Career Counselling for Career in Designing

Fashion is not about utility. An accessory is merely a piece of iconography used to express individual identity. This is so true and can be proved by the growing size of a career in the fashion and designing industry across the globe. India too is a stunning example of how far fashion & design have come with some of the most popular & successful labels coming from here

OMG Facts!

• Design sector contributes 14% to industrial production, 4% to India’s GDP and constitutes 13% of the country’s export earnings. 
• With over 15 Million people, employed directly the design industry is one of the largest sources of employment generation in the country.
•  Exports in textiles and apparel from India are expected to increase to USD 65 billion by 2016-17 from USD 40 billion in 2013-14.

Designing is now no more restricted to just clothes and accessories and since fashion has become a form of expression in more than just these two ways, many sub-industries have cropped up, giving designing a new dimension altogether. For all those who have a strong sense of aesthetics and also aspire to create something can look forward to this industry and also the plethora of careers it has to offer.

India is a birthplace of many forms of clothing as well as textile designing and the global exposure and cultural exchange has opened the portals of growth for India’s designing industry. The outlook of the industry, as well as the market, looks bright for the budding creative minds. This is a good time to explore designing and its related fields as a career as there were never so many varied courses available before

If you thought that fashion and interior designing is all that’s there to choose from, we bring to you some of the new-age designing careers to add to your aspirational career bucket list. Take a look:

Visual Designing

This form of designing speaks for itself through all forms of visual communication. The courses in visual designing comprises of creating a brand identity through imaging, sequential imaging, print advertising and the subjects usually include web development, graphic designing, publishing, video making editing etc.

Design Exploration

This is a master level course especially del signed for those who need a background of designing and wish to be equipped with basic visual designing concepts of interior designing and product development. This is a diversified Course where one can learn the different aspects of designing as well as the creative project management on the whole.

Home Luxury Collection Designing

This is a specialized PG course where professionals are trained for interior designing and decor with the luxury home collection. This course is meant for those who already have prior training in designing or project management as it deals with providing interior luxury solutions to clients by delivering it through an entire project.

For this, you need to have an in-depth knowledge of decor, home styling, fabrics, materials, furniture etc. along with the competency for project management and client servicing.

Emotional and Well-Being Design

This new-age course is all about conceptualizing and creating a space for well-being and body care. The course looks at equipping you to design spas, bespoke bathrooms and well-being spaces where luxury as well as natural elements are used for relaxation and other body awareness activities. For example, the course line includes the effects and use of water as an element for healing.

Fashion Business & Brand Management

This course can help you if you are interested in the entire business and corporate aspect of the fashion industry. You would get a chance to learn the market and scope of the fashion business as well as the branding and advertising concepts of this industry. From market research to production to retail, this course entails the end-to-end processes of the fashion business.

Interior Design

An interior designer is a professional who deals with the designing of interior spaces of a constructed building and has quite a broad spectrum of work. Whether these spaces are individual home planning or to make furnishing in industrial buildings, commercial building as well as commercial spaces, Interior Designers would be required to make both residential and workplaces look and feel “aesthetically good” along with the standards of human scale and comfort that need to be met. Designers help in improving the lifestyle of people living in the same type of property by ensuring proper amenities are incorporated. They keep architectural, psychological, climatic parameters in mind while designing for the same.

He comes up with the final detailed drawing document after understanding the needs of the client and drafting all required elements aesthetically. This industry is seeing unprecedented growth. While real estate developers hire specialised interior consultants to add value to their property through well designed and theme-based interiors which are engineered towards their client’s lifestyle, an interior designer may also practice under his own firm. The task of an interior designer starts from the time he starts communicating with the client, understanding their requirements and finally helps in the execution of the project. An interior designer also makes the bill of quantities, BOQ that is an estimate of the project. They then carry out the work with planning and in a cost-effective manner without affecting the quality and with full emphasis installations, paintings, fabrications, artwork, wall covering, fixture, etc.
Institutes In Maharashtra

• Institute Marangoni, Mumbai NIFT, Mumbai
• Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune