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 garments, materials, and creative concepts. Apply foundational skills enhanced by digital design tools and emerging tech.

Fashion Design Studio 3: Creative Process

Introduces textile fundamentals, research methodologies, and collaborative practices, enabling students to develop innovative fashion design concepts through experimentation, creative exploration, and structured design processes.

Fashion Technical Studio 1

Builds essential garment-making skills, including pattern making, draping, and sewing techniques, allowing students to translate fashion concepts into accurately constructed, wearable designs.

Fashion Drawing Studio

Develops fashion illustration skills by emphasizing figure drawing, rendering, and personal style, enabling students to communicate design ideas visually with precision and creativity.

Introduction to Fashion History

Explores modern fashion history from couture to ready-to-wear, examining cultural, social, and economic influences on fashion evolution and contemporary design practices.

Textile History of India

Studies India’s rich textile heritage, historical trade routes, and foundational textile terminology, fostering an understanding of cultural context, traditional techniques, and design inspiration.

Form and Material Studies

Teaches accessory and product design through material experimentation, 3D form exploration, and innovative prototyping, encouraging tactile, aesthetic, and functional understanding of design objects.

Minor Track

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

Semester 4

Translate ideas into wearable designs. Strengthen construction, styling, and experimentation skills using tech-assisted techniques.

Fashion Technical Lab 2

Advances garment-making skills through hands-on making and exploration of technical concepts, enhancing technical proficiency, precision and creativity in executing creative fashion concepts.

Textile Print Design

Teaches innovative textile print techniques, enabling students to create visually appealing, market-relevant patterns and prints for fashion applications with practical experimentation and design thinking.

Fabric Formation Techniques

Explores fabric identification, construction methods, and structural properties through practical experimentation, fostering understanding of material behavior for informed fashion and textile design decisions.

Lifestyle Accessories

Designs functional and aesthetic lifestyle accessories, emphasizing form, construction techniques, and user-centered approaches to create innovative and wearable products.

Graphic Design Studio

Explores fabric formation techniques such as knitting, crochet and weaving through practical experimentation and direction of creative concepts to appropriate end uses.

Visual Arts

Explores key twentieth century art movements as a way to understanding the evolution and growth of visual arts and how artistic process can inform the creative process of the designer.

Textile Design (Study of Textile Culture)

Explores textile culture and heritage to understand the traditions and conventions practised in developing distinctive textile designs

Fashion & Lifestyle Design Headgear Design

Develops headgear design skills through concept generation, prototyping, and accessory-making techniques, balancing aesthetics, functionality, and cultural relevance in fashion projects.

Craft Documentation

Teaches systematic documentation of craft techniques, cultural practices, and design processes, producing professional records for research, preservation, and creative application in fashion design.

Fashion Semantics Studio: Visual Communication 1

Builds visual communication proficiency to express fashion identity and concepts through illustration, digital media, typography, and creative storytelling strategies.

Fashion Design Studio 4: Creative Process

Enhances creative exploration and design execution through hands-on fashion projects, studio practice, and iterative experimentation, fostering innovation and personal design expression.

Minor Track

Builds visual communication proficiency to express fashion identity and concepts through illustration, digital media and creative storytelling strategies.

Why our Year 2 outpaces every
other design
school?

ISDI School of Design

Creative Studio Immersion

Hands-on studios foster collaboration, experimentation, and innovation.

Material-Driven Learning

Labs blend making, testing, and real-world application.

Cultural & Visual Context

Courses link heritage and storytelling to design practice.

Other Design Schools

Limited Exploration

Focus on fixed briefs with minimal creative freedom.

Technique Over Innovation

Skills taught in isolation, little experimentation.

Disconnected Theory

Theory detached from real-world design context.

Semester 5

Develop larger collections integrating aesthetics, functionality, innovation, and digital/AI tools. Build iterative and critical thinking skills.

Fashion Design Studio 5

Explores the development of fashion design concepts in the context of society, culture and markets. Students develop a more comprehensive approach to design development backed by research.

Visual Communication Studio 2 - FD

Advances projects in Illustration, use of digital media, and storytelling equipping students with a range of storytelling devices.

Introduction to Fashion Studies

Exposes the students to different theoretical perspectives used to study fashion as a modern and global phenomenon.

Specialized Studio 1

Guides development of personalized fashion collections tailored to specific market needs, emphasizing concept development, design execution, and professional portfolio-quality outputs.

