ATLAS SkillTech University: India's 1st Urban Multidisciplinary University ATLAS SkillTech University

Our Globally Benchmarked Curriculum

Semester 1

Laying the foundation for creative thinking and design. Students explore core principles, visual language, and problem-solving skills that prepare them for future learning.

Design Research 1

Use design thinking and visual methods to explore, research, observe patterns, reflect on insights, and craft compelling stories that communicate ideas, inspire action, and create meaningful impact.

Design Studio 1

Design Studio 1 introduces creative exploration through design thinking, observation, research, and storytelling. Students develop problem-solving, visual communication, and reflective practice skills to address real-world challenges.

Drawing Fundamentals 1

Drawing Fundamentals 1 builds core visual skills through observation, sketching, composition, form and technical drawing. Students explore line, shape, proportion, and perspective to strengthen creative expression and design communication.

Imaging 1

Imaging 1 introduces digital and analog imaging techniques, exploring composition, light, and narrative. Students learn visual storytelling, image editing, and creative expression for design and communication.

Space and Materiality

Space and Materiality explores relationships between form, material, and environment. Students experiment with textures, structures, and spatial design to understand sensory impact, function, and creative possibilities.

History in Context to Objects

History in Context to Objects examines cultural, social, and historical influences on objects. Students analyze artifacts to understand design evolution, material significance, and contextual storytelling.

Skill-Up Elective

Skill-Up Elective offers specialized learning opportunities beyond the core curriculum, enabling students to explore emerging tools, creative practices, and interdisciplinary skills that enhance professional growth.

Semester 2

Building confidence in experimentation and observation, students engage in hands-on projects that develop analytical thinking and creativity. The semester deepens design practice, emphasizing research, advanced techniques, sustainability, and user experience, fostering innovation, collaboration, and readiness for real-world challenges.

Design Research 2

Design Research 2 advances research skills, emphasizing observation, data analysis, and user insights. Students apply research backed by design thinking to identify problems, generate solutions, and inform creative strategies.

Design Studio 2

Design Studio 2 builds on creative practice, guiding students to apply research, experimentation, and design thinking in real-world projects, developing problem-solving, collaboration, and visual storytelling skills.

Drawing Fundamentals 2

Drawing Fundamentals 2 deepens observational and visual storytelling skills. Students refine visual communication and expressive techniques for creative design solutions.

Imaging 2

Imaging 2 advances digital and analog imaging techniques, focusing on composition, storytelling, and post-processing. Students create visually compelling narratives and enhance design communication through images.

Sustainable System

Sustainable System explores eco-friendly design principles, material choices, and systemic thinking. Students analyze environmental impact, interdependence of various systems using, and integrate responsible practices into design processes.

Time

Time examines its role as a design element, influencing memory, narrative, information flow, and user experience. Students explore temporal dynamics to create meaningful, engaging designs.

Skill-Up Elective

Why our Year 1 outpaces every
other design school?

ISDI School of Design

Multidisciplinary Exposure

Offers a Major–Minor Pathway where students combine core specialization with a secondary focus called a minor.

Integrated Design Thinking

Combines design thinking, observation, and research fostering strategic and creative problem-solving.

Holistic, Future-Ready Learning

Includes forward-looking courses like Sustainable System and Time, focusing on environmental impact.

Other Design Schools

Holistic, Future-Ready Learning

Other design schools follow single-track, restricting students to one specialisation throughout the program.

Theory–Practice Gap

Often separates theory and practice, introducing research much later as an
after-thought.

Aesthetic-Centric Focus

Primarily emphasizes form and aesthetics, with limited focus on sustainability or systems thinking.

Semester 3

Explore digital media, interaction design, and creative technologies. Students begin applying storytelling and visual strategies using AI and emerging tools in small projects.

History of Communication Design

Explores the evolution of communication design by studying movements, ideologies, and cultural contexts, shaping visual culture, critical perspectives, and reflective thinking that influences contemporary design practices.

Fundamentals of Digital Prototyping

Introduces principles of user experience design through website creation, interface prototyping, and interaction testing, enabling learners to build engaging, functional, and meaningful digital experiences aligned with user needs.

Fundamentals of Visual Narratives

Develops storytelling abilities by combining visuals, typography, and cultural metaphors, teaching students to craft compelling, cross-cultural design narratives that communicate ideas powerfully and resonate with diverse audiences.

