The designer is seeking ways to improve his skills and create a strong portfolio to become one of the best in his field. The document provides 50 suggestions, including asking senior designers for feedback, creating concepts for disabled drivers to make a lasting impression, and improving the aesthetics of currently hideous designs to benefit both customers and companies.

1. Problem (reworked): The designer needs a way to improve his skills and concentration and come up
with a distinct and kick ass portfolio , regardless of personal issues because he wants to become one
of the best stylists in the sector.
1. Ask a professional designer friend to give him daily insights and feedback
2. ask his fellow classmates who have already got jobs, to give him insights from the job market
and real industry experts.
3. do yoga to concentrate in a far more better way
4. buy an Intous 4 to gain confidence
5. get a paid internship with Chris Bangle
6. do freelancing, earn money and real time feedback
7. start visiting his seniors at their workplaces
8. switch to boring alternatives for inspiration
9. try new ways of rendering and fine tune his own style
10. keep trying different types of vehicles in between to break from the monotony
11. get a job as a graphics designer and keep working in this direction
12. ask his elders for advice on how they solved these type of problems
13. experience work life in other sectors to get an idea of what he wants and what he doesn't
14. go to Himalayas once in a while and take a break
15. sketch a live vehicle every day
16. come out with new improved concepts of hideous designs on sale today
17. get high and sketch to see if it helps
18. buy a time machine, go back in time, visit critical events, practice a lot and get back perfect
19. take inspiration from sci-fi fantasy stuff
20. start a blog on design review of vehicles
21. write letters to global design heads and expect a surprise opportunity
22. visit every automotive show possible
23. do networking by visiting design centres and auto shows
24. visit most of the manufacturing plants and get insights on design problems and solutions
25. get amazing at AutoCAD like Daniel Simon and create a ripple in the market
26. Come out with inspired ideas from various leading non automotive brands
27. get inspiration from Phaidon Design Classics and create inspired stuff
28. take a nature trek and design cool ideas based on nature's designs
29. take inspiration from musical instruments and convert them into automobiles
30. study all the unusual ideas and decipher them in his own style and create amazing stuff
31. gain materials knowledge and come up with cool concepts based on that
32. transform cartoon characters or any characters from the movies into vehicles
33. come up with concept vehicles for mythical creatures based on their personalities
34. come up with concepts for Marvel or DC comics' characters based on their superpowers
35. take inspiration from jewellery
36. join art of living course for better mind management
37. read Shiv Khera's You Can Win
38. come up with concepts for the specially-abled
39. based on your family members and their temperaments, try to reflect that in mood boards
and subsequently in vehicular expressions

2. 40. try paper models and then fine tune them in a software
41. try to come up with highly functional and aesthetic mass transportation concepts for the
future
42. take inspiration from minimalistic watches
43. do deep breathing before sleeping and after waking up every day
44. join a martial arts club for improved concentration
45. teach young kids design and see what they can teach you
46. take inspiration from bags and delve them as features in the concepts
47. take inspiration from shoes for conceptualization
48. design concepts for your favourite stars
49. learn realistic texturing and rendering and make a killer portfolio
50. do a mix of all of the above
Most practical idea:
1 Ask a professional designer friend to give him daily insights and feedback
As a design student, he has many senior graduates from his department who have practical
and very useful insights to give him as feedback on his current sketches etc. Getting it from
industry experts will make him have an edge above the others easily.
Most radical idea:
2 Come up with concepts for the specially-abled
If he is able to create radically simple concepts which can help the specially abled to drive
vehicles on their own and are easy for the industry to adapt and manufacture, then he
would have created a lasting impression in the industry, and probably a name for himself in
history.
Favourite idea:
3 come out with new improved concepts of hideous designs on sale today
Today's consumers want their cars to be aesthetically pleasing yet they buy hideous designs
based on the whole package on offer. If he can improve their aesthetics while not deviating
too much from the basic design, then both the companies and the customers are in a win
win situation.