Mere Jaisa Koi is an indie magazine for teens and young adults seeking genuine connection. It features surreal art, journaling prompts, and QR codes linking to an interactive space for sharing music, writing, or art. It offers a quiet alternative to social media-one built on emotion, reflection, and the comfort of being understood.
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#HoldThatMoment is a visual campaign responding to Temporal Disconnect - Design for Impatience. It reimagines everyday delays, like red lights or waiting in queues, as chances to pause and reconnect. Through a short film and contextual posters in public spaces, the campaign invites viewers to shift perspective and notice the moments we often overlook in our rush.
Wave is an alarm clock that challenges the urgency-driven design of traditional mornings.
By introducing intentional friction and interactive pixel visuals, it transforms waking up into a mindful ritual. Instead of rewarding instant reactions, Wave encourages presence and patience, helping users shift from rushed awakenings to conscious starts, thus reducing anxiety.
Antaral is a bathroom mirror that activates only when the user remains still and focused for a minute. Using motion and eye-tracking, it transforms reflection into a daily ritual of patience and self-awareness. Once activated, it stays visible throughout the day, encouraging a mindful start and reinforcing the idea that stillness is a strength.
Loiter is an app concept designed for botanical gardens in India. It features a dynamic, seasonal tree map that responds to the user’s location and time of the year. By highlighting nearby species and sensory cues, such as sights, smells and sounds, it encourages deeper presence, observation and connect with nature.
This concept reimagines traditional traffic lights as calming visual experiences that encourage mindfulness in urban spaces.
Instead of abrupt signals, the lights display slow natural visuals like blooming plants. The aim is to reduce stress, promote stillness, and transform wait times into peaceful moments.
It highlights our innate patience when observing nature and applies that insight to city life.
Ajeeb Hai Toh Kya? is a campaign that encourages people to own their awkwardness and wear it like a badge of honor. It challenges the pressure to be perfect by celebrating vulnerability, uncertainty, and emotional honesty. By speaking to the hidden, in-between spaces people often occupy, the campaign offers permission to show up fully as one’s authentic self, regardless of judgement.
LookOut is a visual initiative that encourages people to rediscover patience and presence in today’s fast-paced world. With posters, activities and a gentle mascot named Iffy, who is bold, fierce and gentle, it offers playful reminders to slow down, appreciate everyday moments and reconnect with the joy of simply being. LookOut helps counter impatience with stillness, creativity and small acts of mindfulness.
Innr is a guided journaling and meditation pod that uses Al-facilitated voice journaling, chakra-based meditation, and immersive sensory cues to help users reconnect with themselves. It bridges gaps in traditional journaling by offering secure, adaptive emotional support. The system transforms passive reflection into an active healing ritual, fostering stillness, self-awareness, and emotional clarity in a fast-paced world.
Fidgy is a compact, emotionally intelligent companion designed to help young adults practice mindfulness in a fast-paced world. Featuring a multi-functional dial, intuitive fidget loop, mood-responsive lighting, soft sound playback, and an emergency light, Fidgy supports focus, calm, and presence-wherever you are. Scroll it. Tap it. Fidget it.
Carry clarity in your pocket.
Imbue is a digital self-help experience designed to support individuals dealing with anxiety through playful daily rituals. Drawing on therapeutic techniques, it uses distraction, contemplation and co-regulation to foster presence and emotional regulation. Fully DIY and stigma-free, the app encourages users, especially youth aged 14–24, to reconnect with the moment without relying on constant digital support.
Echoes is a mobile application designed to counter digital overstimulation by gently encouraging presence and introspection.
Unlike typical fast-paced apps, it offers slow, calming mini-games that guide users to reflect and journal. Visually inspired by roots growing through soil, Echoes turns everyday digital pauses into mindful moments that foster inner calm and self-awareness.
Carbon Cohort is a 6-month internship program by Studio Carbon, designed to nurture emerging design talent. It's your gateway to working on cutting-edge projects, learning from industry experts, and kickstarting your career in design!
As part of this Cohort, you will join one of our design teams at Studio Carbon. Under the able guidance and mentorship of our senior designers, you will get to work on:
- Live client projects across various sectors.
- Any self-initiated design project that you wish to take forward.
