Showing posts with label CEED Part-A guide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CEED Part-A guide. Show all posts

18 August 2019

Collection of CEED exam study materials


Someone was asking me to help in finding and easy navigation to a specific topic. Since the topics are wide and many, I've tried my best to segregate them in order - for easy navigation, along with a brief note of the content of the links. Hope this helps.


Complete CEED related SYL blog links download PDF (2020 update)

Before we see the materials, below is a brief list of syllabus for CEED Part A, just for your quick reference
  1. Visual Communication - Logo's, signage, advertising, packaging, fonts etc.
  2. Animation Design - Movement observation, comic strips, visuals etc.
  3. Product Design - Latest and newest products and trends, current products etc.
  4. Automobile Design - Aesthetics, manufacturers and plants etc.
  5. Digital (applied to almost all the fields) - Photography, color coding, displays, printing etc.
  6. Observation (Basic designer skill) - Mirroring, textures, evolution (past to present), isometrics and geometry, tessellations, shadows and more.
  7. Architecture - Sculpture, monuments, materials etc.
  8. General awareness - Engineering ability, materials, culture of the country, famous personalities and their works, instruments, animals etc.

  1. Photography terms, methods and general guide
  2. Guide to Color and video technology
  3. Artistic tools, drawing terms, sculpture
  4. Architecture guide (complete set of architecture/monuments/stupas etc. collections of SYL).
  5. State Painting and Painters
  6. Typography
  7. Illustrations
  8. Musical Instruments 
  9. Guide to solving animation type questions, step-by-step animation movement type questions and how to solve them
  10. Logo's of reputed institutes, automobiles, and signage (signs, symbols and their interpretations)
  11. About India
  12. Materials and manufacturing process (common materials used and the manufacturing process for them)
  13. Evolution of products
  14. Folding and unfolding of solids (Tessellations)
  15. Solving 'number of faces' type questions
  16. Questions on images and geometric objects
  17. Odd man out series 
  18. Direction sense test
  19. Illusions
  20. Numerical and aptitude questions
  21. Tips for solving inductive and logical reasoning questions
  22. Some Deductive, Inductive and verbal reasoning
  23. Convex and concave mirroring
  24. GK on famous authors, PMs, architectural styles bank logos, famous monuments, wonders and finalists etc.


Link 2: CEED Subjective help (Part B help)

This link contains:
  1. Links to sketching/drawing, perspective drawing, tips to exploded views, shading/detailing works etc. 
  2. Guide to User Interface design (UI/UX)
  3. Guide to comic strip making
  4. Storyboard and poster making
  5. Picture Composition (writing a story given an image)
  6. Theory on Design thinking and Creative studies

Link 3: Non Verbal (Image-based questions for CEED) 

This link contains:
  1. Mathematical Geometry ( Types of views, how to visualize solids in all the sides)
  2. Basics of solid shapes
  3. Observation and visualization skills (tangram puzzles. mechanical and spatial ability, tessellations)
  4. Abstract tests, spatial and visual ability test 
  5. Rebus puzzles (pictogram puzzles) 

This link contains:
  1. Collection of famous logo designers, Indian fashion/textile designers, 
  2. Indian famous photographers
  3. Some logos
  4. Famous painters/paintings
  5. Olympic medal winners
  6. Prehistoric paintings and more


Link 5: Resource collections from UCEED page for CEED

Refer only the topics listed below for CEED:
  1. Guide on font with several online links
  2. Typography, visual iconography
  3. Intro. to mathematical solid shapes
  4. Famous paintings, painters, artistic media, art movements etc.
  5. Colors 
  6. General topics (paper sizes, dances, image formats, drawing terminology, perspective and non perspective works)  

Refer only the topics listed below for CEED:
  1. Non-verbal and Image reasoning 
  2. Go through the bullet points under the heading "Some facts"
  3. List of some famous epics of India
  4. List of Indian animators, famous photographers, women designers, renaissance poets
  5. List of Indian noble prize and oscar winners
  6. Plutchik-wheel of emotions


Link 7 - Some CEED Part - A materials

This link contains:
  1. Evolution of objects
  2. Something about materials
  3. A few GK 
  4. Color selection
  5. A few IQ tests 
  6. Sustainable and eco products


This link contains:
  1. CEED Part A previous papers (from 2012 to this years)
  2. Some solutions to CEED Part B (design, sketching, problem-solving etc.)
  3. UCEED previous papers solutions (from UCEED 2015 to latest) - UCEED solutions will help you for CEED Part A preparation as most of the syllabus is same (UCEED is tougher than CEED.
  4. UCEED sample practice papers
  5. CEED sample practice papers


This link contains
  1. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for CEED.
  2. Mock tests, samples and previous model papers for UCEED (to be practiced for CEED too).
  3. Subjective practice questions



This link contains
  1. Collections of everyday design practice questions for CEED
  2. Solutions shared by me and some students for everyday practice questions
  3. Solutions to some CEED previous years design (Part B) questions
  4. Tips to solving some design questions.


