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23 December 2015

UCEED Resources 2 - collections of useful web pages

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List of famous personalities, designers 



Guide about Font 

I'm getting many comments and requests about Font, I therefore updated this page with very good number of links which will help you with font guide. But as per my knowledge, it's not necessary to go in depth about Fonts coz it's time taking and of course not many questions can be expected from this topic. Anyway briefing or over viewing on the top fonts in design point of view is good for safer side. So, I would recommend you to spare time accordingly.

Although it's purely observative, I can say that Fonts can be categorized into several groups. Once you know them and if you are capable of finding the difference such as
  1. width of each alphabet
  2. Height
  3. Extensions/tooth
  4. Curving/plain/bends ........etc

it would be very easy to identify difference in fonts. But if the question is like which "Font TYPE" it is, then there's no other way other than remembering them!

Very good collections of Infographic - Fonts and psychology in Typology   
Just refer to first two infographic - Don't refer to history and periodic table on this page) - Psychology of Font choice  

Font Psychology - Taste of different Fonts
(Overview on the images and important notes quickly)
 

Free time study 

(Refer for further in depth knowledge about Fonts and Typography)

19 top Font - guide 1


 Typography/Font related 

Visual inforgraphy

 Type-Visual design language

 From SYL blog - Printmaking and Typography study

 Font

Get the complete list with more details about Font - wiki page
(Will try to get more about this topic very soon) 


Guide for Unfolded view of solids


 


GA on painting, architecture etc
Cultural tour of India - Art, crafts, traditional wear etc

More Painting Resources : on wiki page, most popular painting styles

 Check more - 20 famous architectures of the world

A very good facts blog about famous persons around the world

Also for reference - 100 greatest paintings of all time 

Artistic Media used - Artistic media on Wikipedia
Here's - a good guide for art movements

Go through this wiki page in free time about Art movement

 Check more about famous designers - famous designers here 
GA on colors

Check the shades of Red color - wiki page

Learn about shades of other colors - wiki page

Check this Infograph to get more details about - color selection principles 

Go through this link to learn about famous books and others
Check all the image formats list

Learn more about - Pica in wiki page

Learn more drawing terminology here - quizlet blog for drawing terminology

check the complete collection of Pablo Picasso works

Very good collection of - perspective and non-perspective images


Useful Materials from D'Source webpage


Not all the website posts of D'Source are useful, it might eat your time. Anyway, here I have grouped them for your reference, please note that these must be your leisure time study only

 Story sketches for Animation (helpful only for CEED and NID) 
Related to color

 Science of color

 Color interaction

 Color design

 Color description

 Caligraphy  

 Product sketching (free time study - esp for portfolio works)

 Introduce yourself to Ethnography very briefly here

 Signage guide - 

 Geometry in Design  
Design for sustainability (Only for CEED) 

More Resources including guide for geometric questions and covering GA topics will be updated soon .........  :)



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9 May 2015

Books and study materials for UCEED exam preparation

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New update - Structured and listed resource collection for UCEED


 UCEED is basically an undergraduate design entrance exam (for B.Des). You may find it difficult to find materials directly in the form of books. I, therefore, gathered relevant materials in this post for your benefit. Many of the materials are available as downloadable PDF files.
Download PDF - complete UCEED links in SYL blog  


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Mathematical Geometry


UCEED questions seem to center mostly around mathematical aptitude; especially geometry type questions; which judge your observation, imagination, problem solving, lateral thinking and of course creativity. Keeping this in mind, I have gathered some useful materials related to basic geometry. I strongly believe that aspirants should have good knowledge about geometry solid transformations and manipulations. This subject area will directly improve your (above said) skills (observation, imagination and lateral thinking). So, that's why I would like you to start your UCEED practice by getting good grip on this area.

