Awards, always nice to have. An acknowledgment of one’s work and a contribution to delivering an excellence in Design; occasions for unabashed celebration. I feel lucky to have had a few such moments myself. Below, some of my most memorable ones.
I.D. Magazine
Gold Award & Cover Feature, 2002
A project that won one of the world’s most prestigious design awards – the I.D. Magazine Design Award in 2002. Additionally, it was featured on the cover of the Design Awards special edition of the I.D. Magazine.
An interaction design project, sponsored by Xerox PARC, in India. The intent of project was to gather learnings on how a non-digital audience responded to radically new interactive interfaces and hybrid digital products, and gather insights and learnings on what it takes to make an interaction truly human-centred, natural and intuitive.
This project was a meeting of Design + Technology, way ahead of its time. It involved working with new technologies of the time like Bluetooth Wireless, RFID, Tilt Sensors, Proximity and Magnetic Sensors, and embedding them in ‘smart’ objects and interfaces to understand how people interact with them. A pioneering foray in the world of Interaction Design, much before it became popular and subsequently established as a significant new domain in Design.
Creative Future
Creative Future Programme, The British Council, 2007
Selected as one of the 20 Finalists for The British Council’s ‘Creative Future’, Programme, 2007. The programme focussed on identifying and selecting the 20 most promising Creative Entrepreneurs in India in 2006-2007, and awarding them an enrolment in the British Council and IIM Bangalore sponsored – Creative Future School, 2006.
Pro Helvetia
Art Residency Award, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, 2011
Awarded an Art Residency Scholarship at Basel in Switzerland, in 2011. The area of study was to explore creative artefacts at the intersection of the domains Art, Design & Technology. Switzerland’s history in Graphic Design, Industrial Design and contemporary Arts served as the perfect backdrop for this study, which culminated in an exhibition of artworks at the intersection of Design + Art.
Lexus Design
Lexus Design Awards India, 2019
Led a design team of 3 designers - Aakash Dewan, Nilay Bhandari & Anurag Sarda to create a uniquely differentiated, patient and nurse friendly packaging design for a medical product for Dr Reddy’s Labs. This design won the award for the best packing design product in India.