Research Methodology 1

Covers essential research techniques including qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods, enabling students to conduct inquiry, gather insights, and apply human-centered approaches in communication design projects effectively.

Introduction to Typography

Builds strong foundations in typography, letterform design, and type hierarchy, while introducing coding and interaction design for communication, equipping students with practical and conceptual visual communication skills.

Art of Building Quirky Tales

Encourages experimentation with unconventional storytelling, using humor, bold perspectives, and playful design approaches to develop unique voices that challenge norms and expand creative boundaries in design.

Concepts and Sketches - Conceptual Visualization

Trains students in conceptual sketching to visualize ideas, explore symbolism, and create identity-driven logos and graphic marks that communicate values and brand personality effectively.

Semester 4

Translate concepts into engaging digital experiences. Projects strengthen design thinking, technical skills, and tech-enabled problem-solving.

Fundamentals of Interaction Design

Introduces principles of interaction design, teaching students to craft engaging, intuitive, and user-centered digital experiences by blending usability, feedback, and emotional resonance in product and service contexts.

Fundamentals of Immersive Media

Explores immersive technologies by developing interactive experiences using 3D assets within AR/VR environments, fostering innovation, experimentation, and critical understanding of digital immersion in storytelling and communication.

Advanced Typography

Deepens mastery of typography by studying historical evolution, color theory, and experimental approaches, enabling students to craft expressive, culturally relevant, and impactful typographic communication across mediums.

Indian Context of Communication Design

Investigates India’s diverse visual culture, traditions, and ideologies, enabling students to understand how cultural narratives shape communication design practices in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Semiotics in Communication

Examines meaning-making in visual culture using semiotic frameworks and critical inquiry, with emphasis on interpreting symbols, signs, and cultural codes within Indian communication design contexts.

Minor Track

The minor track you choose will continue across all the remaining years of your program.

Why our Year 2 outpaces every
other design
school?

ISDI School of Design

Narrative-Driven Learning

This year’s curriculum nurtures creative storytelling and visual communication that connects culture, emotion, and message.

Thinking through Making

Subjects strengthen ideation, visualization, and identity design from concept to execution.

Design with Insight

Subjects help students link user understanding with hands-on interface creation and testing.

Other Design Schools

Limited Creative Integration

Often focuses on static design principles, with minimal emphasis on storytelling or cultural narrative development.

Technique over Thought

Prioritizes software proficiency over conceptual thinking and creative strategy.

Sequential, Not Synergistic

Research and digital skills are usually taught in isolation, delaying practical application

Semester 5

Integrate design, storytelling, UX, and emerging technologies in larger projects. Develop innovation, iterative thinking, and collaboration skills.

Digital & Print Publication Design

Develops editorial storytelling skills across print and digital platforms, emphasizing layout, typography, imagery, and design strategies to create compelling, impactful, and visually cohesive communication experiences.

Design Research & Ethnographic Study

Builds strong research foundations through ethnographic methods, exploring culture, equity, and social contexts to inform design practices that are empathetic, inclusive, and contextually meaningful.

Branding Studio

Explores branding as a strategic, narrative-driven practice through media projects, using semiotics, visual identity, and design thinking to create innovative, culturally relevant brand experiences.

Minor Track

The minor track you choose will continue across all the remaining years of your program.

Semester 6

Push creative boundaries with AI-assisted design, immersive media, and interactive projects. Focus on advanced experimentation and future-ready digital skills.

Advanced Interaction Design

Explores advanced methods to design engaging digital experiences across platforms, systems, and interactive exhibits, integrating usability, storytelling, and technology to create immersive, user-centered communication solutions.

Sustainable Packaging Design

Develops innovative, eco-friendly packaging solutions that balance sustainability, functionality, and cost-efficiency, emphasizing material exploration, circular design principles, and real-world application for responsible communication and branding.

Consumer Behaviour, Technology and AI

Examines consumer behavior theories and their relationship with technology, introducing game design principles through research, analysis, and hands-on prototyping to create meaningful, user-centered interactive experiences.

Minor Track

The minor track you choose will continue across all the remaining years of your program.

Why our Year 3 outpaces every
other design
school?

ISDI School of Design

Cross-Platform Storytelling

Courses encourage narrative expression across print, digital, and interactive media.

Technology as Design Partner

Courses fuse coding, AR/VR, and data into the creative process.

