Art & Photography Exhibition
First year Interior Design students Shamna Rasheed and Prateek Sabharwal have organised their own art and photography exhibition which is currently showing in Bangalore. After a successful opening night on Saturday, they will be showcasing their latest artworks to the public at the Renaissance Gallerie, Cunningham Road, from the 2nd to the 4th of May...
Get Creative at our Design Summer Camp
If you are between 17 and 21, have a creative spark, and you’re interested in knowing more about studying for a career in Design, then join our our Design Summer Camp in April. Led by our experienced, international faculty, these hands-on workshops will introduce you to the creative process in general, as well as giving...
Double Success in National Design Competition
RMI Bangalore enjoyed a double success recently when Multimedia Design student Govind Sivan and Fashion Design lecturer Vipin Jose were both winners in a national design competition. The Show Your Designs contest was organised as part of the inaugural India Design Forum, billed as India’s Biggest International Design Event, and which took place in Delhi over...
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...
