Design skills, schools, my thoughts and my association
Posted by Ashish on October 16th, 2005
Last weekend I was in Ahmedabad for a day and visited NID (National Institute of Design). Design schools have always fascinated me - be it the premier Indian design institutes like NID or NIFT or the other lesser known institutes. And, fortunately, I have been to both these leading institutes now and was impressed with both. NID is modelled on industrial design centers such as Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany whereas NIFT is more on the sophisticated side.
My appreciation for the design skills, designers and design schools stems from the fact that this is one skill I just don’t seem to have. I can appreciate good design and can roughly judge them based on the context but this is something I wish I was better at. And my association with design skills and designers goes 6-7 years back when I was in my pre-final year of my engineering and that was the time I was thinking about one of my first business ideas (and, actually, did some research around that).
My cousin was in NIFT then and she provided some valuable feedback to me - as I was thinking of venturing in making use of IT in Fashion Design. Now, when I think of it - it was a pretty lame idea but then were most of the ideas during the initial days of the internet and, the funny part is, people did make a lot of money on those ideas.
But, at the same time, I also have a complaint - it’s really difficult to find good web designers in India. I have seen the web designs from people in the US and UK and I think that we guys need to do a lot of catch-up to get to anywhere even near that. But if you are one of the web-designers who don’t agree with me, please contact me at ashish AT tekritisoftware DOT com. I can’t tell you how desperately I want to be proven wrong here. My company Tekriti has an opening for a wonderful web-designer but we will not fill up that position with anybody less than spectacular. It will be good to know you.
October 22nd, 2005 at 9:11 am
Hi Ashish,
I very much agree with you on your thoughts on User Experience & IA. I realized the importance of it only after I went to work for sapient. Btw they have some of very good IA’s & User Ex folks in their Gurgaon office as well.
So one way for you to find the deisgner of the caliber you are expecting could be is to find out if there are some folks from there looking for a shift
I am not sure if you were aware of this.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hciidc/
HCI Professionals Group in India. Rashmi Sinha also I am told hangs out there a lot.
That could be forum to post your requirement for the designer that you are looking for.
Rajan
October 24th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
Thanks for the link, Rajan. I tried to register there - but it looks that the group owner doesn’t want me to join. He hasn’t approved yet
October 27th, 2005 at 9:18 am
[…] Â Â Â Â Â I was there at the TiE ISB connect a few months ago & was witnessing the elevator pitches over there and as I have mentioned before I went away after 2-3 pitches as they were quite squib. Recently I came across this website called ResolveQuery which mentions that it was a contestant in the elevator pitch. Looks like the good stuff(meagre) happened in closed doors or happened after I left the place. I think this is a good concept but what is not clear to me is this services revenue model and its scalability. This service addresses a niche & also that internet penetration is not very huge atleast in India. […]
January 11th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Hi Ashish
I was searching on google about Fashion Design Schools in Gurgaon and this article popped up. As I am also from NIFT, I was tempted to write… although this article is of 10/16/05. So did you manage to get the web-designer you were looking for? So what did you do in place of IT in Fasion Design? Any other small business ideas related to Fashio / design / design institutes?
Best wishes
Seema
March 28th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
sir, i want to start my career in fasion designing. i did my graduation and diploma in beauty clinic. my age is now 42. so do i have opportunity?
July 9th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Seema,
Are you looking for a part-time job in Delhi or Gurgaon. We are looking for teaching faculties in Design. If you are interested do contact us through email julie@afdindia.com or phone: 09447130465. You could also visit our website www.afdindia.com
January 21st, 2007 at 1:45 am
Hey Ashish, I did not know there was a job offer for me on your blog … why didn’t you tell me ?
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