Working for Warner Bros
We were all very excited when Graphic Design student Bhushan Raj was contacted recently by Warner Bros, one of the world’s biggest entertainment companies, about the possibility of promoting their new film “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” using 3D anamorphic street art. Anamorphic art, which appears to be 3D when viewed from a specific vantage...
Aksharaya Calligraphy Workshop
On the 7th/8th November 3 members of Aksharaya gave a two day calligraphy workshop at our campus. Aksharaya is a non-for-profit organisation that aims to promote understanding of Indian lettering. As part of this mission, they are committed to keeping the art of traditional Indian calligraphy alive and oraganise a variety of events to pass...
Fancy learning calligraphy?
On the 6th/7th/8th November we are hosting two calligraphy workshops. They will be run by Aksharaya, a non-for-profit organisation based in Mumbai that aims to promote understanding of Indian lettering. As part of this mission, they are committed to keeping the art of traditional Indian calligraphy alive. Three members of the group all teach at...
Meet the Architect
While most of our students were enjoying term break recently, five Interior Design students along with their lecturer Sonia Nicolson took part in the UDBHAVA forum design walk. This is a walk organized every few months where design students in and around Bangalore get the opportunity to visit a completed project and meet the architect....
PD Students Exhibit at Auto Show
This past weekend our Product Design department exhibited at the Bangalore leg of Auto Mall 2011, India’s biggest multi-city automobile exhibition. Four of our PD students were selected to exhibit their work in the show, which attracted thousands of auto enthusiasts to the famous Palace Grounds. Alongside the displays of “Style Biking”, green motoring and...
Making a Yatra for Design
20 students and 7 lecturers travelled to Goa at the weekend, to join 1300 fellow designers, educators and students from all over India — and beyond — for the annual Kyoorius Designyatra conference at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Bambolim. Now in its sixth year, this international conference aims to “celebrate design excellence [and] provide...
Silky Way Winners
Last weekend was a busy one here on our campus, with the finals and judging of our Silky Way fashion design competition. We had entries from colleges all over Bangalore, of which 13 were selected to compete in the second round. On Saturday the selected entrants participated in a busy 1-day realisation of the designs...
In the Press
The work of our students has been featured in design industry publications recently. Inside Outside magazine featured Harini Sudarshan’s “Hemisphere” stool and Rijo Joy’s “Chai” chair in their July issue, as well as Venita Vohra’s “C-Grass Chair” back in March. The March issue also included a write-up of one of our Week 1 Projects, which...
Raise the Roof
At the end of May, five students from our Interior Design programme (Rijo, Tanvi, Monica, Shamees and Harini), and lecturer Maria de la Guardia, joined Global Citizens for Sustainable Development (GCSD), a Bangalore-based non-profit and non-governmental organization, for a hands-on experience that took students out of the classroom and into the real, dirty world of...
…and another Competition!
August is definitely competition time here at RMI Bangalore! Apart from our fashion design competition that’s running this month, we are also pleased to launch our creative challenge to Bangalore students in all fields of visual communication design. To add to the challenge we’re keeping the brief under wraps until the day of the competition…...
Silky Way Fashion Design Competition
In association with Page3 design book store and Pony Needles, we are very pleased to announce our Silky Way 2011 Fashion Design competition! Students from Bangalore’s leading fashion schools are invited to enter our fashion design competition using silk fabric. Show your creativity using silk fabric without restriction to win attractive prizes. Deadline for enrollment:...
Party!
Staff, students, families and friends of RMI Bangalore enjoyed a double party last week, when we celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the college’s opening alongside our first student graduation. July 2009 saw the opening of the college in Koramangala, and arriving at our second birthday is a real landmark — after starting with only a...
