Career paths for Lifestyle and Accessory design aspirants

Due to the changing global business dynamics, there are plenty of career opportunities for lifestyle and accessory design degree holders such as interiors, jewellery, luggage, trend research and forecasting, and even academics

Ever entered a workspace where a hand-crafted accessory drew your attention? Does the interior of a restaurant or cafe entice you? Or envied a neighbour for that unique flower vase in their living room? Likely all these are created by a “lifestyle accessory designer”.

Due to the increase in spending power, more and more people have started investing in accessories. Lifestyle Accessory Designing is an exciting field that involves innovation, creativity, and experimentation. In today’s world, fashion is much more than clothes. For a complete ensemble, many people rely on the addition of fashionable accessories. Accessories not only help complete an outfit but also add a splash of colour, personality, and style to the wearer. It deals with the design of a wide variety of wearable and non-wearable accessory objects, encompassing personal accessories such as bags, shoes, jewellery as well as home décor objects. The role of an accessory designer is to harmonise both the aesthetics and functionality of lifestyle products.

In today’s world, fashion is much more than clothes. For a complete ensemble, many people rely on the addition of fashionable accessories.

The Lifestyle Accessory Design (LAD) undergraduate programme educates and trains students to design unique and appealing products while keeping in mind the current fashion trends. Design aspirants should be aware of the past, current, and future developments in the fashion industry. Students pursuing lifestyle and accessory design get an opportunity to work in a wide spectrum of domains such as jewellery; watches; bags; luggage; footwear; lighting; furniture, interior objects, and space accessories. Lifestyle and Accessory design professionals should be creative, understand the technology and markets, can solve problems, possess critical-thinking skills, should be result-oriented and can work in a team or lead a team.

Design aspirants should be aware of the past, current, and future developments in the fashion industry. Students pursuing lifestyle and accessory design get an opportunity to work in a wide spectrum of domains such as jewellery; watches; bags; luggage; footwear; lighting; furniture, interior objects, and space accessories.

Ajit Bhandari from UPES School of Design says, “Lifestyle Accessory Design programme builds proficiency to take on challenges of rapidly developing neo-luxury markets for consumers who express their lifestyle through their accessories. The undergraduate programme is structured to inculcate skills of design, research, strategy, technology, and management required to develop a desirable lifestyle accessory. Due to the changing global business dynamics, there are plenty of career opportunities in interiors, jewellery, luggage, trend research and forecasting, and even academics. Design aspirants should have a keen sense of observation, problem-solving skills and interest in exploring new things.”

UPES School of Design

UPES School of Design prepares skilled professionals well-versed with the latest technology and are familiar with two or more areas of importance, which they achieve through specialised programs that the university offers. The new-age specialisations offered by the School of Design are made for creative minds who can think beyond conventional.

UPES students graduate as responsible designers who have the willingness to collaborate, possess cultural understanding, are supple and have broad-based innovation capabilities. UPES equips students to create intellectual, inclusive, and sensitive designs, whether to make big differences or small ones. Industry alliances such as Lakshya Digital, Desmania Design, and Studio 34 interweave real-world learning with classroom teaching in a way that students employ design-led problem-solving techniques to address the most pressing issues of the world. Students are encouraged to think out-of-the-box and interact with the outside world to learn about the design possibilities in everyday life. UPES School of Design primarily focuses on education through exploration. With an infrastructure comprising state-of-the-art labs, high-end computer workstations, vacuum-forming machines, and spray-painting booths, among other creative learning aids, the UPES School of Design guides and directs youth to their true potential in creating pioneering designs.

About the author

Manisha Dhingra is an Executive Content Writer at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies [UPES]. She has worked with media organisations such as NDTV and India Today in the past. In her current role, she primarily writes on trends in the education industry and skills needed for workplaces of the future

 

 

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