All you ever wanted to know about design and your career options in design

From boxy to sexy
That’s what all industrial designers suppose to do, carve out an engineering product into shapes that are comfortable, easy to interact and sexy to look at. And the profession that allows you to do so is industrial design.

Industrial design and its variants
Based on the two broad categories – Automotive and Product, Industrial design further specializes into two domains – Automotive design (also called transportation design) and Product design

Is it same as fashion design?
Industrial design is not same as fashion design, although some of the field in fashion design like accessory design, shoe design etc have now started overlapping in both domains

Am I suited for Industrial design?
Are you the one with creative bend of mind and one of the those people who wants to change the world without getting into tons and tons of manuals, journals, thesis and couple of PHD degrees, then this field is for you

But I only love cars..
Loving cars is not the only criteria (out of 10 seven love cars) if you often find yourself drawing your own version of Ferrari, then you can join industrial design and specialize in field of automotive design.

Where can I do courses in Industrial Design?
In India IIT Mumbai, IIT kanpur, IIT Delhi, NID Ahmadabad, IISc Bangalore offers Master course in design
(MDes) IIT Gauhati offers Bachelors course in design (BDes), Apart from above there are some Diploma courses offered by Private colleges in Bangalore, Pune, and Indore. (this list is not exhaustive

Where can I take specialization in transportation design?
You can specialize in transportation design from recently started courses in NID Ahmadabad, IIT Mumbai, and IIT Delhi.

What is the duration of full time courses in India?
Full time MDes – 2 years
Full time Bdes – 4 years

How much is the course fee for Industrial design courses?
It can start from less then 30K charged by government owned institutions (IISc, IIT etc) and can go up to 7.5 Lakhs per annum charged by some private colleges as(rough estimate)

What is the kind of salary I can expect after finishing my course and successful placement?
You can expect somewhere between 1.4 – 1.6 times of a typical engineer with same experience as yours in the Initial phase of your carrier (rough estimate).

What are the other options after finsihing industrial design course?
Good no of students start their own design houses in partnership else you can independently work as a freelancer. Also now, there is increasing trend of people leaving the Indutrial design / automotive design after 6-8 years of exparince and getting into movies props design, set design and fantasy design

What is the eligibility for MDes and BDes?
For MDes you require minimum of 10 +2 +4 system of education (which translates into an engineering degree or BDES)
For BDes – 10 + 2 any stream
Diplomas- Kindly consult the institutions

Where does the course from Designskillset.com fit?
Ability to sketch is one of the most crucial of all the qualities for a designer. Most of the well known designers have uncanny ability to put their ideas on paper fast and effortlessly (so much so that they always carry a small drawing note book with them).
Also, most of the design colleges (IIT etc) will require your sketches and ideas as portfolio as a admission screening criteria.
We give you the solid foundation in design sketching and rendering, the old school way, which will give you a solid foundation to start with you winning design carrier

Can I not learn the same sketching in design course?
Just go through the details of any design course before you join, 95% chances are that you will not find any dedicated and exhaustive course on design sketching. Moreover, sketching skills require years of dedicated practice only possible if someone is working as designer in Industry / practicing designers.

What if I am a Professional /Engineer/ freelancer?
if you are already in the creative field like body work, car modification then this course will give you the winning edge over other designers and freelancers, as you will be able to convince your clients with your sketching skill instead of wasting time and money on computer renderings and outsourcing.