India’s Best Design Awards

Honouring Excellence in Design

Now in its 11th year, India’s Best Design Awards (IBDA) continues to stand as a definitive platform celebrating excellence, innovation, and purpose in Indian design.

Over the past decade, IBDA has built a strong legacy of recognising exceptional designers, studios and emerging talent who create meaningful solutions for an ever-evolving world. More than an accolade for creativity, the awards honour ideas that shape the future addressing real societal needs and delivering lasting impact.

Open to both professionals and students, IBDA champions inclusivity and diversity, strengthening India’s design ecosystem with every edition and setting a benchmark for quality, relevance and ingenuity in design.

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Award Categories

India’s Best Design Awards celebrates the breadth and impact of design across industries. With thoughtfully curated categories, IBDA honours in-house teams, independent studios, groundbreaking projects and emerging talent that continue to shape the design landscape.

Alongside these, the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) Awards recognise a rare league of practitioners whose work reflects sustained excellence, influence, and a lasting legacy of design leadership. Explore the categories and choose the one that best represents your work.

Greatest of All Time

Entry Fees

Early Bird
(16 Feb-10 Mar)

Regular
(Coming Soon)

Late Entries
(Coming Soon)

India’s Best Design Project

30,000/-

35,000/-

40,000/-

India’s Best Independent Design Studio

45,000/-

50,000/-

55,000/-

India’s Best In-house Design Studio

80,000/-

90,000/-

95,000/-

India’s Best Design Student

7,999/-

9,999/-

11,999/-

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Note: 18% GST will be applied at checkout

Avik Chattopadhyay

Brand Strategy, Marketing, and Automotive Product
planning Expert

Arjun Sirur

Managing Director at Cotmac Electronics pvt.ltd

Harsha Paruchuri

Director at Pragati Group

Jutta Jerlich

Educator & Entrepreneurial Mentor

Mikko Koria

Director of the Institute for Design Innovation at Loughborough University London

Sirish Chandran

Founder & Publisher, Project GTO Publishing

Vijaybahu Joshi

AVP – Head of Experience Design, Reliance Industries Ltd.

Praveen Nahar

Director at National Institute of Design

Minti Shah

Design Entrepreneur

David Grossman

Co-Director, TASA-ICoD International Design Education Laboratory

Gerald Kiska

Founder & Chairman, KISKA

Dr Sudhir Mehta

Chairman and Managing Director, Pinnacle Industries Ltd

Adil Jal Darukhanawala

Founder & Chief Editor, Fast Bikes India

Tarun Deep Girdher

Design Educator & Principal Graphic Design, National Institute of Design

Seemant Srivastav

Founder, Mool Innovation Labs and Attentio Corporate Services

Pallavi Jain

Head – Design and Strategy
IndiDesign, Pune

Rajesh Kejriwal

Founder & CEO, Kyoorius Group

Shekhar Golccha

Chairman, Golchha Group

Anil Saini

Former Delivery Head, Tata Consultancy Services

Nivedita Saboo

Founder, Nivedita Couture

Deepak John Mathew

Professor & Head of Design Department, IIT Hyderabad

Harini Chandrasekar

Research Lead, Meta

Ar. Sanjay Puri

Principal Architect, Sanjay Puri Architects

Dr. Pooja Misal

Founder & CEO, BrickETC

Dr Sanjeev Prasher

Professor of Marketing, IIM Raipur

Sudhir Sharma

Founder, IndiDesign & DesignIndia

Gopal Meena

Vice President, Chitkara University, Chandigarh

Pritesh Bhatia

Assistant Professor, GLS Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

Dr. Ranjana Dani

Senior Faculty, MIT-ID, Pune

Nitin Vishwakarma

Senior Faculty, NIDJ Assam

Tridha Gajjar

Senior Faculty, NID, Ahmedabad

Nallur Chandra Prasad

Head of Design, ADYPU, Pune

Dr. Sanjeevani Ayachit

Director, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune

Sangita Shroff

Director, Institute of Design, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Santosh Kshirsagar

Professor, Sir J.J Institute Of Applied Art, Mumbai

Naga Nandini Dasgupta

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru

Priyanka Sachdev

Co-Founder & Creative Director QuirkBox Design Agency, Mumbai

Sambit Kumar Pradhan

Head of Department, United World Institute of Design, Gandhinagar

Honey Bajaj

Head of Consumer Experience & Design Practice, Accenture Song, India

Nilesh Kamble

Creative Director, IndiDesign

Dr. Sushant Kumar

Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM L)

Sudhir Sharma

Founder, IndiDesign & DesignIndia

India’s Best Design Awards is judged by renowned design industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and educators whose collective expertise ensures a thorough and insightful evaluation of each submission.

professional Jury
Student JURY