Wood, Stone, Metal
The Hard Material Design is a furniture designing course of IICD that is a gateway to pursue a career in the crafts and design industry. Whether one wishes to learn metal, stone, or furniture design in India, the Hard Material Design caters to all the designing needs and requirements of the students.
The specialization in furniture designing course exposes the students to various materials, which include wood, metal, and stone. The unique furniture making courses exposes them to techniques, production processes, traditional knowledge, skills, conceptual and design development to evolve a contemporary Indian craft repertoire. The pedagogy to teach Hard Material Design at IICD is ‘hands-on’ learning and includes extensive field study, research, and learning from traditional and modern design techniques.
Unlike other furniture design courses that measure the performance merely on the basis of tests and grades, the progress of the students enrolled in the furniture making courses at IICD is monitored through tutorials, group critiques, work reviews, and seminars. All students must pass in individual subject modules and a formal end semester jury to progress to the subsequent semesters when they are expected to direct their work towards a specified context.
The emphasis at IICD is strongly on learning to understand materials in their various forms and developing products that evolve out of the logic of the materials and its process, social and cultural vocabulary, besides the strict needs of function and use.
Intake for Hard Material Design
The total intake at the Indian Institute of Crafts & Design, Jaipur, for its hard material design, i.e., metal/stone/furniture design course, is 25.
Career Prospects of Metal/Stone/Furniture Design in India
There are bright career prospects for all the students with IICD. They are:- To work as a crafts designer in a design house.
- To work as a craft manager in NGOs and other social organizations.
- To start an enterprise in the field of metal, wood, stone, etc. and other crafts.
- To work as a researcher for different organizations.
