Malvika's Ramblings

Exchange/ Twinning programme at NIFT

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Aditi asked me if the exchange/ twinning programme at NIFT needs an entrance exam. Well, no it doesn’t.

Twinning programme means you pay tuition fees at NIFT and the other college. Exchange means you pay only NIFT’s tuition fee.

I did the 7^th semester at Ryerson, Toronto. Missed the 7^th semester at NIFT. Rejoined NIFT directly for the 8^th semester. While I went for one semester only, a friend of mine, Moby, went for a year.

First, the college people send a notice for Exchange Programme to third year students, also fourth year sometimes. The notice is sent to all the students of all the UG and PG courses, at all centres. The notice has

Foundation Programme at NIFT

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The Foundation Programme is a course that all UG Design fachhas take together, whether they chose FD, FC, KDT, or whatever. The new horde of first year students is divided into 5 batches or so to undergo the Foundation Programme. In the second year, everyone joins their respective departments. Here are the main modules of the course-

Elements of Design. This is a very very important course in which you learn basic design stuff that stands by you forever. It rocks if your batch has great faculty.

M Des (Master of Design) at NIFT

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Huge thanks to Pawan Kumar and Devan Das for the following info on MDes.

Pavan wrote:
 
Hi Malvika!

Thanks for the reply! I got rank 18 in NIFT’s 2 year Master of Design programme in design space which is offered in NIFT Delhi and Mumbai centers, 30 seats each. It has 3 specializations

FC, FD Expenses at NIFT

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As of 2008, the fee of every semester at NIFT is Rs.25000. In total there are 8 semesters over 4 years.

Question asked by a candidate:

I want to opt for FC in NIFT New Delhi. So, do you think I will need to spend as much for FC as FD?  Since I am from a middle class family I can’t spend outrageously. Please give me an idea of expenditure in FD and FC.

Details of Fashion Communication @ NIFT

Undergraduate design course. Gets you a B.des degree.

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Subjects:

Advertising

Communication concepts & processes

Details of Accessory Design course at NIFT

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Huge thanks to my friend Ankit for writing this post. He passed out of AD, NIFT, Delhi in 2009.

Basic requirement: Interest in tactile/practical/hands on implementation of design concepts and capacity to infer 2d into 3d.The course starts with object drawing and rendering in place, FORM STUDIES...verrry important - I think it’s the essence of a good AD guy... materials and techniques

How the NIFT situation test workshop went

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The total duration of my NIFT Situation Test workshop, held in April 09 was 5 hours.
(1 hour of tips and hand-outs with examples + 2 hours of model making + 2 hours of comparative feedback and suggestions)

I saw that most students missed out on giving themselves a theme despite of repeated reminders. And many didn’t leave time to do the write-up at all.

Topics I gave: Table lamp and Fashion show ramp

Here is what some of the candidates did –

The hooded lamp
+ve clearly designed for the study-table
+ve Integrity in design – all surfaces were triangular
+ve two light sources for yellow n white light
+ve neat and strurdy
+ve Very good intersection of planes for a complex 3D level in design
+ve multi-functionalty – pen holder between the two lights
+ve good use of materials
-ve No write-up

Hardcore NIFT situation test class/ coaching

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Time: 4 pm (to 7:30 pm approx.)

Date: 19th April 2009, Sunday