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Hello All,

I am looking for Manufacturers of Organic cotton and Vegetable
dyeing units.

If the Manufacturers of Organic cotton can get the cotton Vegetable
dyed then that would be perfect. The Vegetable dyeing unit should be
able to dye large quantities of fabric.

Certification for the cotton manufacturers and the dyeing units is
required.

If any of you manufacture or have suppliers / friends who do this,
you can get in touch with me on dipen@...

Thank you.

Regards,
Dipen Desai
Designer
Hidesign
+91 9442636379
NID (LAD 2004-07)

HI chetan
i completely agree with your views...
i think we should approach BW with a request to add this category to this
years list as well...
would definitly like to request members to come ahead for this
cheers
ameet.


On 3/1/08, chetan sorab <cvsoraba@...> wrote:
>
>   Dear All,
>
> I just went through the BW magazine in print, and its unfortunate that
> there
> is no category mentioned for Best concept Design professional or Best
> concept Design-student.
> With all the international competitions from Red Dot award to IDEA awards
> taking concept design entries to
> the next level, I feel the Design Brilliance Awards 2008 might just loose
> its charm not having these categories.
>
> OR
>
> do we in India, don't want to look into the future.
>
> Can we take this point to the BW team.
>
> warm regards,
> Chetan Sorab
> NID (PD - 2001)
> L G Electronics
> Delhi
> 9899302458
>
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International Journal of Design

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline Extended to March 31

(All papers will be reviewed as they are submitted.)

--

A Special Issue on "Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design"

The notion of interaction design has become an indispensable aspect
of product design and development, especially for those products with
embedded information technologies. While traditional industrial
design focuses on a product's functionality and its physical
features, interaction design focuses on the interactive experience of
users. Since products are becoming more pervasively and more tightly
interwoven with our daily activities, design calls for a deeper
understanding of the diverse perspectives of product use.

Culture has been considered to play a critical role for users in
their understanding, acceptance, positioning, and use of an artifact.
The quality of an interactive experience is produced in a particular
cultural context and is determined or evaluated in that context. Yet,
when it comes to incorporating cultural factors effectively in design
practice, knowledge is insufficient at all levels -- conceptual,
theoretical, methodological, and practical. Cultural factors need to
be integrated in the design process in order to achieve the high
quality of product interaction that enables our experience with a
product to be effective and enjoyable.

For this special issue of the International Journal of Design, we are
seeking papers that present breakthroughs in conceptual, theoretical,
methodological and practical research that enhance the formalization
of design knowledge with regard to the "cultural aspects of
interaction design." In particular, these contributions should focus
on representing cultural factors in describable, operable, and usable
forms of design knowledge with relevance to interaction design. The
following topics are of particular interest, covering fundamental and
contemporary issues in this domain:

- Conceptual framework of cultural factors in interaction design
- Acquisition and representation methods for cultural factors in design
- Formal models of cultural factors in interaction design
- Planning, design, and evaluation methods that involve cultural perspectives
- Cultural aspects of interaction methods and languages
- Assessment of the cultural effects of new interactive products
- Cultural factors in Kansei/emotional/affective aspects of interaction
- Cultural contexts of interaction design for ambient intelligence environments
- Cultural factors related to usability

Schedule:

Full Paper Due: 31 March 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 31 May 2008
Final Version of Paper Due: 30 June 2008
Special Issue Publication Date: 1 August 2008

Submission of Papers:

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the guidelines
found at www.ijdesign.org/authorGuidelines. Submitted papers should
not have been previously published nor be currently under
consideration for publication elsewhere. A double-blind review
process will be employed for this special issue.

Manuscripts should be sent through the on-line system at
www.ijdesign.org/submissions.
Authors should choose "Special Issue on Cultural Aspects of
Interaction Design" as the Journal Section when submitting papers.

Special Issue Editors:

Keiichi Sato
Institute of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Tel: 312-595-4912
E-mail: sato@...

Kuohsiang Chen
Department and Institute of Industrial Design
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Tel: +886 6-2757575, ext. 54335
E-mail: kchen@...

Dear all,

I wanted  thank and acknowledge Manish Pillewar who had written to me a few
months back
about having designindia group on Linkedin as well.

Manish registered the group on linkedin, set it up and has transferred the group
ownership
status to me. I thought this was a great gesture and a sign of a commendable
integrity. And i
thank manish for this.

with regards

Sudhir Sharma
Designindia

Dear All,

If you are a menber of Facebook, you are welcome to join Designindia group on
Facebook.
Look for Designindia in Facebook groups.

Manish Pillewar has also setup Designindia on inkedin. If you are on Linkedin do
join in on
linkedin groups Designindia as well. The following link will take you to the
group
subscription.

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/56523/6CCDF551C24C

Yahoo groups will remain the main discussion board, but you are welcome to start
new
threads on other designindia groups independently. If there is something
interesting
happening at other groups, i am sure moderators will link this up.

regards

Sudhir Sharma
Designindia

Hi All,

I have requested Prof. Anil Sinha from NID (who had sent me the info abt the
awards to
posted on the group) to please answer the queries being raised about the awards.
Also (if Prof. Sinha is not the person incharge) if he can direct the queries to
the person
incharge of the awrds at NID or BW.

