Ahmedabad Campus
The National Institute of Design (NID) is internationally acclaimed as one of the foremost multi-disciplinary institutions in the field of design education and research. The NID Ahmedabad Campus wa...
Gandhinagar Campus
Located in the capital city of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, NID- Gandhinagar campus offers full time residential program in M.Des (Master of Design) across seven disciplines (Lifestyle Accessory Design, A...
Balaji Rengarajan
Balaji Rengarajan has been associated with NID as a full time faculty since 2011. He holds a master’s degree in Automotive Design from Coventry University, UK and bachelor’s d...
Jagriti P Galphade
Jagriti P. Galphade is an Associate Senior Faculty at the National Institute of Design, Bengaluru, where she serves as the Lead Faculty for the Interaction Design Discipline. With a strong interdis...
Aarti Srivastava
Since 2010, Aarti Srivastava has been a faculty member in the Textile Design discipline at NID. At the institute, she takes courses in weaving—primarily basic and advanced woven constructions...
Shilpa Das
Dr. Shilpa Das is Principal Faculty, Interdisciplinary Design Studies. She designed and has been heading NID’s PhD Programme since 2017 and Science and Liberal Arts Studies at NID since...
Praveen Nahar
Praveen Nahar was the previous Director of National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad with its extension campuses in Gandhinagar and Bengaluru. He has also been a faculty member in the Product De...
Sneha Mundari
Sneha Mundari is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist belonging from Munda adivasi/ indigenous/ tribal/ community. She is the first female filmmaker from her community. Her documentary film &ldquo...
Ajay Kumar Tiwari
Ajay Kumar Tiwari earned a postgraduate degree in botany, specialising in Plant Pathology from Government College of Science, Raipur. He worked as an animation artist for three years in the areas o...
Sahil Thappa
Sahil Thappa is Maker, Tinkerer and an alumnus of the Product Design programme at National Institute of Design. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from Punjab Engineering College Ch...
Pravinsinh Solanki
Pravinsinh Solanki is a design educator and practitioner, currently serving as the Discipline Lead for Furniture and Interior Design at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. With a Mas...
Sucharita Beniwal
Sucharita, graduated in Textile Design from the school leaver's program at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2003. She worked for 10 years in the textile export industry, working o...
Vishnupriya Narayanan
Vishnupriya Narayanan trained in textile design, at the National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad. She began her professional career working withblock printers in Jaipur in developing a range of Home...
Swasti Singh Ghai change profile
Swasti Singh Ghai has been teaching at NID since June 2006. Currently the Discipline lead of Textile Design, she has been teaching across Textile and Design Foundation programme. Design for s...
Jignesh Khakhar
Jignesh Khakhar is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He led the internationally award winning Master's programme in New Media Design between 2009 to 2024 th...
Amresh Panigrahi
Amresh Panigrahi has 10 years of work experience and has been teaching at NID since June 2010.He is PGDPD in Lifestyle Accessory Design from NID. He has also participated in master of Strategy Desi...
Ashok Mondal
Dr. Ashok Mondal is an Alumni of Visva-Bharati and NID Ahmedabad. Prior to his appointment as Director, he served as a faculty member at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad contribu...
Bhaumik Nagar
Dr. Bhaumik Nagar is Sr. Faculty in New Media Design programme, and Vice Activity Chairperson Continuing Education Programme. Dr. Bhaumik joined NID in 2007 and has 27 years of rich...
Bhavin Kothari
Professor Bhavin Kothari is Senior Faculty with Strategic Design Management discipline at National Institute of Design. Prof Kothari is a qualified Engineer–Planner from CEPT University and h...
Gayatri Menon
Dr. Gayatri Menon is a principal faculty at the National Institute of Design, NID with nearly 25 years of experience in design education, research and practice. Currently, she heads the Design foun...
Chakradhar Saswade
Chakradhar teaches theory and practice of Visual Semiotics, Aesthetics and Design Fundamentals in NID. He has his doctoral research experience in photographic arts as a UGC-JRF scholar at...
Dhiman Sengupta
Dhiman Sengupta graduated from NID in 1999 in the stream of Animation Film Design. He has worked in Mumbai and Delhi, for a decade in the areas of e-learning, broadcast and motion graphics, and vis...
Bibhudutta Baral....
Dr Baral is a faculty of Information and Digital Design. He has been teaching at NID since 2002. Dr. Baral has received his MA in English, and MA in Philosophy from Utkal University. He also holds...
Hitesh Kumar Chaurasia
Hitesh Chaurasia is a graduate of Satyajit Ray Film and TV Institute Kolkata. He has cumulative work experience of over 15 years as a Sound Designer, Filmmaker and Educator. He has 15 feature films...
Jagadish Kumar
Jagadish Kumar brings over two decades of experience in art, design education, research, and professional practice to his role as Associate Senior Faculty in Communication Design at the National In...
Kaushik Chakraborty
Kaushik Chakraborty enrolled into the Faculty Development Programme at NID and joined the institute in 2010 as a faculty in the Communication Design discipline. He has worked in the...