Minor Track

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

Semester 6

Push boundaries with advanced garment design, styling, and tech-enabled experimentation. Focus on sustainable and innovative solutions.

Fashion Design Studio 6

Advances design processes to include personal inspirations and individually developed techniques of ideation and design development incorporating a breadth of design visualization skills.

Research Methodology

Teaches structured research methods using visual, narrative, and analytical tools, supporting critical design thinking and evidence-based decision-making for impactful fashion and lifestyle design projects.

Fashion design (Crafts and Textiles After 1970)

Develops sustainable fashion practices aligned with brand identity, emphasizing post-1970 textile and craft e volution through industry collaborations and practical design experimentation.

Fashion & Lifestyle Design (Jewelry)

Explores experimental jewelry design by integrating traditional craft techniques, textiles, and innovative materials, producing wearable, culturally informed, and visually striking fashion accessories.

Industry Live Project

Provides immersive, hands-on experience in fashion retail, merchandising, and product design enabling students to apply theoretical knowledge to real-world industry challenges.

Fashion Retail Dynamics

Examines how fashion concepts are brought to the path of consumption in the highly dynamic and competitive fashion retail industry.

Traditional Textile Crafts of India

Examines India’s rich textile traditions, their cultural heritage, craftsmanship, and community relevance, fostering awareness of sustainable practices and design inspiration from historical techniques.

Specialized Studio 2

Applies user-centered design principles to develop practical fashion solutions, emphasizing industrial relevance, functionality, and professional execution for market-ready apparel and lifestyle products.

Digital Fashion

Explores human-centered digital innovation in fashion design, combining technology, creativity, and visualization tools to produce interactive, forward-thinking, and experiential digital fashion solutions.

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

Industry-Connected Studios

Live projects and specialized studios bridge classroom learning with real-world fashion markets.

Technology & Innovation Focus

Courses like Digital Fashion and Fashion Innovation integrate emerging tools and tech-driven creativity.

Cultural & Sustainable Perspective

Blend of traditional textile heritage and modern sustainability practices.

Other Design Schools

Limited Industry Exposure

Projects often remain academic with minimal professional engagement.

Traditional Methods

Conventional craft focus with slow adaptation to digital trends.

Global Over Local

Less emphasis on regional crafts and sustainable design thinking.

Semester 7

Engage in live projects, shows, and collaborations. Develop professional skills, presentation, and tech-enhanced industry readiness.

Design Resolution Studio

Develops advanced technical design and prototyping skills, guiding students to create a cohesive three-look fashion collection that demonstrates creativity, craftsmanship, and market awareness.

Professional Practice and Ethics

Builds a strong professional identity through business communication, networking, ethical practices, and confident presentation skills, preparing students for successful careers in the fashion industry.

Fashion Design Innovation Studio 7

Encourages personal expression and innovation by guiding students in developing fashion collections that reflect individual identity, creativity, and forward-thinking design approaches.

Fabric Styling Lab

Explores fabric properties, draping, and styling techniques to support creative fashion collection development, emphasizing material experimentation and aesthetic refinement for innovative design outcomes.

Minor Track

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

Semester 8

Present a final product portfolio demonstrating innovation, creativity, and readiness to lead in a tech-enabled industry.

Thesis Research and Writing

Advances creative signatures developed in earlier stages of the progarm towards innovative design strategies and documents the development through practice-based thesis research and writing.

Fashion Styling Studio

Explores creative approaches to presentation of fashion concepts through effective styling and visual communication strategies.

Design Thesis Technical Lab

Supports the development of innovative and market-ready products as part of students' final year thesis through strategic collaborations with artisans and/ or manufacturers.

Minor Track

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

Why our Year 4 outpaces every
other design
school?

ISDI School of Design

Industry-Ready Thesis Projects

Combines research, making, and real-world collaborations.

Creative Identity

Encourages personal style and innovation.

Career-Focused Learning

Prepares students for fashion business and branding.

Other Design Schools

Academic-Only Theses

Graduation projects often remain conceptual with limited industry engagement.

Uniform Outcomes

Emphasis on standard techniques.

Limited Market Exposure

Minimal focus on professional practice.

Download Curriculum

Design That’s
Rooted in Reality

Create for real people, real brands, and real-world contexts, from streetwear to couture to fashion activism.

Global DNA,
Local Insight

Study a curriculum shaped by Parsons and adapted for today’s fashion landscape in India and beyond.

The Studio is Just
the Beginning

Learn in fashion labs, makerspaces, and digital studios, but also in ateliers, stores, runways, and cities.

