Department of Fashion & Lifestyle
Any non clothing merchandise classified within the domain of lesser dimension on scale with a seasonal dash as compared to products like furniture etc. is considered to be an accessory. It could be adorned on
human form or utilized as a decorative or functional entity. With fashion & lifestyle, it becomes a composite with different variables such as trends, forecast, behavioral, spatial, demographic, psychographics .Students majorly learn to design various accessories made from stone, leather, metal, wood, glass, ceramics, acrylics etc.
Why study Lifestyle Accessory Design at UID?
- We the Lifestyle Accessory Design Department at UID have been committed since our conception in the year 2012, to constantly upgrade and formulate for academic pinnacles.
- In the pursuit of the same along with the design as sole ganglion, we constantly modulate within our curriculum sensing the market, dynamic modules with faculties from within and the industry experts invest their energies tutoring individuals the aspects of design and retail dynamism in latest market trends.
- The ones inclusive of all the aspects that have been continuously evolving globally to influence market share of our brand merchandise. With globalization this aspect of impact marketing, our design academia re-evaluates and re-invents itself regularly and develops its course to keep making itself relevant for the current millennial context.
Course Structure
- Design & Cultural Studies - 1
- Communication Skills - 1
- Drawing
- Basic Design - 1
- Material Exploration
- People & Environment
- Design & Cultural Studies - 2
- Communication Skills - 2
- Representation Techniques - 1
- Photoshop
- Basic Design - 2
- Material Manipulation
- Solid Geometry
- Digital Inputs CorelDRAW
- Design Methodology
- History of Accessories
- Communication Skills - 3
- Representation Techniques - 2
- Rhinoceros
- Material Studies - 1
- Marketing Management
- Form Studies - 1
- Typography
- Ergonomics
- Accessory Design
- Elective - 1
- Communication Skills - 4
- Representation Techniques - 3
- Keyshot
- Material Studies - 2
- Form Studies - 2
- Brand Studies
- Range Design - 1
- Communication Skills - 5
- Representation Techniques - 4
- CAD CAM - 1
- Material Studies - 3
- Nature and Form
- Packaging Design
- Range Design - 2
- Elective - 2
- Representation Techniques - 5
- CAD CAM - 2
- Material Studies - 4
- Product Detailing and Hardware Design
- Kinematics
- Range Design - 3
- Industry-Internship
- Design Management
- Design Collection
Areas of Mastery
– Home Décor
– Ceramics
– Jewellery design
– Leather
Career Prospects
With the growing viabilities in the global market economic tangents we are looking upon newer opportunities .We are eyeing domestic & global steep in opportunities in metal ware, jewellery & kitchen wares in silver ware, ceramic, wood steel and aluminum ware industries, Leather industry bags and footwear. we are expecting emergence of many more buying house with new vacancies in design, merchandising, branding, managerial and other vendor based entrepreneurship establishments.
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