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



PART 2


How to count no. of surfaces in given solids



Maths Basics for non-math background design aspirants



Here is my latest post - Improve imagination, work with 3D solids and unfolding of solid shapes


Tips to solve Reasoning and Logical questions
My tips and training around Visualization and Observation 


Some very good video tutorials that help you with Solid transformations



source : Maths Online



source : Study pug


source : Godcast

Other downloadable materials
Basic Geometry study (Just for reference) -

    A very Good guide about - Using Perspective and Vanishing Points

    Observation and Visualisation skills


    1. Puzzles to improve observation

    Tangram Puzzles - Downloadable PDF's

    2. Animation movement

    Basically, this section deals with step-by-step image movements; which when put whole-together, will help to create videos or animations. This type of questions needs your careful observation of the preceding and succeeding steps. For each of the example given in the link post  (below) observe the pattern and movement of hands, legs and other parts of the given image (human, animal etc)

    Check the detail in downloadable (Pdf) form Tips for analyzing the pattern and graphic movements >>

    3. Working with Geometric Objects

    Like I mentioned earlier, Solving Geometric object type of questions improves your imagination as well as visualization skills; thus UCEED examiners usually included object type of questions. I therefore worked with some examples and included a step-by-step process for solving such type of questions.

    Check the details in downloadable (Pdf) from working with geometry objects >>

    Learn a way of Solving number of faces on complex objects >>

    4. Hidden words and images

    Check the details in downloadable (Pdf) from here>>

    5. Tessellations

    Generally called as unfolded views, Tessellation is all about unwrapping a solid on a flat surface and drawing the unfolded view on a paper. I also gave easy way of solving tetrahedron tessellation problem in one of my pages. check below links

    My solution for tetrahedron tessellation problem - Tetrahedron Tessellation problem solving here>>

     Geometry representations by Malati - here>>

    Leisure time works

    • A detailed instructions on how to draw a tessellation by David B Sullivan -  here
    • Best tessellations work by Escher from teacherweb - here

    6. Illusions

    Improve Observation skills with Illusions -  here >>
    Second list of illusions - here >>

    7. Evolution of objects

    Evolution generally means 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 Some examples of evolution here >>

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    Resource (web page collections) for UCEED 

    List of famous personalities, designers

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    Abstract Tests


    Abstract, mathematical and mechanical aptitude type of questions didn't appeared in CEED exams, but those ARE REQUIRED for you ! This type of reasoning and logical questions seems to be a part of UCEED syllabus; and the sample model test that IIT B released recently proved this. I therefore, included abstract test exercises in this resources page for obvious reason. Abstract reasoning tests helps you with pattern findings and also for problem solving. 

    For now, I've managed to gather some questions that would help you by giving idea of what it looks like and how to deal with those questions. Later, if time permits, I will try to give my reasoning, and some idea on how to solve such questions. (These tests were taken from pscychometric-success.com)

    General, Mechanical and Verbal Reasoning questions


    A 200+ page collection of very good Mechanical ability questions PDF


    Most of the sample test papers (PDF files) that I've included here (below) has been taken from Job Test Prep website. Big thanks to the web owner for including free PDF files!

    General Design Awareness study topics


    I have covered a lot of topics related to CEED Part - A exam in my earlier posts for CEED students.  The topics are basically related to several design field awareness, their past, present and future. Fortunately, most of those topics can be directly helpful for UCEED aspirants also. Thankfully; that reduced my burden :)

    I therefore have included those selected topics and skipped some topics that might not be useful. Hope this will be helpful for your preparation. 
    Free time reference study

     Very good collection of web pages for GA and other aptitude topics - Resource (web page collections) for UCEED 


    Materials and manufacturing related


    I had detailed and categorized materials as well as manufacturing process with examples of day-to-day products. Don't spend much time on this topic ! Just give a brief overview.

    1. Everyday 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 Indian stone and rock carvings - here >>

    Extra 1 - Mirroring

    • Uses of convex and concave mirror - here
    • Uses of convex mirrors - here
    • Uses of concave mirrors - here

    General Knowledge


    Color Selection

    Let us now see some pdf files, which may help you choose color at different occasions


    Answer/solutions to Previous CEED papers


    Solving previous years CEED Part - A questions would definitely help you with UCEED preparation. So, spare time to solve those questions too !


