National Institute of Design

The article for the postgraduate campus can be found at National Institute of Design Gandhinagar and National Institute of Design BangaloreNational Institute of Design (NID) is a design school in India. The institute functions as an autonomous body under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. NID is recognised by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) under Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, as a scientific and industrial design research organisation.

Business Week has ranked NID 32nd in its list of top European and Asian design programmes in the world.

Overview

NID had been set up looking at the industrial design education being imparted in Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany.

On 19 July 2004, National Institute of Design commenced the IT Integrated Design Programmes (New Media Design, Information and Digital Design and Software and User Interface Design) at the new campus in Gandhinagar. The Gandhinagar campus currently hosts these disciplines.

The animation discipline at NID has produced film makers such as Ishu Patel, Sekhar Mukherjee, Dhiman SenGupta, Prakash Moorthy, Suresh Eriyat etc.

Background

During the early years of post independence India, manifold changes were taking place in economic and social scenario and in production processes with the introduction of new technologies even in the remotest corners of the Indian sub-continent. There were at that time,...
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