Bengaluru Campus
NID Bengaluru campus is one of the three campuses of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. It is located in Yeshvanthpur, a sub-locality of north western part of Bengaluru city in the state...
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...
Saurabh Srivastava
Saurabh Srivastava is a photographer and educator with focus on the documentary genre. He is a Photostory teller and mainly works on photo projects on social & ecological issues, communities, l...
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...
Amarnath Praful
Amarnath Praful is a visual artist, writer and teacher who primarily works with photography. His artistic and research practice explores elements from performance, text, video, archive and fou...
Austin Davis
Austin Davis completed his schooling from St. Columba’s School, Delhi and shifted to Kerala from where he completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College (G...
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...
Amit Kumar Sinha
Amit has evolved from a conceptual stage to a contextual domain of design that involves design within the paradigms of holistic design approaches. Hence, the projects he guides have a socio-cultura...
Swapnesh Samaiya
Swapnesh Samaiya (he/him) is a designer and researcher of games. He works in the areas of games, play, interaction, and communication design, focusing on subjects related to experiential learning,...
Jitendra Singh Rajput.
Jitendra Singh Rajput holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and has done post-graduation in Strategic Design Management from NID, with more than 18 years of work experience . He...
Jonak Das..
Jonak Das has joined the institute in 2016, as faculty in the Exhibition Design discipline, and has been the Discipline Lead from 2017. He guides projects in exhibit design, design in a social cont...
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...
Jonak Das
Jonak Das joined the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, in 2016, as a faculty member in the Exhibition Design discipline, and has been the Discipline Lead from June 2017 till February 2022. S...
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...
P Ramakrishna Rao-backup
P. Rama Krishna Rao has been a faculty at NID since 2002. He teaches Design Overview, History of Design, Materials and Methods, Geometry and Structure, and Design Projects. He gradua...
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...
Jitendra Singh Rajput
Jitendra Singh Rajput holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and has done post-graduation in Strategic Design Management from NID, with more than 18 years of work experience . He...
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...
Guruprasad S
S Guruprasad has more than decade of experience in New Product Development, Product Design, Engineering Design and Manufacturing. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Post...
P. Rama Krishna Rao
P. Rama Krishna Rao has been a faculty at NID since 2002. He teaches Design Overview, History of Design, Materials and Methods, Geometry and Structure, and Design Projects. He gradua...
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....
Sonal Chauhan
Ms. Sonal Chauhan is an Associate Senior Professor and Discipline Lead, Apparel Design programme at National Institute of Design. She graduated from National Institute of Fashion Technology, Gandhi...
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...
Swagata Shrivastava Naidu
Swagata pursued her graduation in Architecture and earned her Post Graduate Diploma in Ceramic and Glass Design from NID in 2007. Owing to her interest in understanding the impact of design on obje...
Guruprasad S.
S Guruprasad has more than decade of experience in New Product Development, Product Design, Engineering Design and Manufacturing. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Post...
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...
Amrapali Hazra
Amrapali Hazra is a Faculty of Digital Game Design and a graduate of NID, Ahmedabad. She completed her studies in Animation Film Design in 2006. She has worked with reputed design studios such as C...
V Sakthivel
Since 2006, V. Sakthivel has been teaching Fibre and Yarn, Dyeing, Basic weaving and Introduction to Textiles courses at NID. Prior to joining the Faculty Development Programme at NID, Sakthivel fi...
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...
Vijaya Rajendra Barge
Vijaya Rajendra Barge is an inter-media artist, print maker and an educator. She completed her BFA in Textile from Sir J J School of Art in 2013 and went on to do her M.Des. in Design Res...
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...
Sweety Taur
Sweety Taur is an engineer turned designer, researcher and educator with key expertise in home and hospitality furniture-spaces & lifestyle products. Experienced with a variety of materials lik...
PS Pradeep
Pradeep - a Seasoned Veteran- is also a Qualified Administrator, Supply Chain & Procurement specialist with demonstrated expertise under challenging circumstances. He is specialised in Human Re...
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...
Ravi Paritosh
Ravi is a faculty of Digital Game Design. He is an alumnus of NID, Ahmedabad where he graduated in Film and Video Communication Design in 2006. In 16 years of practice, he has worked across multipl...
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...
Sridhar Mahadevan
Sridhar Mahadevan joined NID - TAD in August 2020 with 21 years of work experience as a designer. After M.Des from Indian Institute of Science in 1999, his career in industry spanned across Automot...