In past years Gina from BW has been taking care of these queries, but Bala
mentioned that
his mails to her bounced back.

I think It is very important to put a few names and Ids of people who can be
contacted for
awards. This adds to the transparency objective and will also help in improving
participation.

regards

Sudhir Sharma
1989 NID
Elephant
Pune

Facebook: Sudhir Sharma
Facebook group: Designindia
Yahoo IM: Sudhirelephant

www.elephantdesign.com
www.elephantplays.com
www.elephantmultiversity.com
www.punebrands.com
www.theasiacalendar.com



--- In designindia@..., chetan sorab <cvsoraba@...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I just went through the BW magazine in print, and its unfortunate that there
> is no category mentioned for Best concept Design professional or Best concept
Design-
student.
> With all the international competitions from Red Dot award to IDEA awards
taking
concept design entries to
> the next level, I feel the Design Brilliance Awards 2008 might just loose its
charm not
having these categories.
>
> OR
>
> do we in India, don't want to look into the future.
>
> Can we take this point to the BW team.
>
> warm regards,
> Chetan Sorab
> NID (PD - 2001)
> L G Electronics
> Delhi
> 9899302458
>
>
>
>
>
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Dear All,

I just went through the BW magazine in print, and its unfortunate that there
is no category mentioned for Best concept Design professional or Best concept
Design-student.
With all the international competitions from Red Dot award to IDEA awards taking
concept design entries to
the next level, I feel the Design Brilliance Awards 2008 might just loose its
charm not having these categories.

OR

do we in India, don't want to look into the future.

Can we take this point to the BW team.

warm regards,
Chetan Sorab
NID (PD - 2001)
L G Electronics
Delhi
9899302458




      
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Hi people,

I've recently joined the group and thought I'd type in a few lines.

I'm from NID, batch of 2004. Have worked mostly on graphic designprojects and
designing apparel motifs is a passion for me. Currently Iwork on a freelance
basis on anything thats exciting enough.

My recent project has been a very interesting website called www.gnome.in.
Freelance designers who like working on T-shirt designs should definitely check
it out.

Look forward to exchanging ideas here.

Cheers,

Malvika




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hi all

Congrats to Sudhir and team for initiating this highly interactive design
forum.

I am yogesh maralkar, a 2nd year Product design (M.Des),student at Design
Programme IITKanpur.

I did my BE Mechanical,then served Varroc Enggineering as a Product
devlopment engineer,followed by Research Asst.ship at IDC, IITB.Felt need of
some plastic knowledge for my design career taken me to CIPET Ahmedabad for
Plastic Engg. diploma.Prior to admission in Mdes,I worked as design enginner
in Lokus design,a design agency in Pune.

I did my Mdes summer internship in Shenzhen and Hunan university,China.

Currently i am also looking for right job opportunity.
My design interest include process oriented design,problem solving and cost
innovation,also in terms of products it is  FMCG,electronic gadgets,medical
appliances and packaging.I do have inclination towards branding, posiioning
and strategy.



nice to be associated with designindia


brgds


yogesh
myogesh@...


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Eliot Noyes.

I have never heard of him at NID. And 20 years thereafter. Then one
fine day I read his definition of design in a blog and felt that's the
simplest and most appropriate I have ever read. It goes like this:

Good Design:
1. Fulfills its function
2. Respects its materials
3. Is suited to method of production
4. Combines these in imaginative expression.

As I wanted to know more about him, I caught hold of a book on him
called "A pioneer of design and architecture in the age of American
modernism" by one of his associates Gordon Bruce. (2007)

The book portrays the legacy of one of the greatest designers of the
20th century who remained almost unknown even in the US.

Noyes was the first director of industrial design in MOMA. He was the
founding member and part of the "Harvard five" of which Charles & Ray
Eames, Paul Rand  became famous. Eliot Noyes fused architecture, art,
interiors, products and graphics to construct a unique corporate
style. Some of the stalwarts of modern design he introduced and helped
collaborate, created a whole new language of corporate design and
brand building.

In the process he helped change the way business communicated through
a myriad ways in product, packaging, architecture, corporate identity.
This led someone to comment [–was it Colin Forbes?] that Noyes (helped
transform) "industrial age into design age".

Noye's belief in a unified theory of design, where all elements –
large and small – are connected and expressed in the best possible way
changed corporate attitudes towards design. This belief led to
proliferation and consolidation of great brands like IBM, Mobil Oil,
Westinghouse under his leadership. He was one of the pioneers of a new
profession called "design consultancy" and probably one of the first
Design Directors of the profession.

Design to him was a way of life, not simply a professional attitude.
He used to say, design is a means by which you see yourself and a
means by which you express yourself to others.

Here is a nice article and slide show on Eliot Noyes: The Forgotten
Pioneer of Corporate Design
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2007/id20070129_164109.htm#

For further details see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Noyes

To know more about his work please get hold of the book: "A pioneer of
design and architecture in the age of American modernism".
http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/eliot-noyes-9780714843506

I would be very thankful if you know of any more books, article on his work.