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    Self-Evaluation test

    Before going through further materials as part of UCEED preparation. Let's see this. Assuming that you have over-viewed the above resources (topics related to geometry and pictorial questions), I would like you to check your understanding of the concept by solving one simple question. In this regard, I have included the link for your practice and self-evaluation.

    Sample Practice question for self evaluation 

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    Inference from Paragraph and pictures


    Deductive and Verbal Reasoning


    Inductive Reasoning and Conclusion drawing


    Signs, symbols and their interpretations


    A very lengthy but useful pdf file about signs in design context. Just have a quick glance for now. Later, if you are interest you may go deeply into this book - Signs and symbols with design

    Data Interpretation


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    Sample numerical and aptitude questions for UCEED


    Word/Pictogram puzzles (Rebus puzzles)


    Leisure time study - material 1

    Paragraph summary


    Para summary material - 1

    Para summary material - 2

    Leisure time study - material 3

    English comprehension



    Very good exercise with answer key


    leisure time study - TOEFL material

    Environmental GA and Sustainability study



    D'Source - Design for sustainability  

     Effect of human activities on environment

     Envi GA slide - 1

    Envi GA slide - 2

    Learn the basics and terms of 'Design for the environment' - with general practices, products, regulations, best practices etc by goinng through this wiki page

    Leisure time study - Design for social impact

    Environmental awareness presentation

    Briefly overview these EA topics 

    1. Environmental design in Wiki 
    2. Eco Design on wiki  
    3. List of Environmental issues
    4. Indian Environmental Impact Laws  
    5. Social Sustainability 

    Wiki guide on Sustainable design

    Indian cultural GA

    I strongly believe that - it's not that important to study topics like Indian Architecture, buildings, Indian past and present culture; but because I received requirement from a blog friend (through FB) to share these topics, I therefore include those topics here (that I have prepared for CEED).  I once again remind you that these topics are of least importance to your preparation !

    Indian state paintings and painters

     Indian musical instruments

    Something about India and time

    Cultural and complete Architectural collection of India  (Not Imp)

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    Odd man out series exercises


    Online practice test - 1

     Prcatice test - 2 Numerical (downloadable)

     Online practice test - 3 (Word)

    Find the odd picture - warmup worksheet

    Leisure time exercises

    Exercise - 1

     Exercise - 2

     With good explanations and procedure

     Figurative exercise but with no solutions

    Direction sense test


    A Good worksheet with explanations

    Additional worksheet with in depth questions

    Online practice exercise

     Leisure time practice

    Leisure time exercises for your practice - 1

    Leisure time exercises for your practice - 2

    Spatial and Visual Ability test samples


    Practice exercise 1

    Practice exercise 2

    Leisure practice


    Try your hands with these IQ question in leisure or save for future use!

    Other IQ tests and exercises



    A very good guide for Mental ability and picture type questions -

    Mental Ability Test samples


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     Eco-friendly products

    Eco products official directory - (just give a overview in free) (not imp)

    Some basic mechanical principles

    Working principles

    home appliances working with explanations (not imp)

    Additional Materials

    • A list of famous Indian authors - here
    • All about Prime ministers of India - here
    • A picture depicting the Architecture styles of India - here
    • A very good guide on Design fundamentals by Dr. Utpal Barua - here
    • A very good list of Indian Bank Logo's - here
    • Past to present logo evolution for some famous brands - here
    • A list of Indian famous monuments - here

    Facial Expression for NID Subjective
    Source: darkspeeds work on devianart

     Plutchik-Wheel of emotions


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    18 August 2013

    All about M.Des Design streams

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           There might be a number of design streams available, but you are probably gifted with some hidden talents that prove to be suitable to one or more of the design fields. Unless you know about all of the fields, you cannot get a clear picture of your likes. I therefore wish to bring to your knowledge about the basic pattern, area and functionality of each design stream (especially for M.Des). 

