The Convocation Ceremony Celebrates "Design in India, Design for the World"
The convocation ceremony, themed ‘Design in India, Design for the World,’ highlights India's growing influence in global design through a seamless blend of tradition and modernity. The convocation underscores cross-cultural design and the importance of design for diverse cultures, showcasing how Indian culture and aesthetics can shape the creative landscape. Rooted in Indian culture while engaging with contemporary design practices, it celebrates India's role in inclusive design and innovation, ensuring that students address dynamic needs of a rapidly changing high-tech world while remaining true to India’s heritage and aspirations. Industry leaders and graduates explore the future of creative industries in India, reinforcing the country's position as a hub for ‘design for the future’ that resonates with global audiences.
As part of the celebration, the design explorations and creative works of the graduating students will be prominently showcased. The convocation will feature a Graduate and Discipline Display that will be open for public viewing from February 28, 2025 to March 04, 2025. This exhibition will provide visitors with insights into the innovative projects and design solutions created by students across various disciplines spanning Industrial Design, Communication Design, Textile & Apparel Design, IT Integrated Design and Interdisciplinary Design.
Degrees and Graduates - During the Convocation, the institute will honour select exceptional student projects with the Shanta Keshavan awards for excellence in design, leadership, and community engagement. The institute will also award the prestigious “Pride of NID”, to distinguished NID Alumni who have brought significant recognition to the institute’s values & professional education through their outstanding achievements and honour their professional contributions in the field of design. The 44th Convocation at NID promises to be a momentous occasion, celebrating the dedication, creativity, and hard work of graduating students while also recognizing excellence in the field of design. The event will bring together distinguished guests, faculty members, students, and industry leaders, and staff making it a landmark moment in the institute’s legacy.
During the 44th Convocation, NID is going to launch a number of displays and exhibitions. The Graduate Show and Design Panorama are available on campus. This year, 430 students will be awarded degrees across different disciplines of design. Among them:
- 05 scholars will be awarded Ph.D.
- 323 students will graduate from the Master’s Degree Programme (M.Des.)
- 102 students will graduate from the Bachelor’s Degree Programme (B.Des.)
About the Convocation Identity - The journey of a design student at NID is a transformative odyssey, gradually unfolding toward a state of clarity, achievement, and mastery in design thinking. This path, akin to a constellation, interlinks phases, challenges, and milestones, crafting a vivid tapestry of growth and transformation.
Much like the intricate art of Kolam, which harmonizes colours, integrates diverse techniques, perspectives, and experiences. From foundational learning to advanced practice, each stage equips students to navigate everyday challenges and extraordinary endeavours with innovation and purpose.
The convocation is a celebration of this journey, honouring the symbiosis of learning and accomplishments. Just as the elements of the Kolam coalesce into a unified design, graduates are poised to illuminate the world with their unique insights and shape the future of design.
Young Designers 2024
The journey of a design student at NID is like the creation of a Kolam, each dot and line carefully placed, forming a pattern that evolves over time. From the early days of learning to the pinnacle of mastery, each phase is a brushstroke in a larger picture of growth and discovery. Like the Kolam which intertwines colours and symbols into a seamless design,
NID’s education blends diverse perspectives, techniques, and experiences, weaving them into a unified whole. The 44th Convocation celebrates this intricate journey where learning and achievement converge. Just as a Kolam illuminates the ground with its radiant patterns, our graduates are poised to light up the world, shaping the future of design with creativity, vision, and purpose.
Design Panorama
The DESIGN PANORAMA gallery showcases and celebrates the institute in all its multi-dimensional aspects from Education and Research, to its Outreach and Industry Collaborations, to Design Services, and the outstanding Accolades received by its students and faculty. The exhibition is designed and curated on the theme 'Unbound' which presents Design in India, Design for the World as it is shaped by the social, cultural, historical, geographic, and philosophical dimensions of both indigenous and global perspectives. An impactful design tries to blur the lines between these ideas, suggesting that it transcends boundaries.
Annual Design Show 2025
The fifth edition of the Annual Design Show 2025 is called “Proximities of Perception”; it has curated the works produced in NID, Ahmedabad across disciplines from all three campuses, over the course of the past year in classroom & industry sponsored projects, graduation projects, workshops, studio courses, electives, and international exchanges. 250 students contributed to this year’s open call through 150 responses that are catalogued into five themes - articulating how the design operates at multiple levels - engaging with identity, locality, craftsmanship, digital interfaces, and global narratives - visualising diverse heterogeneous futures that shape India’s design trajectory. The exhibition showcases work emerging from different disciplines under the same theme - addressing similar issues, breaching disciplinary boundaries to build a transdisciplinary narrative of design - brought together by a collaborative student-faculty curatorial team to narrate the design motives and values that the learners and teachers at NID engage in through their pedagogical processes and work outcomes.