Regards

Sagar

--------------------
Sagarmoy Paul
Communication Designer
THOUGHTSCAPE
New Delhi
NID (GD-1981-87)

Hi Everybody,

Please suggest me good domain name same business as makemytrip.com or yatra.com



Regads

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User Interface Designer






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Some clarification and issues to be fixed:

1) The categories vary from page to page
Categories 2008
http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/3765/3868/

One more page of categories
http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/3762/3865/

Both show different categories!

2) No Designer of the year?

3) Participation pages
http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/3770/3873/
http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/3767/3870/

4) NID site doesn't have any mention of the awards?

Warm regards,
Bala
NIDPD 9196 Pune
www.ticketdesign.com




On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Sudhir Sharma <sudhirelephant@...>
wrote:

>   BW-NID Design Brilliance Awards 2008
>
> Businessworld invites entries for the Design Brilliance Awards 2008.
>
> Send in your entries now, or wait till it's too late.
>
> Some people are always at the right place at right time. The rest,
> well, they're called `the rest' for a reason. Precisely why we
> invite you to send in your entries for the Design Brilliance Awards
> right away. To participate, visit www.businessworld.in and fill up a
> form on the microsite. Last date for accepting entries is 12 March
> 2008.
>
> Categories for Design Brilliance Awards 2008:
> • Urban town planning
> • Fashion and lifestyle
> • Social design including products and services
> • Stage/film set design, production and cinegraphy
> • Digital design
> • Graphic design
> • Product design
> • Furniture design
> • Transportation and automobile design
> • Packaging design
> • Animation
> • New media installation
> • Green and sustainable design
>
> Participation Fee:
> • Student: Rs. 500/-
> • Individuals: Rs. 2,000/-
> • SME's: Rs. 5,000/-
> • Corporates: Rs. 10,000/-
>
>
>


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speaking up for the "rest"
....................................

there are people who strive to come "first" all their lives....

then there are some in the "rest" who take it easy all their lives and
cheerfully applaud the "winners" each time they come first and make them feel
good.

:)

regards
deepak pathania
nid 1995
director
design intervention (I) pvt. ltd.
www.designintervention.biz






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   From: Sudhir Sharma
   To: designindia@...
   Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:48 PM
   Subject: [designindia] BW-NID Design Brilliance Awards 2008


   BW-NID Design Brilliance Awards 2008

   Businessworld invites entries for the Design Brilliance Awards 2008.

   Send in your entries now, or wait till it's too late.

   Some people are always at the right place at right time. The rest,
   well, they're called `the rest' for a reason. Precisely why we
   invite you to send in your entries for the Design Brilliance Awards
   right away. To participate, visit www.businessworld.in and fill up a
   form on the microsite. Last date for accepting entries is 12 March
   2008.

   Categories for Design Brilliance Awards 2008:
   . Urban town planning
   . Fashion and lifestyle
   . Social design including products and services
   . Stage/film set design, production and cinegraphy
   . Digital design
   . Graphic design
   . Product design
   . Furniture design
   . Transportation and automobile design
   . Packaging design
   . Animation
   . New media installation
   . Green and sustainable design

   Participation Fee:
   . Student: Rs. 500/-
   . Individuals: Rs. 2,000/-
   . SME's: Rs. 5,000/-
   . Corporates: Rs. 10,000/-





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Glad to know the philosophy behind the balti,

Unfortunately it can be interpreted as the 'I-too-am-creative' Manager
hammering down his ideas on the advertising team.
The association is not even a PJ, let alone a joke. Product
semantics/pragmatics gone the unintentional way here.
And the only reason people are talking about it, is cause its damn
irritating and very forgettable. clearly, Steve Krug should write
another book called 'Dont make me think' for the advertising world. Don't
the general rules of usability apply to film making?

Cheers!


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Sagarmoy Paul <sagarmoypaul@...>
wrote:

>   Ov
>
> Ashish Kashyap, CEO, ibibo Web, The TVC uses a Balti (bucket) to
> symbolise of a person who does not respond and has nothing to share.
>



>
>
>
>


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UI Analyst
www.thoughtworks.com
Bangalore 560 047
+91 9740073112


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So basically they are creating an archetype of the non-connecting
vacuous person and exemplifying the archetype with an object "balti".
Can be done with brute force of repetition or by creating
omnipresence.

However the flip side is the reverse phenomenon - even if they are
successful in introducing such an archetype into the social psyche,
people will still connect the archetype balti with the simultaneously
occurring name - ibibo.
Thats how conditioning works - if you introduce something new, it gets
connected with what it is presented along with. All the mind remembers
is that there is a strong connection between balti and ibibo.

On an aside (which may or may not be pertinent) Bal Thackrey used to
be called Bal-T in some mumbai circles, and the word had come to
signify the archetype that would hang out with or support Bal Thackrey
- Bal-T being a directly evident homophone of Balti.
Prior to the Bal-T slang coming into being, I had never heard of any
desi slang connecting a bucket with a human being.

