Hi
My name is Srikanth Jalasutram and I am a graduate student of design at Georgia Tech I used to live in India, But design brought me to this side of the planet
Design is just as much a philosophical statement as it is a business tool
In a world where information flows fluidly, design expertise needs to be equally dynamic and be applied to a much wider gamut of problems/contexts
I am interning at GE appliances, louisville, KY for the next 333 days
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it"
It’s a device that works like the Fitbit and tracks a user’s fitness as they wear it on their arm like a watch. Russell believes that while the design of the device might look cheap and plastic, it might hint at the future of electronics because of its ease of use.
"In this country they give you a week to finish a project; ten days later they are already building it. This is a slight exaggeration of course, but I realized straight away that a fine set of drawings is not enough to obtain the quality which I consider to be indispensable. Instead, I need to oversee the building site: to explain to clients and workers how things had to be done."
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Bijoy Jain, Indian Architect
Born in Mumbai in 1965, Bijoy Jain studied abroad, in St Louis in the US, and worked for several years in Los Angeles. But he never really left India.
