Prof. A. Balasubramaniam

Bala is an alumnus of NID, Ahmedabad, and has taught across major design institutes in the country, including NID, NIFT, and the School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. He is the founding Director of the Institute of Design at JKLU. He is also the President of ADI (Association of Designers of India) for the term 2022-24. 

He was the Dean of IILM School of Design in Gurgaon from 2007 to 2010. He has also been a member of the Academic Board for several design institutes, including SPA, New Delhi and Nirma University.  He is a regular jury member at NID, NIFT and other places. Bala has been a Design Consultant at Oxfam, where he helped Indian artisans develop products for the European market. He was instrumental in setting up the Prototype Initiative for Design Excellence (PRIDE), the design division at NSIC for the Government of India Initiative. He holds the unique experience of creating one of the first programmes in Design based on digital delivery. He has designed market-leading products as diverse as tractors and torches for Eveready, Eicher, Usha, Hero Motors, Bajaj, NIF and UNDP. He writes on Design in leading magazines and newspapers and on his blog.