AT A GLANCE
Murali Krishna S Menon
Area of Practice:
OVERVIEW
I am an Architect, Toy and Game designer and a Design Manager. After graduating in Architecture from JNEC – Aurangabad, i joined NID to learn Toy and Game design. I worked as a Concept Developer and Senior Toy designer for Virgin comics and Animation in Bangalore before shifting to Chennai to wotrk in FUnskool India Limited. At Funskool, I worked as a toy and Game designer in the New product development department. My work involved designing games, promotion campaigns and Creative kits or Do it yourself Kits for children. I took a break from my professional tenure and joined Northumbria University, UK for Design Management, post which he worked as an educator and career councillor with Academy of Fashion and Design, Bangalore.
Before joining Srishti, I worked with one if India’s leading FMCG brands -ITC as a Design Manager for their stationary brand “CLASSMATE” stationary products.
At Srishti, I work with Information Arts and Information Design Practices. My primary engagements are with Final year students of IAIDP in their final projects covering the areas of designing for Special children, universal design, play and education. Other than these areas, I also actively take part in conducting game and toy designing studios for the Bachelors students across the years.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Architecture, Post graduate Diploma in Toy Design and Development, Masters in Design Management
WORK EXPERIENCE
Toy Designer
GOTHAM COMICS
Jun 2005 – Dec 2005 7 months
Game Designer and Concept developer
Virgin Comics and Animations
Jan 2006 – Dec 2006 1 year
Toy and Game Designer
FUNSKOOL INDIA LIMITED
Jan 2007 – Aug 2011 4 years 8 months
Education Councillor and design educator
Academy of Fashion & Design
Jan 2013 – Jun 2013 6 months
Assistant manager – Design Operations,
Education and Stationary Products Business
ITC Limited
Jul 2013 – Apr 2016 2 years 10 months
Faculty,
Information Arts and Information design practices,
Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology,
Bangalore
July 2016 – March 2020
Associate Dean
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology,
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
April 2020 –
INTEREST AREAS
Toy design, Game design, Paper modelling, Model making,
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Information arts and Information Design professional, Toy and Game designer and Paper modeller.
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Presently I take care of the bachelors program for Information Arts and Information design practices and also coordinate the Masters and PGDP program along with my colleagues in the discipline.
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
Toy and Game designer, Administrator, Model maker and Play set designer and deeply interested in improvisation, blue sky thinking and learning from mistakes.
