UID School of Design Faculty

Manish Iyer

HoD Product Design

Qualification: PEP Diploma Industrial Design (Ceramic Design) , MDes Industrial Design

College/University: NID, Ahemadabad

Introduction:

He is a dynamic and result-driven professional with more than 32 years of experience in industry and academics. He has done his M.Des in Industrial Design (Ceramic Design) from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He has taught in some of the prestigious institutes like NID - Ahmedabad, NID Kurukshetra, NID- Vijayawada, SPA - Delhi, NIFT- Delhi, DJAD - Coimbatore, IICD Jaipur, Pearl Academy Delhi, G D Goenka University, IIITD Delhi, IILM - Gurgaon,  and JK Lakshmipat University - Jaipur. 

He has been a design consultant with many reputed firms like DLF, Nestle India, Adobe systems, Bharti Airtel, Rashtrapati Bhavan, and President’s body Guard. As a Chief Designer, he has worked on various projects for major hotel chains like ITC hotels Ltd., India hotels Ltd. (Taj hotels), Oberoi hotels, Hyatts, Westin, Jaypee Hotels, Radisson Hotels, etc; across India for Tableware, buffet ware, and banquet systems.  

He has co-founded a company called ‘DesignWorth’ that offers comprehensive design solutions backed by technical and manufacturing expertise for tableware, furniture and consumer products. Currently, he is working with Unitedworld Institute of Design, NCR Campus in the capacity of Head of Department - Product Design.