Product Design:
Graduate diploma in product design
(Curriculum designed by NID)
Product design concerns itself with the design of objects and systems that effect the way we live, work and play. It deals with form, function, color, graphics, packaging, safety and maintenance.
The course enables a student to design products that are functionally better, aesthetically appealing, easy to manufacture and considerate to the environment. Students are taught basics of form and color, material and processes, skill courses on drawing and CAD. The design skills are acquired with the design projects the students undertake every semester which grows with increased complexity.
Job opportunities
Job opportunities for Product Designers are:
•Set up own design studios
•Work with design departments of manufacturing industries
•Work with small and medium scale industries
•Work on lifestyle products and promote their own brand
•Work with NGOs and the crafts sector
Communication Design
Graduate Diploma in Communication Design
The Communication Design program educates and trains designers for the communication needs of industry and society.
In this programme emphasis is placed on the conception, creation, planning and realization of visual solutions to complex problems in contemporary culture. Communication Design activities include design for print media, such as books, magazines, brochures, posters, newspapers, information graphics, and the creation of symbols and corporate identification. The profession also includes packaging, point -of- purchase display, product graphics and environmental graphic design, as well as animation, computer-based multimedia, interface and interaction design.
Faculty emphasise the objectives of design rather than the process of production, and encourage innovative visual ideas that inform, interpret, instruct or persuade the intended user across the spectrum of application.
Job opportunities
•Set up own design studios
•Work with creative departments of design houses
•Work in the creative department of advertising agencies
•Work with event management and exhibition design
•Work with publication house
•Work with the- film, radio, television, new media and interactive media
•Work with NGOs and the crafts sector
Intreiors and Furniture Design
Graduate Diploma in Interiors and Furniture Design
By definition this discipline creates spaces and spatial relationships within interiors of buildings. These help in creating an environment that meets the physical and psychological needs of the individuals who use them, whether they are personal or public spaces.
The programme introduces the student to the principles of relationships and balance of interactive forces which create and control the interior environment in which people live, work and entertain. It also develops their ability to manipulate space, light, furniture and furnishings of an interior. They learn to explore the functional, visual, spatial and environmental aspects of interiors design
Job opportunities
They can work as:
• Design consultants
• Entrepreneurs
• Teachers
• Technical sales advisor