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...
Shilpi Munda
Shilpi Munda is a faculty with Graphic Design Department at NID Ahmedabad Campus. She has done Bachelor of Design in Fashion Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad, followe...
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...
Vikram Debabrata Mitra
Vikram did his post graduate diploma in product design from NID, convocating in 2002. He started his career with Design Directions, Pune and then opened his own design studio called Design Genesis,...
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...
Vikram Debabrata Mitra.
Vikram did his post graduate diploma in product design from NID, convocating in 2002. He started his career with Design Directions, Pune and then opened his own design studio called Design Genesis,...
ST Safri
A Graduate in Commerce, MBA and CA Inter, Mr Safri joined NID in 1988. He has had many profiles in different projects such as Discovery of India, Nehru Center, Mumbai during1989-90, Supervising Pro...
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...
Sanjay Pandit
Sanjay Pandit is holding Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management & HR Management. He had a 15 years stint with Indian Navy and thereafter has been with NID since 2002. He has lo...
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...
Sejal Roy
A Civil Engineer with over 22 years of experience in construction & Project Management which includes about 10 yrs of experience in Project Department of a GoI Civil Engineering PSU involved 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...
Rupesh Kumar Jindal
Rupesh Kumar Jindal is a Master of Technology in Information Technology and is currently pursuing Ph.D. He is with NID since November 2019. He has over 15 years of experience in the...
AP Semwal
Dr. A. P. Semwal is a Science and Law graduate with Ph.D. in Management. Joined National Institute of Design in 2019 as Deputy Registrar, he oversees the function of Academic Office Gandhinagar Cam...
Viral Rajyaguru
Mr. Viral is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary and he is the head of Finance & Accounts dept. of the Institute.
Sanjeev Kumar
Mr. Sanjeev is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is responsible for passing of all kind of invoices and liaisoning with DPIIT in respect of Grant.
Mukund Trivedi
Mr. Mukund is a qualified Chartered Accountant and he is looking after the salary payment, Ledger scrutiny and monthly grant utilisation statement etc and reimbursment of telecommunication and othe...
Sagarkumar V Shah
Mr. Sagar is a qualified Chartered Accountant and he is looking after the routine financial transaction of Gandhinagar Campus.
Shailesh Khubchandani
Mr. Shailesh is a qualified Chartered Accountant and he is looking after the routine financial transaction of Bengaluru Campus.
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...
Namit Sharma
Namit Sharma has over 17 plus years of experience in product and automobile design and a postgraduate from MIT Pune, He has extensive knowledge of the end-to-end life cycle of the design and innova...
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...
Ahsam KR
Ahsam is an architect and a filmmaker. She graduated in Architecture from College of Engineering, Trivandrum and did her post-graduation in Film & Video Communication from NID, Ahmedabad....
Sharath B
Mr Sharath B completed his M. Tech in information technology and bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering. He has extensive experience in the field, both in Academ...
Bachelor Of Design (B.Des.)
The four-year-long Bachelor of Design programme is offered only at NID Ahmedabad in the following areas of specialization: Faculty of Industrial Design, Faculty of Communication Design, Faculty of...
Master Of Design (M.Des.)
This 2.5 year programme is offered in 19 discipline across all 3 campuses in the following areas of specialization: Faculty of Communication Design, Faculty of Industrial Design, Faculty of Interdi...
Ph D
Attention! Deadline for application to 2024 PhD Admissions approaching: 28 March!
Animation Film Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The Animation Film Design discipline at NID seeks to hone and mentor the visual storytelling skills of young students through the medium of moving images. Students are encouraged to tap into the ri...
Product Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The Product Design discipline at NID deals with issues related to the design of a wide range of products, services and experiences by providing tangible solutions to the needs of users. As part of...
Universal Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
Universal Design discipline at NID, addresses design for a sustainable future, where products and systems respond to the challenges of a large and complex set of users with diverse abilities, needs...
Exhibition design Studio and Lab
Exhibition design is the culmination of various disciplines that transcend and overlap. The ‘Exhib Studio’ provides a base for this process. A shared space with private areas of work, s...
AV Lab-NID Bengaluru
Objective The objective of setting up the Audio-Visual Lab at Bengaluru Campus is to facilitate the IT Integrated Design education and give adequate support to research activities with...