Vinay Venkatraman

Resident Faculty
Nationality: Indian

Vinay’s background is in industrial design. He graduated from the National Institute of Design, India. His professional life began as a product designer for manufacturing companies designing bicycles, kitchen appliances, etc. In between he was enticed by film making and worked as visual effects designer for a leading post production house, Prime Focus Ltd, on various advertisements and feature films.

He later shifted focus to software products and was a consultant to several software companies working on information architecture and user interface design. In the summer of 2005, he interned as a product designer at Microsoft in Seattle. In 2006, he graduated with distinction from the Masters programme in Interaction Design from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy). Vinay’s work has been exhibited during the Salone del Mobile (International Furniture Fair) in Milan (April, 2006), written about in leading design magazines and various popular blogs.

He has also assisted in teaching courses at the University of Aarhus, IUAV University in Venice and the IT university in Copenhagen. His current interests include tangible user interfaces, service design and finding new models of sustainable economic development using open source technologies.