Anand Aurora

Profile

Anand Aurora

experience

Anand Aurora graduated from the National Institute of design, as an Industrial Designer in 1986.

` He has diverse, hands on experience, working in multiple design disciplines of product, interior, furniture, exhibition and signage design.

He has functioned in various roles as designer, project leader, design director and design mentor.

companies

Co founder of Tessaract Design a multidisciplinary design house providing design consultancy in product and interior design.1986 to 2005.

Co founder and design director of Idiom Design and Consulting Ltd, one of the top design houses in India.Idiom was formed with the merger of Tessaract Design and Esign in 2005.

Idiom is a 100 strong multidisciplinary design house providing design services in product and space design, Brand and communication design.

Co founder of Dovetail Furniture Systems Pvt Ltd. One of the top 3 retail fixturing manufacturers in India.

Co creator of The Designstore brand of home furniture and accessories, An active contributing designer for both the Design store and Dovetail product ranges.

At Tessaract, Idiom , Dovetail , Anand Aurora was engaged in a wide range of design to implementation projects for top Indian Business Houses, ranging from Interior Design ,Planning ,Product and Exhibition Design.

Some Prominent Clients : Future Group, Tvs and Sons, TVS Electronics, Levis, Bharat Petroleum/Shell,Infosys,Britannia Industries,Hutchison Max,Titan Industries, Elgi Engineering,Cisco Systems,Madura Garments,L&T Electronics,Welingkar Institute Of Management,Vikas Group Hyderabad,JG Apparels,Archaelogical Survey of India, Commonwealth Games 2010,Enfield India,Assetz Developers…

clients

current status

In April 2010, Anand founded a design and innovation consultancy startup, Leap Consulting.

Leap is a collaborative network of independent professionals, service agencies and domain experts, brought together in multidisciplinary teams by design directors to produce cutting edge design solutions.

recent work

Some of Anand’s recent work:

Space planning and design for Weschool, an innovative management institute, for their Bangalore and Mumbai campuses.

Space, furniture design and planning for Idiom Design studio and head office in Bangalore.

Entry and finalist for an open design competition for design of visitor amenities for heritage sites in Karnataka.

Signage planning and environmental graphics for Cisco’s global center in Bangalore.

The latest wet grinder from ELGI.

An innovative rainwater filter for a social entrepreneur.

A manual and motorised hospital bed for a startup.

Other works of note:

Retail and Office, Interior and furniture design for the TVS groupAutomobile showroom and service centres with office space for TVS & Sons at Coimbatore, Madurai and Cochin.

Family Mart, a 150,000 sft multi category mall for the Valdel Group. Concept to detail and execution.

Retail design for Pantaloons, at Ahmedabad

Large departmental anchor store concept “ Hours ”,at Fun Republic Mall, Ahmedabad.

Currently working on a complete redesign and rejuvenation of an existing mall on Brigade road, the Mota Arcade, for Motwane Builders. Project Size: 1, 00,000 sft

Family Mart

Family Mart

Family Mart

Family Mart

Family Mart

Family Mart

Family Mart

Family Mart

Family Mart

Weschool (management institute)

Weschool (management institute)

Weschool

Idiom Design and Consulting Limited

Idiom Design and Consulting Limited

Idiom Design and Consulting Limited

Idiom Design and Consulting Limited

Cisco campus at Bangalore

(Signage planning and environmental graphics only)

Product Design

(Client Elgi Ultra Industries)

The latest and the fastest selling wet grinder by Elgi Ultra . 100,000 sold in under an year

Product Design

(Concept prototypes for Pilsener Urquell)

Shelf visual merchandiser for Beer pint bottles ,with built in LED lighting

Branded Merchandise : Flippable maze

Exhibition Design

Maximum impact in a minimal space