Design Showcase
Prof. MP Ranjan
India’s Design Guru
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Remembering M.P. Ranjan
• Remembering M.P. Ranjan
Left Image: NID students’ grand artistic tribute in 2015 to M.P. Ranjan on his demise in 2015 [36] Right Image:DoD, IIT Guwahati students artsitic tribute in 2015 to M.P. Ranjan on his demise in 2015 [37]
"Ranjan was many things to many people. He was an educator and a mentor, pushing boundaries and encouraging each of us to do more and think more. He was a design evangelist, speaking up for causes and being a catalyst of change. He was a source of inspiration, igniting in each of us an ability to think beyond our abilities. He was a farmer, planting within each of us the seed of curiosity and discovery." - Sajith Ansar.
"Ranjan was a warm and compassionate person and a great educator. Thousands of students will mourn. I was pleased to be able to call him my friend." - Don Norman, author of the book, Design of Everyday Things.
"Ranjan and I were just exchanging emails on a quest for new insights into old design terms in Design. I will miss him as a colleague and friend of immense integrity and intellectual honesty."- Harold Nelson, the author of The Design Way.
"He would always tell me that, the day he was born in the year 1950, his house in Madras got connected with electricity like he was the brightest star. He said it with that adorable brag quotient he had that few could get away with." - Sujata Shankar Kumar, a furniture design graduate, NID.
"Ranjan left his square foot better than he found it." - Ken Friedman, Professor at the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne and fellow designer.