- Pankaj Sapkal
ex-IDC





On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Sagarmoy Paul <sagarmoypaul@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Overheard discussion between two youngsters in a saloon about the
>  'balti' ad. I was curious as I didn't understand the concept and was
>  afraid to ask anyone.
>
>  While the first chap said the concept was a 'JLT' (just like that),
>  the other called his friend a 'tubelight' (slang for one who takes
>  time to understand). He explained that balti is a person like Paul
>  Simon's 'island', whereas it is the age of interaction and connecting
>  between people. Qwirky, didn't make sense at all to me. I felt like a
>  balti too.
>
>  Back home and littlie googling later I unearthed these gems of wisdom:
>
>  Ashish Kashyap, CEO, ibibo Web, The TVC uses a Balti (bucket) to
>  symbolise of a person who does not respond and has nothing to share.
>
>  But why Balti? Ashish Kashyap explains, "While working on the campaign
>  we felt we need to create an inanimate object which could be
>  identified by an average Indian. Bucket is something which a common
>  man sees everyday in his bathroom. The idea is whenever a person sees
>  the bucket he should realise that a bucket doesn't talk and but users
>  of ibibo do."
>
>  Kashyap adds, "Balti is the anti-thesis of ibibo.com. It's the most
>  inanimate of objects, which represents everything ibibo.com is not.
>  Ibibo helps users in expressing, sharing their ideas and meeting new
>  people." The new TVC aptly communicates this message with the punch
>  line: "Kuch log balti hote hain, aur balti nahin bolti, bolta hai
>  India ibibo.com par." (Some people are like buckets and buckets don't
>  talk; But Indians talk and they talk on ibibo!)
>
>  I think in a smart move it has been able to produce a clutterbreaking
>  ad which everyone is discussing, in the process adding a new slang in
>  popular lingo. Whether this strategy will translate into business is
>  worth checking out by brand builders. :)
>
>  Cheers
>
>  Sagar
>
>  --------
>  Sagarmoy Paul
>  Communication Designer
>  THOUGHTSCAPE
>  New Delhi
>  NID (GD-1981-87)
>



--
"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
- Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'

Overheard discussion between two youngsters in a saloon about the
'balti' ad. I was curious as I didn't understand the concept and was
afraid to ask anyone.

While the first chap said the concept was a 'JLT' (just like that),
the other called his friend a 'tubelight' (slang for one who takes
time to understand). He explained that balti is a person like Paul
Simon's 'island', whereas it is the age of interaction and connecting
between people. Qwirky, didn't make sense at all to me. I felt like a
balti too.

Back home and littlie googling later I unearthed these gems of wisdom:

Ashish Kashyap, CEO, ibibo Web, The TVC uses a Balti (bucket) to
symbolise of a person who does not respond and has nothing to share.

But why Balti? Ashish Kashyap explains, "While working on the campaign
we felt we need to create an inanimate object which could be
identified by an average Indian. Bucket is something which a common
man sees everyday in his bathroom. The idea is whenever a person sees
the bucket he should realise that a bucket doesn't talk and but users
of ibibo do."

Kashyap adds, "Balti is the anti-thesis of ibibo.com. It's the most
inanimate of objects, which represents everything ibibo.com is not.
Ibibo helps users in expressing, sharing their ideas and meeting new
people." The new TVC aptly communicates this message with the punch
line: "Kuch log balti hote hain, aur balti nahin bolti, bolta hai
India ibibo.com par." (Some people are like buckets and buckets don't
talk; But Indians talk and they talk on ibibo!)

I think in a smart move it has been able to produce a clutterbreaking
ad which everyone is discussing, in the process adding a new slang in
popular lingo. Whether this strategy will translate into business is
worth checking out by brand builders. :)

Cheers

Sagar

--------
Sagarmoy Paul
Communication Designer
THOUGHTSCAPE
New Delhi
NID (GD-1981-87)

my sentiments exactly... :-)
Is there is a poll going on somewhere for the worst Ad of the season?

Saurabh Gupta
Print Engineer, Pune university, yr 2000
Design Manager - Sodexo
Bangalore

----- Original Message ----
From: manish pillewar <manishpi@...>
To: designindia@...; nexus_NID@yahoogroups.com;
nid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:27:49 PM
Subject: [designindia] Off Topic:Ambigous advertisement

                   Has anyone understood the IBIBO.com ads about the "balti"
Should the general population be aware of some reference to
a "balti", beforehand? By a long shot, is it targeted at Photo Bucket?
Is this ad even made by an Indian Agency and for an Indian audience?

Just curious,

--
Cheers!
Manish Govind Pillewar
UI Analyst
www.thoughtworks. com
Bangalore 560 047
+91 9740073112

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Same Thought. Was completed confused when I had the first look. And not to
mention, the commercial  forgets to convey, if it wants to convey throughout
the duration, till one sees IBIBO.com, in the end ...and one lands up saying
" Yeh kya tha ?"

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On 2/28/08, manish pillewar <manishpi@...> wrote:
>
>   Has anyone understood the IBIBO.com ads about the "balti"
> Should the general population be aware of some reference to
> a "balti", beforehand? By a long shot, is it targeted at Photo Bucket?
> Is this ad even made by an Indian Agency and for an Indian audience?
>
> Just curious,
>
> --
> Cheers!
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I had been trying to figure out that one for a long while. Thought may be am
the onenot getting it. May be in some parlance 'balti' has some meaning. I
guess..

