Idiom Design and Consulting

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IDIOM

Company type	Private
Founded	(2005)
Successor	Nandini Kulkarni Abhinav Agarwal
Headquarters	Bangalore Pune , India
Key people	Sonia Manchanda Jacob Mathew Abhinav Agarwal Nandini Kulkarni Girish Raj Sonal Devraj Mohammed Javed Sunil Benipuri Suresh Kumar
Services	Business Design Service Design Graphic Design Space Design Consulting
Number of employees	103 (2010)
Website	www.idiom.co.in/

Idiom Design and Consulting is a design firm and consultancy based in Bangalore, India, also operating from Pune, India.

Idiom Design and Consulting was founded in 2005 with the merger of E-sign and Tessaract.

Sonia Manchanda, who founded E-sign – a design firm – along with Anand Aurora and Jacob Mathew who were part of the founding team of Tessaract – a space, furniture and product design firm – came together with support from Kishore Biyani, CEO, Future Group. They were later joined by Girish Raj. The firm currently employs 70 people.

The legacy is now headed by Ar. Abhinav Agarwal and Ms. Nandini Kulkarni, who run the organisation as a platform-cooperative network.

Idiom designs spaces, branding, signage and packaging in a variety of industries, including retail, education and media. Their clients include Manipal Group, Adlabs, Cisco Systems, Levis signature and Wipro.

The company designed the identity and look for the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India. ^[1]

• Recipient of the VMRD Retail Design Awards in various categories in 2007 and 2009
• Recipient of the Star Retailer Design of the Year awards in 2007 and 2009
• Phase 2 qualifier for the Spark design awards, 2008

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