1 Year PG Program

There are various Creative Design Career options after engineering.  

 1. Most popular option to make career in CREATIVE DESIGN after engineering is doing “Masters in Design”. There are 30+ design schools offering PG programs with 50+ specializations in Design under their Master’s Program. E.g. M. Des in Transportation Design, New Media Design, Interaction Design, Design Led Innovation etc. The premier institutes in India are IDC school of Design, IIT Bombay, NID (Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Gandhinagar) IIT (Guwahati, Delhi, Hyderabad), Srishti Institute of Design Bengaluru, MIT institute of Design Pune etc 

 2. There is another option, which is doing MBA in creative/ innovation centred programs e.g. MBA in Design Management or Design Led Innovation, Design Thinking. These are 1- or 2-year full time courses offered by IIM, Symbiosis Institute of  Business Management and Welingkar Institute of Management

3. Third is doing “Masters in Design” in foreign universities. You may find a lot of information on internet about foreign universities in US, UK, Canada and EU (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Finland etc). For doing MS in Design, you need to have a strong portfolio/ work experience, recommendation and Statement of Purpose since there is no separate entrance examination. 

There are two approaches. 

 Approach 1: Self-exploration and practice –  

 You may do the following activities to best prepare for entering the Design school 

Visit the websites of top 5-6 Design Schools especially sections where academics, pedagogy and students’ works are displayed www.nid.edu; www.idc.iit.ac.in

Visit 1 or 2 design schools nearby to your city. Spend at least half a day and interact with students, see the activities and projects they are doing, try and interact the faculty members, just a visit to a design school will motivate you a lot. 

Check out if there are any designers/ architects/ artists are having offices nearby. Fix the appointments with them and visit their places with a well-defined agenda.

Practice some skill enhancement activities e.g. rapid sketching, doodling, soft prototyping exercises, storytelling/ writing, colouring, imagination, visualization, observation etc. 

If interested, read and refer a few books on fundamentals of Design, Colour Theory, Elements and Principles of Design. You may find these books online

A few recommended books – “Creative Confidence” by Tom and David Kelly, “The Design Way”, Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman, “Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques”, “Value Proposition Design”.

Approach 2: Joining a Mentoring Institute (not a typical class)

Enroll to the Institute who has got the best-in-class faculty having top-notch credentials, background from NID, IDC, IIT etc.

The pedagogy is “Student Centric” and where the students are encouraged to have the peer learning and experiential learning.

Talk with the faculty, study the modules they cover, group and individual activities they conduct, past record and success ratio,

It is advisable to talk with students/ parents of these institutes before joining.

The sketching and drawing skills help demonstrate a person’s visualization skills.

It is understood that many students may not have had drawing skills training in their 10+2 schooling, but it is not show stopper. Design focuses more on “Thought Process Development”

There is no SINGLE MANTRA to crack any design exam, however you can face the exams confidently. It is not a difficult exam (for the candidates having right aptitude) but it is a different exam!

• Visualization and spatial ability
• Analytical and logical reasoning ability
• Observation and design sensitivity
• Design thinking and problem solving
• Environmental and social awareness
• Language and Out-of-box thinking

For graduate designers from top design schools there are variety of opportunities available in various industries like IT, Consumer products, Automotive, Creative Agencies.
The starting salary for M. Des students start from 6 L onwards. Yes, Top institutes have a good track record of placing all students. There is huge demand for the best-in-class designers.

The Product Design programme enable the learners to understand the various approaches, processes and systems to address human needs by creating tangible products. 

The learners of Transportation Design experiences the courses of study exclusively to explore an inborn human need of human mobility. 

This program aims to develop a professional and creative approach to the growing needs and aspirations in the field of education and entertainment. 

This programme prepares students to take on all new context challenges and technological advancements in the field of Visual Communication and specially in Graphic Design domain. 

The learners of Animation Design acquire special skills and techniques of animation such as Personality and Caricature, kinematics, Illustration, Visual Scripting, Story Boarding, Pixilation, and Model Animation Design. 

Designing delightful, effective and friendly shopping experience becoming the market differentiator for many competing brands today, Retail Experience Design program has been tailored to fit this need. 

SDM is about redefining and redesigning management processes, strategies and leadership paradigms through strategic design interventions. 

The Information Design Program aims to create competent design professionals who are adept in varied domains of Information Design, User Interface Design and User Experience Design.