About
Events
. International Design Workshop for Students
. National Graphic Design Education Meet
. International Design Conference
. Commendation for Designers
. India Design Association
. Meet the Grandmasters
. Graphic Installations
Speakers
Schedule
Registration
Stay
Sponsors
Contact Details
Conference Sponsored by
Rediff.com
Design domains/areas being addressed:
Information visualization
Culture and identity systems
Design process and strategies for business
Exploration and Imageries
Technology and design management
New media design
Illustration
Digital graphics
Packaging
Book designing
Typography and calligraphy
Creative Strategies
Design Curriculum
Identity designs/systems – flag designing, logos, symbols,
Signage systems
Corporate design strategies
Design policy
Design management
Place branding
Design issues being Addressed:
Vernacular design language
Typography’s localization
Cross-cultural design
Design as creator of value for business
Design and globalization
Indigenous design networks
Design sustainability
Local identity and international design
Visual design in architecture
Visual design in advertising
Visual design in the arts
8th and 9th of February 2007
Venue: IIT Bombay
Number of International Speakers: 12
Number of National Speakers: 4
The conference will have talks by leading thinkers and grandmasters in the field of design. We promise the sessions to be thought provoking and to throw fresh perspective on the role of design in the future.
Theme:
The theme for the Week and the Conference is ‘Design Local – Stops at all Stations’, which is a metaphor drawn from the ‘locals’ - this being the popular name for the commuter railway network in Mumbai.
The questions are:
- how can we make ‘Design Local’ into an enduring symbol of how design can reach out to people and their everyday lives?
- how may we use ‘Design Local’ as a construct for localizing designs?
- what is the role of design in a connected global world within the context of design that is local?
Sub-Themes:
The conference will have four sub-themes:
- Culture and Identity Systems
- Design Process and Strategy for Business
- Information and Visualisation
- Explorations and Imageries
International Design Conference
The International Design Conference held on the 8th and 9th of February
with over 1250 participants at the convocation hall of IIT Bombay forefronted
the best practices of design from around the world, additionally underscored
by vision statements by grandmasters to highlight historically defining
moments of design that have shaken up business.
There were 5 vision talks spread across two days by the following grandmasters:
- Massimo Vignelli,
- Prof R K Joshi,
- Lella Vignelli,
- April Greiman and
- Mervyn Kurlansky.
Design from
around the world had talks by experts around the following four themes
- Culture and Identity Systems,
- Design Process and Strategy for Business
- Information and Visualisation and
- Explorations and Imageries
Speakers spanned from across the globe representing best practices from North and South and East and West – Brazil, USA, Canada, Denmark, S Africa, UK, Itlay, Qatar, Israel, India, S Korea and Australia.
- Massimo
& Lella Vignelli (USA, Itlay)
- April Greiman (USA)
- Mahendra Patel (India)
- Sudarshan Dheer (India)
- R K Joshi (India)
- Jacques Lange (South Africa)
- Mervyn Kurlansky (Denmark)
- Russell Kennedy (Australia)
- Halim Choueiry (Quatar)
- Don Ryun Chang (South Korea)
- Ruth Klotzel (Brazil)
- Lise Vejse Klint (Denmark)
- Omar Vulpinari (Italy)
- Brenda Sanderson (Canada)
- Iko & NoniAvital (Israel)
- Vikas Satwalekar (India)
- Ajit Balakrishna (India)
- Bela Sanghvi (India)
Registration
(closed):
Participation in the International Design Conference requires registration
by all participants attending the design week - students, faculty members
and professionals (including students who are attending the 'International
Design Workshop' and faculty members attending the 'National Educational
Meet').
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on registration details
Visa
International visitors need a visa to travel to India. For a letter of
invitation, for visa purposes, please write to contact@designlocal.net
Grandmasters,
Speakers
and Designing from around the World:
Grandmasters:
Massimo Vignelli
(USA, Italy)
The Territory of Culture
April Greiman (USA)
Digital Typography
Dashrath Patel
(India)
Sudarshan Dheer (India)
Prof
Mahendra Patel (India)
R K Joshi (India)
Indian Typography
Lella
Vignelli (USA, Italy)
Mervyn
Kurlansky
(Denmark)
The Future of Branding – A new value system
The Pentagram Years – Thinking by Jumping
Designing from around the world:
Jacques
Lange
(South
Africa)
Vernacular Design:
Looking at South African graphic design through rainbow eyes
Russell Kennedy (Australia)
Design in Australia: Indigenous design network project
Halim Choueiry (Quatar)
Cross Cultural Design and Arabic Typography
Don Ryun Chang (South Korea)
Place branding and identity design in Asia
Ruth Klotzel (Brazil)
National Identity and Design - relationship between local Identity
and international Design in Latin America
Lise Vejse Klint (Copenhagen,
Denmark)
Danish Design: A story from Denmark
Omar Vulpinari (Treviso,
Italy)
Director, Visual Communication Department at Fabrica, Benetton Research
Centre
Iko Avital (Israel)
Packaging Design in Israel
Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder and CEO, Rediff.com (Mumbai,
India)
Business and Design
Piyush Pandey (Mumbai,
India)
Localising Design
Jan
Blom, (Helsinki, Finland)
Principal Scientist,
Nokia Research Centre
Mobility and Sociability
Naresh Gupta, (N Delhi India)
Asia
Head, Adobe
Vision for the future
