D Talks - The Design Podcast

Aditya Sharma, worked at Amazon for 2 years as a designer without a formal education in Design. He secured an All India Rank 3 in NID 2020 and All India Rank 7 in CEED 2020. He shares how he made it to Amazon and how he prepared for the design entrance exams.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

One of our students Samriddhi Uniyal secured an All India Rank 13 in NID 2020 (B.Des) and Rank 51 in NIFT.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

A bunch of designers who came together to support the skilled artisans who make Lacquer toys. They collectively call themselves the Indian Design Society. In this episode Faiza Qidwai, one of the contributors shares how they came up with the idea. Please feel free to visit www.indiandesignsociety.org for more info.

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Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

In this episode Shivangi, studying Masters in Communication Design at IDC, IIT Bombay shares how she prepared for the Ceed exam. Things that worked for her and things that did not. She secured an All India Rank 7 in Ceed 2020 and got into Industrial Design and Communication Design at IDC.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

Jatin Anand, one of my students, secured an All India Rank 2 in UCEED 2020 shares how he prepared for the exam. what worked for him and what did not. He received guidance from his mentors and says it is absolutely necessary for students who want to appear for design entrance exams.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

In this episode, Pallavi Gautam shares her experience as a Mobility Designer. She switched from engineering to design by pursuing a Masters in Design from IIT Delhi. Having worked at Royal Enfield for 5 years as an Industrial Designer after graduation, she decided to go for a second Master's degree at Artcenter College of design, California.

Please visit www.pallavigautam.com to check out her work.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

Whenever we think about Transportation Design all that comes to our mind are those crazy perspective sketches, dramatic photoshop renders, and alias models. We often design for the design briefs, but how does that design brief come into existence? Who creates those briefs for the automotive giants? What does the process of designing a brief involve?

In this episode, Harsh Agarwal talks about exactly that. He is a Masters in Transportation Systems and Design from Artcenter, California. He emphasizes the importance of User experience research in Transportations design. He talks about how he conducts multi-fold research and reaches a conclusion. Harsh also shares an interesting take on UX research and his experience at Volkswagen as a UX Designer.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

UCEED, CEED, NID & NIFT. These are the Design Entrance Exams in India. There are so many questions that pop up in the mind of a design aspirant when he or she thinks about the design entrance exams. Questions, like I have studied Psychology in my bachelors, am I eligible for this exam?, How can I start my preparation? What are the things that are expected out of you as a candidate and so on.

Prasanna Gadkari, a UX Designer at Amazon & Founder of TEACUP BLOG, a blog where over 400 experiences of students who made it through these exams are recorded. A blog that every design aspirant in India knows about. In this episode, Prasanna answers the most frequently asked questions about design entrance exams.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

This episode is about the art of Cardmaking. Swati Gupta, the owner of the brand - Hues of memories started her crafting journey in February 2014. She's been hooked to this art form since then and along with cardmaking, she specializes in Watercolour painting and calligraphy.

She makes customised cards, gifts, tags, watercolour paintings and wooden magnets. She conducts workshops all over India online and offline. Her cards are more than just greeting cards, they have a story to tell. Swati shares her take on cardmaking and how she made it this far. feel free to reach out to her on Instagram @huesofmemories.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

Sumit Yempalle, a Visual Designer in the IT Industry, a talented Sitar player, and the director of Ek Cup Chaha shares his take on Storytelling. Ek Cup Chaha a stop motion animation film made using sand animation, received 11 Film festival selections & 12 awards. That includes RamMohan Viewer's choice award at Anifest conducted by the animation society of India, awards at Rajasthan International film festival & at Pune design festival. In this conversation, he also talks about the importance of going for a Masters Degree in Design and how the design process is universal. Design is a mentality he says. Sumit is a Masters in Design graduate from IIT Hyderabad.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT