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Hi dear,
The questions asked in the interview are pretty generic but if you try to bloat they will catch you and ask difficult questions. For example, if you say you love fashion, they will ask you why. So, be prepared for that. If you are planning to go into styling or designing, get your information about the top Indian and international designers (or stylists) and know your favourites (they can also ask why is the designer your favourite). It's always better to take a portfolio no matter what course you are joining cuz in the end all courses here are the creative kind and a good portfolio always helps one to stand out. You can add in your sketches, your photography, tour craft work, anything that brings our the artist in you. Lastly, dress semi-formally and be experimental with your fashion choice. It is appreciated here. Most of all have fun, it's not a hard drill.
All the best.

Hi dear,
Practice Illustrations:
To make a career in the field of design, one must practice illustrations. In order to crack AIEED 2018, you must practice the art of drawing and sketching. The total time you devote to your practice will surely reflect in your diagrams, and eventually in your entrance exam. One of the best ways to practice illustrations is to have good knowledge about shading, charcoal drawing and colour combinations (water colour, plastic colour etc. )
StrategiseYour Exam Preparation:
To appear for the exam, you must have a proper strategy of your exam. Proper planning and an effective strategy will help you remain focused and you will stick to your study plan. Therefore, planning and executing a perfect strategy will be suitable for you. Remain Positive:
Staying confident and positive during entrance exam have a huge impact on the overall performance in the exam. So, to crack AIEED 2018, you must stay self-motivated as exam anxiety will take you nowhere. Maintain proper healthy diet and success will be on your way. Speed and Accuracy:
All the entrance exams test speed and accuracy of the candidates. In order to increase your speed of attempting questions, you must take various mock tests and practice as many sample papers as possible since these will enhance your thinking skills and gradually your accuracy will also improve. Reference Books for AIEED2018
To prepare well for the entrance exam, candidates can refer and read the following books:
Living Spaces: 150 design ideas from around the world. Edited by Franco Magnani
Furniture & Interiors of the 1960s by Anne Bony
International Design Yearbook
New Interiors 1 Text by Daniel Giralt-Miracle
Furniture & Interiors of the 1940s by Anne Bony
Repertory 1950-1980, Pictures and ideas regarding the history of Italian furniture by Giuliana Gramigna.

Hello dear!
Try going for UI (User interface designing) as per the latest job trends that will sure shot hike up your chances to avail a good IT job since with the advancement in human skills and knowledge, MNCs and other companies are looking forward to a manpower which can serve them multiple aspects of the same project they assign you to. With graphic and animation designing you shall be brilliantly able to produce designs in which the website has to be developed but try being a part of website development as well by learning languages like HTML/ CSS, Bootstrap, Query, Javascript and little base of angular so that you yourself get a chance to convert the designs made by you into the running machine code. Together this course is going to prove you really beneficial as you can confirm from the job openings at naukri.com and the packages offered by companies if you have knowledge of all these technologies.
All the best!

Yes dear! Absolutely different they are. While real time project handling is considered the two terms are completely different in scope. Graphic design particularly deals with technologies like Photoshop, Core Draw, Logo designing, Illustrator etc. While you are a graphic designer you shall be asked to actually create a visual view of complete project/website you are working on based on the skeletal idea provided to you through UX team or department. You need to work on setting suitable attractive and accessible to all color combinations for web project, colors for each and every element, creation of a styleguide document, measuring each and every pixel of the web page and placing elements accordingly, setting widths and dimensions of other elements like a box, button etc. Whereas as an interactive designer you obtain all details from a graphic designer in the form of styleguides and PSD files and convert it into HTML, CSS, Bootstrap Query and other relevant technological code that runs as a user interface directly from the machine. Graphic designing is less or rather no code area and interactive designing is a pure code area but both of them hold equal job opportunities and interest in them. Also, with the growing IT advancement, both the fields are expected to gradually merge together into one.
Wish you Luck!

There are multiple design colleges in India and abroad. Based on your financial strength, you can chose either of it. Studying abroad definitely gives you an exposure of global design spectrum with on-hands experience of being mentored by industries leading professionals and designers. However, it is suggestive to pursue Masters from abroad since by then it will give you a clear road map of what specific specialization you want to explore further. India has some great colleges too for undergrad courses in Graphic Design. Some of those are: NID (Ahmedabad), MIT (Pune), NIFT (Mumbai & Delhi), Pearl Academy (Delhi), Shrishti Institute (Bangalore), SID (Pune), ISDI (Mumbai), DJ Academy of Design (Coimbatore), IDC (Mumbai, only Masters). Abroad: Royal College of Arts (UK), Central Saint Martins (UK), Parsons College (US), School of Visual Arts (US), Rhode Island School of Design (US), Cal Arts (US), Aalto University (Finland).