Mohammed Naim Shaikh
Mohammed Naim Shaikh is an NID alumnus. He has done his Graduation in Industrial Design specializing in Product Design. He is a presently faculty member in Industrial Design at National Institute o...
Mihir Bholey
Dr. Mihir Bholey is Principal Faculty of Interdisciplinary Design Studies and Discipline Lead of PG Science and Liberal Arts at NID Gandhinagar...
Nijoo Dubey
Nijoo Dubey pursued masters in Furniture & Interior Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, after completing her graduation in architecture from Maulana Azad National Instit...
Ranjit Konkar.
Ranjit Konkar earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993, after a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and M.S. from University of Toledo, USA. Hi...
Rakesh Kumar
Rakesh Kumar is an industrial designer; at NID he teaches courses such as Materials & Methods, Elements of Form and Combination of materials. He comes with graduation degree along wit...
Mamata N. Rao
Mamata N. Rao is presently the Dean of National Institute of Design (NID) Bengaluru campus. She is the Principal faculty in IT Integrated Design stream and is the Discipline L...
Gargi Raychaudhuri
Gargi Raychaudhuri is currently an Associate Faculty with the department of Furniture and Interior Design at NID Ahmedabad campus. She has been working as a Visiting Faculty since October...
Rishi Singhal
Rishi Singhal is the Discipline Lead of Photography Design discipline under the department of Communication Design. He has studied at the Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology (CEPT),...
Shafique Afzal
Shafique Afzal is a faculty in Textile Design Discipline and his journey as a designer starts from Varanasi, while doing (BFA) Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Banaras Hindu University, Paral...
Shekhar Bhattacharjee
Shekhar Bhattacharjee is a faculty at NID in the field of Toy and Game Design. He completed his master’s degree in painting from Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalay, Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh an...
Tarun Deep Girdher
Tarun is Principal Designer in the Graphic Design discipline at NID. He received his (integrated) Masters in Design (Graphic Design) from NID in 1997 and has more than 20 years of consolidated expe...
Athul Dinesh
Athul Dinesh is an NID alumnus and completed his Master of Design (M.Des) in Universal Design in 2020, Master of Technology (M.Tech by Research) in Thermal Engineering from the National Institute o...
Farhan Ibnee Abid
A strong believer of design being the greatest tool to make a positive change. Hence Designers are a bundle of greater energy and higher purpose. Farhan has an educational qualification of Bachelor...
Unais Sait
Unais Sait is a designer and a passionate researcher. He works mainly in the area of human-centered computing, immersive experiences (AR/VR), biomedical devices, machine learning, and mechatronics....
Neelima Hasija
Neelima Hasija is a principal designer/faculty with Ceramic and Glass discipline at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She is currently heading the Strategy and Planning department in the cap...
Susanth CS...
Susanth C.S. is a faculty in the Industrial Design discipline. He graduated from NID in 1998 in Industrial Design; he specialised in Furniture Design. He started his career with NID’s Outreac...
Tridha Gajjar
Tridha Gajjar has always been inclined towards and passionate about academics and design teaching. She did her MFA in Applied Arts, with specialisation in Visualization in 1995 and a PhD...
Swasti Singh Ghai
Swasti Singh Ghai has been teaching at NID since June 2006. Currently the Discipline lead of Textile Design, she has been teaching across Textile and Design Foundation programme. Design for s...
Vijai Singh Katiyar.
An alumnus of the National Institute of Design (NID), Prof. Vijai Singh Katiyar is currently Principal Designer at NID and has more than 29 years of experience in design education, research, and pr...
Vipul Vinzuda
Vipul Vinzuda is a transportation designer and educator. A mechanical engineer from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Vipul enrolled into NID in 2004, for the Faculty Devel...
Tanishka Kachru
Tanishka Kachru earned an MA in History of Design and the Decorative Arts (2001) from Parsons School of Design, New York and B.Arch (1997) from the University of Bombay. She offers courses in Histo...
Swasti Singh Ghai.
Swasti Singh Ghai has been teaching at NID since June 2006. Currently the Discipline lead of Textile Design, she has been teaching across Textile and Design Foundation programme. Design for s...
Ritesh Kumar
Dr. Ritesh Kumar is an Associate Senior Faculty at NID, Ahmedabad with more than a decade of experience in Design Education. He teaches courses such as Design Drawing, Fundamentals of Visual Design...
Ketankumar Vadodaria
Dr. Ketankumar Vadodaria joined NID as “Associate Senior Faculty” in the Textile Design discipline at NID Ahmedabad Campus. His area of interest includes conventional textiles, developm...
Biju Kurup
Biju Kurup has more than fifteen years of experience in the industry .And seven years of experience in teaching as a regular faculty Alumni of Faculty of Fine Arts M.S.University –B...
Varun Shashni
Varun Shashni completed his Master’s in Apparel Design and Merchandising from NID. He also holds a degree in design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi. Var...
