India’s product design professor gets UK honour
Prof. A. Balasubramaniam, (above) Director of the Institute of Design at JK Lakshmipat University, has become the first Indian to win the UK’s Hills Millennium Award 2025, previously given to global figures like Elon Musk and designers from Apple, Ferrari, and Mini Cooper. This award isn’t just personal — it highlights the global reach of Indian product design and validates decades of work in combining form, function, and heritage. It also inspires emerging designers by showing what Indian design excellence can look like on the world stage.
It also inspires emerging designers by showing what Indian design excellence can look like on the world stage.