Done is better than perfect.
Real briefs · Real clients · Real deadlines · No hypotheticals
Sprint-based sessions for anyone who wants to understand how design really works and prove it with output they can actually show.
Brand Philosophy
Design is not learned by listening.
It's learned by doing.
About POP — Professor of Practice
A sprint where the brief is the teacher, the pressure is the point, and done beats perfect.
- Sprint Masters, not lecturers.
- Real projects, not simulations.
- Portfolios that ship.
- Reasoning over decoration.
Is this you?
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Design students
Tired of hypothetical briefs. Want real industry exposure. Need a portfolio that doesn't look like student work.
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Early-career designers
Transitioning from academia to industry. Closing the gap between what they learned and what industry actually expects.
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Adjacent-field practitioners
Developers, architects, writers, marketers, photographers. Working adjacent to design and wanting in from the inside.
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Career-curious
Considering design as a career path. A low-stakes way to find out if it's actually for you — real brief, real pressure, real answer.
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Clients finding their brand
Not looking to receive a PDF and nod along. Wanting to work through it. The sprint structure means they do the thinking.
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Portfolio builders
Any field. Any background. Real brief, real timeline, room to fail, something to show at the end that actually holds up.
That's you. Now what?
Join the next sprint →The Manifesto.
8 seats · 3 days · no extensions
Ship it.
Done is better than perfect.
Six sprints · Eight seats each · No extensions
The Sprints.
The Founder
Nihar AcharyaAhmedabad
Meet the Grand POP.
Nihar Acharya
Founder · Talisman Design Studio · Professor of Practice
Nihar started POP because he was tired of watching talented people graduate with a degree and no proof. A designer who would rather build than talk about building.
He runs every sprint himself — part brief-giver, part client, part the reason you don't get an extension. He calls himself the Grand POP. Everyone else just calls him when the deadline is tomorrow.