Concept design - creating the image of the future

In this paper main tasks of industrial design (especially transportation design) were discussed and the importance of development not only of conventional designs for production, that are economically efficient, but also conceptual designs was shown. That concepts form the vision of the future, that we all are striving for, they can form trends and show new options and alternatives, that new technologies can open for us. For that, in this paper the new classifier of conceptual designs is shown, and the distinctive competences of concept-designer are high lightened. Classifier shows the difference between industrial design, concept design and concept-art. Concept design mostly located in the area around the border of scientific knowledge and that allows in the new designs to consider the high-end scientific researches and at the same time propose some new ideas and possibly the new vector for scientific research in different fields. Concept designer’s competencies for this activity include the ability to work with the future (futurology) and additional competencies in directing and script writing for decent visual storytelling and future world’s value transfer.