Design

About Designing Course

The secret behind a great designer is his love for designing. Designing is making thoughts visible. If you are really interested and passionate in transforming your creativity into reality, then designing is the best career option. Designing acts as a blueprint or a strategic path for someone to accomplish his desired vision. It simply means planning to manufacture an object, system, component or structure. It is a vast field encompassing a variety of fields that provide exposure to the students in terms of global fashion. It’s an approach to problem-solving that deals with the comprehensive activities of design thinking.

Designing is an art with a function which is categorized into four major specializations:-

• Fashion Designing
• Product Designing
• Interior Designing
• Graphics Designing

1. Fashion Designing:- It is one of the most lucrative fields that deal with clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, lifestyle, and body. The scope of a profession in fashion designing is much more when you have the right desire and passion for fashion. This course is shaped by cultural and social attitudes that vary with the time and place. There are many courses in the field of Fashion Designing that can be pursued after intermediate such as:

• Bachelor of Design ( Fashion Design )
• Bachelor of Design (Leather Design)
• Bachelor of Design (Textile Design)
• Bachelor of Design (Accessory Design)
• Bachelor of Design (Knitwear Design)
• Bachelor of Design (Fashion Communication)
• Footwear Design and Production

2. Product/Industrial Designing:- It is the field that used to create new products to be sold by a manufacturer to its consumers. Product Designing is about problem-solving and visualizing the needs of the user as well as bringing them a solution. It is primarily concerned with the relationship between products, systems and the customers who use them. The Coursework aims at generating and developing new ideas effectively by a fixed process which leads to the creation of a new product. The designing skills of Product Designers deal with both the practicality of the products they design as well as their visual appeal.

Here are the courses of Product Designing which candidates can pursue after their 10+2 level:-

• Bachelor of Design (Product Design)
• B.Sc in Product Design
• MSc in Product Design (after pursuing B.Sc in product design)

3.Interior Designing:- Interior designing is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to attain a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing atmosphere for the people living in that place. It is basically the act of designing indoor places like home, office, guest house, airports, exhibition halls, conference centres, theatres, TVs, showrooms, retail shops etc.  An interior designer is the one who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such projects. With the changing trend in career, the job opportunities for interior designers has been expanded. The professionals in Interior Designing can get a plethora of employment opportunities in various fields like resorts, hospitals, airports, private consultancies, studios, theatres, exhibition halls etc. Interior Designing is an art that directs the appropriate utilization of space, architecture, and design to create an environment more attractive, healthy, comfortable and ultimately more beneficial to people.

Let’s check out the courses under Interior Designing:-

• BA Interior Design
• Bachelor of Architecture Interior Design
• Bachelor of Interior Design
• BA Interior Architecture and Design
• Bachelor of Design (B.Des.) Interior Design
• B.Sc. Interior Design

4- Graphic Designing:- Graphic design is the procedure of visual communication and problem-solving via using typography, photography, and illustrations. It is basically the art or skill of combining text, audio, pictures, videos and graphics in newspapers, advertisements, magazines, or books. In the modern age, graphic designers can acquire jobs in advertising agencies, design studios, publishers, marketing firms, printers and typesetters, audio-visual media, manufacturing, educational institutions, and exhibit and display design firms. The success of a great designer is determined by the skills and abilities he owes. It's not only about designs or looks but also about solving or conveying the message to the audience. There is a wide scope for graphic designers in almost every field such as electronic media, advertising agencies, design studios, marketing firms etc.

This specialization comprises of some courses:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Photo Editing Master course
• Visualization Master course
• Graphics Master Plus Course
• Graphics Design Premium course
• Advertising Design course

All the specializations of Designing comprise of certain criteria that need to be followed by every individual who wants to pursue this robust course. Before taking admission in any field of designing, candidates need to go through the directed eligibility criteria:

• The basic eligibility to get admission in the program is that students must have qualified 12th standard from science stream with subjects (Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics).
• Students must have passed 12th with a minimum aggregate score of 50% from any recognized educational board of India.
• To get admission in the foremost and top-notch fashion designing institutes like National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) or Vogue Institute of Fashion Technology (VIFT), candidates need to clear the entrance examination.
• To enrol in any private fashion designing institution, then candidates from any stream (science, commerce or arts) can apply for the course.
• However, some institutes conduct their own entrance examination for the students to clear.

1. National Institute of Design Exam (NID)
2. All India Entrance Examination for Design (AIEED)
3. Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED)

Note:- The cut-off marks of entrance examinations can vary from institute to institute.

Admission Procedure

For seeking admission in Undergraduate courses in design, various colleges of India follow a different pattern, but the primary pattern which is followed almost in every college is as follows:

Step 1- Fill up the Application Form of the college in which you want to take admission.
Step 2- Clear the entrance exam.
Step 3- Go for the Group discussion round/Personal Interview round and crack it.
Step 4- And, finally get admission in the selected program.

If you want to pursue such courses from reputed institutes like NIFT. Then, the admission process of NIFT starts after qualifying the two tests either Creative Ability Test (CAT) or the General Ability Test (GAT).

Here are the several segments that come under GAT:

1-Quantitative Ability
2-English Comprehension
3-Communication Ability
4-Analytical Ability
5-General Knowledge & Current Affairs

• Whereas, CAT is held in order to examine the hunch skills, the endowment of observation, innovation in developing a concept & design ability of the applicant.
• These entrance examinations are later followed by a Group Discussion Round in which the skills of the candidates are judged.
• The next stage after the GD round, a candidate reaches the last round of admission procedure,i.e Personal Interview round.
• In this last stage, candidates are shortlisted on the basis of the above mentioned three stages of the admission process,i.e. the written test, group discussion, and personal interview.

Admission Procedure

For seeking admission in Undergraduate courses in design, various colleges of India follow a different pattern, but the primary pattern which is followed almost in every college is as follows:

Step 1- Fill up the Application Form of the college in which you want to take admission.
Step 2- Clear the entrance exam.
Step 3- Go for the Group discussion round/Personal Interview round and crack it.
Step 4- And, finally get admission in the selected program.

If you want to pursue such courses from reputed institutes like NIFT. Then, the admission process of NIFT starts after qualifying the two tests either Creative Ability Test (CAT) or the General Ability Test (GAT).

Here are the several segments that come under GAT:

1-Quantitative Ability
2-English Comprehension
3-Communication Ability
4-Analytical Ability
5-General Knowledge & Current Affairs

• Whereas, CAT is held in order to examine the hunch skills, the endowment of observation, innovation in developing a concept & design ability of the applicant.
• These entrance examinations are later followed by a Group Discussion Round in which the skills of the candidates are judged.
• The next stage after the GD round, a candidate reaches the last round of admission procedure,i.e Personal Interview round.
• In this last stage, candidates are shortlisted on the basis of the above mentioned three stages of the admission process,i.e. the written test, group discussion, and personal interview.

Salary Package

In this separate field, candidates with high skills and experience can get lucrative salary packages in India. On an average, a fresher employee can expect a minimum salary package of 2 lacs to 6 lacs while an established designer can get a minimum of 8 lacs up to beyond limits. The earning of the designers is determined by their skills, intelligence, and perfection of doing work. It depends on the design they made, the brand of product, quality of the product, ease of purchase and the approach of a designer. A designer with the experience of 8 to 10 years can be given the opportunity to get selected for designing the costumes of celebrities. The freelance designers usually work under contracts for longer hours and earn satisfactory salary wages.