Experiential Thinking

Courses emphasize creating sensory, spatial, and brand-based experiences that engage audiences emotionally.

Other Design Schools

Medium-Specific Focus

Learning is often confined to one format — print, digital, or motion — limiting experimentation across platforms.

Technology as a Tool

Digital tools are taught for execution, not as part of design thinking or concept development.

Static Presentation Focus

Projects are rarely documented or presented publicly, reducing real-world presentation experience.

Semester 7

Engage in live projects, internships, and industry collaborations. Refine professional skills, portfolio, and digital leadership capabilities.

Digital Dynamics

Explores motion design as a tool to enhance brand identity, teaching animation, visual storytelling, and practical projects that strengthen communication impact across diverse digital platforms.

Professional Practices and Ethics

Builds Industry etiquettes essential professional skills, including financial literacy, project management, and communication, while emphasizing ethical frameworks and responsible practices necessary for sustaining a successful design career.

Brand Strategies

Develops comprehensive brand strategy skills by applying segmentation, positioning, pricing, and legal considerations through practical case studies, enabling students to craft effective, competitive, and sustainable branding.

Creative Startup

Designed to equip students with essential business acumen and entrepreneurial skills, preparing them for the dynamic world of business and leadership. This course covers a wide array of topics, ranging from business finance, personal finance, and the banking system, to advanced subjects such as neuro-marketing and behavioural economics

Minor Track

The minor track you choose will continue across all the remaining years of your program.

Semester 8

Semester 8 culminates the capstone experience, guiding students through research, design execution, documentation, presentation, and public exhibition, delivering polished, user-centered, and professionally mentored creative outcomes.

Research Process

Initiates the capstone journey by conducting in-depth research, leveraging mentorship, and applying critical inquiry through live or self-directed design projects to inform innovative and meaningful solutions.

Design Process & Execution

Guides students to execute design solutions systematically using structured mentorship, design thinking frameworks, prototyping, and iterative refinement, ensuring creative ideas are realized effectively and professionally.

Documentation

Teaches digital documentation techniques to capture and communicate the entire design process, producing professional-quality records suitable for print, portfolio inclusion, and project presentations.

Presentation

Develops professional, ethical, and persuasive presentation skills through practical exercises and real-world case studies, emphasizing clarity, storytelling, and audience engagement in design communication.

Final Outcome

Supports final project delivery across diverse formats such as apps, films, websites, or installations, with mentor guidance to ensure high-quality, polished, and user-centered results.

Exhibition

Prepares students to publicly showcase their capstone projects in a mentored exhibition, emphasizing curation, audience engagement, professional presentation, and critical feedback for comprehensive learning outcomes.

Why our Year 4 outpaces every
other design
school?

ISDI School of Design

Integrated Professional Skills

Courses teach financial literacy, ethics, management, and entrepreneurship within the curriculum.

Research-Driven Capstone

Courses conduct in-depth research and iterative design to produce user-centered solutions.

Polished Public Presentation

Documentation, Presentation, and Exhibition teach students to professionally showcase work, and communicate their process

Other Design Schools

Skills in Isolation

Professional or business skills are usually taught separately, not embedded in design learning.

Output-Centric Projects

Capstones often focus on final deliverables without structured research or iterative mentorship.

Limited Exposure

Projects are rarely documented or presented publicly, reducing real-world presentation experience.

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Design for Real Life,
Not Just Portfolios

Our classrooms are live labs. You’ll ideate, iterate, fail, restart, and refine in spaces designed for doing, not just thinking.

Design With A
Global Perspective

Curriculum shaped by Parsons,
New York reimagined for today’s
Indian context.

Your Mentors Are
Also Makers

Learn from practicing designers, strategists, and studio founders,
the people who design the world
you interact with.

Everything is a
Studio Experience

Our classrooms are live labs. You’ll ideate, iterate, fail, restart, and refine in spaces designed for doing, not just thinking.

The Future is Cross-
Disciplinary

Work alongside fashion designers, product innovators, entrepreneurs, coders, and media artists, because good ideas don’t exist in silos.

Where concepts meet execution, in and beyond the classroom.

At ISDI, every project becomes part of a career-ready portfolio. From hands-on labs and design sprints to brand collaborations, internships, hackathons, and industry showcases, you graduate with real-world experience and work that speaks for itself.