Videos to help you


When to start making portfolio ? What to prepare for Part B

 


What to start? 
How to solve design aptitude, non-verbal, and Ability questions with examples



PART 16


Maths Basics for non-math background design aspirants


Counting number of surfaces on solids



How to start and what to practice for CEED



Find all videos here


Additional Resources



Some CEED Part A materials


1. Evolution of objects

Evolution generally mean product cycle from past to present. So, you are generally required to observe and identify the everyday use items (say TV) from old to new generation.
check the details in downloadable (Pdf) from here>>

2. Illusions and Perception: Improve Observation skills with Illusions -  here>>

Second list of illusions - here>>

leisure time reference

A very good guide on Art Perception

All about - Aesthetics



3. Materials and Manufacturing process

I had detailed and categorized materials as well as manufacturing processes with examples of day-to-day products. 

  1. Every day materials - here
  2. Plastic materials and manufacturing process - A very good guide for household plastic materials and their manufacturing process. You may not go through manufacturing process, just note for what material, what particular manufacturing process is employed - here
  3. Tips for selecting plastic materials - here
  4. Top sculptors - here
  5. Top Indian stone and rock carvings - here
  6. Famous bronze sculptures - here

4. General Knowledge

5. Color Selection

Let us now see some pdf files, which may help you choose color at different occasions
Something about - Prototype making from MIT, Cambridge

Product Design Open course free PDF's - MIT Product Design open courseware




6. Other IQ tests and exercises

7. Perception and Aesthetics

A very good guide on Art Perception
All about - Aesthetics


13 August 2014

new 8 wonders & finalists of the world


Chichen Itza Castillo - mexico




Christ - the Redeemer - Brasil




Colosseum - Rome, italy




The Great Wall of China




Kheops Pyramid - Giza, Egypt




Machu Picchu - Peru




Petra - Jordan




Taj Mahal - India





Other finalists for the wonders of World


Acropolis of Athens - Greece




Angkor Wat - Cambodia




Aya Sofya - Isthanbul - Turkey




Kiyomizu dera - Japan




Kremlin - Russia



Maoi - Chile




Neuschwanstein castle - Germany



Patio - Spain




Liberty statue - New York




Stonehenge - UK




Opera House - Sydney, Australia




Timbuktu Mosque - Sankore, Mali




Eiffel tower - Paris





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Rock cut - Monolithic Architecture in India


Rock cut architecture is the creation of structures, buildings, statues and by excavating solid rock where it naturally occurs. Monolithic architecture refers to making of structures, sculptures and buildings - from a single piece of material (particularly rock). Go through the famous rock cut and monolithic sculptures, caves and structures of India.

Ajanta Caves - Maharashtra



Badami caves - Karnataka




Bojjana Konda caves - Andhra Pradesh






Borra caves - Andhra Pardesh



Khandagiri cave monastery - Odhisha



Ellora Caves - Maharashtra







Guntupalle temple - Andhra Pardesh



Kanheri - Borivali - Mumbai





Mahabalipuram






Vsvaraha cave - Mahabalipuram




Mauryan - Barbara caves - Bihar




Masroor - Himachal Pradesh




Pandavleni caves - Nashik




Ranigumpa - Udayagiri - Bhubaneswar




Ravana Phadi - Aihole - Karnataka




Udayagiri caves - Madhya Pradesh




Udayagiri caves - Bhubaneswar




Undavalli caves - Andhra Pradesh





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Famous architectural structures around the world


Angkor wat - Cambodia





Buckingham Palace - London




BP Pedestrian Bridge  - Chicago




Maoi - Chile




Orthodox Cathedral - California



Pagodo - Kofukuji - Japan




Parthenon - Athens - Greece 



Shwedagon - Pano - Mynmar




The Iron Bridge - England




Walt Disney Concert hall - Loss Angels



Watson's hotel - India's oldest CI building




Khalpu fort - Pakistan




Vatadage - Sri Lanka




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