A trainee with a tile designing  firm can earn anything between R15,000 and R20,000 per month. A good salary solely depends on your skills and experience. With the right skill-set and experience there can be no upper limit to what you can earn. Also, the right qualification for the job  enhances your chances of making it big in this industry.

Every day for a tile designer is different. As a tile designer, you perform various functions of market research, taking customer feedback and creating new designs on certain days in a week. The clockwork for each function is different. Market research can take one to different markets spread throughout the country. The feedback sessions are held frequently.   Another day or a couple of days can be dedicated to choosing the material to replicate as a tile. This material can be marble, natural fabrics, a shirt, a tie, various laminates etc. Another day can be dedicated to choosing the final designs and getting feedback on it from external and internal audiences. Once the designs have been selected, their pricing is worked out

• Creativity is a must
• A good understanding of colour
• Patterns and designs 
• Go for tile designing
• If you love experimenting with fabrics
• Colours and trends  
• A good understanding of photoshop
• Coreldraw will help 
• A mind open to feedback since most of your work will be used by the end user who can have very diverse preferences
• Good communication skills to interact with team
• Ability to take critical feedback with a smiling face

• Not many players in the industry 
• A very creative and challenging job
• Continual updation of photoshop skills required.
• It is difficult to find educational courses which teach you tile designing, from making prints to transferring it on the ceramics you have to learn it yourself

You can opt for any subject combination in Class 11 and Class 12, though fine art and sciences are preferable. (The Central Board of Secondary Education offers graphics design, too, to senior school students.) After that, get a degree in fine arts/design in India or do a ceramic engineering, textile engineering course in India or abroad. Many private institutes provide relevant training. Also, a good working knowledge of photoshop specific to tile designing is a must
 

•  College of Art, Delhi 
•  National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad   Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi 
•  Sir JJ School of Art and Sir JJ School of Applied Art, Mumbai 
•  MS University of Baroda
•  National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi
•  IITs (multiple locations)