Syed
Honk Design

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, manish pillewar <manishpi@...> wrote:

>   Has anyone understood the IBIBO.com ads about the "balti"
> Should the general population be aware of some reference to
> a "balti", beforehand? By a long shot, is it targeted at Photo Bucket?
> Is this ad even made by an Indian Agency and for an Indian audience?
>
> Just curious,
>
> --
> Cheers!
> Manish Govind Pillewar
> UI Analyst
> www.thoughtworks.com
> Bangalore 560 047
> +91 9740073112
>
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>
>
>


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Has anyone understood the IBIBO.com ads about the "balti"
Should the general population be aware of some reference to
a "balti", beforehand? By a long shot, is it targeted at Photo Bucket?
Is this ad even made by an Indian Agency and for an Indian audience?

Just curious,

--
Cheers!
Manish Govind Pillewar
UI Analyst
www.thoughtworks.com
Bangalore 560 047
+91 9740073112


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Sorry to join this extremely interesting debate (which some have advocated
putting an end
to) te as I have been on the move back from DC to Blore.

Although it does not directly related to the current thread of discourse on this
forum,
some of you may find the following article on VS Naipaul which brands him as a
casteist,
racist and communalist interesting.

http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/post/caribbean/naipaul/meena.html

While I agree with the essence of what Sandeep has to say below, as a cultural
anthropologist I was curious about the use of the term "racist" for describing
what has
been eschewed by some members of this forum, while there are more nuanced and
perhaps related terms such as casteist, communalist and racist (as in Naipaul's
case) or
parochial, cummunal or religious "prejudices"  (see Sagarmoy's mail below) to
describe the
SS,  people like Raj thackeray, Modi or some of us on this forum.

Perhaps these phenomena are more than mere "prejudices" as they are interlinked
with
more complex issues including what Uday has pointed to -the struggle for
identity (often
multiple) in the context of rapid economic and cultural globalization and
concurrent rise of
nationalism which is not just in India. Economic globalization has also led to
an increase in
migration (not just from rural to urban and not just the poor and not just
within a single
nation, but across nation states).

While some members of the forum have expressed that such discussions are not
relevant
to design and must not be part of this forum (perhaps based on their corporate
concept of
design), others are unsure how they relate to design while others are truly
interested in
these issues and hope to find ways for meaningful change through design. Perhaps
a few
are actually doing something about it, but the majority continue to debate the
issues and
spew the rhetoric of change.

Meanwhile most marginalized and/or displaced groups/communities struggle to
survive in
rural or new and alien environments where they are constantly harassed by
government
officials, political goons as well as others who extort "protection" money from
them.

Perhaps it is time to move beyond mere discourse/debates (which must continue as
it is
important), but eschew pointless rhetoric, labels and other jargon and begin
highlighting
some real design solutions that have lead/can lead to meaningful change in this
arena.

Uma
Srishti

--- In designindia@..., Sandeep Dev <dev.sandy@...> wrote:
>
> I am so sorry to admit that there are so many RACISTS in the design community
itself.
>
> Its disgusting to even ask people to return back to their states, its like
demanding all
the Non-Gujarati design students to move out of NID, and similarly in any other
design
school.
>
> Regards
> Sandeep Dev
> AEP - PD
> 2003-05
> NID
>
> yugant sonawale <sonyugnid@...> wrote:                               "Yes,
there are many
regional parties in India; but I have not heard
>  such blatant divisive call from any leader against any ethnic
>  community in recent history."
>
>    I guess Mr SagarMoy Paul doesnt keep in touch with newspapers and other
communication mediums so he doesnt know about Modi in Gujrat who burnt live
people ,Uma Bharti and Advani in UP who broke national monuments,LTTE in
Tamilnadu
who massacare so may indian soldiers and Rajiv Gandhi,The Khalistan issue and
murder of
then prime minister Indira Gandhi , Talibans havoc in US and many more brutal
calls made
by political leaders in their states infact what happened in Mumbai was nothing
in
comparison to these.
>
>    If people feel they are being given inhuman treatment then they should
return back to
their states and live happily without any humilation.
>
>  Sagarmoy Paul <sagarmoypaul@...> wrote:
>            Dear Mahesh
>
>  You are mistaken. Far from taking potshots on any community I urged to
>  see the larger picture that is India. Leaving aside our parochial,
>  communal, religious prejudices we must move ahead as Indians. We are
>  all dependent on each other and this mutual exchange alone can take us
>  forward. Look around all our neighbours: India has made great strides
>  despite its massive problems; because of our unity. Secterial interest
>  will only take us eons behind.
>
>  Yes, there are many regional parties in India; but I have not heard
>  such blatant divisive call from any leader against any ethnic
>  community in recent history.
>
>  Those of us who work outside of our socalled 'native' states or abroad
>  should not champion the cause of the likes of Raj Thackery. Such
>  parochial regionalism has no place in federal structure of India.
>
>  And for your information, most of my closest and all-weather freiends
>  happen to be Maharashtrians. There is no question of taking potshot on
>  them.
>
>  Regards
>
>  Sagarmoy Paul
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Having met Anand Mahindra on a couple of ocassions, he is not only a good
speaker, but
also an open minded, culturally sensitive, down to earth person sans the
attitude of some
the other Indian CEOs that frequent the World Economic forum.
Uma

