Gandhinagar Campus

Located in the capital city of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, NID-

Gandhinagar campus offers full time residential program in
M .Des (Master of Design) across seven disciplines (Lifestyle
Accessory Design, Apparel Design, New media design, Toy and
Game Design, Photography Design, Strategic Design
Management, and Transportation & Automobile Design), at the
moment.
The campus houses facilities and resources (Knowledge
Management Center, Central workshop (wood /metal), Laser
cutting, CNC machine, 3D printing, Digital lab, and discipline
specific labs/studios) that provide students with a gamut of
learning opportunities and help them enhance their creativity.
The campus also has an all-new auditorium/ amphi - theatre for
holding conferences and cultural events besides a Design Gallery
that witnesses frequent exhibitions.
The campus is also the home to the ICNF (Innovation Centre for
Natural Fibre), that is actively engaged in finding design
applications for natural fibres.
HISTORY OF NIDs
 The Sarabhai family, especially siblings Gautam Sarabhai and Gira
Sarabhai, played a major role in the establishment of the institute.
Designer and sculptor Dashrath Patel was its founder-secretary,
and industrial designer H. Kumar Vyas served as NID's first full-time
professor.
 Patel held the post until 1981 and was awarded the Padma Shri by
the central government the same year.
 In 2011, Vyas was awarded the Sir Misha Black Medal, given to
individuals across the globe who have made a significant
contribution to design education.
 The Sarabhais were instrumental in helping NID to form a structure
of its own in its early years by inviting a number of foreign
designers, architects and artists to India.
 In the 1950s, Gautam, Gira and Gita Sarabhai were learning from,
collaborating and organising educational exchanges with designers
like Frei Otto, Adrian Frutiger, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg,
the Eameses, and Louis Kahn amongst many others, at NID.
 The first Moog synthesisers were brought to India from New York
City, the United States by David Tudor when Billy Klüver suggested
that NID should collaborate with the international arts collaboration
organisation Experiments in Art and Technology.
 In 1979, NID hosted the United Nation's first global congress on
design from 14th to 24th January.
 Along with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, NID hosted
the ‘Design for Development’ congress in 2016, following a series of
working party discussions and initiatives led by the International
Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).