Save3: Saving water and electricity

Aditi Singh, born in Jaipur, India, graduated in Architecture followed by a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from SPA, New Delhi. She went on to work with prestigious architecture and design offices before establishing an independent practice. Her diverse award winning work is interdisciplinary in nature, blurring boundaries between various design disciplines and includes architectural projects, product innovation, and system design. She is a recipient of the National Scholarship Scheme, Government of India and her design work has been acclaimed internationally, including a Red Dot Design Award in 2013. Faculty at premier international design institutes and Assistant Professor at SPA, New Delhi, Aditi is currently passionate about the intersection of the digital and physical space and the joy in building human connections with design.

Parag Anand is an Industrial Designer with a Masters Degree in Design from IIT, Delhi and has also trained at the TU Delft, the Netherlands. He was the co-founder of 5th Quadrant Design and has more than 15 years of experience in the field. He has undertaken a variety of projects in the field of Product and Communication Design and is a keen academician with interests ranging from System to Social Design. He has been visiting faculty at premier international institutes and is currently Associate Professor of Industrial Design at SPA, New Delhi. His work has been widely recognized including a previous Red Dot Design Award. Parag’s current area of research focuses on application of next generation technology for development of sustainable products to address grassroot level issues.

Red Dot: Best of the Best 2015, Luminary Nominee
SINGAPORE, Sept 25, 2015

The Red Dot Design Award, awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany, is the largest and most prestigious international award for design at a professional level. In 2015, in the fiercely competitive Design Concept discipline, a panel of 20 international expert jury members met in Singapore and conferred the sought-after seal of quality ìRed Dotî in 31 categories with 4,680 entries from 61 countries. 40 concepts among these were honoured with the top prize in the competition for ground-breaking design, the Red Dot: Best of the Best.

Save3 was honoured with the Red Dot: Best of the Best and was among the top 5 designs nominated for the Red Dot: Luminary.

The Jury nominated an unprecedented five out of the 40 Red Dot: Best of the Best laureates for the Red Dot: Luminary - the highest distinction of the competition. The five nominees were ìBoostracî by Hankooktire Co Ltd; ìFORTIS Human Powered Exoskeletonî by ROBRADY design; ìOXYGENEî by Dalian Nationalities University; ìSave3î by Aditi Singh & Parag Anand; and ìHere - lamp deskî by Serge Atallah.

This award winning design, Save3 is currently on display at the exhibition "Designing Our Future" at the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore.

International Design Awards, IDA 2015-SILVER
LOS ANGELES, Jun 16, 2016

Aditi Singh, Parag Anand of India were awarded: Second Prize, IDA 2015-SILVER in Sustainable Living/Environmental Preservation Competition for the Save3 Project.

The International Design Awards (IDA), one of the most prestigious Design Awards in America, recognizes, honors and promotes legendary design visionaries and uncovers emerging talents in five design disciplines: Architecture, Interior, Product, Graphic and Fashion Design, on a global level. IDA aspires to draw attention to the iconoclasm of design world wide, conceptualizing and producing great work.

An internationally renowned panel of experts jury members examined works by architects and designers from 52 countries world over. The jury rewarded the best professional and emerging designers for their achievements in terms of design, creativity, usability and innovation. Judging was a rigorous process, with winners receiving publication of their work in the International Design Awards Book of Designs, a press campaign, directory, certificate of achievement, seal of winning design, online exposure and the IDA trophy. The winners will be felicitated at the official biennial International Design Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles in 2017.