Dear Aspirant,

Designing & Art is a fantastic and evergreen career option to choose.

However, it is extremely important to know whether you are capable enough to be in that career or not. Choosing randomly a career will land anybody in problem later, so it is best to decide cautiously and carefully.

If you have the right attitude, interest, passion and skill, definitely you can make a career in this field and keep growing.

To ascertain your capabilities, interests, likings, I would strongly recommend you to undergo the Ideal Career Test psychometric test available on CareerGuide.com. You have approached at the right time this is also the right time to do this test. The Report will give you best career options based on your performance.

Later you can then discuss this with me over phone or in this forum.

Best wishes

Hello Naveen,
Welcome to career guide.com
Thanks for writing us your career query.

Good to hear from you. You have not provided your necessary information what you have been studying currently.

Designing and Arts is a really good field of career having a great career opportunities. Students who are creative,have differeng imaginative ideas and wish to work with challenges and deadlines have a good career opportunities.

In order to make a good career in the designing and arts one needs to have some of the aptitudes like Creative Mind,Good Imagination power, Dedication and passion for the work,coming up with new ideas and experimenting new things.

You can make your career in the following courses like-
1.Interior Designing
2.Exterior Designing
3.Landscape Designing
4.Jewellery Designing
5.Graphic Designing
6.Accessories Designing
7.Furniture Designing
8.Product Designing
9.Fashion Designing
10.Textile Designing

These are the courses where you can make your career very well. All these fields have a good scope and demand both in india and also in foreign countries.

The courses can be studied in India's top institutes like NID, NIFT, Shrusti, DSK Design School etc.
One needs to give the entrance exam in order to get admitted in any of these Design School.
While i would suggest you to take the career guide.com's Psychometric Career Assessment it will help us to know will the Designing and Arts field will be suitable for your future successful career journey or not.
The assessment will help us let us where your area of interest lies,your strengths and weakness and with the report you can connect to me or any other career counsellor on the panel for the clear career guideline.

I hope you find this information relevant to your career query.

Feel free to get in touch again.

Wish you Good Luck

Thank You

Warm Regards,
Prathamesh Kapote

Dear Aspirant,

Thanks for writing to www.careerguide.com!

You have not provided information about your current education and skills you have. These information would have been really helpful to answer your query.

Well, designing field is very good for creative person with artistic skills. Career Experts have already provided information about various fields of designing. There is also very good scope to make career in Fine Arts field such as sculpture, painting, museology etc.

There are graduate,post-graduate and doctorate (PhD) courses offered my State/Central as well private Universities/Institutes.

Essential Skills for Art and Design professionals

Artistic and Aesthetic Skills (Seeing, drawing, and understanding form, visualizing shapes, relationships and functions, use of color, space, and line, creative thinking, giving abstract ideas visual form, analyzing dynamic forms and understanding current issues in art and design)

Analytical and Communication Skills (Gathering, analyzing, and interpreting information, viewing issues from multiple perspectives, ability to explaining work, presenting ideas, communicating visually, use of digital technology, and marketing of your work)

Technical Skills (Understanding qualities and limitations of each medium, understanding industrial technology, skilled craftsmanship, expertise in area of work -photograpgy, drawing, illustration etc., teaching/training others)

Organizational / Interpersonal Skills (Collaborating with others, networking among artists, planning and organizing exhibitions/events, assessing client needs, design and product, working under stressful environment etc.)

If you have above skills then you can definitely go for Art and Design field. I would request you to assess your strengths, skills and challenges of the field. Before you arrive at conclusion, I would recommend you to take up Career Assessment (Ideal Career Test) from www.CareerGuide.com.

Best Wishes for your career,
Apurva Kumar Pandya, PhD