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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh
Joint Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry (DPIIT), Government of India Ex-officio Mem...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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...
Interaction Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The Interaction Design discipline focuses on aspects of design and behaviour across a wide range of products and sectors. It caters to domains related to innovation and developments in technology l...
Apparel Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The Apparel Design discipline emphasises on process-centric learning and addresses current and emerging concerns for functionality, environment; socio-economic development through exploration of ma...
Foundation Programme (Bachelor Of Design (B.Des.))
The Foundation Programme is geared to assist in developing values, attitudes, sensorial skills and aesthetic sensitivity necessary for specialisation in design. It introduces students to the fundam...
Ceramic & Glass Design (B.Des.) (Bachelor Of Design (B.Des.))
Ceramic and Glass Design discipline at NID imparts multiple design approaches through extensive engagement with materials, people, technologies and work cultures. The discipline provides...
Furniture And Interior Design (B.Des.) (Bachelor Of Design (B.Des.))
The discipline of Furniture and Interior Design at NID looks at shaping and functional analysis of living, working and interaction environments through study and development of objects, structures...
Product Design (B.Des.) (Bachelor Of Design (B.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...
Textile Design (B.Des.) (Bachelor Of Design (B.Des.))
The Textile Design discipline encourages students to engage with a wide spectrum of materials and technology, from the perspectives of industry, sustainability, social responsibility and inclusive...
Ceramic & Glass Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
Ceramic and Glass Design discipline at NID imparts multiple design approaches through extensive engagement with materials, people, technologies and work cultures. The discipline provides...
Furniture And Interior Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The discipline of Furniture and Interior Design at NID looks at shaping and functional analysis of living, working and interaction environments through study and development of objects, structures...
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...
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...
Strategic Design Management (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The Strategic Design Management discipline at NID focuses on fostering creativity, innovation and foresight that empowers leaders and decision-makers to take meaningful decisions to address busines...
Textile Design (M.Des.) (Master Of Design (M.Des.))
The Textile Design discipline encourages students to engage with a wide spectrum of materials and technology, from the perspectives of industry, sustainability, social responsibility and inclusive...
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...
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...
Apparel Design Workshop
The workshop has large studio space equipped with adjustable body forms, mannequins and workshop for prototyping of woven & non- woven garments & accessories. Optitex software for pattern m...
Ceramic and Glass Design Labs
Ceramic and Glass Design labs are an integral part of ceramic and glass design discipline at NID, this falls under the faculty of Industrial Design. These labs at NID have bothadvanced and indigeno...
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...
Film and Video Communication (FVC) Labs
The Film and Video Communication (FVC) department has one shooting studio, two editing studios and one sound studio. The shooting studio is a space for students to work with chroma...
Textile Design Weaving Labs
Weaving labs is an integral part of textile design discipline which falls under the Textile, Apparel & Lifestyle Accessory Design Faculty at NID. The Lab at NID has both the most advanced and i...
Lifestyle Accessory Design Workshop & Studio
The Lifestyle Accessory Design department is dedicated to encouraging students to explore design through research and practices in contemporary context. The department is facilitated with a well-li...
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...
Photography lab (Ahmedabad)
The photography lab is one of the oldest labs at NID. Besides providing academic support in terms of photography modules, photo documentation of the various projects to NID, the lab also cater...
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...