Design Programme

News

Ritika Singh won the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Appreciation Award 2018 for her product Katha: Leveraging the skills of Artisans to enhance creative learning skills of Children. Katha aims to foster creative problem solving, causal thinking and articulate communication skills in children through a narrative play-learning aid.
Advisor: Prof. Koumudi P Patil

Mr Ashish Mohandas(MDes Graduate 2017) won the "International Design Association Special Prize" in the Product Design Category at 2017 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) 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

Inegrity Pledge taken by Design Programme Students and Staff and re-affirm our commitment towards corruptionfree country.
Present: Professors J Ram kumar

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. Koumudi P Patil

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

Mr.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. Mritunjay 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.

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

Mr.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

List of selected candidates for M Des & PhD 2018

Events and Updates

Workshop on Human Computer Interaction
Expert: Mr Prabudha Agnihotri
(Microsoft, Hyderabad)
March 9-11th, 2018

Workshop on Automotive Design
Expert: Prof. Nishant Sharma
(IDC, IIT Bombay)
March 16-18th, 2018