A few days back Prof. Sethuraman of NID had posted a mail to DesignIndia asking for conceptual excellence in design.

“Although there may be many good design fullfilling certain criterias, there are among these good design some ideas stand out as a conceptually excellent approach to problem solving.in science and mathematics and other areas including literature, we could locate conceptual excellence.the idea of my sabbatical is to discover form the product design perspective, product ideas which have the quality of conceptual excellence.one may ask,what should be the criteria for selecting such objects? I would like to go through the exercise differently, by first getting from the members, there own list of products which they consider as products of conceptual excellence and also there own criteria for selecting them.the products could range from craft product,product made by people or group for their own needs,contemporary products or any ting members consider as product with conceptual excellence. i will colate these ideas and find the common factors on what we generally hold as products of conceptual excellence.”

So if you come across any such ideas then kindly send your views to him personally to his email id sethuu@gmail.com