This document contains information about the National Institute of Design (NID) postgraduate entrance exam as well as sample questions and solutions. The exam is for various communication design programs including graphic design, animation, and film design. The sample questions include representing a theme in a grid using colored squares, sketching a short story in a series of blocks, and sketching an incident from the past or future using a time machine. The solutions provide sketches answering the questions, with one depicting the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, another showing a surprising incident, and a third transporting to the 1919 Jalianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar. Contact information is provided for experts to assist with design school admissions.

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NID PG 2004 - ANIMATION
Time : 3 hrs
Q.1. Represent any one of the following themes in the given grid (13” x 13”) using the various coloured
squares are given to you.
Indian Handicraft Traditional India
A busy Railway Station India 2004
Write in about 50 about what you have made.
Q.2. Sketch in a series of five blocked spaces of any size, a short story. You may choose a folk story or any
incident.
Q.3. You are in a time machine. You may go forward or backward. Sketch an incident in the past or future
with date, time and circumstances.
NID Post Graduate Common Entrance Test 2005 for all COMMUNICATION DESIGN
STREAMS which include GRAPHIC DESIGN, ANIMATION & FILM DESIGN, FILM
AND VIDEO COMMUNICATION.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Paldi, Ahmedabad 380 007 Name:_________________________
ADMISSION 2004 - 2005: PGDPD Reference No.___________________
Test 1 Faculty Incharge:_________________
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SOLUTIONS
Q1. (To view colours visit website www.adfindia.com)
(Representing Tsunami)
Traditional India
India 2004
Indian Handicraft
A busy Railway Station
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Q 2. An incident with an element of surpprise
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Q.3. Jalianwalabagh - Back through the memories.
In my time machine I
press the’Past”
button.
The Machine takes me to a walled
ground where an intense meeting is
going on.
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Hey, what’s happening?
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Oh! it’s the Jalianwala Massacre
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