Bibhudutta Baral
Dr Baral is a faculty of Information and Digital Design. He has been teaching at NID since 2002. Dr. Baral has received his MA in English, and MA in Philosophy from Utkal University. He also holds...
Susanth CS.
Susanth C.S. is a faculty in the Industrial Design discipline. He graduated from NID in 1998 in Industrial Design; he specialised in Furniture Design. He started his career with NID’s Outreac...
Neha Nandkumar Mandlik
Neha is an Architect, Furniture & Interior Designer, Researcher & an Educator. She studied Architecture at her undergraduate level and is an alumna of the Furniture & Int...
Anju Pawar
Anju Pawar Graduated in Sculpture from Fine Arts M.S.University of Baroda in 1993 and joined Industrial Ceramic Design in Advance Entry Programme (AEP) at NID Ahmedabad, specialising in Ceram...
Samir More
A Graduate in Commerce (B.Com.), he has also pursued a degree in Law (L.L.B.) from Gujarat University. Later he acquired a DESS (Diplôme d’études supérieures spécia...
Lt Cdr S Ganesh Karpoor (Retd)
Lt Cdr S Ganesh Karpoor (Retd) is an Engg graduate (BE) from Anna University, Chennai in Electronics & Communication Engineering. He had a short yet remarkable stint with the In...
Rekha Nair
Ms. Rekha Nair has diversified combination of talent and experience. She has obtained her Bachelors Degree in Science (Chemistry) from St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad and Masters in Computer...
Shemal Hitesh Pandya
Shemal (pronounced shame.al) is an intersectional, queer design educator from suburban Bombay. Their pronouns are he/they. They acknow...
Andrea Maria Sonalie Noronha
Andrea Noronha is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design where she completed the PGDPD program in Furniture and Interior Design, Industrial Design. She holds a bachelor's degree in arch...
Savyasachi Anju Prabir
Savyasachi Anju Prabir holds a B.Cr.A in Film and Contemporary Arts from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Muens...
Vibhu Mittal
Vibhu Mittal is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, where she completed her Bachelor of Design in Ceramic and Glass Design, Industrial Design. She is now working as an Associate Faculty...
Tulip Sinha
Tulip Sinha, is a faculty of the Universal Design discipline at NID Bengaluru. An Industrial Design graduate, with a specialization in Product Design from NID Ahmedabad, she also holds a Mas...
Pratheek P. Ashok
Pratheek P Ashok is an Industrial Designer and Educator. Pratheek holds a Master's degree in Design with a specialization in Transportation and Automobile Design from the National Institute of...
Xavier D’Silva
Xavier is an alumnus of NID Ahmedabad. He has a BA from Goa University and has worked as a graphic designer within his own consultancy firm working with solopreneurs, teaming up with design studios...
Ashish Kumar Singh
Dr. Ashish is currently affiliated with the Product Design discipline at NID Ahmedabad, India. Prior to joining NID, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Accessary Design Department at Nation...
Drishti Desai
Drishti holds an MA in History of Art and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London (2019), and a B.Cr.A in Film from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore (2017). Her MA the...
Yaatra Khan
Yaatra Khan is a filmmaker, communication designer, and educator based in Ahmedabad, India. She holds a bachelor's degree in film and Video Communication Design from the National Institute of D...
Ph D
Attention! Deadline for application to 2024 PhD Admissions approaching: 28 March!
Film and Video Communication (B.Des.) (Bachelor Of Design (B.Des.))
The Film and Video Communication discipline aims to transform students into versatile, design-informed directors, fluent in the conception and production of films for a range of educational, cultur...
Lifestyle Accessory Design (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The Lifestyle Accessory Design discipline trains students to create lifestyle accessories and systems using different materials, processes and techniques. Focusing on human and spatial contexts, it...
Photography Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
Photography is undergoing an extraordinary transition in terms of technology, subject matter, accessibility, consumption and industrial practices. The Photography Design discipline focuses on makin...
Design Vision Centre
Design Vision Centre at the National Institute of Design is the third cutting edge facility of the Golden triangle of NID's upgraded education research and consultancy service infrastructure. D...
Information Technology (IT) Centre
Technology allows personalising learning, building capacity of teachers and driving decisions based on real-time data through effectively integrating technology in the design education system. ...
Animation Film Design Lab
The Animation Film Design Lab at NID, Ahmedabad is one of the most active places where students learn in state-of-the-art classrooms and studios. This place is a hub where knowledge and creative id...
Clay Studio, Cintiq Lab & Studio
The studio provides a creative cutting edge design development/support facilities with traditional and advanced labs and workshops to help the students take their ideas far. A ded...
Skill Development Lab (Ahmedabad)
The Skill development labs includes four important studios mainly Metal and Plastic Studio(MPS), Wood Studio (WS), Paint Studio (PS) and Student Model Making Studio (SMMS). Metal and Pla...
Dyeing and Printing Studio and Lab
The dyeing and screen-printing studio is part of the textile design studios and labs. The studio acts as both explorative studio and experimental lab. The students work here and learn dyeing and pr...