transportation majors?

[matt is legit]

just curious to know if there are any transportation design majors here.

[stankubrick]

just curious to know if there are any transportation design majors here.


Are you one?

I'm really curious to know how to get into that field. AFAIK, there are very few automotive design positions worldwide...Competition must be HEAVY! To make it even harder, there are very few schools that specialize in automotive design worldwide. Art Center Pasadena is the one big one I've heard of in the states.

I wonder if anybody can just get a BFA in Industrial Design, and if your badass (and lucky), you can work your way into an automotive design position.

[Yurikaze]

I graduated from Trans at CCS in 2004. I'm now designing wheels at MHT. Hey, it's not exactly car design, but I make more, and have more freedom. :)

[stankubrick]

I graduated from Trans at CCS in 2004. I'm now designing wheels at MHT. Hey, it's not exactly car design, but I make more, and have more freedom. :)


That sounds like a sweet job! Is CCS the school in Detroit? How hard was it to get in? What kind of background do you need? What do they look for in your portfolio?

[UTA LS]

I'm a mechanical engineering major that spends a lot of time on the SAE team working on race cars, should be up in the design room once I get some more classes under my belt. I can't make a car look pretty but it'll run good.

[Yurikaze]

That sounds like a sweet job! Is CCS the school in Detroit? How hard was it to get in? What kind of background do you need? What do they look for in your portfolio?

Yep, CCS is in Detroit. It isn't hard to put together a fine arts portfolio and get into CCS, but getting into the trans program is much more difficult. Freshmen year, there were 120 students planning on getting into trans. By the time the did the selection at the end of sophomore year, they selected 16. So basically you have to show potential during the first two years to get selected into trans. It's difficult but worth it.

[matt is legit]

Yep, CCS is in Detroit. It isn't hard to put together a fine arts portfolio and get into CCS, but getting into the trans program is much more difficult. Freshmen year, there were 120 students planning on getting into trans. By the time the did the selection at the end of sophomore year, they selected 16. So basically you have to show potential during the first two years to get selected into trans. It's difficult but worth it.


wait a minute? at ccs you are able to apply as another major if you want but you are potentially able to make the switch to trans by second year? sounds worth it to me. im trying to make it into art center right now and whatever the counseler says goes. they want about 5-6 projects (10 ideation sketches, 1 final rendering) for trans and product. i may make the switch to product, since i do realize that the trans department is heating up in competition. ill post some of my final renderings up as soon as i get them scanned in. i havnt been taking art center at night in awhile so i need the critiquing. if any of you have ideation sketches i would like to see them, because im still having trouble with composition and callouts.

[Yurikaze]

What I meant was they prefer your portfolio to be fine arts based, even if you are applying to ID.