    You can also go through the examples as well as companies; which may help you chose your field of interest.

    Product Design (PD)


    In a developing country like India where there are large demand for customized products, almost all the products are undergoing regular changes in product design, appearance, size, functionality as well as usability.

    Let me clear this by bringing Apple strategy, Apple released its first version of iPad mini last year. Definitely it proved a hit, but in spite of its popularity, Apple further aim to develop new product (2nd generation iPad mini) and of course the users are waiting for this. Almost all the sectors were engaged regularly to deliver newer, user-oriented and Eco-friendly products, thus demanding more product designers.

    Let us see the definition of Product Design. PD is the process of creating a new customized product to be sold by  a business to its customers. It starts with ideating a product idea and goes all through the process of concept generation, prototyping, modelling, sketching and mechanisms.

    In a broad approach, product designers conceptualize and evaluate ideas, later turn them into tangible (which you can touch and feel) inventions and products. They need to have design perspective and innovative skills. The product designers role is to combine art, science and technology. There are good institutions supporting PD stream with good faculty and facilities in India.

    Examples :

    1. Design of a TV, Air cooler
    2. Design of i mac by Apple



    3. Sony concept bracelet computer by Hiromi Kiriki


    4. Rocking wheel chair by Mathias Koehler

    (Source: industrial designe served) 

    Companies : 


    Note :  companies list were given so that you would go through them and check what actually they design

    Industrial Design (ID)


    Industrial Design is mostly related to product design and the discussion for PD also applies here, except that only some institutions provide the course. Often this field is confused with product design.

    ID is the use of both art and science  focused to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, functionality and usability of a product. It may even be used to improve the product's marketability and production. As an industrial designer you need to create and execute design solutions for problems of form, usability, ergonomics, brand development as well as marketing sales.

    Recently ID became a broad term inclusive of service, software and PD. Designers usually get associated with craft design and ergonomics.

    Examples :


    Products like Apple's iPad  iPod and iPhone were examples designed by celebrated Industrial designer - Sir Jonathan Ive


    Companies :


    Animation Design (AD)


    Well, most of you might have seen Hollywood movies like How to train your dragon, Wall-E, The Lion King and many more to mention. These movies were created where it is difficult to show the plot with human or in other words where humans are incapable. The base idea is showing of extra-ordinary visuals and dimensions with the use of graphical computer technologies. This is where designer creativity reveals. 

    Animation designers are more than a creative group, working either individually or in teams to create visual media. Animation is the art of creating a sequence of image (sketched or computerized) in order to create a motion, which can be observed as illusion. Animation does have a relation with Visual Communication, but recently got separated. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program.

    India seems to play  a major role in the international framework of animation production in the coming years. Many of the animators working in top animation studios like Pixar and Dream Works hail from India. There should be no wonder here as India got good institutes and courses related to animation. The important thing to be noted here is India as a hub for best creative, innovative and conceptual designers like you (lol...). Definitely this field helps you shape your career path if you are like a conceptual being with a zeal and passion towards creativity.

    The AD program in India expects the students to assume direct responsibility for nearly all aspects of the film making process by exposing to IT capabilities and other engineering disciplines right concept to drawing, shooting, camera etc.

    Examples :


    1. Films, cartoons, advertising etc.
    2. Making of Kung Fu Panda 2 (posted by cinemapopshot)

    3. Making of simple walking animation (posted by TheMrGoman)


    Companies :

    Toonz Animation, Paprikaas, Maya Ent., Penta Media etc


    Mobility and Vehicle Design (MVD)


    Although India doesn't have best institutions for this study, the courses provided by the Indian institutions were good enough for those aiming for automotive design. However, institutes in India focus mainly on studies related to understanding and identification of the transportation needs and issues facing the country as well as developments in other countries and identifying creative solutions. But the thing worth noting here is analyzers look automotive sector as a fast growing field in India. The fact that many international auto players were setting up design studios in India strengthen this.

