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Footwear designing
An important part of a person’s dressing-up sensibilty and wardrobe is footwear. And in the present world of high fashion and beauty awareness,a person’s image is defined by the kind of clothes and shoes he or she wears. Thus,footwear as an industry and designing footwear as a profession has caught ground.

Suhas Jadhav,Senior Marketing Manager with DSK Supinfocom International Campus,where a course on footwear designing is up on offer,says, “Footwear designing is an aspect that comes under product designing. The eligibility for this course is a minimum of twelfth standard. We provide a two- year foundation designing and three- year advanced designing course,wherein we train candidates in shoe designing.”

Now-a-days footwear is made from leather,plastic,canvas,jute,rubber and even cloth. The footwear industry has evolved tremendously involving the use of sophisticated machinery and skilled manpower. Thus,footwear designing technology as of today is a lucrative career option.

“Shoe design students obtain an overall view of the footwear industry,as well as all the essential elements of what it takes to succeed. They learn how to express both creative talents and technical skills while acquiring a working knowledge of how to design,produce,merchandise and market footwear,” he adds.

Tattoo designing
Once looked upon as a job done by either gypsies or by people who haven’t been able to obtain respectable jobs,tattoo designing as a course has also taken the fancy of the new generation. And what in psychological terms was described as human curiosity to brand oneself with symbols,letters and insignias,has now transformed itself into the likes of a course that people can learn and practise as a profession.

“Becoming a tattoo designer is not everyone’s cup of tea. It is also not a career for people who want to be lazy,or who believe looks and manners do not matter. The career of a tattoo designer is a business like any other. This business is more difficult than others,due to the society’s prejudice against professional designers and studio owners. You can succeed in the tattoo industry,but you will need to be talented,self-driven,and always dedicated,” says Saurabh Tarpeshi,owner,Sabby’s Tattoo Studio in Koregaon Park.

“Tattoo designing is a fresh industry and its a successful and upcoming industry with a very huge scope.” he adds saying,“We have courses teaching tattoo designing that give basic training in the art,starting from the tracing of the tattoo,handling the tattoo,drawing machines to the post designing care that needs to be taken. The duration of the courses vary from 15 days to a month” he added.

Jewellery designing
Another industry that is growing fast is that of jewellery designing. The course has a tremendous employment potential and offers excellent career opportunities to professional executives in the industry. Graduates with specialisation in jewellery design and management are in great demand globally for managing the jewellery business. “For a course in jewellery designing all the fine details of jewellery making and designing are looked into. We provide one year professional certificate course in jewellery designing at INIFD,( International Insitiute Fashion Designing) Deccan,Pune,” says Amit Agarwal,Director,INIFD,Pune.

“They require degree of skill and precision and use a variety of specialized hand tools and equipments to design and manufacture new pieces of jewellery. To be successful in this field they should be able to understand the market,identify the consumer needs,visualise ideas to suit the demands and create impressive presentations to communicate the end product to the client” he adds.