Industrial / Product designer at Visual Fusion (Pty) Ltd

Job description

Skills and Personal qualities

• Be creative.
• Be accurate and pay attention to detail.
• Understand shape, form, function, colour and texture, with the ability to maintain a perfect balance between them.
• Understand different materials and production methods, without allowing it to box in your creativity.
• Be able to use sketches, 3D models and computer design tools to express creative ideas.
• Be good at explaining ideas to people with varying levels of technical knowledge.

Be good at planning, organising and time management.

• Have listening and questioning skills for discussing design briefs and understanding feedback from colleagues.

Be able to work within deadlines.

• Have the ability to learn quickly, think fast and deliver solutions.
• Embrace new procedures and technologies.

· Work well in a team environment.

Interests – It’s important to;

• Have an interest in the way people choose and use products, and why they do it.
• Have an interest in how things look and work.
• Have an interest in new technologies and how it could be used in interesting ways.
• Enjoy problem solving.

Specific skill set requirements

• Freehand drawing and rendering with pencil, pen and copics.
• Be competent in raster, vector and 3D design tools, including but not limited to; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, (3D Studio Max, V-Ray preferable but not essential) and Office basics.
• Verbal and visual presentation and communication skills.

Training opportunities for the right candidate may combine on-the-job training under the guidance of an experienced colleague with short courses on topics like the use of new software packages.

Other advantageous skills

• Basic animation in 3ds max
• Basic video editing in Adobe Premier
• An interest in and experience In VR and Augmented reality would be an advantage.

Qualifications

• We are preferably looking for someone with a qualification in Industrial Design or a similar design related qualification.