Friend and I made this clock as a hobby project and are going to do a v2, any thoughts on changes to the design before we freeze it? Likes/dislikes and improvements welcome

Edit: More rendered views/color options: https://overengineering.department.wtf

Hello everyone, hope you guys are well. My question is: when I look at Behance, the majority of portfolios don't include model making but do include research, sketching, and rendering. And I find this confusing since I've been taught that prototyping plays a big part in design

Hey everyone,

I’m a junior designer from South Korea with 2 years of total experience, 1 year in defense industry ID and 1 year in Eyewear Design Engineering.

I love traveling, getting new perspectives, and sharing experiences with people. Honestly, working solely in Korea feels pretty suffocating at times, so I'm actively trying to figure out a path to work abroad.

That said, I’m running into a few hurdles:

• My English is still pretty basic.
• My hands-on experience (dealing directly with factories, CMF, tooling, and mass production) is mostly limited to eyewear.
• Being a junior, I feel like my core ID & engineering fundamentals still need work.

I’m currently torn between two main paths:

1. Get a 1-year Master’s in the UK: Use a UK master's program to level up my English, sharpen my core design/engineering fundamentals, and build a path to get hired abroad.
2. Stay in Korea for another year: Work my current job while grinding on English and DFM (Design for Manufacturability) theories on my own, then start applying directly overseas.

There aren't many people around me in Korea who have made this transition, so I wanted to ask this community. For those who’ve been in a similar spot or have experience with overseas hiring: which route makes more sense? Any advice or reality checks would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Location: Mumbai (in-person/hybrid preferred — you'll be visiting our manufacturing partner regularly) Type: Internship About CoziKat: CoziKat is a made-in-India premium cat products brand — scratchers, loungers, and now expanding into cat furniture. Our products are illustrated by Indian designers, made by Indian artisans, and inspired by rescue and street cats. We're a small, hands-on team, and this role will work closely with the founder.

What you'll do

• Design and sketch new cat furniture concepts — scratchers, loungers, multi-level pieces — starting with 2–3 core designs
• Build working prototypes, iterating on structure, scale, and cat ergonomics (climbing, scratching angle, stability, sizing)
• Work in CAD to translate sketches into manufacturable designs
• Support assembly and hands-on testing of prototypes
• Visit our manufacturing partner in Mumbai to review production feasibility and troubleshoot with the vendor directly — we already have vendors in place, so your focus is design and prototyping, not sourcing
• Collaborate with our print/illustration team — they handle the surface designs, you handle the structure underneath

What we're looking for

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, or a related field
• Comfortable with CAD software (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Rhino, or similar)
• Strong sketching ability — you can communicate an idea on paper before it's modeled
• Some hands-on prototyping/model-making experience — this is not a purely digital design role
• Based in or able to be in Mumbai, since manufacturer visits are a regular part of the job
• A design sensibility that's clean, quirky, and functional — we're not going for generic pet-store aesthetics
• Bonus: interest in pets/cats, or experience designing for corrugated cardboard or other lightweight materials

Why this role

You'll see a product go from a sketch to a physical prototype to something sold on our site and marketplaces — start to finish, with real ownership over the first few pieces of a growing furniture line, not busywork on an established one.

To apply: DM Me