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Years ago at my first ID internship, I submitted my $15/hour invoice--which beat the heck out of the $9.10 I'd been earning as a short order cook. But my eyes popped out of my head when I saw another bill on the boss' desk: for the project we'd just completed, the modelmaker was getting five figures!
That was then, this is now; the profession of modelmaker, alas, has been listed on Boston.com's list of the fastest declining occupations, as reckoned by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Technology improvements will cut into job availability for these workers," say the experts, "[but] there will still be opportunities for those who know how to create and produce designs on a computer."
To say the tables have turned would be ironic, because it was often the modelmaker that helped us figure out how the tabletop attached to the base in the first place.
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Comments
Thats a ridiculous statement, the design world will never get rid of model makers, the position just changes with the technology, and usually there are people within a company that are both a designer and model maker. What an outlandish article... glad i am not a model maker.
Seems at odds to my experience. Our prototype model makers are part of the backbone of our design development. Perhaps appearance model makers are morphing jobs, but I cant believe that bread-board prototypers are leaving any time soon.
I strongly disagree. As long as there are trials, sales meetings, and the need to explain something to a customer in real space, a model builder will never be short of work. As an ID/Model Maker I see both sides of the argument. Now some people can understand a concept in space, but I have too many clients that cannot. Check out www.modelmakers.org for more information.