In this design-oriented age, everybody wants unique, unusual designs in all the things they use in everyday life. It may be the interior of the house, hotel, airport, restaurant, a playpen, formal or informal wear; designing is the core requirement for all these. Therefore, to equip the students with the latest in these and to unfold their latent talent, an effort has been made by the college, in this direction, in the form of Bachelor in Design, a four year degree course. This college is one of the three institutions in the country and one of the two in Punjab, to introduce this course. After one year of Foundation Course, students can opt for any one specialization field in Fashion, interior & Textile.

Apparel-designing is a task of creating clothing for a wide range of occasions and life styles. This includes knowledge of customer/client behavior & interaction. BD curriculum deals with these questions by covering the development of apparel from sources of inspiration to finished garments. Students learn to observe and incorporate details & ideas for wearable clothing. The course trains one to pursue careers as designers, design-managers, fashion-forecasters, fashion-stylists, costume-designers, fashion-merchandisers, entrepreneurs, etc.

Textile Designing combines the love of colour, painting and drawing and the satisfaction of working with fibre & cloth patterns in painting, printed & woven forms. Students are taught analysis of basic fibres, spinning, weaving, dyeing-techniques, printing-methods, block-printing, screen-printing, surface-ornamentation, etc. The course prepares students for career as textile designers, colorists, weaving consultants, entrepreneurs, teachers, etc.

Interior designing as a discipline includes space-planning and designing of homes, offices, hotels, restaurants, departmental stores, banks, hospitals, boutiques, etc. The course work entails planning of environment in public and private spaces in traditional & contemporary style. BD curriculum teaches students to develop technical knowledge in drawing, drafting, space-planning, furniture-design, construction-technology, lighting, budget-control & project-management. This course prepares students as professional interior-designers who can practise as freelancers or can get attached to professional architectural firms. They can venture into furniture-manufacturing units & accessories also.

• Foundation courses in Drawing, Still Life, Nature Study, Perspective Drawing, Life Drawing.
• Workshops in Clay Modelling, Tempera, Paper Mashie.
• Computer aided design.
• Design Development ,Print Making ,Photograph.
• Solo Exhibitions , fashion shows and sales.

Bachelor of Design has Semester System

• To prepare the students for a fulfilling professional future and enable them to face the challenges in fast changing global scenario.
• To equip the youth for the job market both national and international.
• To train students for lucrative self-employment opportunities and to generate jobs for others in the fast growing arena of design.

To stimulate and harness the boundless creativity of young artists, the college reinforces classroom learning with workshops, field trips, shows and exhibitions. Given below is a list of some of these activities:

Workshops

To fuel the imagination of students, the college organizes workshops on a regular basis eg.

• Workshop conducted by Sarah & Purvin from FETCH Mask and Puppet Theatre, Birmingham.
• Another workshop conducted by Mona-Pali fashion designers from Kolkata.
• Workshop by Janet Sturge & Cas Holmes, artists from UK.

Fashion Shows

To unleash the originality of budding designers and to boost their creativity beyond the traditional lines, the college organizes fashion shows as a part of its routine. Some of the fashion shows are enlisted below:

• Spindrella
• Crescendo
• Noor-e-Nazar
• Rainbow
• Desire - a display of thematic costumes.
• ECOGLITZ

Exhibitions and Displays

Exhibition and Display’ forms an integral part of BD curriculum. The students get abundant opportunities to exhibit their creations and sell them also. Some of the exhibitions are as follows:

• Design faculty and students participated in Career Fair at Ludhiana.
• Students of Design exhibited their creations at International Indo-Pak Expo IPEX 2005 and sold designer suits, silver jewellery, hand-made jewellery, stoles and other products of art.

The finely polished talent of our designers is in great demand in industries, export houses, fashion stores and the like. Most of our students are working for the following firms:

• Nahar Mills, Sportsking Knitware, Usha Fabrics, Sunlord Apparels, Ujala Exports, Vardhman, Sri Laxmi Exports etc.

A big number of our designers are working with established names in the field, namely:

• Mona Sood, Arjun Sharma, Vishal Sood, Sukhvinder, Arun Bhatia, Ahluwalia.
• Many college designers are self-employed, profitably running their own businesses.