PUNE CONCEPT: A number of VDS team members spent the summer of 2010 in Pune and Bangalore, India. Part of the team focused on supply chain research and manufacturing while the remainder of the team worked to refine VDS demand side research. Akshay Shinde lead the team in Pune and Lorenzo Davoli the group in Bangalore.

Akshay Shinde is currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts Degree in Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Akshay understands, design is more a result of synthesis than analysis. He believes good design is an act of faith, conviction and creativity to redefine what is known, rewrite existing rules and link the unrelated. Design should be used to create harmony between technology, cultures and environment.