How We Affect

Samsung Electronics has always been deeply interested in conveying sentimental values to our consumers. Samsung Design Membership is part of these ongoing efforts, and it has provided a wide range of experiences for students to emerge as designers who can instill values in design. I believe that our determination to contribute to the enhancement of Korea’s design capabilities has propelled us to continually carry on Samsung Design Membership.
At Samsung Design Membership, I was able to collaborate and compete in good will with many students from other schools. It was a great experience that enabled me to work with my friends and gain personal growth as a professional designer.
Those who have ownership never gives up when faced with obstacles and instead perseveres with passion until the very end. I want to recommend Samsung Design Membership to those who are willing to press on and take an extra step forward to reach their goals.

As part of the first completing class of Samsung Design Membership, I was involved in creating the internal policies for the membership council. We wanted Samsung Design Membership to become a program that represented students in Korea who major in design and foster key design talents that can contribute to the advancement of Korea’s industrial design.
At Samsung Design Membership, you will be able to practice guiding different ideas in a single direction when managing a project. This process will help you perceive overarching design contexts and implied meanings.
Dear prospective members, join Samsung Design Membership and broaden your spectrum. I hope you can gain great inspiration by taking on challenges in a wide selection of fields from architecture, environment, interior, to furniture. The broad range of experiences you gain here will undoubtedly help your growth as a designer in other fields as well.

I was able to make friends with talented design students from all around the country through Samsung Design Membership. Interacting with these talents became an incredible stimulus for me. During a time when the world was transitioning from analog to digital, we had the privilege of working on computers and developing our ideas by discussing each other’s progress.
Samsung Design Membership provided a great momentum for my growth as a designer. I was able to widen my thinking and scope of design by exchanging thoughts, values, and culture with friends from other schools.
I encourage you to firmly develop your own style of design at Samsung Design Membership. It’s more important to foster your own competitive edge as a designer rather than trying to do everything well. Samsung Design Membership will be a great place for you to establish the foundation on which you can build your unique identity as a designer.

I applied for the membership because of a recommendation from one of my seniors. I recall being excited about working with students who are confident in their design capabilities. Being in an environment filled with energy and diverse characteristics fueled my passion and confidence for design.
The relationships I built through Samsung Design Membership became an incredible asset to me, and I continue to keep in touch with this design network of friends who have since advanced to various fields of design. Meeting them has always given me inspiration and stimulus for design.
To those who are applying to the program, I’d like to emphasize that Samsung Design Membership will be an opportunity for you to expand your perspective of the world. The experiences you gain here will serve as stepping stones for your career as a designer. Always cherish your first steps and engage in design with proactive fervor.

I remember tagging along one of my seniors to check out the atmosphere of Samsung Design Membership and thinking that it was a dream-come-true for prospective designers. Most importantly, the fact that students passionate about designs gathering from around the country to collaborate was a powerful motivation for me to apply.
The time I spent at Samsung Design Membership has been the propelling force that brought me to where I am today. The chance to meet prominent creators who are difficult to encounter as a student and the memories of pulling all-nighters with members on a single design project were opportunities of great personal growth. The confidence I gained through this program led me to start a company known as ‘VINYL’ with fellow members who completed the program, and I have since been working in the frontlines of digital design for 18 years.
Dear prospective members, we’re living in the age of visuals. We’re in a period in which a designer’s ability of materializing great ideas can have noticeable impact and presence. Once you develop a love for design and flexibility in exploring new values by converging with new fields, you will be able to achieve growth as a great designer.

When I was a student it was hard to get hands-on UX design experience unless I worked at a company. At Samsung Design Membership, you can get firsthand experience in topics that are normally hard to come by for students, such as mass production processes.
Samsung Design Membership teaches you about identifying problems and proactively solving them. That is why I believe the level of ownership and sense of duty is exceptional at Samsung Design Membership. Those who end up joining the company after completing the program seem to strive toward upholding high standards and ownership.
Samsung Design Membership will become the foundational nourishment for your growth as a designer. It is imperative to have a wide range of experiences when doing UX design, and Samsung Design Membership has the infrastructure necessary to obtain new experiences and knowledge. Most importantly, interacting with other passionate designers will serve as an excellent stimulant to fuel your motivation.

When I was an undergrad, I noticed that the designs of my peers who were part of Samsung Design Membership were set apart from others, and that led to my growing interest in Samsung Design Membership. In addition to my studies I was also interested in getting hands-on design experience, so I was engaged with external design work at the time. I remember immediately applying for the program as soon as I heard that the program is a great place to get firsthand design work experience that also provides a workspace.
At Samsung Design Membership, you can achieve balanced growth in your studies and real-life work experiences. Through the program, I had the opportunity to intern at the Samsung Electronics LA Mobile Design Lab for two months, and the experience of working with multicultural designers from abroad was a great source of inspiration for me.
The tight-knit camaraderie between senior and junior members is the very strength that has sustained Samsung Design Membership over the years. I encourage you to gain plenty of experience through your encounters with a wide variety of people and take time to truly understand who you are and what you want.

At Samsung Design Membership, I was able to design a product I was interested in with autonomy. I didn’t have to worry about grades and was able to freely design things that are abstract or beyond the scope of industrial design. It was a very enjoyable and memorable time for me.
I also enjoyed working with friends from other schools to partake in new experiences. Each school’s approach and style for design is different, and it was interesting to observe the design solutions conceived by friends from different schools. I had the privilege of witnessing the creation of better designs through the collaboration of individually different design styles.
For those who love design, I strongly urge you to apply to Samsung Design Membership. Through this program, aspiring designers can encounter a variety of experiences, broaden their horizons, and achieve personal growth.

The experiences of working on design competitions and materializing actual product designs through industrial projects with professional designers empowered my confidence as a designer. Through Samsung Design Membership, I was able to learn what it takes to always proactively take on new challenges.
At Samsung Design Membership, you will learn how to become self-motivated to study and conduct research. You will also get to work with diverse tools and cutting-edge technology before anyone else. Knowledge and experiences earned through this program also spreads organically to become great sources of inspiration for one another.
For those who aspire to become designers, I encourage you to apply to Samsung Design Membership. It is a program that enables you to create designs that tell your own personal story. Don’t give up easily just because you lack in knowledge or skill right now. Take on the challenge and create your own passions and dreams through Samsung Design Membership.

Coming from an engineering background without a lot of prior knowledge of design, I was pleasantly surprised by the ingenious ideas of my friends and the diversity of designs we worked on. Samsung Design Membership was a place that didn’t put limits on imagination and provided a fantastic opportunity for me to achieve the next level of growth.
At Samsung Design Memberships, you must self-identify problems and proactively resolve them. I learned how to approach design with a passionate attitude through this process. The passion of my peers at the program still motivate me to this day.
I want to strongly urge prospective students to apply to Samsung Design Membership even if you currently lack in skill or are limited by physical distance or time. The only and most important thing you need at Samsung Design Membership is a passionate attitude. The degree of joy you’ll experience from the interacting with projects and people at this program will be equivalent to the degree of your determination and passion.