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Interview in Namaste Telangana // June 2015
Article in Startup 360 Magazine // April 2015
Workship: The Story of a Walk-in Portfolio I run a small architecture and design studio, DesignAware. We are passionate about design, awareness, and we design everything, from wearables to furniture to architecture. Our foremost aim is to create awareness about design: to encourage a dialog between designers and users. We believe in open source accessibility … Continue reading Article in Startup 360 Magazine // April 2015
Article in Times Property // April 2015
Womenpreneurs at Startup Saturday // March 2015
Interview in EdTech Revolution, Foradian.com // October 2014
1. Could you please tell us what DesignAware is all about? DesignAware is foremost an architecture and design firm, which provides design consultancy services for architecture, landscape, urban design, interior design, furniture, product, and accessory design. Our team is comprised mostly of architects and designers. Not all of us are in the same physical location, … Continue reading Interview in EdTech Revolution, Foradian.com // October 2014
Feature about DesignAware on Cluburb.com // October 2014
Industrial Kitchen in Deccan Chronicle Hyderabad // September 2014
DesignAware featured on Startup Hyderabad // September 2014
DesignAware, an all-woman start-up, is a multi-disciplinary experimental design studio that was born of a desire to create awareness through liveable, wearable, usable, accessible design. Takbir Fatima started DesignAware while still in grad school in London, in 2010. Intrigued by digital fabrication techniques, such as laser-cutting and 3D printing, which was used to make physical 3D models of … Continue reading DesignAware featured on Startup Hyderabad // September 2014
Wearables on Arthitectural // September 2014
Inspired by digital modeling and model-making techniques used in architecture, we began to design wearable accessories in laser-cut fiberglass. The wearables are designed in 3D using digital modeling software and line-drawings obtained from the 3D model are sent to the CNC laser-cutting machine to cut out the patterns from fiberglass sheets. The pieces are then … Continue reading Wearables on Arthitectural // September 2014