Taught by Designers Who
Work, Not Just Teach

From luxury houses to indie labels, our faculty bring insider perspective and mentorship to every studio.

Build Your Label Before
You Graduate

Whether you launch your own brand or work with one, you’ll be ready, with a portfolio that opens doors.

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.

Sensorium-Graduate
Fashion Show

The AJIO Luxe Weekend offered students firsthand exposure to the luxury fashion industry, with 32 ISDI interns managing brand stalls and creating real-time social media content. They honed skills in engagement, marketing, and branding while networking with professionals, and earning strong mentorship feedback.

Paris Fashion Week:
Graduate Runway

Five of our senior year students showcased their work on The Graduate Runway, Paris Fashion Week in March 2025. The students are: Radha Khot, Rahet Chhabra, Khushi Pawan Mahajan, Vedah Jindal and Tanisha Shetty.

International Fashion Week internships

Our students intern at global fashion weeks like Paris, London, and Tokyo, gaining firsthand exposure to international designers, backstage operations, and fashion PR—immersing themselves in the world’s leading fashion capitals.

Press Coverage (Lokmat Times)

Senior Year student, Radha Khot was featured in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar's Lokmat Times for her participation in the Graduate Runway, Paris Fashion Week.

The Vanilla Issue

Class of 2024 alumna, Khushi Mistry, was featured on The Vanilla Issue, an Instagram Page dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging designers from all over the world.

Industry Exposure (Weavers' Service Centre)

Students do workshops at the Weavers' Service Centre in weaving and Block printing as part of their Fabric Formation Techniques and Textile Print Design Electives

Industry Exposure (Woolmark Seminar)

Students get the opportunity to attend industry seminars like the Woolmark Seminar, with Mumbai being the hub of all business and industrial activity.

Local Immersions (Indore)

Students go to different regions of India and immerse themselves in local culture, craft and industry.

Industry Experts

We've had industry experts like Ganesh Subrmanian (Co-founder, Stylumia), Akshay Tholia (Textile Expert) and Anubhuti Sharma (Stylist) do masterclasses at teh University.

International Faculty: Portfolio Reviews

Senior year students got an opportunity to show their portfolios to Prof Jeongki Lim, Dean of the School of Design Strategies, Parsons The New School

International Guest Speakers

Students got the opportunity to attend a workshop on geometric cutting with Mexican Fashion Designer, Carla Fernandez

International Guest Speakers

Students conduct podcasts with industry guests, learning the art of interviewing and interacting with stalwarts from the industry. Here is an image of third year students doing a podcast with Mr Ganesh Subramanian, co-founder of Stylumia.

Manasi Parmar - Linked With Love

This thesis explores how unconventional materials and structural forms can merge to create designs that are both visually striking and functionally innovative, redefining the boundaries of materiality and form.

Meghana Bavaskar - Padmé

The Padmé collection explores the balance between masculine and feminine energies, using fashion to express self-discovery, contrast, and contemporary social dynamics.

Reetika Jha - Gaia (Fashion Film)

To lead a cinematic revolution that elevates the collective consciousness of humanity, inspiring profound intellectual and spiritual growth through the power of immersive storytelling and captivating visuals, all while ensuring an enjoyable and entertaining experience for every viewer.

Rishtika Satyarthi - Rahasamya Jadein (Mystical Roots)

This collection explores the intentional fusion of Bharatanatyam, our cultural roots, mathematics, and science. This premium ready-to-wear collection, characterized by its all-white aesthetic, unveils the intricate connections among these elements.

Sahithi Chithumala - All About The Eye

'All About the Eye' seeks to unravel the layers of wearability by looking at clothing through a different lens, celebrating the art of space, emphasizing not only the physical materials, but also the harmonious interplay between them.

Sahithi Chithumala - All About The Eye

Anjal Oberoi - AO

The aim of this thesis project was to think through the process of building a brand that revolves around the troika of Play. Create. Discover.

Simran Khabrani - Senna: An Artisanal Streetwear brand

Senna reimagines conventional materials and design principles to create bold, boundary-defying pieces that challenge norms and offer a distinctive, edgy aesthetic.

Tamanna Mittal - Khatt

The collection is inspired by the ideal of comfortable luxury achieved through an exploration of vibrant colours, rich textures, and captivating silhouettes inspired by the surrounding world. These designs evolved into a celebration of women-centric themes, with a keen focus on empowering women.

Student Projects in Motion

Where creativity meets momentum