Dr. D. Y. Patil School Of Design, Pune: Latest News, Events, Photos & Campus Reports

Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design organizes a workshop on “The Growing Growling Interior Design Industry – Career Paths”

Date: March 23, 2023

Mr. Bharat Pathak, a Modular Kitchen Consultant and a Trainer, has graciously agreed to advise us and our young creatives on the best ways to advance in the field of interior design.

Exactly as the title, "The Expanding Growling Interior Design Business - Career Options," suggests, the workshop was both in-depth and intense.

Our first-semester students were invited to this session, which was designed to help them learn more about Interior Design's potential applications in the modern world. Simply said, the field of interior design is a veritable smorgasbord of niches to explore and doors to open. Students from Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design in Pune were thrilled to meet Mr. Bharat Pathak and enthusiastic about the event's goals.

When it comes to deciding on a career path, we make it our mission to put pupils at ease so that they can pursue it with enthusiasm. So, a baby step in the direction of prospective employment and the means to get ready for it.

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Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design organizes a workshop on “Flaunt your style”

Chief Guest: Pallavi Kaushik - Pageant coach, Image consultant, Trainer - soft skills

Date: March 20, 2023

“Flaunt Your Style” is a human quotient that we all want to use to create an impact. Though it is important, it is a fact that very few realize how to make it naturally possible.

Here is Ms. Pallavi Kaushik, a pageant coach, an image consultant and a trainer on soft skills, to assist our students to understand the fundamentals of the “Style” quotient. Style does not only mean the power of dressing, the color combination, the contrast or wearing dark-to-light, it’s also about personality, the in and out of an individual. The first session has begun with breaking the ice and melting it to no shape (empty your mind to understand the fundamentals of “Flaunt your Style” or we can say flaunt your personality.

As the days progressed, the sessions drew attention to various characteristics of what is personality. In short, personality includes the interior and exterior of every individual which derives through various dimensions such as communication, presentation, confidence, body language, eye contact, the dressing and appearance, humor, social sensitivity, the mannerism, etiquette, expressions, smile, ability to deal with situations etc. These areas, one should never miss upon o progress ahead in life, she stated. 

“Aptitude and Attitude defines one Altitude”. It is ninety percent of the attitude contributes to success and just ten percent is an aptitude that contributes to being successful. Personality is undoubtedly a culmination of inner and exterior that defines one’s personality.

Ms. Pallavi Kaushik also shared insights on regular body care. Hygiene, personal grooming, and why one must have a fit body and mind is something which she has emphasized upon to have a good personality. Practicing yoga, any sport or a cardiovascular activity or dance or hitting a gym for some time every day also adds to a great personality mind she added.

What you wear and how you carry yourself also leaves an impression on. 

Attire must be paid attention to, which we all miss out on, or do not give too much of importance. 

Our students are trained on the traits, qualities, habits, skills and behavior apart from technical skills and expertise in the domain of fashion, interior, product or communication. The zeal amongst the students reflects in their day-to-day activities. Here, we nurture each student’s passion to be in the field of design where we train them to be a better personalities every day. 

The programs for the development of personality, dressing to make an impact, displaying your confidence, creating an impression, and how to be prompt and humorous are important in the world of design when one aspires to be a technician, a manager, or an entrepreneur.

Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design organizes a workshop on “The Sneak Peak of Fashion Industry”

Chief Guest: Ms. Vilvin Sabu 

Change of era in fashion

Date: March 20, 2023

There has been a significant change in the industry of fashion for last twenty years or so. The industry has witnessed a tremendous potential in field of fashion globally and nationally. The biggest impact on the industry is shift from retail to organized retail and further moved to digitalization. This impact has been on the fashion companies and the end users. Due to digitalization, suddenly the world has got closer where a consumer has multiple options in fashion from multiple companies. Fashion buyers earlier had a choice but it was earlier quite a monopolistic market as customization of fashion for the clientele was all done by the fashion designer and now the buyers still have craving for latest fashion trend every week or a month and for lesser cost.

Time-span to deliver has shortened

For a fashion stylist there was a time where the stylist had enough time to explore design possibilities few years ago and now it has been a stressful enough for the designer or the stylist to create a variety and fast moving fashion options possible. Thankfully, in the digital era, there is a lot of data available about the consumers, about the fashion trends, the reviews which gives quick information on the product quality and it’s pricing.

The New Challenges

Though there have been enough challenges in the recent past, there are global industry initiatives for sustainable practices in the complete life cycle. These initiatives set particular standards for importing fabrics, innovation in the design, and materials used for the fashion items. Online shopping has been a platform last few years where consumers have indulged in shopping from various select portals. To mention a few are Myntra, Nyka, Amazon, etc. In the years to come, online platforms will continue to grow in all segments of fashion having their own labels.

User experience

Fashion companies are trying hard to meet the user experience and betterment of product and services to keep the customer engaged that may increase repetitive purchase. The use of Artificial Intelligence, communication technology, the digital marketing and social media has made the market even more competitive amongst the brands into fashion in their own respective domain. To sustain in the market, it is important for each company to deliver the best, creative, trendy and sustainable fashion for the product. As many companies having collaborated with the online shopping companies, there is still some fear amongst the traditional brand companies to lose their market credibility and control over the market. It may happen sooner or later where collaborations will happen between these two. Fashion companies may have to keep redefining the benchmark of quality of the product, service and the final user experience of the customer.

