Design Programme

News

Ms. Jyotsana & Mr. Abhishek won the design challenge "To improve the experience of railway ticket booking at the counter" at UX Now Conference held in IIT Delhi in October 2017 for proposing a 'Token Generation System' for booking tickets at reservation counters.
Advisor: Prof. Satyaki Roy

Mr. Sugam Anand won the "Pitney Bowes Design Challenge" at INTERACT 2017, The 16th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction held in IIT Bombay for "Cyclo" – a dock less bicycle rental service for the city of Mumbai to make it easier (and greener) for locals and (or) tourists to get around town.
Advisor: Prof. Koumudi P Patil

Mr. Asish Mohandas became the first Indian national to win James Dyson Award for his final year M.Des Thesis project, titled "Maattam-Design and development of an efficient low-cost retrofit patient transfer stretcher "
Advisor: Prof. Nachiketa Tiwari

Mr. Karthik P B won the Red Dot Award: Design Concept under Communications category for his work 'Aligno'. The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.
Advisor: Prof. Nachiketa Tiwari

Mr. Vimal C, a student of Design Programme has won Bronze award in A' Design Awards under Lighting Design category for IRILLA - Task Lamp
Advisor: Prof. J Ramkumar

Sachin N.P., M. Des. Graduate (2016) wins the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards/Appreciations 2017 for his M. Des. work on Anubhav-An efficient Braille Writting Tool.
Advisor: Prof. Shantanu Bhattacharya

Mr. Mrityunjay Kumar, a PhD student, received the best paper award for, "Comparing the incubation effect between various age group of students during the creative problem-solving" at the International Conference on creativity and cognition in art and design organized by NIMHANS and NID at Bengaluru.
Advisor: Prof. Satyaki Roy

Ms. Priyanka's poster- Semiotic Analysis of Digital Medium of Education won the best poster award at ICORD-2017.

Ekta Surender gets Bronze award at the
"Re-imagine Education Awards-2016" at the University of Philadelhpia
Advisor: Prof. Koumudi Patil

Eshan Sadasivan (PhD Candidate) has received the 1st prize for his exhibit on "Design and development of a study companion for rural students in India" in HTC 2016 conference (hosted by IEEE UP section).
Advisors: Professors Mainak Das and Shantanu Bhattacharya

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Events and Updates

Workshop on Leather Crafts
Expert: Mr Prabhat Kumar
(Design Manager-Industrial Design, Godrej India)
Oct 3rd, 2017

Workshop on Typography
Expert: Dr D Udaya Kumar
(Asso. Prof. Dept of Design IIT Guwahati)
Oct 9-13, 2017

Workshop on Forms and Aesthetics
Expert: Dr. Avinash Shinde
(Asso. Prof. Dept of Design IIT Guwahati)
Dec 11-15, 2017