On the qualities and skills that shoe designer should possess.

The qualities and skills that a shoe designer should possess. Shoe designer must be a generalist with comprehensive qualities and skills, taking integration as the means and innovation as the goal. For example, when developing footwear products, designers should not only pay attention to the appearance design of footwear products, but also consider their internal functional structure, that is, consider material functions and spiritual functions. Therefore, shoe designers are different from simple clappers and artists. Makers pay attention to technology, artists pay attention to aesthetics, and shoe designers pay attention to consumer needs and people. It is the subject of combining technology with aesthetics, science and technology, art, culture and economy. Shoe designer is not necessarily a very good board maker, but he should know the relationship between the components in the design of footwear products, so that the board maker can complete the product design. A shoe designer is not necessarily an excellent artist, but he should understand art and apply it to design. Of course, some designs can also be done by artists (such as the pattern design of shoes). A shoe designer may not be able to make all kinds of exquisite footwear products by himself, but he should understand the materials and technology of shoemaking and work out feasible technological processes according to different materials for the workers and masters in the workshop to operate. A shoe designer is similar to an architect. Architectural forms and drawings are completed by designers, while the building itself can be built by others. Similarly, the shoe designer only completes the product concept and related drawings and renderings, and the production of the shoes themselves is completed by the workshop. Shoe designers mainly solve the relationship between footwear products and people. In this process, we should not only pay attention to the beautiful form, but also consider the principle of mass production of footwear products and pay attention to economy and applicability. Because the ultimate goal of our design is for people themselves, in order to meet the consumption needs of different people, we should also take into account the principles of economy, applicability and beauty. Too much pursuit of artistic beauty and giving up the economy and application of the product itself, and too much pursuit of economy and application and giving up the principle of product beauty are all one-sided. Raymond, a world-class design master? 6? 1 Lowe said: "Design is an agile and reliable action, and flexibility is the most precious property of designers". The quality and skills of shoe designers must keep up with the development of the times. Before there was a computer, we had to manually expand and contract the renderings and patterns of footwear products. After you have a computer, you should learn to use it to expand and contract patterns and draw renderings. Therefore, the shoe designer has no fixed function, but changes with the development of the times and the change of demand. Therefore, a shoe designer should have the following qualities and skills. 1. Quality Judging from the current development trend of the footwear industry in China, a shoe designer should have the following basic qualities: 1. Cultural and artistic consciousness: Shoe designers should have good artistic qualities, such as aesthetic judgment and artistic appreciation, and be familiar with texture, color and modeling. In addition, they should have a certain cultural quality, and have appreciation and comprehensive ability in painting, literature, English, dance and costume performance. Simple clappers generally lack cultural and artistic awareness, and lack cognitive ability and due keen insight into the surrounding visual communication world. Therefore, if a clapper wants to be an excellent shoe designer, the key is to improve his cultural and artistic quality and consciousness. 2. Scientific awareness: Shoe designers should have basic scientific knowledge, understand the basic principle and structure of shoemaking, and cooperate with board makers to develop footwear products that meet market demand and human demand. 3. Imagination and creativity: The core content of footwear product design is innovation, that is, putting forward new concepts, introducing new design ideas, pointing out new design methods and shaping the new image of footwear products. These are impossible without imagination. The lack of imagination of shoe designers means the loss of inspiration, which will lead to the design of footwear products in China staying in the imitation stage and unable to really promote the development of China's footwear industry. 4. Market awareness: In the wave of market economy in China, shoe designer must be familiar with market management knowledge, be good at promoting his own design, be good at promoting new products in the market, and be proficient in market research and market prediction, so as to synthesize the past of the market, analyze the present and predict the future. A shoe designer is essentially different from a simple clapper and an artist in this respect. Therefore, shoe designers can be regarded as a mixture of artists, clappers and entrepreneurs. 5. People's consciousness: the core of footwear design is people-oriented, footwear products are ultimately designed by people, and people are the main consumers of footwear products. Therefore, shoe designers must understand people's consumption psychology and aesthetic psychology, master ergonomics, grasp people's current needs and predict people's potential needs, and never leave people to engage in design. 2. Knowledge and skills 1. Ability to create images: At the beginning of the 20th century, people developed three systems on the basis of natural forms, namely, plane composition, color composition and three-dimensional composition. The three components originated from Bauhaus's design education and practice activities, and created various unnatural shapes through a series of geometric shapes related to teaching and using various combinations. Some of these shapes and shapes can be directly used in the design of footwear products, and some can generate other unnatural shapes through their inspiration. Therefore, this kind of figure and its forming method are the image basis of footwear design, which not only provides designers with opportunities for image creation and form selection, but more importantly, cultivates and trains their logical thinking and image ability in plane, three-dimensional, color and other aspects, especially image thinking ability, which has far-reaching significance for footwear product modeling design in the future. 2. Ability of image expression: Footwear product design is the product of image thinking and logical thinking. But whether thinking in images or thinking in Luo Ji, the final result depends on images and imagination, which requires expressive ability. Therefore, shoe designers should have the following performance skills. A. the ability to draw three-dimensional drawings, parts drawings and assembly drawings B. the ability to make templates; C. rendering technology of footwear products; D. photography technology of footwear products; E. trial production capacity of sample shoes; F. computer design ability. 3. Analytical ability: If a shoe designer wants to effectively integrate various factors for successful design, he must first have the analytical ability of problems, affairs and products. There are three main ways to cultivate the ability of footwear design analysis, namely design sketch, sketch and product analysis. Footwear product design sketch is mainly to understand the structural method of product modeling by drawing footwear products. The drawing results are secondary, and this analysis process can only infer the internal structure of the product by observing the appearance of the product, thus deepening the understanding of the physical structure. Sketch itself has two functions, one is the function of body recording, and the other is the ability of body analysis. It is simple and convenient to record the shape with design sketch, but what is lacking is detail. Physical records can also be replaced by other methods, such as photography. However, in the design process, sketch plays an important role. It not only records the progress of each step of the design, but also analyzes the existing ideas through the design sketch to generate new ideas until a satisfactory concept is obtained and even the design is completed. As an analysis method, design sketch has the characteristics of image, quickness and convenience, and is an essential skill in industrial design. Footwear product analysis is a comprehensive analysis of existing footwear products or completed designs. Not only from the aspects of modeling, color and technology, but also from the aspects of function, structure, structure, material and appearance, etc., so as to strengthen the understanding of footwear products, find out its advantages and disadvantages, reasonable and unreasonable parts, take its essence and discard its dross, and lay a solid foundation for the modeling design of footwear products in the future. In the footwear industry in China, shoe designers have an important mission. To shoulder the responsibilities entrusted to designers by the times, shoe designer must greatly improve his thoughts and professional skills, break the gap between technology and art, establish a perfect design knowledge system, and make contributions to the rapid development of China's footwear industry.