--- In designindia@..., "Sudhir Sharma" <sudhirelephant@...>
wrote:
>
> Very interesting speech By Anand Mahindra ( Chief of Mahindra &
> Mahindra - one of oldest, most most respect and fastest growing Auto
> companies in India)
>
> regards
> Sudhir
>
>
> (Anand Mahindra's speech at Nasscom Leadership Summit on February 13
> th ,2008)
>
> http://rosensharma.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/anand-mahindras-speech-
> at-nasscom-leadership-summit-on-february-13-th/
>
>
>
> Nasscom Leadership Summit has always been a place for good story-
> telling and provocative thoughts. This year, the spark came not from
> a software veteran or a BPO moghul, but a captain of an old economy
> industry. Anand Mahindra, vice chairman and managing director of
> Mahindra & Mahindra drew from mythology to call for game-changing
> innovation from the IT industry.One of the tasks we at the Mahindra
> Group have set ourselves is to aspire to be recognized as the most
> customer-centric organization in India, and why not, in the World!
>
> In order to walk the talk, every time I'm asked to speak at a
> conference, I have made it a default option to ask what the audience–
> my customers–might expect of me.
>
> And so I found myself wondering what this conclave of IT wizards
> expects from a predominantly right-brained character like myself.
> You certainly haven't called me here to deliver a sermon on
> technology. And I wouldn't even risk doing that with Nandan
> (Nilekani) and Kiran (Karnik) sharing the dais!
>
> Of course, I might have been able to do that by getting one of my IT
> colleagues to write this speech, but then it would have been
> comprehensible to you, but incomprehensible to me!
>
> And although the title of this session is 'Building a Knowledge
> Economy for Growth', I believe that a) All of you out there have
> helped build the foundations of a knowledge economy, so again, you
> don't need me to pontificate to you about that and b) I think there
> are some urgent pressures and imperatives the industry has to deal
> with at this point.
>
> So, I'm going to talk about something completely different: I will
> talk about the Trimurti.
>
> Most of the Indians in this audience will know the Trimurti - the
> trinity in Indian mythology of Brahma the creator, Vishnu the
> sustainer and Shiva the destroyer. There is a wonderful depiction of
> this in stone, just ten kilometers across the bay, at Elephanta.
> Both as a businessman, and as someone who tends to see life in
> visual images, the Trimurti reminds me of India's IT industry. Think
> of it.
>
> You people have gone through a stage, where like Brahma, you created
> something out of nothing. You created a new and global industry. You
> created a service sector that is today, a major pillar of our GDP.
> But most importantly, you created a perception of a new India, both
> in the world and in Indian hearts and minds.
>
> CK Prahalad once told me that in universities in America today,
> there are almost unfairly high expectations from Indian students,
> because there is a huge perception that all Indian students are
> brilliant, outstanding. You created that perception. And within
> India, what you created was self-belief. You showed us what Indians
> could do, and now the rest of India believes that Indians can do
> anything. Brahma created a physical landscape; you sowed the seeds
> of a new mental and psychological landscape. In that sense, you are
> truly the Brahmas of the age of liberalisation.
>
> But creation is only the first phase. You then have to move on to
> the next phase of sustaining that creation - to the realm of Vishnu
> the preserver. Creation is a one-time affair. Sustaining that
> creation is obviously a longer haul, subject to many attacks and
> crises. Perhaps that is why Vishnu comes not in one, but in ten
> incarnations.
>
> Every time there is a new danger, he changes his avatar to a form
> best suited to meet that danger. At various times he has come as a
> fish, as a tortoise, as a dwarf. But his most interesting avatar
> came when he had to fight the demon Hiranyakashyap. Hiranyakashyap
> was a bad guy, who had obtained an amazing boon from the gods.
> Neither man nor beast could kill him; he could not be killed by
> daylight or at nighttime, within his home or outside it, on the
> ground or in the sky. All this made him pretty invincible - he went
> on a rampage, and only Vishnu could tackle him.
>
> The IT industry today faces challenges every bit as complex as those
> Hiranyakashyap posed for Vishnu. It is hit by a macroeconomic
> tsunami of adverse currency changes, rapidly escalating costs in
> both salaries and infrastructure and inadequate talent pools below
> the tier 1 and 2 institutions.
>
> At the Company level, firms are begin to feel the penalties of poor
> differentiation and lack of focus (trying to be all things to all
> people); and an over-emphasis on high volumes and price competition.
> Suddenly, the industry seems to have fallen off its pedestal; You
> are facing your very own Hiranyakashyap.
>
> It's interesting to see how Vishnu dealt with him. How do you
> destroy someone who can't be killed by man or beast, inside or
> outside, by day or night etc etc. The demon pretty much had all
> bases covered. So Vishnu took on the Narasimha avatar to bypass the
> boon. Narasimha was a hybrid creature, half man half lion, and
> therefore neither man nor beast. He killed Hiranyakashyap at
> twilight, which is neither day nor night. He killed him in the
> courtyard, which is neither inside a house nor outside it. And he
> killed the demon by placing him across his knee and tearing him
> apart, thus circumventing the terms of the boon that he could not be
> killed either on the ground or in the sky. Now that's what I call an
> innovative algorithm!
>
> So what are the lessons for the IT industry in this story? Well, the
> first thing Vishnu did was to reinvent himself. It was not the
> gentle and contemplative Vishnu who fought Hiranyakashyap - it was
> the fearsome Narasimha avatar. Vishnu reinvented himself to suit the
> circumstances. The circumstances have changed drastically. Reinvent
> yourselves.
>
> Do I have all the answers on the modes of re-invention? No,
> obviously not, otherwise I'd be out there filing patents, although I
> can suggest two broad approaches.
>
> First, why don't we design business models that challenge
> traditional industry approaches and then transform our
> organizations, people and processes to execute. If we simply keep
> knocking on the doors of clients with our traditional offshoring
> options, we'll meet the fate of hearing aid salespersons: our best
> customers won't hear the doobell!
>
> For example, software-on-demand and open source models changed the
> rules of the software game. Can we not try to change the rules of
> the game this time around? Why didn't we invent Zoom technology or
