5 Reasons Why We Need Design Histories in India
We write history to understand how things were and what makes them the way they are today. To write history is to explain the cause and effect relationship of events, to script the roles of its protagonists and their part in the story of things. All histories – any histories – account for the agencies...
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....
Creating Postage to Celebrate 50 Years of Design Education in India
The tiny postage stamp is an often overlooked piece of communication design particularly in an increasingly electronic world where fewer letters are written every year, and fewer cards sent. From being an ubiquitous carrier of images on the corner of every envelope, it has taken on a more symbolic role as an object that commemorates...
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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