B.Design or Bachelor Of Design is a 4 year full time undergraduate course which is divided into 8 semesters. This design course offers many specialized design courses, which include Fashion Design, Interior Design, Communication Design, Jewellery Design, Textile Design, Product Design and many more. The recent system has included and motivated the Graphic Designing, VFX Design, 3D Modelling Design, Animation and Gaming Design. In the developing phase, Design is being included in every single sector world wide. This course is now being offered by India’s top colleges. This course is full of enjoyment, art and experiment in a disciplined manner. Design gives a lot of exposure and reshapes the communication skills as well as gives the infield experience in the form of art exhibitions, part time internships and competitions.

B.Design students have a bright and creative future. Right from the second year, the designers are eligible for internships in there respective fields and after the accomplishment of the bachelors degree, job experiences are more important than the masters degree here. Three major types of Design courses are:

• Fashion Design
• Communication Design
• Interior Design

B.Design Eligibility Criteria:

1. Students who have passed the 12^th boards with minimum 50% marks are eligible for the entrance exam.
2. This course has no restriction for any stream students, which means it is open to Science, Commerce, Arts and Humanities students too.
3. No specific Arts subject is compulsory in 12^th grade.
4. Minimum age limit for admission in government colleges like NIFT and NID is 20 years.

B.Design Entrance Exams:

1. NID (National Institute of Design)
2. NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology)
3. AIEED (All India Entrance Examination for Design)
4. CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design)
5. MIT Institute of Design Examination

B.Design Admission Process:

The common entrance exams are conducted respectively on different dates. The admission procedure varies from college to college. For government colleges common test like NIFT and NID is compulsory followed by the situation test and interview round. Different private colleges conduct different tests, like some take students on the basis of marks while some organize there own entrance examinations.

B.Design Top Colleges:

1. Nation Institute of Design (NID)

Branches:

• NID Ahmedabad
• NID Gandhinagar
• NID Bengaluru

2. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)

Branches:

• NIFT New Delhi
• NIFT Bhubaneshwar
• NIFT Chennai
• NIFT Gandhinagar
• NIFT Hyderabad
• NIFT Patna
• NIFT Kangra
• NIFT Kannur
• NIFT Kolkata
• NIFT Mumbai
• NIFT Bengaluru
• NIFT Jodhpur
• NIFT Rai Bareilly
• NIFT Shillong
• NIFT Srinagar
• NIFT Panchkula
• NIFT Varanasi

3. Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay
4. Department Of Design, IIT Guwahati
5. Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
6. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
7. JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi
8. Vogue Institute of Art & Design, Bengaluru
9. Amity school of Fashion Technology, Noida
10. MIT Institute of Design, Pune
11. Lovely Professional University, Punjab
12. Pearl Academy, Delhi

*The average fees of B.Des course in India is around 1.5-3 Lakhs per year and 6-10 Lakhs in total. Few exceptions like Pearl academy, New Delhi have an overall fee of 10-14 Lakhs.

Career Options & Job opportunities:

• Fashion Designer
• Interior Designer
• Jewellery Designer
• Product Designer
• Graphic Designer
• Gaming Designer
• Cinematographer
• Photographer
• Visual Merchandiser
• Colour Consultancy
• Illustrator
• Textile Designer
• Entrepreneur
• Animator
• UI/UX Designer
• Visual Identity maker

The foundation batches in colleges are introduced to all the subjects.

Career options as a Fashion Designer:

In recent times, fashion industry is growing very rapidly due to the change in fashion sense of the upcoming generations. A well known designer costs more than 1 million per dress. Designing is all about skills and you get paid according to your creative thinking and potential.

1. Fashion Stylist:

Fashion stylists are the ones who take the whole responsibility of the fashion shows. The job revolves around choosing the right outfit for the right model with suitable accessories and styling.

2. Make-Up Artist:

These artists now-a-days get highly paid because makeup and touch up is a very big part of today’s society. The makeup artists are in huge demand these days. Mainly the shooting sets of Bollywood, Tollywood, Hollywood and television series have the requirement of make-up artists.

3. Fashion Journalism:

Models, actors and actresses have always been in the headlines for their fashion sense and wearings. These reporters cover them with the help of previous studies done on the fashion field.

4. Then comes the backstage work which a fashion designer does, firstly the textile designers design the unique patterns for the prints on the clothes which we wear, secondary work which a designer does is the quality check and advisory in the clothing industries. Every brand has a Fashion Coordinator which takes care of the proper brand marketing and advertising.

Top Companies which give opportunity to Fashion Designers are:

• Raymond’s
• Skykar
• Pantaloons
• AND
• Adidas
• Bata
• Lifestyle
• Trinity India Ltd.
• Silver Spark Apparel Ltd.

The approx. salary of the newly joined fashion designer varies between 2 Lakhs to 5 Lakhs per annum.

Career options as a Communication Designer:

The digital world is now stepping towards communication design. Everything a communication designer does, is done on PCs with creativity and uniqueness. Communication designers are highly in demand especially for the sectors like VFX, animation, 3D modelling, UI/UX and illustration making. Every movie these days involves the use of more than 250-300 graphic and VFX designers. This field is growing rapidly and making its place all over the world.

1. VFX Designer(Visual Effects):

A VFX artist works on the extra effects which can’t be achieved in real time shooting. These designers are required in every movie, series, serials, advertisements, title making and promo making. Things like an artificial blast and flying objects are virtually done on the software like Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe illustrator by these designers. Indian movies like Ra-one, Koi mil gya, Krish, Padmavati and Bahubali (which had 250 crores budget only for communication designers) have also used VFX artists in their projects.

