🥁 Only 11 days to go for DesignUp 2022 🥁

Update: we're sold out (much earlier that ever before), have an expanded list of speakers and a longer wait list!

See the full list of Speakers including Professor Girish Dalvi, Hard Copy founder Meeta Malhotra, educator and designer Lauren Celenza, visual artist and designer Kriti Monga, Kahani Design Works co-founder Ruchita Madhok, and musician duo Neeraj and Drupad Mistry. Do take a look at the selected Lightning Talks by some very talented young designers! In 2022 it's an eclectic mix of music/design/tech and writers.

In this issue, we have a bunch of eye candy for you - Ladakhi textiles, Polish posters, and the genre-defining work of Japanese graphic design master Kazumasa Nagai.

🎉 A big shoutout to our sponsors - Adobe as our Networking Dinner Host (this year it’s one inclusive pass for all thanks to Adobe), Shell India as our Scholarship Sponsor; Betafi as our Research Partner 🎉 AND Academy, Maverick Capital, O'be Cocktails, and Bonomi as our community partners & exhibitors.

🤩 Speaker spotlight

Kriti Monga, visual artist, creative strategist, graphic designer, illustrator and design educator, has a passion for all things type and hand-crafted. She is the founder and director of Turmeric Design and also teaches regularly at design schools and independent workshops worldwide.

Neeraj and Drupad Mistry — www.instagram.com

“Music inspires our design", says designers and musicians Drupad and Neeraj Mistry. Drupad leads product design strategy at ADP, while Neeraj is a UX Specialist at FactSet. Drupad was introduced to the sarod at an early age, and has composed various musical pieces, including background soundtracks for films and festivals! Neeraj studied Industrial design and then moved to UX. Trained in the tabla, he also plays the Hapi Drum.

Meeta Malhotra on The Hard Copy — www.platform-mag.com

Brand strategist and serial entrepreneur, Meeta Malhotra currently runs The Hard Copy, which chronicles India's design and tech online. In the past, she was one of two partners at Ray Keshavan, India’s leading brand, and design consultancy, now acquired by WPP.

Advocating for People in a Profit-Driven World — dscout.com

Writer, educator, and designer Lauren Celenza runs her own studio. A former design lead at Google, she also teaches Design in a World of Chaos & Uncertainty at Harbour.Space University in Barcelona and Bangkok.

Designing a visual guide with Ruchita Madhok — www.stitcher.com

Designer, artist, writer Ruchita is the founder and principal designer of Kahani Design Works. In this Audiogyan podcast she talks about developing a cultural narrative through an urban visual guide.

💖 Eye Candy

Monisha Ahmed shares a glimpse of her private collection of Ladakhi textiles — www.architecturaldigest.in

The collector and author walks us through the history of Ladakh Arts and Media Organization (LAMO), its indigenous architecture, and her own private collection of Ladakhi textiles in Leh.

Posters Signal Czech Velvet Uprising — www.printmag.com

“Posters of the Velvet Revolution” is a reminder that a coalition of artists and designers in concert—in a civil forum—can mean the difference between victory and defeat.

Create a Better World: Kazumasa Nagai — blog.graphis.com

A master of Japanese graphic design, Kazumasa Nagai, born in 1929, stands at the origins of modern graphic design in Japan. “No matter how much technology advances and how many things change, communication is the act of a human being passing information to another human being,” he says.

On the threshold of eternity — www.behance.net

Check out the amazing color palette of this symbolic art project by Mikhail Boldyrev

🥁 See you soon

We're looking forward to welcoming you in person, to SE Asia's first in-person Design event post pandemic...

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