The Qualities And Skills That Footwear Designers Should Possess

Footwear designers, taking integration as the means and innovation as the goal, must be versatile, knowledge-based, with comprehensive quality and skills.

For example, when developing footwear products, designers should not only pay attention to the appearance design of footwear products, but also take into account their internal functional structure, that is, considering the material functions and the mental functions.

Therefore, the footwear designer is different from the simple planner and artist. The skill of the planner is mainly based on technology, while the artists are mainly aesthetic, while footwear designers are mainly consumer oriented and human oriented. They are the combination of technology and aesthetics and the combination of technology, art, culture and economics.

Footwear designers are not necessarily very good planner, but they should know the relationship between the parts in the design of footwear products, so that they can be finished by the planner. After that, footwear designers may not be excellent artists, but they should understand art and apply art to design.

Of course, some designs can also be done by artists (e.g. footwear design).

Footwear designers may not be able to produce all kinds of exquisite footwear products, but they should know the materials and processes of shoemaking, and work out workable technological processes according to different materials for workmen in workshops.

The footwear designer is similar to the architect. The architectural form and the building plan are completed by the designer, while the building itself can be created by others. Similarly, the footwear designer only completes the product conception and related drawings and effect maps, and the production of shoes is done by the workshop itself.

Footwear designers mainly solve the relationship between footwear products and people. In this process, we should not only pay attention to the form of beauty, but also consider the mass production of footwear products, and pay attention to the principles of economy and application.

Because the ultimate goal of our design is to satisfy the needs of different people, so the principles of economy, application and beauty should be taken into consideration.

It is one-sided to pursue the beauty of art and abandon the principles of economy, application, and too much pursuit of economy and application of products.

Raymond rove, a world-class designer, said: "design is an agile and reliable action, and flexibility is the most valuable asset of a designer".

The quality and skills of footwear designers must be developed along with the development of the times.

Before you have a computer, you need to rely on your hands to complete the shoe product effect diagram and the expansion of the model. After you have the computer, you must learn how to use the computer to expand the template and draw the effect diagram.

Therefore, footwear designers have no fixed function, but change with the development of the times and changes in demand.

Therefore, the footwear designer should have the following qualities and skills.

From the perspective of the development trend of China's footwear industry, the basic qualities that footwear designers should possess are: 1. cultural and artistic awareness: footwear designers should have good artistic qualities, such as aesthetic judgment and artistic appreciation, and familiarity with texture, color and shape.

In addition, it should also possess certain cultural qualities and have an appreciation and comprehensive ability in painting, literature, English, dance and fashion show.

A simple planner lacks the awareness of culture and art and lacks the cognitive ability and the keen insight to the visual communication world. Therefore, the key for a planner to become an excellent footwear designer is to improve the quality and consciousness of culture and art.

2. scientific and technological awareness: footwear designers should have basic knowledge of science and technology, understand the basic principles and structure of shoemaking, and cooperate with the planner so as to develop footwear products that meet market demand and human needs.

3. imagination and creativity: the core content of footwear product design is innovation, that is, to put forward new concepts, introduce new design ideas, point out new design methods, and create new images of footwear products.

These are impossible without imagination.

The shoe designer loses imagination without imagination, which will cause the design of footwear products in our country to remain at the stage of imitation, but can not really promote the development of China's footwear industry.

4. market awareness: in the wave of China's market economy, footwear designers must be familiar with market management knowledge, be good at promoting their own design, be good at marketing new products, proficient in market research and market prediction, and can not only synthesize the past of the market, analyze the current market, but also predict the future of the market.

The footwear designer is fundamentally different from the simple planner and the artist. Therefore, the footwear designer can be regarded as the three mixture of artists, planner and entrepreneur.

5. human consciousness: the core of footwear design is people-oriented, footwear products are ultimately designed for people, and people are the mainstay of footwear products consumption.

Therefore, footwear designers must understand people's consumption psychology and aesthetic psychology, master ergonomics, grasp the current needs of people and predict the potential needs of people.

Two. Knowledge and skills 1. image creation ability: in the early twentieth Century, people developed three systems on the basis of natural form, that is, plane composition, color composition and three-dimensional structure.

The three formation is derived from the design education and practice activities of Bauhaus. It creates a variety of non natural forms through a series of geometric forms related to teaching.

Some of these shapes and shapes can be used directly in the design of footwear products, and others can inspire other non natural forms through their inspiration.

Therefore, this kind of form and composition method is the image foundation of footwear design. It not only provides designers with opportunities to create creative images and forms, but also more importantly, training and training their graphic thinking and image power in plane, three-dimensional and color aspects, especially image thinking ability, which is of far-reaching significance for future footwear product design.

2. image expressive ability: footwear product design is the common product of image thinking and logical thinking. However, regardless of image thinking or logical thinking, the result will ultimately be expressed in images and imagination, and need to be expressive.

Therefore, footwear designers should possess the following performance skills.

A. ability to draw stereogram, component drawing and assembly drawing; B. template making ability; C. footwear product rendering technology; D. footwear product photography technology; e. trial production of sample shoes ability; F. computer design capability.

3. analytical skills: footwear designers want to effectively integrate various factors for successful design, so he should first have the ability to analyze problems, affairs and products.

There are three ways to develop the analytical ability of footwear design: sketch, sketch and product analysis.

The design sketch of footwear products is mainly based on the drawing of footwear products to understand the structure of the product.

The result of the drawing is secondary, and this analysis process can only infer the internal structure of the product through the observation of the appearance of the product, thereby enhancing the understanding of the structure of the body.

Sketch itself has two major functions, one is the function of shape recording, the other is the ability of shape analysis. Two

The use of design sketch is simple and convenient for shape recording, but what it lacks is meticulous.

Shape recording can also be replaced by other methods, such as photography.

In the design process, sketch sketch plays an important role. It not only records the progress of every step of the design, but also makes an analysis of the existing ideas through the design sketch, and produces new ideas until a satisfactory concept and design are completed.

As an analytical method, design sketch is characterized by image, speed and convenience. It is an essential skill in industrial design.

The analysis of footwear products is a comprehensive analysis of existing footwear products or finished designs.

Not only from the aspects of modeling, color and technology, but also from the aspects of function, structure, structure, material and appearance, a comprehensive analysis is made to strengthen the understanding of footwear products, and find out its advantages and disadvantages, reasonable and unreasonable parts, absorb the essence and eliminate the drawbacks, laying a solid foundation for future footwear product design.

In China's footwear industry, footwear designers have an important mission. To shoulder the responsibility of designers entrusted to the times, we must make the footwear designers' ideas and professional skills greatly improved, break the gap between technology and art, and establish a comprehensive design knowledge system, so as to contribute to the development of China's footwear industry.