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The Designer, also known as Industrial Designer, is a professional who works at different levels of human activity, designing systems to images or objects. The course of Industrial Design (Design) offered by the Universidade São Judas was and is fully updated with many new features. The most important is the strong commitment to the process of improvement and transformation of the professional look of the future. For this, more than half the working hours of the course is devoted to the many activities of Project, always related to areas such as History of Design, Laboratory of Ideas, Reading the Shape, Photography Workshop and Tools. Thus, the first-fourth year of the course, the main concepts of design are applied in both the creation of images as in the objects. In total, over three thousand hours of tuition with much debate and interaction, making the year the project marked an act of joy and pleasure, and a commitment to ethics and social responsibility.

The Industrial Design, also called Design, is the setting, design, creation and definition of an object or service. Companies have used the design as a powerful tool to create differentiation in products and deploy in the market, is better positioned in front of its competitors. It is a tool that can add value and competitiveness of manufactured products.

Labor market
The visual programmer, also called a graphic designer, is the professional engaged in the design of systems for visual information related to printed and digital interactive media, such as visual identity of businesses, signs, printing and publishing in general, and multimedia packages. The job opportunities are in the printing industry, publishing, creation of departments of advertising agencies, departments of art, design and creation of companies. The graphic designer also works in producing the multimedia and web design, video and animation studios, public agencies, among others.

The course
The course is structured in five main areas of training, professional, complement, and specific humanist. The methodology of teaching prioritizes the construction of knowledge through experimentation, the proposition of situations, problems or scenarios, on which shall reflect the academic, research and design solutions within the graphic design.

Support structures
The course of Industrial Design offers students, in addition to the classrooms for the teaching of drawing and design, laboratory and photographic studio, laboratories, computer graphics, from graphic arts, computer, programming, materials and visual models. Students also have the drawing rooms, library specialist, amphitheaters, classrooms, video projection and auditoriums. The PUCPR also offers sites for exhibitions and other facilities and equipment infrastructure necessary for the proper functioning of the course.

Why Programming in Visual PUCPR?
The professional trained in the course of Industrial Design - Visual Programming of PUCPR has extensive training, which combines human and technological aspects, using the creativity, dynamism and technological capabilities to build solutions that meet individual needs, group and market.

The course of Industrial Design of PUCPR was evaluated by the Student Guide in April with 5 stars in 2008 (Student’s Guide 2008)

Research and postgraduate
With the support of CNPq, FINEP, Fundação Araucaria and other entities that support research, the course of Industrial Design of PUCPR has been working with innovation and scientific and technological research of the design in their various areas of expertise. Thus, integrating teachers and students interested in scientific research, the course of Industrial Design established a research group in design, with six lines of research: Design and Interculturality, Ecodesign, Ergonomics and Usability, Design Management, Design and the symbol and Theory and Practice of Design and its application in education.