New Indian Designscape
The emergence of design as a major point on the global agenda for sustainability and responsible growth has brought attention to contemporary design practice in India. The output of the country’s creative minds is keenly watched by a global audience, eager to know their responses to an ever-changing power balance between West and East. The...
Sketchnotes: India Design Forum 2013
This past March, Mumbai hosted the second India Design Forum. A gathering of the who’s who of the design world, the two-day event was a packed schedule of speakers and panels, all against the backdrop of a city-wide design week. A number of local studios and design entrepreneurs participated in the daily events leading up...
Zine Press at UnBox2013
With regularising familiarity, the new calendar year is coming to signify the advent of design events around the country. Starting with the Pune Design Festival moving on to UnBox, India Design ID (a.k.a. Elle Decor), the India Design Forum and Fashion Week, the stretch between January and March unleashes an avalanche of new ideas, brave...
Perch in 100% Yatra
Many thanks to the team behind 100% Zine. They’re doing a great job of bringing together artists from different backgrounds on the same platform and we’re very happy to share our work with them. 100% zine can be bought online or at design stores like Filter and Bombay Electric.
Sketchnotes: TEDxGateway 2012
December 2nd saw the third edition of TEDxGateway hosted in Mumbai. An independently organised version of the now famous TED talks, the day brought together 21 speakers from 17 different countries for the largest event of its kind in the city. While the TEDxGateway met its organisers’ objective of sharing “unique ideas from India and...
Sketchnotes: Design Public 4
The Design Public Conclave is a platform to enable conversations between thinkers, opinion makers and doers that looks to transform India into an innovation society. Initiated by the Centre for Knowledge Studies the fourth edition concluded in Mumbai last week. These are my sketchnotes from the 30th of November, 2012. In summing up, I...
Interview: Sudhir Sharma
Sudhir Sharma is a man of many facets: he is a designer, an entrepreneur, a teacher and a publisher. He is the founder and chairman of Indi Design, a rapidly growing brand and creative consultancy with offices in three countries and is best known for being a passionate spokesperson for design from India. Back in...
Global Design Forum 2012
On September 18th this year, Aditya and I were in London to attend the first ever Global Design Forum. Curated and delivered by the London Design Festival, the forum looks to provide a platform for important ideas about the future role of design around the world. The forum proved to be an ambitious project by...
Why Go To A Design Conference?
In 2002 a quiet revolution occurred in Indian design: the ‘Design in India’ Yahoo e-group was born. It was the original online community for Indian designers and academicians and the first time that people across generations and geography could interact in a single space. A decade later and email seems old-fashioned when the options to...
Sketchnotes from Kyoorius Designyatra 2012
These sketches were created live at Designyatra 2012 using the Paper app on an iPad. To see more sketches, join us on Facebook. All sketches, text and material are © Ruchita Madhok, 2012. Please do not distribute...
Interview: Sandeep Sangaru
At a time when design is being examined as a force for social change, Sandeep Sangaru is a name that often comes to mind. He is best known for his innovations in bamboo and this multi-disciplinary designer has been closely associated with initiatives to provide training and skills to people in norther-eastern India since 2004....
The Rise of the Design Event
Designers are a social breed: we like to mingle, exchange ideas, bounce concepts off one another’s heads, poke our noses into other people’s business and get involved in long discussions about little things. We find it re-affirming to look, see, hear, experience, taste and sample other people’s work because it gives us the...
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