레고 디자이너가 되기 위한 방법(영문)

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TLC is a cool place to work, and all kind of different skills are needed, depending on what position your in. Even narrowing it down to the traditional Lego designer, the job is quite different weather it's a Technic, Bionicle or City designer. Designing sets is not just about making something that's cool, it's more about producing a set that is a specific toy for a specific target group. A lot of work is put into using building technics that is appropiate for the target group, and this means putting a set together, that in most cases can be handled by 5-9 year old kids. Designing a set can be quite tedious, building something again and again with slight variations, until it's as perfect as it gets.

I think it's very unwise to select a career based on a specific job you would like in a specific company. Rather choose an education the seems interesting and where you feel you already got talent, or at least like to explore a talent. Everybody got talent.

I think most new Lego designers are young people that just completed an education at some design school, without any particular experience with building Lego. They are probably interested in working in Billund because they think TLC has good values, is a good workplace, and produce products that does bring pleasure to kids. I hardly think anyone has a chance saying:
ok, I built this and that with bricks, used a lot of tiles, kind of cool ehh ?
and then have even a remote chance of getting a job. Getting a job is about specific skills, but it's just as much or probably more about having social skills, being able to work in a group, performing a task over a longer time period, aiming and meeting a set goal.

Do you like sketching, do you like to spend time thinking how products can be made and designed ? And then doing it. Then maybe a design school could be for you. But don't expect to get a job at Lego. I'm an engineer, more specifically got a Master of Science degree in Mechanical engineering, specialised in multibody dynamics, stuff that could be used in vehicle and robotic design, and I liked the idea about getting a job at Ducati or Ferrari. Kind of still do. But I did not choose to study this with the sole aim to get such a job. It's just not realistic. I don't use much of what I've learnt in school in my job, but I enjoy modelling with CAD tools, and is quite good at it. I've used and honed that skill, and now am in my third job, which happens to be at Lego.

I say all this without much knowledge about designers career and their educations, and there are probably a lot of designers at Lego that haven't much specific education targeted at design. But if you like designing, get an education in that field.

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그렇단다.

TLC가 무엇의 약자인지 아직 검색해 보지 않았지만 테크니컬.레고.센터(?)같은 것의 약자일거라고 생각된다.

자신이 프론티(Front)라고 밝힌 이 사람의 직업은 레고디자이너란다.
공교롭게도 대학에서는 메카니컬엔지니어링(기계공학)을 전공했고, 학교에서 배운 것들은 거의 현업에서 사용되지 않는다고
말하고 있다.
그리고 이 사람은 CAD(컴퓨터를 이용한 설계) 프로그램을 가지고 만들기를 좋아 한다고 한다.

그런데 내가 아직 저 사람이 아닌 이유는....

아직 대학에 있기 때문이라고 믿고 싶다.