> Virtualisation? Thus far, India's brand of innovation has been
> identified with the IT industry, but is it truly innovative. Is it
> really game changing? Ironically, you can now look to the old
> smokestack industries for inspiration.
>
> A few weeks ago, an Indian car company made a game-changing move.
> Maybe the Nano will ultimately not retail for a hundred thousand
> rupees. Maybe it won't have great margins, or replace as many
> motorcycles as it would like to, but it was a game changing move; it
> fired a shot that was heard around the world. Can the IT world make
> any such claim?
>
> There was an old saying, apparently adopted by the IT industry, that
> the secret of success is to jump every time opportunity knocks. And
> how do you know when opportunity knocks? You don't, you just keep
> jumping!
>
> So when are we going to stop simply jumping every time a client
> seems to sneeze, and actually create products and IP that become
> their own opportunities?
>
> Let's look at new areas where India may have natural advantage. I
> remember C.K Prahlad telling us that we didn't realize how important
> it was to leverage emerging innovation ecosystems in our country. He
> gave us the example of how, due to a fortunate coincidence, India's
> IT and automotive industries were situated in roughly the same
> geographic clusters. So why wasn't, according to Michael Porter's
> competitive theories, a world beating automotive telematics industry
> taking shape here.
>
> Why aren't IT companies using the massive potential of India's soft
> power, the film and TV business to exploit technological dominance
> of what Telco's call the 'last mile' but is actually the 'first
> mile' in the brave new interactive world?
>
> Secondly, why don't we try to focus on a vertical industry (e.g.,
> telecom) or horizontal domain (e.g., supply chain management)
> selecting the key dimensions of competitive differentiation -
> product vs. service, breadth vs. depth, speed of delivery, customer
> service responsiveness, fixed or outcome-based pricing, proprietary
> technology or intellectual property, and so on.
>
> And let's be prepared to make hard decisions along the way - change
> people who don't fit, walk away from businesses that doesn't fit.
>
> It's essential, while attempting this, however, to recognize that
> focus, differentiation and brand building require time and
> investment. Selling value or doing business differently than the
> norm tends to elongate sales cycles, which tends to put pressure on
> cash flow and we need to resist the temptation to broaden our
> offerings or slash prices just to win the business and keep people
> busy.
>
> Along with re-invention, during the course of reinventing himself,
> Vishnu figured out the loopholes in the boon, and regrouped his
> physical and mental aspects to take advantage of these loopholes.
> That's something the IT industry can do as well. Its often been
> pointed out that in the Chinese word for crisis is also the Chinese
> word for opportunity I love that mindset. I truly believe that the
> adverse rate of the dollar can be viewed as the glass half empty or
> the glass half full. Sure it affects margins. But it's also a chance
> to take advantage of the loophole and buy yourselves what you don't
> have, so that you can regroup your structure to meet the challenge.
>
> To me the fact that our currency is more valuable and our price
> earnings ratios are still higher than average, means that we can
> acquire the front-ends and the large IT businesses that we never
> thought we could before. And the bigger the better. If people are
> egging us on to leapfrog, then they should also cheer as you bid for
> companies that seem bigger fish than you. It's happening all the
> time today in the manufacturing sector-Tata Corus being the stellar
> example-and we at Mahindra, while starting from scratch, have
> inorganically compiled together a portfolio of acquisitions that
> make us the fourth largest steel forging company in the world today.
>
> This is not without historical precedent. If you look at Japan and
> South Korea, both of them went through a phase of enduring the
> worlds' skepticism, then painstakingly building strong and competent
> domestic businesses, and then on the back of global liquidity
> support and strong price earnings ratios, compressing time by
> acquiring global firms and their customer credibility.
>
> In effect, by acquiring the strengths and skill sets you need, you
> will regroup your profile and create a new entity, which can
> vanquish your challenges as effectively as Vishnu vanquished
> Hiranyakashyap.
>
> And finally, while reinventing yourselves, you will have to bring in
> some of the aspects of the third element of the Trimurti - that of
> Shiva the destroyer. Destroy for example the premise that cost
> arbitrage is the way to go.  Recognize that the low cost, high
> volume offshore outsourcing battle has already been fought and won.
> Often, when strategic frames grow rigid, companies, like countries,
> tend to keep fighting the LAST war. If you are not already on the
> winners list, you need to think of other ways to compete on value
> and differentiation, rather than price and scale.
>
> Destroy the premise that success comes only from size, and desist
> from comparisons with other Indian companies. There are still many
> IT companies in India who define success as "we want to be one of
> the top ten Indian IT companies". Why not, for example, "we want to
> be the world's #1 banking back office solutions provider"?
>
> And lastly, perhaps the time has come to destroy the notion that the
> world may be your oyster but India is not. There is a huge domestic
> market in middle class and corporate India that has not been
> plumbed. Even selling to the bottom of the pyramid is profitable
> today. But it needs a creative destruction of the current mindset
> and a re-think on many of the assumptions we hold dear.
>
> So, in conclusion, perhaps there really isn't that much distance
> between avatars in the mythological sense and avatars in the
> technology sense. Perhaps they are both symbolic expressions of the
> same reality. In their different ways, they both underline the same
> message - that it is necessary in any situation to reinvent, regroup
> and re-think our way out of whatever challenges confront us.
>
> I'd like to close with one of my favourite quotes-such a favourite,
> that I can't even remember where I first read it:
>
> My father thought the world would be same;
>
> My children, however, wake up EVERY day thinking the world will be
> different.
>
> Let's begin emulating our children. Time to wake up and make the
> world different.
>
> (Anand Mahindra's speech at Nasscom Leadership Summit on February 13
> th ,2008)
>
> http://rosensharma.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/anand-mahindras-speech-
> at-nasscom-leadership-summit-on-february-13-th/
>

