About Ramesh
I am a…
Artist, Brainstormer, Designer, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Explorer, Idea generator
Bio
Ramesh Manickam is the founder and CEO of Centroid Creative Hubb an Industrial Design firm based in Chennai, to practice and push boundaries in industrial design work in India.
Ramesh as an Industrial designer has styled products ranging from Tractors, wheel loaders, motorcycles, water heaters, baby warmer till pens. In the past 10 years he has worked on more than about 80 different projects giving creative design solutions and designing to context for his clients. The projects / products range from varying scale of complexity from mass-produced till one off products.
Ramesh represented India as a National finalist in International Young Design entrepreneur of the year 2006, award conducted by British council to nurture design entrepreneurship. He is also an alumnus of IIT Delhi, Industrial design program.
His passion from child hood is to keep drawing, he is a self thought artist, studied civil engineering, and aligned his career in Industrial Design. Before starting Centroid, he was with Royal Enfield, as an automotive designer and designed the legendary Thunderbird Motorcycle.
I'm passionate about
Industrial design and drawing (Sketching), drawing (communicating) and drawing (exploring). through visual imagery, mind mapping, deconstruction and ideating to design products.
An idea worth spreading
A person who is Hands on gets hand dirty during work and gets in to depth of creative thinking. An engineer by base profession, an artist as an hobby and a passionate practicing industrial designer while being an entrepreneur, that gives the freedom to execute the thoughts. A demanding design teacher for the staff at Centroid, always talking about creative thinking.
Work at Centroid as an Industrial Designer ,its my passion which I am pursing and practicing. Designing products, exploring possibilities, day dreaming, find solutions, then systematically focusing on deliverables are the works which I enjoy doing.
Areas of expertise
entrepreneurship, Experience Design, Genius is self, Industrial Design