What We Talk About When We Talk About Design
So you’ve heard about the Creating Change book and all the great work that Kyoorius and British Council have done to get new design writers together. Though the book is now out-of-print (!) we can still share the work we’ve each done for it. Here it is at last, my long-form comic for the book,...
Creating Change: Design Writing from India
Over the last year British Council and creative network Kyoorius have conducted a series of Design Writing workshops and events across the country over the span of the last year. I’ve been a part of the initiative since it first began at Kyoorius Designyatra 2012 and that process recently culminated in the release of the...
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...
That Great Divide
“What is your superpower?” Karl Heiselman was on stage at the Kyoorius Designyatra in Goa. Speaking about how he became the CEO of Wolff Olins, he echoed the experiences of many speakers and delegates present there, he talked about a unique quality that helps designers find solutions to the problems they are presented with everyday....
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...
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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