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| Design: |
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Design is the emerging new profession in the knowledge economy, where concepts and ideas are blurring the borders and ruling the roost. In India, more than ever before, the profession is playing a challenging role for the development of both, the industry and the society.
Design is crucial to all businesses. Where companies are competing for market shares, design is the biggest differentiator. Designers today are increasingly occupying premium positions across all sectors on the Indian economy.
Innovation, ideation, creativity and problem-solving: design manifests itself into many avatars. Designers today are better equipped to take on the world. Designers work upon building better products, making safer systems, making communication easy, setting up better office environs, fashioning garments and accessories. In short, designers affect the way we live, work and play.
Design as an activity adds value. It also helps to create opportunities for both businesses and employment.
There are 230 sectors of the Indian economy that needs design inputs. There is a projected demand for about 10000 qualified designers per annum to service these sectors. More and more design institutions are being set up to cater to this growing demand for quality designers.
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IILM School of Design: |
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Into our 4th year of operations, IILM was one of the pioneers in the private sector to set up an institute for design. Quick to respond to the demands of the industry, IILM set up the School of Design in August 2004. In this short span, we have been noticed by the academic and industrial circles for the quality of our education.
IILM believes in an integrated approach to teaching design. We have some of the best of design educators involved in teaching design. The approach has been to integrate skills, knowledge and process in all the design disciplines. Our entire faculty comes from premier design institutions. We have benchmarked ourselves with the best of design institutes internationally.
The culture of learning at IILM’s School of Design is hands-on. Students are encouraged to work on assignments and projects that contribute to their working skills as much as their thinking skills. The teacher-student interaction is thus professional and one-to-one. Classrooms, Workshops, Labs and even the corridors are fertile learning grounds. Senior students are given opportunities to work on live, professional projects to get a first-hand feel of a professional design assignment. |
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| Design Disciplines: |
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The 4-year programme in Design starts with a Foundation Year which is common to all disciplines. On successful completion of the Foundation year, the students branch out to any of the four disciplines.
The students have an option of doing a 4-year Graduate Diploma in any of the following 4 disciplines:
Product Design
Communication Design
Interiors & Furniture Design
Textiles & Apparel Design
Profile of Design School Graduate:
Competencies that the design student would attain: |
- Ability to think creatively and independently.
- Ability to creatively solve problems through exploration and experimentation.
- Sensitivity to the needs of the society.
- Ability to add value by bringing elements together to form an integrated solution.
- Ability and courage to experiment.
- Ability to challenge the status quo.
- Be environmentally responsible.
- Have the knowledge, skill & technological proficiency to be professional.
- Be a world citizen.
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