Hi hello! Welcome to the chaotic canvas called BDes. If you thought this course was all about doodling with a fancy pencil, spoiler alert: it’s also about losing sleep over fonts and crying in RGB.
Life as a Bachelor of Design student is like living in a Pinterest board—with a lot more mess, mood swings, and MacBook screens. While your friends might worry about theory exams, you’ll be stressing over how “that one line isn’t giving the right vibe.”
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how much coffee it takes to survive a submission.”
🎨 Welcome to the Land of Mood Boards and Midnight Crises
BDes doesn’t follow a regular timetable. Your deadlines have moods of their own, your instructors speak in riddles like “this needs more emotion,” and critiques feel like performance reviews for your soul.
Classroom? Sometimes. Studio space? Often. Ground reality? You spend more time hunting for inspiration than eating actual food.
📚 Syllabus Includes…
- Typography & Thinking – Where you cry over Comic Sans (with valid reason).
- Visual Communication – How to express “the essence of freedom” using a square.
- Product Design – For those who think making a chair is a weekend project (hint: it’s not).
- UI/UX – Where every button placement is a battle of logic vs. aesthetics.
And of course, Crit Sessions —the modern-day gladiator ring.
☕ Hostel Life = Co-living with Creative Chaos
In BDes hostels:
- The walls are mood boards.
- Sleep is a suggestion.
- Maggi packets are an essential tool kit.
- Roommates double as models, critics, and part-time therapists.
You’ll often find group projects being discussed at 2 AM… with paint-stained pajamas and philosophical debates on the color blue.
🎭 Events, Fests & Fashion Tape
Whether it’s an exhibit, a design fair, or a random installation in the campus corridor—BDes students don’t wait for an event, they create one. Fests become their runway, cardboard becomes couture, and the campus becomes their stage.
Expect moments like:
- Walking around with life-size mockups.
- Hunting for thermocol like it’s treasure.
- Arguing passionately about minimalism.
🖥️ Software is Your Best Friend & Worst Enemy
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, Blender—you know them better than your relatives. And just when you master one, the software crashes without saving. Happens. Every. Time.
Ctrl+S becomes muscle memory. So does Ctrl+Z (for undoing life choices).
💡 Real Lessons BDes Teaches You
- Resilience: After 10 failed prototypes, you still keep designing.
- Presentation Skills: Selling your idea even when the model falls apart.
- Time Management: Juggling 6 hours of work into 2 hours (with 0 regrets).
- Dealing with Criticism: Gracefully accepting “it’s too basic” when you thought it was brilliant.
🎯 Wrapping Up: BDes—Where Creativity Has No Ctrl+Z
If you’re doing BDes, you’re not just earning a degree—you’re learning how to problem-solve with a sketchpad, argue with purpose, and innovate even when you’re out of glue and patience.
“A design student doesn’t break down—they just redesign the breakdown into something usable.”