Climb K2 - 2 days

Organized by the Art & Design Department of Sophia Polytechnic, Climb K2 is a visual communication seminar that unites art students across Mumbai, featuring industry leaders who inspire through their creative journeys and showcase design’s transformative power.

Repro House - For CD 3rd Year

Organized for 3rd-year CD students, the Reproscan Printing Press visit offered hands-on exposure to publication design, printing, and finishing processes bridging theory and practice while deepening understanding of the printing industry.

Visit to Swades Village

As part of the Design Research and Ethnographic Study course, Communication Design students from ATLAS SkillTech University collaborated with the Swades Foundation for a two-day immersion in Raigad villages, gaining firsthand insights into rural life, culture, and development initiatives.

Jaipur Immersion

The objective was to take them through the cultural, art and monumental heriatge of Jaipur. We also attended Workshops -Block printing , hand painting, Meenakari, Puppet making (storytelling) Meenakari jewellery. Blue pottery, Lac bangle making, Phad paintings

Workshop on block making

During their Jaipur trip, CD students explored the art of block printing, witnessing artisans carve intricate wooden blocks and trying the craft themselves, mixing colors, aligning patterns, and experiencing the joy of bringing designs to life.

Portfolio Review with Tanu Sinha (Design head Pepsico India)

3rd and 4th year CD students showed their portfolio work to PepsiCo and South Asia, head designer Tanu Sinha. She loved the work and gave them good feedback to improve on them. She was all praise for their maturity, skills and confidence in presenting.

Blue pottery workshop at Jaipur

During their Jaipur visit, CD students met skilled Blue Pottery artisans, learning about the craft’s Persian origins, Jaipur’s role as its hub, and the intricate process from molding to glazing while also understanding the challenges artisans face in preserving this traditional art.

Portfolio presentation to international faculty Amanda from Parsons.

3rd year showcased their brand and semiotics work to Prof Amanda, Parsons The New School and received feedback. She loved their work and gave some very positive feedback.

CD Students at WDCD

What Design Can Do (WDCD) is an international organisation that seeks to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, fair and just society using the power of design. Based in Amsterdam, with hubs in São Paulo, Mexico City, Delhi, Nairobi and Tokyo, WDCD started in 2011 and is initiated, curated and organised by creatives.

Yutika Pandurkar - Branding

Rebranding Doy Kids Soap as a trusted, cruelty free, innovative brand for child skincare, combining its legacy offun and safety with modern advancements in natural and organic formulations.

Tanishka Shah - Print & Publication

This project explores pop-up techniques in publication design, using folds, tabs, and 3D mechanisms to enhance reader engagement and create dynamic storytelling experiences.

Varshitha Injeti - Sustainable Packaging

Made from agar-based bioplastic, this flexible, translucent material combines agar, glycerine, and water with natural dyes like turmeric, chili, and beetroot, plus flower petals for decoration air-dried to create a sturdy, biodegradable sheet.

Mayuri Shewale - Biodegradable watch case

Created from groundnut shells. Often considered agricultural waste, groundnut shells have garnered attention for their potential applications across various industries due to their unique chemical composition and properties.

Maize leaf envelope

This innovative packaging for jewellery is made from naturally dried maize leaves. The leaves are removed and dried, then a coating is applied to keep the from leaves from drying out. They are woven together like a mat, and cut tinto shape. They retain stiffness and can be lined with cotton or paper, making a good alternative to bubble wrap envelopes.

Visual narratives

The narrative, “Nostalgia Through the Senses,” follows Aisha as she returns home unannounced after months away. Each sensory cue sight, sound, touch, and smell evokes vivid memories, immersing her in moments from the past.

Siddhi Thakur - Consumer Psychology Tricks

The students were taught various psychology tricks that brands use to increase their revenue, gain more customers and make them loyal. The students then chose a brand of their choice and thoroughly studied the communication to identify the psychological tricks.

Sidharth Girish - Consumer Psychology Tricks

This jewellery packaging is crafted from naturally dried maize leaves, coated for durability, woven into mats, and cut to shape, offering a stiff, sustainable alternative to bubble wrap envelopes.

Janaki Pandit - Sustainable Packagaing - Cereals

This jewellery packaging is crafted from naturally dried maize leaves, coated for durability, woven into mats, and cut to shape, offering a stiff, sustainable alternative to bubble wrap envelopes.

Student Projects in Motion

Where creativity meets momentum