This 4-year intensive professional UG programme is offered in the following areas of specialisation:
Product Design, Furniture & Interior Design, Ceramic & Glass Design
(Under the faculty of Industrial Design)
Graphic Design, Animation Film Design, Film & Video Communication, Exhibition (Spatial) Design
(Under the faculty of Communication Design)
Textile Design
(Under the faculty of Textile, Apparel and Lifestyle Design)
GDPD commences with a two semester rigorous Foundation Programme. This programme is geared to assist in developing attitudes, sensorial skills and aesthetic sensitivity necessary for further specialisation in specific areas of design. The purpose is to create awareness of the environment and to arouse the students’ creative faculties. The primary concern of the Foundation Programme is to introduce the students to the fundamentals of design, to initiate them to design as a creative problem solving process, and to develop a highly evolved ‘design’ attitude and understanding of the relationship with culture and human senses, emotions and feelings. In the Foundation Programme, basic design courses are augmented by related studies of Science and Liberal Arts, to help and develop an understanding of the Indian milieu, user needs, applications, processing of design and synthesis. The Foundation Programme is geared to inculcate the development of values, attitudes, materials and sensorial skills necessary for any design specialisation. It aspires to create an awareness of the changing environment by constantly relating the students’ learning to real life situations. The programme provides the necessary direction, stimuli, facilities and experience to foster creativity and thereby help each individual to discover their own identity, ability and potential. The Foundation Programme is the basis on which the remaining design curriculum is built. It also makes students appreciate the multidisciplinary nature of design.
Admission is open to students who have passed or who will appear for qualifying examinations under the Higher Secondary (10+2), or equivalents like AISSCE/ IB/ ICSE etc. Candidates passing the Institute’s admission tests/interviews will be admitted, subject to passing their qualifying examinations before they join the Institute.
Competence in technical and related subjects will normally be considered an advantage. The medium of instruction for UG programme at NID is English. Upper age limit for candidates is 20 years (relaxable by 3 years for reserved categories) as on June 1, 2010.
PROJECTED NUMBER OF SEATS IN GDPD: 100
(Includes OBC and other reserved categories)
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POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME IN DESIGN is 2 to 2 & a halfyear programme offered in the following specific areas of sectoralspecialisation in 17 design programmes under the five faculties.
PROJECTED NUMBER OF SEATS IN PGDPD: 240
(Includes OBC and other reserved categories)
Programmes offered at main campus, Ahmedabad
Product Design (2& a halfyears)
B.E/ B.Tech/ B.Des/ B.Arch/ B.Int.Des/ or equivalent (under 10+2+4 pattern or more).
Transportation & Automobile Design (2 & a half years)
Prerequisites as in Product Design
Furniture & Interior Design (2 & a half years)
Prerequisites as in Product Design.
Ceramic & Glass Design (2 & a half years)
B.E/ B.Tech/ B.Des/ B.Arch/ B.Int.Des/ BFA/ or equivalent or graduates in any discipline with one year relevant industry experience.
Textile Design (2 & a half Years)
B.Des/ BFA/ Graduation in Textile, Knitwear or Fashion, Home Science with Textiles & Clothing, Interior Design, Architecture, Textile or Handloom Technology, or equivalent or graduates in any
discipline with one year relevant industry experience.
Graphic Design (2 & a halfyears)
BFA/ B.Arch/ B.Des/ BVC/ B.Int. Design/ Graduation in Communication Mass Media/ or equivalent with atleast one year relevant industry experience and proven skills.
Animation Film Design (2 & half years)
BFA/ B.Arch/ B.Des/ BVC/ B.Litt/ Graduation in Communication Media, Film & TV, Mass Media/ or equivalent or graduates in any discipline with one year relevant industry experience.
Film & Video Communication (2 & a half years)
Prerequisites as in Animation film Design.
Photography Design (2 years)
BFA/B.Arch/B.Des/B.Litt/Graduation in Communication Media, Film and TV, Mass Media/ or Equivalent/ or Graduates in any discipline with one year relevant industry/ photography related experience.
Programmes offered at PG campus, Gandhinagar
Toy & Game Design (2 & a half years)
Prerequisites as in Product or Animation film Design.
Apparel Design & Merchandising (2 & a half years)
B.Des/ BFA/ Graduation in Textile, Knitwear or Fashion, Home Science with Textiles & Clothing, Interior Design, Architecture, Textile or Handloom Technology, or equivalent or graduates in any
discipline with one year relevant industry experience.
Lifestyle Accessory Design (2 &a half years)
Prerequisites as in Apparel Design & Merchandising.
New Media Design (2 years)
Graduates with a Bachelors in Design, Architecture, Fine or Applied Arts, Visual Communication, Mass Media, Computer Science, I.T., Electronics, Engineering, or degrees from Humanities or Social Sciences or equivalent or graduates in any discipline with one year relevant industry experience.
Strategic Design Management (2 years)
Graduates in any discipline with two years full-time relevant work experience in a design or allied creative organisations. Experience may be relaxed for Post-Graduates.
Programmes offered at R&D campus, Bengaluru
Information & Interface Design (2 years)
Prerequisites as in New Media Design.
Design for Retail Experience (2 years)
Design graduates or graduates in any discipline with one year fulltime relevant work experience in related field.
Design for Digital Experience (2 years)
BCA/ BIT/ BSc Comp./ BFA/ B.E/ B.Tech/ B.Arch/ B.Des/ BVC/ Degree in Mass Media/ or equivalent or graduates in any discipline with one year full-time relevant work experience in digital and allied areas (knowledge of programming, scripting and computer graphic tools
is essential).
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