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Design and Fine Arts

Make things people love to look at, use and live with.

58 professions · 26 exams · 57 institutes

HBK Overview

Design in India is a fast-maturing field: communication, product, UX, fashion, textile, animation, game and transportation design all have dedicated undergraduate programmes. The two anchor exams are UCEED (for IITs, IISc and a few others) and NID DAT / NIFT for the National Institute of Design and the National Institute of Fashion Technology, plus institute-specific tests at Pearl, Srishti Manipal, Symbiosis and MIT-ID.

Fine arts (BFA) follows a separate admission flow, often via state colleges of art and university entrance tests. Gujarat hosts NID Ahmedabad and NID Gandhinagar — two of the most influential design schools in the country — making it a natural base for this stream.

Who fits well

•Artistic + Realistic + Enterprising
•Strong Spatial + Visual intelligence
•Sketchbook habit; comfortable showing work and taking feedback

3D Animator→3D Modeler→3D Texturing & Lightning Artist→Accessory Designer→Animation Designer→Animator→Art Director→Automobile Designer→Caricaturist→Cartoonist→Ceramic Designer→Character Designer→Communications Designer→Concept Artist→Couturier→Creative Director→Design Consultant→Design Director→Design Manager / Consultant→Digital Artist→Digital Sculptor→Exhibition Designer→Fashion Blogger→Fashion Curator→Fashion Director→Fashion Illustrator→Fashion Journalist / Critic→Fashion Stylist→Fashion Technologist→Fashion Apparel Designer→Film & Video Editor→Film and Video Communication Designer→Fine Artist→Footwear / Shoe Designers→Furniture Designer→Game Designer→Game Developer→Industrial Designer→Interior Designer→Jewellery Designer→Knitwear Designer→Leather Designer→Multimedia Artist→Photographer / Photo Journalist→Product Designer→Production Designer→Sculptor→Social Media Manager→Spatial Designer→Textile Designer→Toy Designer→UI Artist→Urban Designer→UX Artist→UX Designer→Visual Communication Designer→Visual Merchandiser→

Sources

NID — National Institute of Design NIFT — National Institute of Fashion Technology UCEED (IIT Bombay)