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From apps to signage, from illustrated story books to animation films, from magazine layouts to eye-catching brand logos, every aspect of your life involves adept communications.

Communication Design Course

Communication design teaches you to create compelling messages from concept stage to final form by using appropriate language, visuals, moving images and digital experiences. Our graphic designing course prepares you to address the needs of a hyper-connected world through a wide range of visual media ranging from digital and web to print and publications.

Communication Design

Course highlights

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Versatile Designers

Learning Beyond the Studios  

Creative Collaborations

Design for a better future

Students get exposure to a variety of fields within the domain of Communication Design, such as graphics & publication, film & animation, branding & advertising and UX/Ul - and many more. Simultaneously, the communication design course prepares students to be specialists in their chosen field, by selecting projects that sharpen their expertise. This approach enables them to move between generalist and specialist, putting them in an advantageous position to address rapidly evolving requirements in their field.

We extend learning beyond the confines of the studio into the larger social, cultural and commercial realms. Students of Communication Design explore the vast potential of the city of Delhi, and discover needs and problem areas to find suitable design solutions; the citizens are your stakeholders, the city's culture and its arts, their repository. Our past collaborations on projects include Select City Walk Mall, Katha Publications, Projection mapping for Martyr's Memorial Museum Hussainiwala, Technical upgrades at the National Museum, New Delhi etc.

Active collaborations between professionals, faculty and peers from different disciplines allows students to learn 'with' and 'from' each other. The communication design course places emphasis on networking, pitching ideas with confidence and seeking feedback from experts, infuses students with an entrepreneurial spirit, as they become experienced and employable.

Society's needs can inspire designers to innovate. Our communication design students are taught to investigate these needs to create solutions that are not only conceptually strong but also shape how our world looks and functions. Through carefully crafted human-centered projects, we sensitise students to create communications that inform, educate and contribute to society's well-being .

Packaging and visual branding
UI/UX application
Story telling

Creation of packaging and visual branding for Beejom - an organisation promoting sustainable lifestyle practices. Monika Jain, Communication Design (Batch 2018 - 2022)

‘Dadvice’, a UI/UX application, is a pregnancy guiding app for ‘Dad-to-be’ that covers the trimesters of pregnancy and celebrates the joy of parenthood. Shreya Bhardwaj, student of Communication Design (Batch 2018 - 2022)

A series of fun rhyming story books that revolves around Chandu, The Wonder Pig, a storybook project involving storytelling, visual design and illustration. Janvi Khera, Communication Design (Batch 2018 - 2022)

success story

Success Stories

Malika Johari
Communication Design
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Specscart

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Cognizant

2021
Santushti Luthra
Communication Design
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Multia

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Learn With Leaders

2023
Manuel Edwin NJ
Communication Design
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Ogilvy

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Digital Jalebi

2020
Angad Singh
Interior Architecture Design
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Gurdas Studio

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Vedantu

2020 BATCH
Sakshi Jain
Communication Design
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Dear Chocolate

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YUJ Designs

2021 BATCH
Anjali Esther Joshy
Communication Design
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Niswey

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Carelon Global Solutions

2021

The faculty here are professionals, they have their own studios. Its great to be mentored by them

"Foundation is a learning adventure and a journey of discovery that challenges us. It has given us many memorable moments of triumphs and celebrations"

Angad Singh, Interior Architecture Design
Sakshi Jain, Communication Design

Aarti Uberoi
Associate ProfessorCommunication Design
Sakshi Jain
Associate ProfessorVisual Communication Design

course leader

Chandrika Kumari
Chandrika Kumari
Associate Professor

Chandrika holds a master degree in Interactive Multimedia from The LCC, London pivoting the area of Retail, Financial and Travel by applying innovative and transformative thinking. She pursued her Bachelor’s degree in History and Spanish from Delhi University in 2000.

