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My Design Career

I am a Year 1 student now studying Industrial design at university. I have already studied for one semester, and I discover I really like my major. This essay will show three aspects that include why I have chosen to study industrial design at UNSW, what stimulated me to consider my design career and what I think my future will be like in design.

Firstly, I would like to talk about my 19 years experience to find out probably some design effects through my life so far. My father is working at a foreign trade company and my mother is working at a tax authority for my country. They are both not interested in my major so I am not gifted from them genetically. However, my grandfather used to be a worker in a factory. Now he is 76 years old and still being employed to design wheel key for a company. I admire him personally.

When I was very young, I am a girl who is very shy and silent. My mother took me to study children’s drawing at an art school. Starting from that time, drawing has walked into my life. I liked colourful pictures because I felt they talked to me beautiful stories. I often held a pencil to draw everything to express my thinking to people instead of speaking. Thus, I had a very happy childhood.

But life cannot always be pleasant since I graduated from primary school. I gave up studying drawing and then focus on academic study because of the important high school entrance exam and university entrance exam in China. Although I didn’t get sufficient art education, my enthusiasm to art are always existent. When I go shopping at weekends, I prefer to find out some creative and beautiful products like exquisite decorations. When I surf on the Internet, I like to search for aesthetic pictures about design products and share them to friends. In addition, as a Gemini girl, I am curious and often observe everything around me carefully. I definitely love life and enjoy life. To sum up, these evidences are the motivations for me to study Industrial design.

I studied science foundation in my hometown and then chose industrial design as my major so that many classmates were very surprised. From my point of view, I am not interested in solving difficult physics and chemistry problems for four years. Drawing is my hobby all the time. As we know, China is one of the biggest manufacturing countries in the world. However, our own countries’ design is not very popular and just be located in an initial stage. I believe Chinese design will be put on a par with Japanese design one day. I am just trying to do something more fun and more meaningful so I go aboard to study and develop design career.

Many people said studying design is very hard and your expenditures far exceed than your income. I sometimes think about what my future will be like. Maybe one day, I am a product designer who designs products for a famous company. Maybe one day, I have a stable other kinds of job and design just becomes my hobby in spare time. Maybe one day, my job is slightly related to my major. Whatever my future will be like, I promise design will never be disappeared from my daily life. I believe design can improve people’s life level and make people feel happy. It’s necessary from past to future. Design teaches me a lot and I will put my enthusiasm into design career through my whole life.

In conclusion, I explained three factors in this essay, which are why I have chosen Industrial design as my undergraduate major, what stimulates me to consider design career and what I think about my future. I am proud of studying Industrial design and I will put my effort on design career continuously.