बुधवार, 25 दिसंबर 2013

Career in Designing

Career in Designing

Introduction
             
A designer is in charge of conceptualizing and creating the visual aspects of a project. Opportunities in design profession has increased manifold for students as there are hundreds of sectors which need highly skilled and innovative professionals. Engineering, manufacturing, automobiles, fashion, entertainment, advertising, interior designing, food, IT, architecture are some of the sectors where designers are in great demand. The career in design holds immense scope and potential for skilled and talented individuals with innovative ideas. The basic traits that a designer should have are -innovative thinking, creative ability, the ability to draw, visual perception, sound aesthetics, empathy with the user and creative engineering. 
              There are various types of designs-
  • Interior Design 
  • Fashion Design 
  • Footwear Design 
  • Accessory Design 
  • Product Design
  • Computer Aided Design
 There are various types of designers –

  • Commercial Environment Designer:  
  • Costume Designer:  
  • Doll Fashion Designer 
  • Environment Designer 
  • Event Manager
  • Exhibit Designer
  • Industrial Designer
  • Prosthetic Technician
  • Software Designer
  • Web Designer
               With new technologies and new industries emerging, new types of designers are needed every day in areas like software, industruial products and environmental science.
Other types:
Creative design
  • Ceramics designer
  • Furniture designer
  • Glass blower/designer
  • Industrial/product designer
  • Interior and Spatial designer
  • Jewellery designer
  • Metalworks/silversmith designer
  • Tapestry designer
  • Textile designer
  • Display design
  • Exhibition designer
  • Museum exhibition designer
  • Photographic stylist
  • Production designer, theatre/television/film
Fashion
  • Costume designer
  • Embroidery designer
  • Fashion designer
  • Knitwear designer
Eligibility
                 Minimum eligibility for diploma/degree courses in design is 10+2. However, graduation in any discipline is also an essential eligibility criteria for admission to certain courses at the postgraduate level, but  BE, B Tech, B Des, B Arch, B Interior Design are more preferred . Moreover, product design is offered only to science studesnt after standard XII. The selection criteria for some institutes are scores obtained in common entrance exams like CEED, NEED or GATE. CEED is Common Entrance Examination for Design that is conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT, Bombay), NEED is National Entrance Examination for Design which is conducted by the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. 
 Top Design Institutes are-

  • National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
  • D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore
  • IILM School of Design, Gurgaon
  • Indian Institute of Craft & Design, Jaipur
  • Wigan & Leigh College, New Delhi
  • Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru 
  • Pearl Academy of Fashion, New Delhi 
  •  IICD, Jaipur  
  • IIT Guwahati
  •  IIT Mumbai 
  • IIT Delhi 
  • School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi

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