International Student Design Workshop
The workshop for the aspiring student attempting to learn about design from various angles possible – its history, the country's ethnography (its people), its management-related issues, its politics and policies, its technology capabilities, its art, architecture and other creative areas, and such – all of which have knowledge implications for design.

The theme ‘Design Local’ was interpreted in many ways as applied to different situations and problems concerning the suburban trains in Mumbai.
135 students and 18 facilitators from 15 countries participated in the Workshop. The workshop had 9 tracks and was held on Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th of February 2007, at IDC, IIT Bombay.

Workshop Track: Facilitator/Country
1. Corporate Identity Design Facilitators:
Massimo and Lella Vignelli and Sudarshan Dheer (USA/Italy, India)
Co-facilitator: Kaladhar Bapu (India)

2. Retail Design (Visual Merchandising)
Facilitator: Omar Vulpinari (Italy)
Co-facilitator: Pudi Ravi Krishnan (India)

3. Brand Identity Design Facilitator:
Dan Ryun Chung (South Korea)
Co-facilitator: K J Peter

4. Packaging Design Facilitator:
Iko Avital (Israel)
Co-facilitator: Atul Manohar (India)

5. Games and Toy Design Facilitator:
Noni Avital (Israel)
Co-facilitator: Uttaran (India)

6. Typography and Calligraphy Facilitator:
Halim Choeiry (Lebanon- Qatar)
Co-facilitator: Girish Dalvi (India)

7. Environmental Graphics Facilitator:
April Greiman (USA)
Co-facilitator: Sheetal Alreja ( India)

8. Vehicle Graphics Facilitators:
Lise Vejse Klint (Denmark) and Russel Kennedy ( Australia)
Co-facilitator: Shahid Shaikh

9. Story Telling and Book Design Facilitator:
Ruth Kroetzel and Nina Sabnani
(Brasil, India)
Co-facilitator: Sherline Pimenta

Leaders/facilitators:
International and National leaders will lead and guide the student teams for three days:
1st Day – Need Finding, 2nd Day – Ideation, 3rd Day execution and 4th Day - exhibition.

Procedure for selecting student participants:
100 - 150 students winning this competition will be entitled to free participation (workshop expenses, food and stay*) during the ‘International Student Workshop’ from 5th to 7th of February 2007.

Competition:
The theme of the icograda Design Week in India – ‘Design Local - Stops at all Stations’ has to be interpreted as applied to your own context.

We encourage you to express the colourfulness, the dynamism, characteristics, motifs and designs from your everyday lives. The task will be to portray the experience and the essence of design in your own context. You have the freedom of choosing your own boundaries and define what is local to you. (for eg. it could be your individual space, locality, a street, a town, a city or even a country)

The task is to design a visual with the above theme expressed inside a 45 degree tilted square.

You could use illustrations, sketches, photos, graphics and typography. The output could be a symbol, logo or a poster.

You could also send us a brief write-up in less than 150 words along with the entry.

Submissions:
You need to submit the solution as 72 dpi JPEG file with an image size of 1200 x 1200 pixels and email it to:
workshop@designlocal.net

or snail mail to:
Workshop - Design Local
IDC, IIT Bombay
Powai, Mumbai
400076
India

Last Date:
31st December 2006

Details:
- Studios, materials and facilities for the workshop will be provided at IDC, IIT Bombay.
- The students have to bear the expenses of their travel to Mumbai
- * Students chosen to participate at the workshop will be accommodated free in Hostels/Guest Houses around the IIT Bombay Campus on the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of February 2007. (The stay can be exptended for the duration of the International Design conference on the 7th and 8th of February 2007 by paying nominal charges (Rs. 150 or US $ 4.00 per day) at the venue)