PROFILE - Satish Gokhale
Satish Gokhale
Director - Industrial Design
Design Directions Pvt. Ltd.
A graduate of India's premier design institute - Nat ional Inst i tute of Design (NID) , Ahmedabad, India with more than 20 years of experience in industrial design, combines design - technology, ergonomics, aesthetics and relevant materials to create a major impact on industrial, medical equipments and electronic products.
Recently Satish received the Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA Award), instituted by IDSA and Businessweek - USA, for the product, 'Solemates' disposable footwear made out of only paper mache.
He was also awarded the "Best Indian Designer", instituted by BusinessWorld - NID for Design Excellence in India - 2003.
In Jul y 2008, Sat ish was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneurs International for rendering quality service since Design Directions was incorporated in 1988.
Design Directions received the Business World Design Brilliance Award -2008 for Best Digital Design for a Graphical User Interface.
Satish was selected as a jury member for the Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) organized by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) - Washington DC - USA, in 2004.
Invited to be a judge and technical advisor for the International School of Design (ISD) - Valenciennes - France.
He was selected as an international jury member for the South African Design Excellence Award that was held in the third week of July 2004 at Pretoria.
He was on the jury for the Singapore Design Award organized by the Design Association of Singapore and IE Singapore - held in the last week of August 2004.
Satish was invited by the Industrial Designers Society of America at Palo Alto - USA, as one of the six global thought leader to talk on the subject, "Design for the other Six Billion".
He has been invited to speak at many National & International Design conferences.
Satish is a member of the CII National Committee for design and Innovation and also on the manufacturing committee. He is also the president of the Pune Design Foundation.
