As a ceramic designer you will be using your creative skills and expertise to design and create a range of pottery objects for functional and decorative purposes.
Ceramics designers create designs for domestic and commercial tableware and kitchenware, sculptures, jewellery, garden pots and wall or floor tiles, that are then produced from clay, porcelain, bone china and stoneware. They may work as consultant designers for large companies interpreting a product brief and turning it into a commercially successful design for large scale production.
Exploring and fixing decorative techniques and glazes
Choosing suitable materials for the design
Shaping clay with the use of hand , thrown in mould or on a wheel
Firing and decorating products , glazing and loading kilns
Arranging work for sales and exhibitions
Interacting with customers to create designs and overseeing production to see the needs are met
Developing business plans and artistic objectives
Taking any stream at plus two level and securing good score would be the prerequisite for getting admission into B.des programme. However exposure to science subjects at plus two level especially chemistry and physics may help the students when the study about materials and their characteristics at their bachelors .
Bachelor’s in Ceramic and Glass design is a three years long program which is provided by many institutions.
This would be a two year long program and the admission will be based on the entrance test and student’s performance in designing.
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Creativity is a vital skill for any kind of designer to have . Ceramic designers are no exception as they have produce new ideas using their vision.
Ceramic designers have to work with materials and tools such a meals gemstones . Having a good hand-eye coordination, dexterity and will increase their efficiency and accuracy in producing new designs .
Getting up to date with latest design softwares and its use would help them keep up with the modern advancements in the field.
To succeed in the Industry, they need to identify what are the desirable products in the marketplace , and the ability to market their work .
Housing industry
Fashion industry
Art
E-commerce
Marketing
H. & R. Johnson India Ltd
Kajaria Ceramics Ltd
RAK Ceramics Ltd
Somany Ceramics Ltd
Ann Sacks Tile & Stone
