Roughly fifty years ago,
[India's] government invited Charles and Ray Eames to travel the nation, talk about design and recommend how it could shape India's future....
India today is reaping the rewards of the investment it made in design education when, following the Eameses' report, it established the National Institute of Design in Ahmedebad, India's nearest equivalent to London's Royal College of Art...
India's savvy new industry is wide awake to the urgency and scale of its calling. Hot product designer Mukul Goyal explains that, "The future of design in India does not lie in the hands of designers, but in the expectations of a billion people."
Read a full article here about how the Eames' journey indirectly influenced the state of industrial design in India today.
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