The Design Lab

We are over here at the New Tehri Town Mall, right at A 13 in the Cantt area of Dehradun. It’s been a bit of a journey setting up The Design Lab in this spot. Most days you'll find us sketching out ideas or looking at samples while the mall traffic moves past outside. It isn't a huge fancy office, just a workspace where we get things done. We deal with all sorts of design requests that come our way from people in the neighborhood and further out in the city. Living and working in Dehradun has its own pace, and we try to match that. Sometimes the coffee machine breaks or the internet acts up, but we keep at it. People usually just drop in when they are visiting the mall to ask a quick question about a project they have in mind. We don't have a big corporate team, just a few of us who know our way around a drawing board and a computer. It’s a lot of sitting and thinking, then more sitting and doing. The mall is a convenient spot for meetings, though finding parking can be a bit of a headache on weekends. We've been in this unit for a while now and the walls are covered in old sketches and notes. It's a bit messy, but that's how we work. We just take one project at a time and try to make sense of what the client is asking for without making it too complicated.