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College Exhibition: ISD Degree Show 2014

by Nick Hull 20 Feb 2014

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Just before Christmas Car Design News was invited to join the final assessments of this year's graduate cohort from Institut Suprieur de Design (ISD) in France. This year has seen changes at ISD with Photo Gallery Remy Constantin replacing Philippe Delvigne as principal after 25 years and the recruitment of Jean-Philippe Berlencourt as new head of Transport Design, while the year ends with the graduation of 31 students in Product Design, 22 in Transportation Design and 23 in Digital Design after five years of training under the Bac+5' system. An unusual aspect to ISD is the final assessment through a formal jury presentation to professional designers, giving 40 percent of the final diploma mark: students have 20 minutes to present (in English) a complete digital portfolio of work from three years, including their internship work. This is followed by an intensive Q&A session, with jury members interrogating the students' methodology and process in particular. Because professional designers see this level of work every day they're far more critical about the work's presentation, looking for new shapes and more novel graphic treatments at every turn. This year Andreas Wlasak led the two Transport Design juries from Faurecia and Carole Favart from Toyota. Joining them were Luciano Bove, Christophe Beaumont and Antoine Genin (Renault), Bjorn Schuster (Kiska), Yann Jolly (Toyota Kansei), Gilles Rougan (EDF) and Benoit Morin (PSA). A typical 20-minute presentation takes the form of My process, My universe, My approach to Design', and ends with a short summary video of their work. Typical jury questions centered on the passion of the presentation or the need for more careful selection of images and, while the feedback is always constructive, at times the comments can be blunt: "The result is nave", "Nice sketches but the selection and refinement of renderings is poor" and "The video was too rushed, music too loud, exhausting to watch". It's a tough grilling for any young designer, not least because all your student peers are sitting in on the session too, but it certainly offers new graduates valuable feedback that will benefit them for the challenging world of professional design. In all, the six simultaneous juries meant it was only possible to attend a few of the student presentations during our visit. Here's a selection:

The new Rubika campus construction site at the Institut Superieur de Design in Valenciennes, France, will be finished in August 2014. Click for larger images

Students must give 20-minute presentations of their work in front of a jury of designers

Clment Carbonne Couach 4400 Fly Carbonne showed a number of quick sail boat projects that had each typically taken him just 10 days to design. Other projects included an Opel Ampera for 2020 (pictured left) and a Seatec river cruise boat. Having completed an internship at Couach yachts in 2011-12 he intends to resume his career at Couach in future.

Anton-Lawrence Victor Bentley Flow by VPLP Victor's project was a multi-hull sail catamaran with a vertical prow and sweet descent' staircase to the rear transom. Also shown was his Renault Izzy project, a new three-wheel e-scooter with a large luggage pocket up front. The rider adopts a kneeling driving position and the scooter can fold up when parked.

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Julien Trotin Alfa Romeo Scaglione Before starting at ISD, student Trotin attended the Sbarro school in Switzerland. His portfolio covered an Alfa Romeo Scaglione concept as his major project but other projects focused around Microcars using compressed air propulsion, following internships with Ligier and MDI. His Renault Agilis truck concept was for a narrow urban delivery truck with integrated roller truck to deliver boxes along streets.

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