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Shaaz Ahmed
Associate Professor

Rich experience of over 20 years in Animation, Design and Storytelling, Shaaz has been an explorer in methods and mediums of visual narratives. As the Founding Director of Mud n Water - a Communication Design Studio, he has produced Animations, Urban Art, Space Design, Ad Films, Short films, Documentaries and Performance Art.

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Devan Das
Assistant Professor

Devan is a design academician with 12 years of versatile experience in both teaching and design industry. He has a B.Des from NIFT - Chennai and an M.Des from NIFT - Delhi. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from MITID Pune in the area of Design Education - exploring design metaphors as a bridge between cultural interface and curriculum development (for design) in Indian higher education.

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Gagan Narhe
Assistant Professor

Gagan is an interdisciplinary designer, with practice in digital and information design. He holds a Masters degree in graphic design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and has completed his bachelors in Applied arts. Gagan has experience of working in the areas of digital product development, game design, IOT products and multimedia journalism.

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Ikroop Sandhu
Assistant Professor

With 15 years of experience in the field of illustration, storytelling, and animation, Ikroop Sandhu is a Graphic Novelist. She completed her graduation in Philosophy from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and continued to pursue her passion for artistic expression from Vancouver Film School, Canada. Her diverse base of clients over the years includes NGOs, contemporary Indian artists, and Silicon Valley engineers. She has taken workshops on drawing and graphic storytelling for children and adults, also taught animation and drawing as a guest faculty at NIFT, Kangra. She has honed her artistic skills by making video art pieces for contemporary Indian artists such as Raqs Media Collective, Sarnath Bannerjee, and Mochu. Her work has been exhibited at The Centre Pompidou (Paris), The Tate Modern (London), The Gardner Museum (Boston), The Photographers’ Gallery (London), The Sharjah Biennale (UAE), The India Art Fair (New Delhi) and The Gwangju Biennale (Korea). She has also been a speaker at events organised by SAAG (South Asian Avant-Garde), Ananke - Women in Literature Festival (Dubai), and the Liberty and Light Festival (Goa). Over the years her illustrated stories have been featured in newspapers and magazines such as Times of India, The Hindu, Mint, and Platform.

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Avanish Sathianathan
Lecturer

With nearly ten years of experience, Avanish has an M.A. in Sequential Design & Illustration from the University of Brighton, UK, and a Graduate Diploma in Communication Design from the IILM School of Design, Gurgaon.

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Oshin Vipra Sagar
Lecturer

Oshin is a Communication Design alumna from DJ Academy of Design, Coimbatore, and has a master's degree from Nalanda University, Rajgir. In her young career, she has worked on a breadth of projects in the industry across design agencies to startups ranging from graphic design to UI/UX. Having an analytical bend, she is a firm believer in the design process. She likes to combine her learnings and abilities best through works that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

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Inderjit Singh Jassel
Technical Lecturer

Inderjit Singh Jassel is a seasoned industry professional with over 13 years of experience in Visual Communication and Graphic Design. He has hands-on experience in creative project management and is highly skilled in tech applications in design

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Kaushikee Gupta
Adjunct Faculty

Kaushikee is an artist, writer and educator based in Delhi. Kaushikee holds a Postgraduate degree from the Royal College of Art and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from the University for the Creative Arts.

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Pranay Patwardhan
Adjunct Faculty

With a graduate degree in Animation from DSK Supinfocom - Pune, Pranay Patwardhan is an accomplished artist, illustrator and animator.

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Masterclasses & Group Discussions at IIAD
Graphic designing at IIAD
Graphic design
Graphic design Course

Students are taught by design professionals. They learn to create compelling messages from concept stage to final form by using appropriate mediums.

IIAD’s photography lab is equipped with tools like DSLR cameras, professional lighting, backgrounds and screens made available for students to explore visuals, moving images and for documentation purposes.

Linocut and Woodcut printing - Communication Design students put up an exhibition of their work built around 2 key themes - Personal Narratives and Visual Language.

IIAD students exhibit their work as part of the annual global Art Challenge - INKTOBER 2019.

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