09 July, 2012

National Institute of Design bags three national awards for publication design

Date 27 Jun 2012 15:58:10 IST , Times of India    Tags: Fashion Design


The National Institute of Design  (NID)'s two in-house magazines got national awards for publication design at ICE Awards held in Mumbai. As per the Research and Publications Department officials, NID had participated in the ICE Awards Competition for In-house communication excellence. The ICE awards are given to in-house journals and magazines in any language from any part of the world. There are seven different categories in the competition. This year there were 675 entries sent by corporate giants, educational institutions, NGOS and others from India and 35 entries sent from overseas.

""We sent both the Trellis and D/Signed. While Trellis is a design research journal, D/Signed is a periodical encompassing design industry and good practices. Both our publications were nominated by the jury in three categories. The Trellis was nominated for Best Publication among Educational Institutions and also for the Best Imperative Content . D/Signed was nominated in the best Design and Layout category. We were one of three organizations that were nominated three times so far,"" said Shilpa Das, head, NID Publications.

Some of the other nominees in the other categories were IIT Bombay, Tata Power, Reserve Bank of India, Nabard, Mumbai Police, Mahindra and Mahindra, Sophia College, and Air India among others.

NID officials said that the magazines bagged second prizes in all three categories - Best Journal/Magazine among Educational Institutions, Best Imperative Content and Best Design and Layout. While IIT Bombay's Raintree won in first two categories, Creative Keeda published by Sophia College, Mumbai, won first prize in third category.