Design

Bachelor of Design (B.Des) in Industrial Design is a 4-year full time (or equivalent part-time) undergraduate course. The programme is divided into 8 semesters of six months each. The course is best suited for those who are interested in seeking a career in anything from marketing companies to government agencies. Having a Bachelors in industrial design opens the gateway to being a product designer, industrial designer researcher, art director, desktop publisher, etc. One may work in industries including media, public relations, communications, education and business. Projects in this line of work include designing products ranging from devices like mobile phones and computers, or even furniture and fashion magazines, or movies. Any design course fundamentally caters to those creatively inclined and left-brain oriented, equipping them with the necessary skills to make a career out of essentially thinking outside the box.
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Hi Ananya!
These are the possible topics that you may come across in your GD in NIFT:
1. You are brand manager of a casual apparel brand. How you can use social networking sites such as Facebook or Linkedin for the benefit of your brand.
2. What Challenges and Opportunities has Indian apparel sector has faced post recession?
3. If your brand is doing well in Metro cities, would it make sense to venture into the Tier-2 cities. How would the marketing mix ( product, price, place, promotion) be different there?
4. Should apparel brands go on discounts at all? Why? Why not?
5. Should there be any return policy for an apparel brand? Why? Why not
6. Malls are not the same post recession.
7. Rising Prices of Cotton Yarn- Boon or bane for Indian Exports.
8. India should stick to manufacturing and selling traditional textiles and leave the manufacturing of other textiles to China and other countries.
9. Organic Textiles. Does it have a future or it is a mere eyewash.
10. Indian customer knows only one language- the language of discounts- every other strategy is useless.