The following questions are meant to assist you with your NID preparation (MDes domain-specific subjective part), especially fro the domain-specific test 'Communication Design' as per the new pattern from NID 2020. I've made the following question to make you realize how easy it is to come up with your own questions using the situations around you, including the use of the internet.
I. Question Type 1
Prepare a campaign for the below-given design problems. Tasks to be done
- Write about 5 situations in the locations mentioned in the problem statements, where the given problems can be improved, each situation not more than 2 sentences.
- Design posters to communicate the situations you have identified for each of the problems.
Problems:
- Prepare a campaign to spread awareness of handwashing, sanitizing and social distancing in your community or society where you reside
- Prepare a campaign to demonstrate the need of avoiding plastic waste as an environmental concern towards the diversity of birds. This campaign is for online sharing.
- Prepare a campaign, to be displayed at villages, about the importance of open defecation.
- Prepare a government-initiated ad campaign to highlight the importance of saving water at homes.
- Prepare a campaign - in an attempt to prevent the issues of ragging in your college.
- Prepare a government ad campaign to bring awareness of having a maximum of only two children - as part of the population and economy control.
- Prepare a campaign to demonstrate the ill effects of drug addictions happenings in your college and write 5 situations in your college where the issue can be prevented.
- Prepare a campaign in an attempt to reduce the open splitting of pan everywhere. Write 5 situations in your city where this issue can be mitigated with some proposals.
- (optional) Prepare a campaign to bring awareness of the effects of forest encroachment on the ecosystem of wildlife.
- Prepare a campaign to bring awareness and stop the thought of abortion and killing of newly born girl babies in a nearby village. Write 5 situations where the parents thought process can be modified.
- Prepare a campaign to highlight the importance of education to children in a nearby local community staying inside a city. Write 5 situations showing how an educated children's life would bring a change and positively impact their next generation and hence the country.
II Question Type -2
Write a story that includes the sensory attributes or the images shown in below set of problems using all the given objects for the problem.
- Your story should be within 12 lines.
- The objects may appear in any order in the story
Problems:
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III. Question Type 3
For the following set of scenarios stated below, visualize the situation and communicate that in 4 frames.
- Assume that you are an examiner and have found a student cheating by using slips. You will catch the student and ask them to leave the hall.
- Suppose you are walking along the roadside footpath and you saw a blind girl crossing the road and looking on the other side while a bike was about to dash her. How will you save her? Visualize it in 3 frames.
- Illustrate the situation in 3 frames where you were standing on the terrace of your home enjoying fresh air when you saw a sparrow escape from an attacking eagle. The frames should depict you as well.
- Suppose you are inside a bank, waiting at the counter when a robber tried to threaten the cashier to give the money from his cash box by showing a pistol, you act immediately by punching him and locking him on your hold, making his pistol fall down and helpless in escaping. Visualize the situation in four frames
- Suppose you are traveling in a plane and a terrorist aims his gun towards an air hoster to control the plane when you and a girl sitting on the opposite of your seat act and take control over him - you stopping the terrorist and freeing his gun while the fellow traveler girl frees and save the air hosters as she tries to make the terrorist fall down. Visualize the situation and illustrate in four frames on how you and the fellow traveler girl act and help with the situation.
- Suppose you are having a conversation with your mom in the kitchen. Your mom is cooking food when you noticed a plastic container/box with wheat in it, improperly stacked at the top cupboards, which was about to fall on top of your mother. Visualize in 3 frames how you prevened that to happen. You could've alarmed and pulled her or could have prevented the fall or even both. Also, include the frame that illustrates you observing the box improperly placed and was ready to fall down.
- Visualize in three frames a dance sequence that you remember, no need to draw the backgrounds but the frames should make the viewer understand the step.
- Visualize in three frames a self defense sequence. No need to draw the backgrounds but the frames should make the viewer understand the action step.
- Visualize the scene of your pet dog chasing away a cunning cat, that is trying to drink the milk in your kitchen.
- Visualize the several scenes of a hospital where social distancing, precautious etc. were taken care in every frame as part fo COVID preventive measure.
- Suppose you saw an adult suddenly falling down in the road due to COVID affection, how will you try to give him the vaccine that you had been carrying for your safety to him ensuring your own safety? Visualize the situation in 3 frames.
- Suppose you are enjoying the freshness of nature near a river and you saw a small kid of around 7 years old, who somehow got into the water and is now struggling to swim to the shore. How will you help the kid? given that you don't know swimming. Use some situations like availability of say a rope, a net, a tire, or even a small boat or a combination of a couple of them. Visualize and draw the situation.
(I hope the above sample exercise will make you confident enough to come up with your own practice questions)
IV. Question Type 4
Given pictographs (graphic icons), draw one scenario using the given pictographs. Include the pictographs in your designs, at the appropriate locations/color/scale. Use color if needed.
Evaluation criteria:
- Creative utilization of the given icons
- Scenario generation and communication
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V. Question Type 5
Use each of the following incomplete objects and create at least five identifiable objects using any no. of lines or shapes. Provide a title for each object.
(Taken from CEED 2020 updated practice exercises found here)
(solution for similar questions available here for CEED 2020)
Using each of the visual elements given below box, create at least three recognizable objects/elements (for all the seven images below) and give a title to each. Use only BLACK pencil/pen. Draw only within the boundaries of the boxes.
I hope the above questions helped you.....
sir when we are asked to design a campaign, what are we suppose to do in the question exactly and what exactly we have to design
ReplyDeletethank you sir
campaigns are mode of media/information sharing, which mean, any form of communication through which you wish to share the intended information to reach to max. people. That could also be related to bringing awareness.
DeleteOne component of campaign is 'Poster'
Other components could be
'What are the problems or info. to be shared as part of say bringing awareness?
When and where to be campaigned? (this may not be needed from exam point of view)
Strategy on how to reach to maximum audience (the target people)
Who to involve during campaign etc.
And so on.....
From NID exam point of view, since the questions says the below
1. Write about 5 situations in the locations mentioned in the problem statements, where the given problems can be improved, each situation not more than 2 sentences.
2. Design posters to communicate the situations you have identified for each of the problems.'
Basically you are required to prepare posters to depict the solution for the situation that you are supposed to identify given the location.
Let me know if this is not clear.
sir in question we have to write situation in specific lines how to do that,like what exactly it has to be,and in situation means has to be problem situation or solution ?how to write ina best manner if you give example would be really helpful.please sir guide me on this,
ReplyDeletethe situations in the question mean the scenario in which the prob can be attended, for ex. for the first ques as copied below
Delete'Prepare a campaign to spread awareness of handwashing, sanitizing and social distancing in your community or society where you reside '
here you are supposed to spread awareness of social distancing, mask wearing etc. at your community or soceity or the place where you reside and so the situations could be like...pasting a poster near say lift where the possibility of social distancing miss can happen...another situation at common places like games or community room, children play ground, safety from the workmen who visit many homes etc. For the identified situations how will you spread awareness? and that is what your campaign will be doing....by way of posters, displays, stage dramas etc. Poster being the best way from exam point of view...
Hi Sir,
ReplyDeleteCould you please publish some sample questions for interaction design too?
Yes, I’m planning already.
Deletedoes graphic design come under communication design?
ReplyDeleteThis website and this page is very insightful! As someone applying for M.Des in Film and Video Communication and photography, I am struggling to find more specific question types. It would be great if you could share something pertaining to that.
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