Curriculum

Basic Technique Design
Through theories and practicing basic industrial design processes, students learn effective presentation skills using various media and improve creativity to express their ideas in diverse ways.

Basic ID Studio
This course is designed to study the basic elements of modeling, shapes, colors, and materials through experiments and handcrafting. By developing a sense of form, expression skills, and conducting various experiments, students will practice and develop skills to form three-dimensional shapes.

Basic Fusion Design
Students will understand basic design principles through various ideation processes and learn ways of visualizing them. By integrating elements such as objects, space, light, color, materials, and texture, they will learn creative design methods.

Basic Digital Design
This course aims to help students understand digital design, including learning 2D graphics programs. Through this class, students will learn the basic skills of digital tools required in industrial design to build foundations in graphic layout and develop a sense of form construction and visualization that they can utilize in further intensive courses.

Theory of Industrial Design
This course is designed to study the fundamentals and methods of design in theory. By understanding the relationship between humans, society, technology, economy, etc., students will learn design principles and methodologies for real-world design matters in practice. This course also covers design factors, influences, and ethics intensely through examples.

Theory of Industrial Design Method
This course aims to study the systematic processes of ideation, planning, problem analysis, and finding solutions to adapt to various design environments. By suggesting solutions in hardware or software, students will learn theoretical design methodologies for various situations in steps.

ID Studio (capstone design)
This intensive major course aims to approach the fundamental structure of industrial design. It helps students to understand the correlations among products and find methods for the design process and design management. Through thorough research, including technology and culture, students create products and systems that lead new trends. Based on studies on manufacturing, market, users, etc., students suggest new ideas, definitions, analysis, and solutions.

Trend Design
Students will suggest and lead new design trends through analyzing and deep understanding of technology, culture, market and consumers. Through this class, students will understand, define and make solutions which provide new value in the future.

Fusion Design
Design exists within industries and requires mixture of elements such as culture, technology, business, environment, etc. Under a topic selected every semester, students learn and experience design development process and suggest strategic design solutions in diverse forms.

Digital Studio
This course is to learn one of the most important communication skills for designers. Through studying diverse visualizing skills using digital tools, students will understand modeling principles and develop skills to express and communicate creative ideas.

Media Studio
Learn how to utilize tools such as 2D graphic and video editing to design the unfolding process, as well as various media approaches to express and deliver design concepts in industrial design.

Design & Business

Design and business cultivate creative thinking and skills in problem solving to understand and strategically approach design-based business in social, technological, cultural, and lifestyle-related backgrounds.

Theory of Design & Culture
Interpreting design as a cultural code that exists within social environment. Studying inter-relationships between cultural elements and design to apply trends and social issues as where design begins.

ID Workshop:Business Model (capstone design)
Discovering opportunities of creating new products and finding ways of developing existing products under a common theme with a collaborating company. Students will experience product development and management process in practice.

User Experience Design  (capstone design)
This course is designed to learn and trace back user behavioral psychology, including usability, value systems, and emotions, as well as appearance based on users' perceptions and reactions from using an object. It includes understanding interface design based on user experience, information organization and structuring, and information communication design based on visual interaction.

Living System Design  (capstone design)
Design is delivered to users physically or non-physically. The spectrum of living design is wide. The objective of this course is to design new living systems for upcoming new paradigms in the future through analyzing and forecasting future lifestyles and design styles of digital space, physical space, furniture and various living products.

Public System Design  (capstone design)
Study the design roles and functions in the public domain in society, culture and environment, and learn how to apply design strategies and systems as products and services with public purpose and use value.

Advance Design (capstone design)
This future-oriented course is to predict the future lifestyle and suggest conceptual designs in diverse solutions including physical space, video, events, etc.

ID CMF Studio  (capstone design)
Research new CMF(Color, Material, Finish) technology trends and analyze consumer emotional factors through CMF application. Visit industrial design companies to experience systematic processes and learn the design prototype production process.

Intellectual Property Studio  (capstone design)
This class provides both theory and practice about intellectual property. Students experience processes of securing design rights from patent application to design registration for ownership and protection.

ID Promotion:Business Model (capstone design)
Industrial Design is not just knowledge, but a specialized field that requires both social contribution and a pursuit of profit. Additionally, design is a balanced and creative work that combines both art and function. In this sense, having a business mind and common sense are essential capabilities for designers in their professional role. Through this course, students will learn practical knowledge including how to determine the value of their creations, how to charge clients for design services, how to legally protect their designs, and how to be successful in business management.