A Simple Pencil: November 2014

Feature on MIT-ID website

It is nice to have oneself appreciated by the home institute. We've been featured on the institute website too, for the awards and newspaper article. :)

http://mitid.edu.in/mitid-awards-Dare-to-Dream-Design-Awards-Oct-2014.html
http://mitid.edu.in/NewsandEvent-Feature-of-students-in-Pune-Mirror-24-11-2014.html

Winner, Toshiyuki Inoko Award, for "Dare to Dream" Kimono Competition

Uttara Ghodke, Pranali Linge, and I won the Toshiyuki Inoko Award, for "Dare to Dream" Kimono Competition

COMPETITION HELD AS A PART OF:

Tokyo Designer Week 2014

Website http://www.tdwa.com/

Twitter @design_associat

COMPETITION DETAILS:

Name "Dare to Dream" Design Awards

Websites

http://www.designboom.com/competition/kimono-dare-to-dream-awards

http://www.tdwa.com/2014/join/kimono_exhibition.html

Competition summary

Japan has seen a fall in the popularity of their tradtional dress, "Kimono" in the recent years. The competition asked for people of various design disciplines (fashion, product, architecture, interiors, industrial design, graphic design, and lifestyle) to come up with something that would make the youth want to wear the Kimono again.

Competition Jury

The jury panel was 10 acclaimed designers from various design disciplines, including Ross Lovegrove, celebrated Industrial Designer.

Following are the judges:

Junko Koshino, Fashion Designer

Yoshikazu Yamagata, Fashion Designer and Founder of writtenafterwards

Yasuhiro Mihara, Fashion Designer

Tamae Hirokawa(SOMARTA), Creative Director/Fashion Designer　

Masaya Kushino, Fashion Designer

Asami Kiyokawa, Artist

Toshiyuki Inoko (teamLab), Interactive Digital Artist

HDMI (Human Dwelled-In Monitor Inside), Hybrid Creative Studio

Ross Lovegrove, Designer/Visionary

Birgit Lohmann, Editor-in-chief and CEO of Designboom

OUR ENTRY:

Description

"KIMONOPHONES"

We thought that the best way to tap into the youth and their choice is by designing something that is used by all of them. Earphones are used all around the world. Thus, by designing earphones inspired by the Kimono, we aimed at spreading the Kimono Culture throughout the world. Image, all the Japanese youth wearing the Kimonophones - trendy yet rooted in tradition!

The Prize

We were first shortlisted amongst top 100, which gave us an opportunity to display our Kimono design panel as a part of the KimonoExhibition in the Tokyo Designers Week (28th October 2014).

Later, we were awarded the "Toshiyuki Inoko Award" for the Kimono Exhibition, meaning a special booth to display our work among the others global presenters in Tokyo Designers Week.

Most unfortunately, we couldn't make it to Japan, but here' s the coverage of the event!

And our panel also was seen in the video! :)

Feature in Pune Mirror for Behance Award

Pranali and I have been featured in today's Pune Mirror newspaper for our Product Design work, amongst other young design talent (many from MIT-ID); for whom we gave an interview last week.
Do have a look!
Link to the article: http://www.punemirror.in/…/Designe…/articleshow/45251085.cms