D Talks - The Design Podcast

Roshan Kumar Sahu a design graduate from IDC, IIT Bombay, and currently a product designer at Idea Forg. He shares how he answered different questions that he was asked in the IDC interview and sheds light on how one must be prepared for the interview.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

This is a solo episode and I talk about my NID interview experience at Gandhinagar Campus in 2016. I had applied for Lifestyle accessory design and secured an All India Rank 14. Based on my interview experience, I have 8 main points to share with everyone who is going for the NID interview.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

A lot of dreams are in fact decisions. Decisions based on just enough faith. For Soundarya Gottapu, who intuitively always knew she had a knack for creative thinking, it was a series of failed "plans" that eventually built faith to give that intuition a form by taking up Fashion Designing. Four years into it and she discovered a genuine inclination towards illustrating garments more than making them, which then expanded into Illustrations of a wide array of subjects. In this episode we talk about shifting career paths, a few insights into the workings of the fashion industry, and how loving the process is what matters in the end, no matter what we do.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

In India, we have design entrance exams like UCEED, CEED(Common entrance exam for design), NID(national institute of design) & NIFT(National Institute of Fashion Technology). With the little information available on how to prepare for these exams, the struggle is real to understand how exactly one should prepare for the said exams. Let it be a bachelor's in design or master's in design, not only must the student take at least one of these exams but also excel in it. Ashish Verma a Masters in design graduate from IISc Bangalore aka the Tata Institute, has worked as a Design Manager at Godrej, taught at a Design College, and currently a Bio-Design fellow at AIIMS, Delhi.

He secured an All India rank 10 in CEED'14 and got selected at IDC(Industrial Design Centre) IIT Bombay and IISc(Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore. Ashish has mentored countless students who went on to secure top ranks in these exams.

In this episode he shares some insights on the following:

How to prepare for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT?

How to manage time during NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT?

What are the design exams looking for in students?

What are the resources that students can refer to while preparing for design exams?

What is the scope of Design in India?

Should you go for design education in 2020?

How is design of medical devices different from product design?

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

In India, we have design entrance exams like UCEED, CEED(Common entrance exam for design), NID(national institute of design) & NIFT(National Institute of Fashion Technology). With the little information available on how to prepare for these exams, the struggle is real to understand how exactly one should prepare for the said exams. Let it be a bachelor's in design or master's in design, not only must the student take at least one of these exams but also excel in it. Ashish Verma a Masters in design graduate from IISc Bangalore aka the Tata Institute, has worked as a Design Manager at Godrej, taught at a Design College, and currently a Bio-Design fellow at AIIMS, Delhi.

He secured an All India rank 10 in CEED'14 and got selected at IDC(Industrial Design Centre) IIT Bombay and IISc(Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore. Ashish has mentored countless students who went on to secure top ranks in these exams.

In this episode he shares some insights on the following:

How to prepare for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT?

How to manage time during NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT?

What are the design exams looking for in students?

What are the resources that students can refer to while preparing for design exams?

What is the scope of Design in India?

Should you go for design education in 2020?

How is design of medical devices different from product design?

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

Engineering is the most common career path taken by so many Indians. One of them is Prashanth Vantimitta. From a very young age, he's had a great passion for cars and design but due to incorrect guidance, he chose to study automobile engineering after school. However, his interest in cars only increased and the desire to design cars magnified sevenfold. Soon after Prashanth graduated from college, he decided to go for Transportation Design in Italy and now he works as a lead designer at Sankul Design Studio Pune, India. In this episode, Prashanth shares the challenges he faced during this process and the decisions he had taken to stick to his passion.

Host - Sanjay Reddy

Online courses for NID, CEED, UCEED & NIFT

My name is Sanjay Reddy and I am an illustrator. I used to draw as a kid and I never thought I could make a living out of it. Back in the day, I did not have the exposure and guidance to explore my career options. I only came to know about design as a career option when I started my bachelors in engineering. I still remember the day I discovered it, I told my friends and parents that I can do a job where I will be paid to sketch. I can literally sketch in the office! That feeling was so good and strong that I started doing more research about it and came to know that there are design entrance exams - NID, U/CEED & NIFT. I didn't know how to prepare for these exams and I reached out to so many people and students who already appeared for these exams. But only a few of them replied and it was all very confusing. The biggest question was how to prepare for these exams and I had to figure everything out on my own. And even today I notice that there are students facing the same problems. The designers who cleared these exams are so busy with their work that they hardly find time to answer these questions. So I decided to start a podcast where I can address all the questions and also have edifying conversations with designers from different fields where we will be talking about interesting stories and trends in design. I hope to reach out to as many people as I can to share my passion for design. So please share this podcast with whoever you think might find it helpful