The two-and-a-half year undergraduate Visual Communication Design program provides a conceptual foundation for students to develop critical thinking skills in design.
The curriculum itself is comprehensive and provides adequate knowledge and expertise in graphic design skill-sets like typography, layout, publication and book design, information design, design for the web, photography, creating corporate identity and branding, mass communication theory and media mix, illustration and exhibition design.
The program facilitates an understanding of the process of Visual Communication by engaging in coursework and class projects covering a variety of print and design projects. Inter-disciplinary studies in arts and humanities are combined with studies in visual form, design history and theory, concept and image generation, studio and digital methods providing students with appropriate tools to enrich both their lives and careers.
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The two-and-a-half year undergraduate professional diploma programme in Digital Video Production places emphasis on practical training in the various creative and technical aspects of the film-making process. It exposes students to the core elements of the medium – screenplay writing, production, direction, videography, sound recording, non-linear editing and post-production sound – and includes internship with industry and a final diploma project.
The key elements of this program are:
Video Production
Production topics include all aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production. Every semester includes exercises for different aspects of film-making and is punctuated with a semester-ending video project.
Film Studies
Film studies include film theory, criticism and the histories of experimental, documentary, and narrative film and video.
Liberal Arts
The nature of the film medium requires a broad background in the Liberal Arts and a inter-disciplinary approach. This aspect is integrated into the program as organic extensions of the films screened and also as separate themes running through a semester.
Internship
Students embark on their internships with industry at the end of the second year. The internship could be in areas which are not offered in the course curriculum, or could be a future trajectory that the student would like to engage with.
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The two-and-a-half-year undergraduate Professional Diploma Program in Furniture & Interior Design equips students with a high degree of practical, technical and creative skills in the field.
With emphasis on creative aspirations and a firm foundation in technology, students are trained to become young professionals who are capable of efficiently integrating with this growing industry and delivering high standards of design creativity coupled with a sense of sound business practice and an enhanced sensitivity to the broader sensibilities of life. The program includes time spent in an internship and a final diploma project.
The focus areas of the program are retail design, sustainable and ecological design, and exhibition design. This provides a comprehensive understanding of commercial objectives, marketing knowledge, visual merchandising, spatial and display design, fixture and lighting, communication design and branding strategies.
The program has established quality collaborative interactions with leading design and manufacturing firms in Bangalore that bring a vital real-time reality into the student's endeavours.
The two-and-a-half year undergraduate Professional Diploma Program in Textile Design offers a broad-based education in many aspects of fiber, fabric and pattern, emphasizing a thorough understanding of the design process, materials, structure and techniques as well as the interdependence of these elements.
The students interact with the crafts sector as well as the textile industry during their course of study, through classroom projects and internship opportunities. The program facilitates the development of students as artists and designers who will energize the field through personal vision and understanding of the larger artistic context of the discipline.
The program seeks to fire up enthusiasm in students in the areas of natural fibres, the impact of the effects of industry practices on the ecosystem as well as sustainable livelihood options for rural artisan communities. Project spaces within the curriculum lay emphasis on these directions. India's vast history and living culture of textile production and trade forms a backdrop as well as the context for the course of study. Students are also encouraged to explore contemporary areas like textile art, interactive textiles and new technology in textiles through workshops or projects.
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The two-and-a-half year undergraduate Professional Diploma Program in Textile Design offers a broad-based education in many aspects of fiber, fabric and pattern, emphasizing a thorough understanding of the design process, materials, structure and techniques as well as the interdependence of these elements.
The students interact with the crafts sector as well as the textile industry during their course of study, through classroom projects and internship opportunities. The program facilitates the development of students as artists and designers who will energize the field through personal vision and understanding of the larger artistic context of the discipline.
The program seeks to fire up enthusiasm in students in the areas of natural fibres, the impact of the effects of industry practices on the ecosystem as well as sustainable livelihood options for rural artisan communities. Project spaces within the curriculum lay emphasis on these directions. India's vast history and living culture of textile production and trade forms a backdrop as well as the context for the course of study. Students are also encouraged to explore contemporary areas like textile art, interactive textiles and new technology in textiles through workshops or projects.
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The two-and-a-half year undergraduate Professional Diploma Program in Animation and Visual Effects was introduced in 2008. The program aims at producing students proficient in creative expression by means of both 2D and 3D animation.
The program seeks to foster a forum for creative expression and storytelling, giving students the opportunity to create globally acceptable pieces of work whilst pushing the envelope in terms of technique and technology.
The curriculum focuses on the development of the animator as a thinker-performer who is well-versed in the conception and realization of fresh narratives emerging from the traditional and contemporary Indian and global contexts.
A judicious mix of the arts with skill-based training, life skills and communication practice lend themselves to the development of abilities in real-world problem solving. Students are exposed to a series of exercises in dramatics, music, art and sound; 2D, 3D and compositing software; projects with environmental and societal impact, and an adequate understanding of graphic/spatial modeling media.
Industry internships enable the students to get a feel of what industry is doing while at the same time questioning and rethinking some of the approaches and traditions set by both media and the industry itself. The long-term objective is to enable and empower students to generate and evolve a uniquely Indian approach, stories, characters, settings, forms and styles drawing upon India's rich cultural heritage.
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The two-and-a-half-year undergraduate Professional Diploma Program in Srishti which allows for hybrid multi-disciplinary spaces called "labs" is the Sangama Lab.
In the Sangama Lab, students have the opportunity to navigate their own pathway choosing courses across disciplines to construct a versatile learning experience for themselves.
The courses the Sangama Lab students choose complement the projects that they get involved with in the areas of ecological design, experience design, sustainable design, heritage and culture design. In this process, they acquire skills pertaining to research, culture, context, graphic design, exhibition design and much more.
The Sangama Lab is the latest in a line of "labs" that Srishti has supported over the past decade. Each "lab" is dedicated to certain over-arching idea which are often achieved in a non-linear manner.
On completing the Sangama Lab, students are free to take up a final diploma project of their own conceptualization. They are awarded a Professional Diploma in Art and Design on successful completion of their diploma project.
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