We are delighted by the new Rupee Symbol! Designed by Uday Kumar, a graduate of IIT bombay (Industrial Design center), it was chosen from among 3,000 designs competing for the currency symbol. He gets an award of Rs. 2.5 lakhs (= 5300 USD). The government aims to have the symbol adopted in six months within [...]
Last week I was invited by Simon Roberts to talk at WCIT2010, on a panel with Tom Steinberg (Mysociety), and Adam Greenfield (Urbanscale/Nokia). Simon had suggested that I try and link street/geography of India with local innovation and soft services. With the spiked interest in “emerging markets”, I thought it might be a good idea [...]
We are working in India currently, which gives us an opportunity to observe the local services and the service economy that thrives in our country from a ‘service design perspective’. Specially becaus ‘service design’ as a new ‘saleable’ design service is only just getting attention, while age-old services designed from necessity, often through ‘jugaad‘ are [...]
I spoke at Interesting 2009 yesterday, a fabulous one-day conference organised by Russell Davies. The most important rule of the conference is: “Talk about something interesting as long as its not your work”. My talk was titled “Superpowers I grew up with”: I talked about the Superpowers not in the marvel sense of the world, [...]
As part of Superflux’s endeavour to understand the values that will underlie the changing design scene in the India in the coming years, especially when there seems to be a sudden interest in the country’s economy, I thought I’d start with ‘Eames Report‘ (written in April 1957). Charles and Ray Eames Although hugely famous in [...]
Last year Marc Fonteijn from 31 Volts had invited me to do a guest post about service design on their blog. Since I now run the Superflux blog, I thought it might be good idea to present those thoughts here: March, 2008: I want to take this opportunity to reflect on some sustainable and perhaps [...]