    In some Institutes Mobility and Vehicle Design was also termed as Transportation Design. Both of them mainly deal with the development of the appearance as well as the ergonomics of the vehicle. Trust me this design field will definitely prove to be interesting and you will enjoy more if you have Mechanical or Architectural background with immense design passion.  

    Let me clear more by bringing you an example; say you are designing a car, it means developing the concept from scratch, coordinating with other departments (say engineering, R&D) for possibilities, modifying for new concept, re-analysis, developing a model and prototype and finalizing the concept.

     Automotive Design in this context is primarily concerned with developing the visual appearance or aesthetics of the vehicle as said earlier, though it is also involved in the creation of the product concept. You will be going through a number of hands-on experiment experiments and assignments as a transportation design student.

    Examples :

                                   (Source : supercar-sketches.blogspot.com)

                                                (Source : topspeed.com)

    Video 1 - BMW car design process 

    video 2 : Audi vehicle design process


    Companies :

    Ashok Leyland, GeneralElectric India, General Motors India, Stylus Automotive, Bulls Eye Design etc

    Visual Communication (VC)


    VC is communication through the help of visual aid and is described as the deliverance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon.

    As usual I will clear the topic by bringing you with some examples. Say you are driving a car and you come across the traffic red signal on the junction, the moment you see the red signal, your leg shift from accelerator to brake. Nobody told you to stop, not even did you see any written board, but the signal made you automatically stop your vehicle.


    When you see a car with the above symbol, immediately your mind starts wondering that the person sitting in the car might be someone belonging to royal family with class facilities. You went to purchase an electronic good and you will identify the products with the below symbol as those belonging to Apple products.  


    Now what does the above examples mean? Instead of dealing with verbal or other forms of communication, we are communicating with visual forms, that when looked upon by us would give the clear idea of what they intend to tell us, that too in an instance. You may feel that, this is not that much important as a career path, I only gave some simple examples just to make you understand. But think yourself; every organization has got a unique brand representation that will clearly tell you about the nature of the brand. Even this form of communication sometimes represents the status.

    This form proves to be the most powerful communication in marketing as well as sales division. VC is everywhere today. In a country like India, where we expect more developments and changes to be taken place in the very near future, VC plays an important role.

    As the name suggest, VC deals with eye contact or visual contact of the product, and is primarily presented or expresses with two dimensional images. As a VC student you will be given a chance in various design methods, aesthetic aspects and generating methods and processes for solving communication problem. Students may specialize in one of the many areas including signs,, typography, information visualization, exhibition design, photgraphy, animation etc.

    Examples :


    1. Signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, color, electronic resources, skype, webinars

     2. Power of VC - funny video (posted by Pratik Ghosh)

    Companies :

    Creative Labs, Leaf Design etc

    Interaction Design (IXD)


    All of the Design streams focus on users. Ultimately it's the end-users who are going to enjoy your designed product. But likely other design streams give importance to innovation also. IXD in this context is specifically concentrated on the user. ID is a mix of product and visual design, and deals with digital things for people's use; Wikipedia defined IXD as "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems and services".

     let me clear this with an example. Say if you want to design a mobile phone for elder people, you need to consider the term "elder people" as mobile phones designed for teens and children's may not suit for elders.

     IXD is heavily focused on satisfying the needs and desires of the majority of people who will use the product. What clearly marks IXD as  a design field as opposed to a science or engineering field is that it is synthesis and imagining things as they might be, more so than focusing on how things are. IXD is more or less related to User Interface Design.

     Learn more about - User Interface Design principles and general rules for CEED exam

     Examples :

     1. Video : Link
    2. Nokia 888 concept - Link

    A very good website detailing more about IXD - Link

    I hope this article helped you. Now you should be in a position to answer your question “which stream is to be chosen by me?”

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