August 2026 · New York
NIFT Year One · 2024–25
A foundation year of drawing, material, form, colour, digital craft, and textile thinking.
Complete first-year portfolio
Learning through
making.
Every collection documents a different way of seeing—from a pencil line and a colour memory to structure, surface, material and digital composition. Select any work to view it in detail.
01
Drawing & Fine Art
Observation, anatomy, portraiture, landscape and conceptual studies across traditional media.
02
Material Exploration
Playful investigations into form, joinery, structure and function using clay, wood and found processes.
03
Geometry & Integrated Design
From tessellation and surface systems to objects made responsibly from textile waste.
04
Digital Design & Photography
Illustration, editorial design, advertising and carefully composed product narratives.
05
Texture, Colour & Fabric
A tactile study of everyday surfaces, colour psychology, sensory translation, stitch and fabric manipulation.
777
The journey
Curiosity changed
her direction.
Veda began with Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Yet the pull of painting and drawing kept growing. That creative instinct earned her an All India Rank of 777 in the NIFT entrance examination—and opened a new path in textile design.
After two years at NIFT Bengaluru, she begins her third year at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York through NIFT’s year-exchange programme: a new city, a wider design vocabulary, and another chapter of independent learning.
Science foundationNIFT BengaluruFIT New York20 years · 14 Aug 2026
About Veda
A practice built on
curiosity.
Her work moves between observation and imagination, traditional media and contemporary tools. This archive will keep growing with new assignments, projects, research and reflections from Bengaluru to New York.
Read her journal →Blog
Notes from
the process.
Veda’s space to document assignments, ideas, exhibitions, materials and life between Bengaluru and New York.
Visit the blog →→
July 2026 · Reflection
What two years at NIFT taught me about making
May 2026 · Process