victor
Bentley Flow by VPLPVictor's project was a multi-hull sail
catamaran with a vertical prow and sweet
descent' staircase to the rear transom. Also shown was his
Renault Izzy project,a new three-wheel e-scooter with a large
luggage pocket up front. The rider
adopts a kneeling driving position and the scooter can fold up
when parked.
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