Ahmedabad, 9 December 2014 National Institute of Design celebrated its 35th Convocation Day on Tuesday, 09 December 2014 at NID, Ahmedabad. Shri Shekhar Gupta, journalist and Padma Bhushan Awardee, delivered the Convocation address as the Chief Guest. This year in total 271 students graduated from various disciplines: 110 students from the four-year under-graduate programme; 148 from the two and half-year post graduate programme; 13 from the two year po...Read More

Ahmedabad/New Delhi, 7 July, 2014 National Institute of Design(NID) will receive the status of 'Institute of National Importance' soon. The bill proposing same has been passed unopposed by Rajya Sabha today. The bill will now go to Lok Sabha for discussion. As ruling BJP and opposition Congress both parties are in favor of the bill, it is very clear that bill will sail through. When asked to react to today's development, NID Ahmedabad Director Pradyuman...Read More

New Delhi, 7 July, 2014 The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed a bill to give the status of an institute of national importance to the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad. The bill was introduced by the government in 2013. It will enable the NID to conduct research and training in all disciplines related to design, confer honorary degrees, diploma, certificates and awards and other academic distinctions and titles in disciplines relating to design. It will al...Read More

Ahmedabad, 17 December 2013 Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, a game changer in India's healthcare world in his captivating address at National Institute of Design(NID) today evening not only spoke about issues India is facing in the Healthcare world, but also spoke about the way out. Most part of his speech covered not that what should be done, but covered what he has done already. Dr. Shetty speaks about why he prefers new doctors from poor families, he speaks about wives tra...Read More

Ahmedabad, 17 December 2013 Anand Mahindra, the Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra today delivered convocation addressed at the National Institute of Design(NID) in Ahmedabad. The first half of Shri Mahindra's address was about importance of design over technology. The other half was about design for human happiness through design. In later half Shri Mahindra also stressed upon need to design happy cities. A good speech, interesting not just for design ...Read More

Read this piece in Gujarati here By Japan K Pathak Ahmedabad, 29 September 2012 Gujarat Congress recalls its TV advertisement CDs Recently, Gujarat Congress sent Gujarati news TV channels a video of 10 to 15 minutes duration for broadcasting. In this video a play was performed in which the protagonist was in the getup of Narendra Modi. The co-actors were shown in the getup of Modi's ministers Anandiben Patel, Saurabh Patel and others. In many Congress organizes r...Read More

New Delhi, 14 March, 2012 National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad will have a dedicated railway design center with initial fund of Rs 10 crore, central railway minister Dinesh Trivedi announced this today in his railway budget speech in Lok Sabha. The minister said, "The National Institute of Design (NID) at Ahmedabad is internationally acclaimed as one of the foremost mulch-disciplinary institutions in the field of design, education and research. I had occasion ...Read More