D Talks - The Design Podcast

A lot of dreams are in fact decisions. Decisions based on just enough faith. For Soundarya Gottapu, who intuitively always knew she had a knack for creative thinking, it was a series of failed "plans" that eventually built faith to give that intuition a form by taking up Fashion Designing. Four years into it and she discovered a genuine inclination towards illustrating garments more than making th...

In India, we have design entrance exams like UCEED, CEED(Common entrance exam for design), NID(national institute of design) & NIFT(National Institute of Fashion Technology). With the little information available on how to prepare for these exams, the struggle is real to understand how exactly one should prepare for the said exams. Let it be a bachelor's in design or master's in design, not on...

Engineering is the most common career path taken by so many Indians. One of them is Prashanth Vantimitta. From a very young age, he's had a great passion for cars and design but due to incorrect guidance, he chose to study automobile engineering after school. However, his interest in cars only increased and the desire to design cars magnified sevenfold. Soon after Prashanth graduated from college,...

My name is Sanjay Reddy and I am an illustrator. I used to draw as a kid and I never thought I could make a living out of it. Back in the day, I did not have the exposure and guidance to explore my career options. I only came to know about design as a career option when I started my bachelors in engineering. I still remember the day I discovered it, I told my friends and parents that I can do a jo...