Ticket To Transformation

Founder- Director of Pune-based Ticket Design, Nishma Pandit uses her years of hands-on design realization and project management experience to guide her team to come up with truly creative solutions.

Were you always inclined to design?

NP: As the child of an occupationally nomadic father, we moved many times and ultimately settled in Indore when I was fourteen. After I completed school I received a place to study honors microbiology at the University of Indore. After a couple of months, I was unhappy with both the field of microbiology and the learning environment. I knew that I wanted to be an innovator rather than a laboratory scientist. After seeking guidance, I recognized the need to study mathematics and discovered the field of design and NID. Friends could not understand why I dropped out of the honors course, as it was not easy to get a seat. I was extremely fortunate because I had family support, and I knew I needed to make a change. Since then there has been no looking back. Design is now a passion.

Arriving at NID in Ahmedabad, I realized it was a creative and open place and I felt at home on the campus. I gave the entrance test and was very frank in the group discussion about my previous experiences. The culture seemed open, students were working hard with their hearts, and this was a different feeling from University in Indore. I was accepted in the program; the entire first year, foundation studies, was an exploration of all disciplines. I read up about the different fields of design and suspected that product design would be my interest, but I tried everything.