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DESIGN YOUR FUTURE
Education
Times, in association with Edit Silica Institute, recently conducted a
seminar on careers in the field of design. Kavita Redkar addressed a few
queries of students at the event
Can a hobby in drawing and design become a career?
If a student is interested in drawing and creative activities, it is
the first indicator that he/ she may be suited for a design career. The
best way to determine the right design career would be to take a Design
Aptitude Test which will test general creativity but also specific aptitude
required for a particular design career. Unfortunately, the standard
Psychometric Aptitude Tests focus only on the logical and numeric aptitude
of a child and fail to test the creative aptitude. The Design Aptitude Test
should ideally be done during class X or XI.
How do I evaluate if a career in designing will have good scope?
It is important to consider one’s aptitude and interest along with the
future opportunities before making a career decision. It is a fact that
conventional careers like engineering, medicine and accounting are
saturated with professionals. On the other hand, there is demand for design
professionals, especially in a growing economy like India. There are about
50 different career options such as architecture, product design,
automobile design, fashion design, textile design, animation, interior
design etc. The starting salary for a fresh design graduate from premier
institutes such as NID, NIFT, Srishti, MIT etc is in the range of Rs 6-14
lakh per annum, with a fast growth ahead.
Could you list a few design institutes in the country along with the
various programmes they offer and their entrance exam patterns?
A number of schools in the country offer courses in design. Here are a
few: National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad - NID is an
internationally acclaimed design institution offering eight disciplines at
undergraduate and 17 disciplines at postgraduate courses in industrial
design, communication design, textile, apparel and lifestyle accessory
design, IT integrated design, retail management and strategic design
management. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) - With 15
centres across the country, NIFT offers graduate programmes in fashion
design, accessory design, textile design, fashion communication, etc and
postgraduate programmes in management and design space.
Top art and architecture colleges: JJ School of
Art, Rachana Sansand, CEPT (Ahmadabad) NIT, Nagpur. Other design schools in
India – Bangalore: Srishti; Pune: DSK, Symbiosis Institute of Design (SID),
MIT, SOFT; New Delhi: Pearl (indicative listing).
Every design school has a different pattern for its
individual entrance examination.
When should one start preparing for an entrance examination to design
schools?
Ideally, a student should start preparing for the design school
entrance exam post class X. As these exams are competitive, one needs to
undergo a two-year preparation and practice. Moreover, nothing related to
the design entrance syllabus is covered during schooling till class X.
What about the career options in design and the number of seats
available at postgraduate level?
At postgraduate level apart from fashion design, there are two main
streams—visual communication and industrial design. In industrial design,
specialisations offered are, product design, automobile and
transportation design, furniture and interior design, ceramic and glass
design, etc. Engineering and architecture students can ideally choose these
specialisations. In communication design, the specialisations offered are
graphics, film and video, animation, photography, new media, software
interface design, IT integrated design.
BA, BSc, BCom, BCA, BCS students can do post
graduation in graphics, film and video, animation, photography, toy and
game design, new media and retail space design.
Some of the schools to consider Postgraduation in
Design in India are IIT-Industrial Design Center (IDC) and National
Institute of Design (NID), which have about 300 seats.
Other design schools for product and automobile design (seats = 100) are
MIT Institute of Design, Srishti, DSK Supinfocom. Each of these schools
conduct a stringent entrance examination covering written test, studio test
and interview with portfolio presentation.
Which foreign universities offer courses in design and what is the
admission procedure for entry to these courses?
There are universities like Coventry, UK, for Automobile, IED, Italy,
for fashion design, Sheridian, Canada, for animation and Parsons School of
Design, USA, for architecture to name a few. For admission to colleges
abroad you need to have a strong design portfolio which has to be created
based on observational art/ design, conceptual art/ design and home
assignment given specifically by the respective foreign university.
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