2013 Nominees
Animal Trees
TREES SAVE WILDLIFE. WILDLIFE SAVES TREES. Trees and wildlife both need each other to survive. WWF wanted to convey this as part of their message about protecting the environment. We found a simple graphic solution by making trees look like endangered animals (panda, hippo and bear).
Save Calligraphy
SAVE CALLIGRAPHY Brief Qalamkaari Creative Calligraphy Trust works for the revival of calligraphy. They organize international calligraphy exhibitions and conduct workshops to create awareness about this dying art form. Our tasks were a) To sensitize the art fraternity and enthusiasts that calligraphy is on the verge of extinction b) To invite people to Qalam Aatma...
Chiriya Ghar
Donate for my home Brief The Delhi Bird Society wanted to bring the house sparrow back from the brink and make it a part of the city’s landscape again. Solution The chirruping bird house: an interactive donation box was placed on tree trunks in controlled environments to prevent pilfering – outside cafes in Delhi’s jogging...
Vitanova
Almost 25% of food grain is spoiled during storage in India. Most current storage solutions are capital intensive and hard to implement in a short time span. Our product is a polypropylene grain storage sack, which incorporates an insecticide treatment in the material of the bag to prevent stored grains from being infected by insect...
We are all Schizoids
‘We Are All Schizoids’ Graphic Novel. What began in the studio as an experimental project in creating our first graphic novel, went on to win us the free stall at Bangalore’s first Comic Con in Sept 2012. We were the wild card entrants who had a surprise win, an amazingly designed stall and received a...
Living – The Park Magazine
LIVING – THE PARK MAGAZINE An innovative extension of The Park brand, “Living” is the design and trend publication of India’s leading collection of boutique hotels. Embodying The Park’s philosophy that inspired living is good living and always working from the unique lens of The Park, it presents informed and entertaining content reflecting on contemporary...
Osho World Newsletter
Osho was an Indian Mystic, a guru and a spiritual teacher, who became famous for his cathartic meditation techniques and talks, delivered to people around the world between 1970 and 1990. Osho World Newsletter is a compilation of these discourses that guide the reader through the questions of life, by making them aware and helping them explore their own being. The...
I Take this Train Too
‘I Take This Train Too’ is a humour book, comically profiling the strange characters one would typically encounter in the Mumbai Local trains. Through colourful illustrations and wit, the writer explored the most populous public transport system in the world. The book has been created to serve as a collector’s edition, with open stitch binding,...
Urban – Avantgarde Bengaluru
Urban-Avantgarde was a multi-faceted, month-long series of events from graffiti and mural inspired painting on public walls of Bangalore to experimental dance performances, workshops, lectures, exhibitions, video screenings and music events. As part of “Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities”, it presented an artistic dialogue between contemporary artists from both countries and various disciplines, who...
Gobble you Up!
This story, with cumulative rhyme, is an adaptation of an oral trickster tale from Rajasthan in India. It is illustrated with finger painting by the talented Sunita, from Rajasthan’s Meena tribe. She adapts a traditional Meena art form called Mandna, which is usually painted by women onto the walls and floors of their village homes....
Tiger Talk
Tiger Talk Stories of courage, love and hope. Brief Design a book that highlights WWF-India’s role in tiger conservation to help the organisation get more funds for the cause. Solution Tiger Talk. A unique book that celebrates the lives of people who work for the cause of tigers. Tiger Talk looks at tigers through the...
Dekho : Conversations on Design in India
Dekho is an anthology of inspirational conversations with designers in India, probing their stories for cues to the development of design in India, highlighting approaches that are unique to designing for India. Dekho explores possibilities in print design—driven by individual stories. Design for Dekho is a rich visual narrative that creates an experience of the...