Originally posted by faster:
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Originally posted by Modsquad:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Turbopok:
In my opinion having an interest in many forms of design will not allow one to specialise in a desirable field since products are generally different in form (Like how Lamborghini intended to infuse design cues from a fighter jet into the Reventon. But after all the car is still a car and function is still over form, so very little design ideas from a plane can be practical enough to be successfully infused into the car).
I would like to comment on this point and also weigh in on a larger issue. As for the above, many different objects and forms available to us can and should inform the design of other objects. Look at the world as interconnected. Energy is shared. This is both a function of function, and of emotional response. Check out Le Corbusier's thoughts on the issue.
The bigger issue is the career choice. I have to disagree, perhaps in small part, with the conventional wisdom here. If you love car design, you love it because of what it is, not what it's related to (the auto industry, owning cars, driving cars, etc.), although it's very likely that you love those things as well. Advising someone to become a doctor because he can get into school and because his father thinks he should -- when he hasn't once expressed the slightest interest in practicing medicine -- is like advising him to walk the plank. My humble advice is to do what you love. To figure out who you are and what you do well -- and what you love to do -- and to do that (as long as it's honest and not entirely unrealistic). The "safe" route may appear safe, but it may be more dangerous. You have one life to live, don't live someone else's ideas and don't try to save up for the next one. If you don't love what you do, you'll be stuck with a job (not a career) you hate at best. Find your calling, whatever it is. Good luck.
