Doshi: Architecture without Adjectives
At one point in the documentary Doshi, Balkrishna Doshi explains his influences saying, “ it’s like I’m eating the food by the best chefs, but I am digesting it. How you digest your food and make it part of your blood and body is up to you.” As one of the few Indian architects known...
Good Design is Good Business
Earlier this year I had a chance to visit the Design Museum London’s excellent retrospective, The Way We Live Now on Sir Terence Conran–designer, entrepreneur and a huge inspiration to creative business. Now this could have been just another parade of designer objects arranged neatly in a gallery setting, but what made The Way We...
The UnBox Festival 2012
The UnBox Festival in Delhi presents itself as a celebration of “interdisciplinary processes and experiences that shape contemporary thought and action”. Organised by the Box Collective – formed by design studios Quicksand and Codesign, photo-commune Blind Boys and music collective B.L.O.T. – the month long series of events culminated in a 3 day conference held...
Communicating Design
In the late 1950’s India’s Planning Commission invited an American expert to make a study trip to the country. The purpose of his visit was to make recommendations for the establishment of higher education training facilities whose graduates would stoke the ambitious fires of industry in a newly independent economy. One of these institutes set...
Interview: Ashish Deshpande
Founded in 1989 by NID graduates, Elephant Strategy + Design is one of India’s pioneering design consultancies. Headed by Ashwini Deshpande, Ashish Deshpande and Partho Guha, this Pune-based firm specialises in Communication Design, Industrial Design and Environment Design. Perch caught up with Founder-Director Ashish Deshpande to ask him a few questions about his experience in...
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