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the concern persons for their reference. If you intimate their e-
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are interested in print version they can send their request to
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With regards
Dr. Sunil Bhatia
Design For All Institute Of India
Dr_subha@...
www.designforall.in
Tel 91-11-27853470(R)

Hi Sudhir

Just a FYI…
The following link should take you to the competition page directly.
http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/3762/3865
<http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/3762/3865>
Unfortunately, the link to download the rules and regulations does not work.
Same with the email id of the contact person listed. The email just bounced
back.

cheers

____

sujit TOLAT
1991 NID
1998 RMIT
  Gallagher & Associates


From: designindia@... [mailto:designindia@...] On
Behalf Of Sudhir Sharma
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:18 AM
To: designindia@...
Subject: [designindia] BW-NID Design Brilliance Awards 2008

BW-NID Design Brilliance Awards 2008

Businessworld invites entries for the Design Brilliance Awards 2008.

Send in your entries now, or wait till it's too late.

Some people are always at the right place at right time. The rest,
well, they're called `the rest' for a reason. Precisely why we
invite you to send in your entries for the Design Brilliance Awards
right away. To participate, visit www.businessworld.in and fill up a
form on the microsite. Last date for accepting entries is 12 March
2008.

Categories for Design Brilliance Awards 2008:
• Urban town planning
• Fashion and lifestyle
• Social design including products and services
• Stage/film set design, production and cinegraphy
• Digital design
• Graphic design
• Product design
• Furniture design
• Transportation and automobile design
• Packaging design
• Animation
• New media installation
• Green and sustainable design

Participation Fee:
• Student: Rs. 500/-
• Individuals: Rs. 2,000/-
• SME's: Rs. 5,000/-
• Corporates: Rs. 10,000/-



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BW-NID Design Brilliance Awards 2008


Businessworld invites entries for the Design Brilliance Awards 2008.

Send in your entries now, or wait till it's too late.

Some people are always at the right place at right time. The rest,
well, they're called `the rest' for a reason. Precisely why we
invite you to send in your entries for the Design Brilliance Awards
right away. To participate, visit www.businessworld.in and fill up a
form on the microsite. Last date for accepting entries is 12 March
2008.

Categories for Design Brilliance Awards 2008:
• Urban town planning
• Fashion and lifestyle
• Social design including products and services
• Stage/film set design, production and cinegraphy
• Digital design
• Graphic design
• Product design
• Furniture design
• Transportation and automobile design
• Packaging design
• Animation
• New media installation
• Green and sustainable design

Participation Fee:
• Student: Rs. 500/-
• Individuals: Rs. 2,000/-
• SME's: Rs. 5,000/-
• Corporates: Rs. 10,000/-

We are scouting for freelance designers ( Individuals ) who can associate
with us on short projects and work on Flash Presentations  & Website
designs. Those (located in Bangalore)  interested please contact
immediately.



Shanavas M S

Head of Design - TDI Group
#314/1, RJ Plaza, Subbanna Garden,
Vijayanagar, Bangalore 560040.
Tel - +91 80 23215595 / +91 80 23214889
Fax - +91 80 23215595
Mob - +98451 65361
URL : www. tdi-group.com









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Hello Friends, customers and well wishers!

VISHAL KAPUR
SURAFCE & HANDICRAFTS DESIGN STUDIO

takes pleasure in inviting you to its exhibition
of summer collections of unique surfaces on fine
cotton apparel fabrics, stoles and Chanderi sarees
in association with the Concern India Foundation

'SUMMER SILHOUETTES'

3rd , 4th & 5th March 2008.
11 am - 7pm

The venue :

The India Islamic Cultural Center
87-88, Lodhi Estate
Lodhi Road
New Delhi – 110003.

Looking forward to see you!
Please see attached invite image for more details

regards
vishal kapur
NID - TEXTILES(1996-2000)
9871095369


   


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