2. Print Media Designer:

The daily newspapers and magazines we read have a great part covered by the communication designers. For being a good print media designer one should have perfect command over grid and layout system with the creative typography skills. The colour theory plays a very important role in the life of a designer, which should be up to the mark for any professional work. The software of Adobe which is highly used by print media houses is Adobe InDesign.

3. UI/UX Designer:

User Interface and User Experience designers are the supporter of the web and app designers, they simplify the working of the engineers by introducing the simple interface which can be easily accessed by any normal user. The design contains pixel perfect layout and prototype of the final application. The UI/UX designers these days use Figma applications for the makings. These designers are highly in demand these days, because the speed of digitalization is increasing rapidly.

4. Cinematography/ Photography:

The subject like photography and videography with cinematography is the part of communication design studies. The parameters like camera handle, composition making, working as a group, narrative writing, critic thinking, documentary making and the rules of cinematography and photography are also explained properly in the subject. The career is bright if you have the interest and out of the box thinking towards cinema.

5. Animation Artists:

Animation study needs a lot of focus and observation skills, in order to see and track the movement of the animated cartoons. Animations are done in two ways: 2D and 3D animations. This sector needs lots of dedicated and highly patient job holders who can work for hours continuously and present a fruitful result at the end. Applicant thinking to enter into animation world should be perfect at proportion making, sketching and drawing.

6. There are plenty of works a communication designer can do after completing the graduation degree.

Everything we see around us is designed by a designer, from the product design to the design of our phones, from the packing design to the wallpapers of our houses, from the design of the machines to the interface designs of our phones, laptops, tv, from the digital advertisements to the print ads, from the business logos, flyers to the posters of the films we see. We are surrounded by opportunities and a vast amount of work in this field.

The approx. salary reported for communication designers over all, is starting from 4 Lakhs per year and endlessly increases on the basis of hard work.

Top Companies which recruit communication designers are:

• Pentagram
• Meta Design
• XVS creations
• Hannon Digital
• Prrowess
• Communication Crafts
• Buttercup Design Studio
• 9Dzine
• Studio Tale
• Power

Career Options as an Interior Designer:

Houses, offices and even the cafes are so well designed and presented that it pleases our eyes and soul. After doing B.Design course in Interior design, a number of options are open for the applicant. Designing someone’s dream needs more dedication and concentration. The work graph revolves around the accurate measurements, creative ideas, colour theory and management of every minute thing. Future in this sector needs no perfect season to bloom properly as there is no limitation of work in this fast growing world.

1. Working under a expert:

The more experience an interior designer has, the closer they go towards success. Observing and analysing the work under a senior is a good thing to be done by a designer in the starting stage.

2. Own design firm start-up:

Taking risks and giving chance to different things is the speciality of designers. These days the renovations and Shifting of people from one place to another is very common, this gives a bigger chance of interior designers to show there talents. The trend of renovating the restaurant and cafes by the magical touch of managing the space and design has changed the whole touch of the market.

3. Set design/ temporary setup design:

The design sets of big movies, serials and talent shows needa a lot of designers in the recent times. The accuracy and perfection needs someone who has a proper knowledge of using the elements in a way that it can be used again in different manners. Every month some new series and serials are introduces which gives scope in this sector.

4. Furniture boutique/ store:

Minute and detailed furniture gives higher income. There is no scarcity of people buying costly and unique furniture for their houses and stores.

5. This is not compulsory that a interior designer can only become a designer for interiors, they even can be photographers, graphic designers, colour consultor, mini model maker, a professor and a lot more because the foundation subjects of B.Des includes photography and basic colour theories for all the three sectors.

Top Companies for Interior Designers in India are:

• SOBHA
• A Interiors
• Bonito Designs
• Design Café
• Kaushal Interiors Pvt. Ltd.
• Master Piece India Pvt. Ltd.
• MEFCO
• Om Sai Interiors
• Perfect Interior Design
• S&T Interiors and Contracting

In India, Bengaluru is rich in Interior Design jobs.

The salary of Interior designers in India approximately starts from 2.2 Lakhs per year and goes more than 3 Lakhs per month as per experience and working dedication.

Major subjects included in the semester are:

1. Fashion Design:

1.1  Art Appreciation

1.2  Draping & pattern making

1.3  Material Studies

1.4  Drawing & Media exploration

1.5  Fabric structure

1.6  Design Management

1.7  Environmental friendly designs

1.8  Textile processing

1.9  Colour, Context & Composition

1.10 Software skills in Adobe

2. Communication Design:

2.1  Understanding Cinema

2.2  Photography

2.3  Typography

2.4  VFX

2.5  Animation

2.6  UI/UX

2.7  Advertising Design

2.8  3D modelling

2.9  Logo Design

2.10 Brand visual identity creation

3. Interior Design:

3.1  Architectural Drafting

3.2  Form Shape & Order

3.3  Building Codes & Standards

3.4  Furniture Design & Detailing

3.5  Business Practices

3.6  Trends & Forecasting

3.7  Human Rights law & Practices

3.8  Lighting Design

3.9  Software skills

3.10 Critical Thinking

Note: Designing is a newly introduced sector which needs to be explored and Students need to be motivated by the parents themselves. World is changing in a way that we have lot more options and sectors, to be successful. This degree needs both love and passion towards the artwork of designing the whole world only through technology.

A report by Shreya Raj for IHOIK education desk