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IFD takes pride in being able to
offer a structured curriculum
attractive to men and women with
various inspirational plans to
become floral designers, meet the
needs and interest of today’s
emerging professional floral
designers seeking successful and
rewarding employment with event
managers, corporate or a goal of
owning and operating one’s retail
floral business or a desire to
acquire floral design skills for
personal enjoyment and develop a
therapeutic relationship with
flowers to combat today’s evils of
tension, stress and depression.
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IFD is a sponsored venture of
Smithers Oasis (I) Pvt Ltd.
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IFD the first and only
professional institute in India
providing a leading educational
course in floral design.
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IFD affiliated to the
Instituto
Mexicano Technico Floral (IMTF),
Mexico.
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The curriculum of IFD has been
adopted from the IMTF (Mexico)
to cater to the increasing
market demand as per our Indian
culture, ethics and taste.
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Curriculum has lectures,
demonstrations, AV
presentations, practice and
critique.
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A
wide selection of fresh flowers
and foliage are used throughout
the program and each student
works on their own with guidance
of a qualified instructor.
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Each fun and informative class
focuses on floral concepts. As
you create a beautiful
arrangement one learns care and
handling techniques, the element
and principle of design, design
form and technique and flower
arranging skills.
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Class size is limited to assure
that each student receives
individual attention. |
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Our Directors |
Rocio
Silva ( AIFD ) : Director IMTF
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Seema
Jhaveri : Director IFD
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Rocio is a certificated
floral designer from the AIFD
(American Institute of
Floral Designers) and member
of this association. Rocío
has a Degree in
Communication Science. Since
2004 she has served as a
Director of Instituto
Mexicano Técnico Floral (IMTF)
in Monterrey México , Under
her leadership, this school
has graduated more than
1,000. Students accredited
in floral design.
She has been in charge of
designing the curriculum as
well as producing and
editing the textbooks for
all the IMTF Schools.
Rocío has been part of the
floral industry all her
life, her family has owned
retail flower shops in
México for over 50 years.
She was a floral columnist
in one of the most important
newspaper in the Country for
3 years. She also
collaborates with the Latin
American Magazine “Arte
floral “ & has also attended
several courses of floral
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Seema Jhaveri has been born
and brought up in Nairobi
(Kenya). Kenya is one of the
major exporters in the world
for cut flowers and she has
vast experience in this
field having handled exports
to various European Markets.
Seema holds a degree in
Computer science.
Seema has done advance
courses in counseling and
Jewelry designing. Seema has
undergone a rigorous
training at IMTF, Monterrey
regarding various aspects of
running a professional
floral design institute.
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Course
Curriculum |
Semester I |
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Introduction
into floral
arranging as an
art, craft and
trade |
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Varieties and
applications of
flowers and
foliage |
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Purchase and
handling of
flowers |
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Tools of the
trade |
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Theory of color |
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Basic design
principles and
elements |
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Semester II |
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Forms of design |
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Design
Techniques |
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Design Styles |
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Semester III |
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