For one to be in the world of fashion may really have to be a braised with world today and anticipate tomorrow. It doesn’t matter whether one makes a career in fashion as a stylist, a designer, a pattern maker, a boutique manager or an entrepreneur; be a part of the stride to keep changing and accepting the new. It is surely not going to be the same every day.

Students at Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design have been engaged in the learning of changing market trends. The impact of consumer behaviour, economy, social and natural calamities along with the rapidly changing technology dynamics in the fashion industry.

Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design organizes a workshop on “What Goes Into Interior Design – From operational perspective”

Chief Guest: Ar. Rahul Bhandari – Advisory and Consultancy in Interior Design and Decoration

Date: March 20, 2023

Ar. Rahul Bhandari Sir is an Architect and he has his own consultant and Advisory in interior design and decoration. He has delivered enormous projects and assignments in interior and architecture as a consultant understanding the mood board of every clientele that he has served. A professional who believes in understanding the choice of clientele and designing the project giving it a finesse. 

During the interaction with our students from the foundation year, he categorically insisted on Know the client. Understand its expectations. Design the plan-of-action. Discuss the investment necessary with the client and walk the clientele through the entire journey of offerings. He stated that it is necessary for an interior designer to be ready with entire project from start-to-end to execute well on the project site. 

There are many challenges that any interior designer faces on-site working with “the brains and labour force”. It is important to be specific and give clarity about the expected outcome from interior perspective to various teams working on-site. But one should keep in mind is we need to deliver the best interior according to the architecture designed. As an interior designer delegation of work, conversation with labour in regional language, explaining them the specifications is a big challenge. So it is very crucial that every student must focus on the skills apart from the technical skills only.

The workshop made its way explaining our students the general process involved in interior design project.

• Site surveys and visits
• Client's requirements
• Finalising concept and floor plans
• Work drawing and elevation plan
• Estimation and Bill 
• Quantity and Execution 

To conclude, Interior Design has tremendous prospects in future provided how a student’s develop themselves.

Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design, Pune organized “The Design Thinking worskhop”

Date: March 17, 2023

Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design, Pune organized “The Design Thinking worskhop” from 2-3 March, 2023. The chief guest for the event was Mr. Vineet Raj Kapoor. He is the founder Director of SXILL and Chandigarh Design School. He is also India's official Industrial Design Technology Expert for World skills. Besides, he leads the Indian Delegation to ACE Fair Korea every year.

Some of his engagements in 2022-23 only Design Thinking and Narrative, JNU, Jaipur, a lead speaker as a Founder's Gyaan - National Start-up Day at BITS Pilani, Global Schoolpreneurs Summit in 2022 at ISB Mohali, delivered a workshop at CGC Landran on Design Thinking Workshop, Gamification of Innovation - Serious Play Conference at University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA, Designing Happiness - World Design Day event under World Design Organization, NUST MISIS, Moscow. He has many more engagement opportunities to boast about at national and international levels.

He has also been a Jury at Wharton School to evaluate QS Reimagine Education Awards, BRICS Future Skills Challenge (5 BRICS Nations) in 2022, Eurasian skills competition where 20 nations participated in 2022, Jury Expert at 4th International Skills Competition at Khabarovsk.

Mr. Kapoor has been instrumental in building and developing faculty and academicians across all levels toward excellence in education in the field of design. He has conducted faculty development programs and workshops on Industrial design, design thinking, Game design and usability courses as a keynote speaker, a panelist, a mentor, and as a faculty for over a couple of decades. He is also a First Chief Mentor at Shiksha.com and more than 4,000 views on Quora for student guidance.

During his workshop for 2 days at Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design, he interacted with the students on the basics of Design. The workshop was a more of non-linear method and participative learning approach that students enjoyed and could make the most out of it.

Fundamentally, it is the individual brain that woks behind being an intellectual or being intellectual and creative. The “Left Brain and Right Brain” orientation defines an individual thinking pattern. He also stated the difference between an individual who thinks with the right brain and the left brain. What may happen if an individual is more apt of using left or right brain and also what if an individual may not use any of the sides?

In the workshop on “Design Thinking” hosted at Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design, one of the renowned institutes offering Design program, Mr. Kapoor elaborated on the process and expected outcome during each phase. Design Thinking is a process that is continuous and used to first understand the users, the challenge that users may face, defining the set of challenges, create and innovate reasonable solutions and test them to understand its implementation and user ability. 

In the process of Design Thinking, Mr. Kapoor added, the team of individuals have the freedom to generate tremendous solutions, to dig deep on the problem areas, its cause-effects, and unidentifiable areas too and come with innovative ideas to answer those.

At Dr. D. Y. Patil School of Design where specializations like Product, Communication, Fashion Lifestyle and Boutique Management and Interior Design Styling and Practice are offered in the field of Design; we believe, students are honoured and delighted to have Mr. Vineet Raj Kapoor for his workshop on Design Thinking. His insights have been fruitful to understand the term Design Thinking, the process, its importance in today’s world for young minds who are looking forward to be in one or the other industry.