PROFILE - Prof. Pradyumna Vyas
Prof. Pradyumna Vyas
Head - Education Wing
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Prof. Pradyumna Vyas, Principal Designer, heads the Education wing at National Institute of Design (NID), India. He is also mentoring the Transportation & Automobile Design Discipline (Post-Graduate Programme) at NID. He has done his Masters in Industrial Design from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India (IITB).
Prof. Vyas has over 24 years of professional and teaching experience in different spheres of design learning, execution and practice. Since last 18 years he is associated with NID as a Faculty Member in Industrial Design Discipline with major in Product Design.
Prior to joining NID, Prof. Vyas has 2 years consultancy experience in Product Design in Mumbai and 3 years overseas experience at Kilkenny Design Consultancy, Republic of Ireland.
At NID, he is teaching undergraduate and post-graduate courses besides professional consultancy and training. His area of interest lies in design for consumer durables, consumer electronics and lifestyle accessory designs with non-precious material. Since 2001, Prof. Vyas is coordinating major design events in India includes, CII-NID Design Summits (an annual design event) and NID-Businessworld Design Excellence Award in India. He has presented in various conferences in India and Internationally. Widely travelled across the world, he represented NID at various International Forums including International Council of Societies of Industrial Design - ICSID 95 - Taiwan, where he had received the Good Exhibition Planning & Design Award on behalf of NID and ICSID 2001 at Seoul - S Korea, 2003 in Hanover - Germany and in 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark and in 2007 at San Francisco, USA. He was invited to offer a Design Workshop at Singapore in 2005 as part of Singapore Design Festival and represented India in Asia Design Network Meeting in Singapore in October 2006.
He has established academic contacts with Pininfarina and FIAT Automobile Co. in Italy where NID's students are working for their Design Departments.
He holds the chair of Technology and Design Interface Committee at NID and also the member of Governing Council of NID in 2002.
Pradyumna Vyas
Principal Designer
Activity Chairperson - Education
Mentor - Transportation & Automobile Design
National Institute of Design
Ahmedabad - 380 007
India
Tel: +91 79 2662 3692 - 97
Tele (D): +91 79 2662 3113
Mobile: +91 98985 00033