- Final year design students looking for a Graduation Project.
- Recent design graduates who wish to work on future-ready client projects.
- Design enthusiasts ready to dive into the professional world.
To start off, we have designed the challenges such that they push you to think and design with speculative futures. You can add your work on any of these challenges to your portfolio. So if nothing else, you get a cool new project under your name!
- Top 30 entries receive an appreciation certificate by the reviewing team at Studio Carbon.
- Top 10 entries will be featured across our socials and blog.
- The top 5 will be selected for the Carbon Cohort and receive an offer letter for a paid internship at Studio Carbon.
- A stipend of ₹15k-₹30k.
- Invaluable industry experience.
- Opportunity to work on any innovative idea that you want to develop.
- A Carbon Cohort certificate along with an LOR.
- You’ll become a part of the growing Carbon design network.
- A potential full-time employment at Studio Carbon.
- If you have the entrepreneur mindset, you’ll get a chance to be a part of our Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program to incubate your design venture with us.
- Opportunity to build your portfolio with compelling and experimental design briefs
- Top 10 entries receive a Certificate of Appreciation and will be featured on our Socials
- Top applicants will receive an offer for a paid internship at Studio Carbon
- Paid internship with a stipend of ₹15,000-₹30,000/month
- Hands-on experience on impactful, future-facing design work
- A space to experiment with ideas that matter to you
- A Cohort Completion Certificate + Letter of Recommendation
- Access to the Carbon Design Network and future opportunities
- Consideration for full-time roles at Studio Carbon
Challenges
Reimagine the future of food through the various lenses of design. Each sub-challenge focuses on a unique aspect of this theme, allowing you to showcase your creativity, imagination and design skills.
Imagine a world where traditional agriculture has been revolutionised by technology, making food scarcity a thing of the past. However, this abundance brings new challenges:
- Ensuring balanced nutrition in a world of plenty.
- Maintaining trust in food sources and production methods.
- Preserving culinary traditions and community connections to food.
Your task is to address these challenges through innovative design solutions, with each sub-challenge tackling a specific aspect of this future.
Sub-Challenge 1: Industrial Design
One Line Brief
Design a Nutrition Management System for homes in 2050.
Context
In 2050, food abundance has led to concerns about balanced nutrition and health optimization. People struggle to maintain a balanced diet amidst unlimited food choices.
Scope
- Create a product/system that ensures optimal nutrition for individuals and families.
- Consider how the system can guide users towards balanced diets while allowing for personal preferences and occasional indulgences.
Deliverables
- A brief writeup of your design choices and how they address the brief.
- Visuals that convey the solution, in a medium of choice.
- Story board of the product/system: Day in the life of the user.
What we are looking for
- Lateral thinking approaches.
- Speculative yet Plausible futures.
- Extrapolation of current & upcoming trends that hint at the designed solution.
Sub-Challenge 2: Communication Design
One Line Brief
Create a brand identity for a global food trust and traceability system in 2050.
Context
In 2050, despite food abundance, concerns about food origins, safety, and production methods have increased. People seek transparency and assurance about their food choices.
Scope
- Develop a brand system that conveys trust and provides transparency in the global food supply chain.
- Consider how the brand will be applied across various future mediums.
- Consider how to communicate complex information about food sources, production methods, and sustainability to diverse audiences.
Deliverables
- A brief writeup explaining your concept and how it addresses the challenge.
- Visual design system of your brand identity.
- Visualisation of scenarios depicting how your brand system can be applied in different touchpoints of the food chain.
What we are looking for
- Conceptual thinking in branding for trust.
- Design versatility across various mediums.
- Effective visual communication of complex information.
- Attention to details.
Sub-Challenge 3: UI/UX Design
One Line Brief
Design an Interface or a Digital Experience for Culinary Heritage and Community Building in 2050.
Context
In 2050, rapid technological advancements and globalization threaten to erode diverse culinary traditions and communal eating practices. There's a growing need to preserve food heritage, celebrate diversity, and foster community connections through shared culinary experiences in an increasingly digital world.
Scope
- Conceptualise an interface / digital experience that helps preserve, share, and celebrate diverse food cultures while fostering community connections.
- Consider how to make traditional cooking methods and cultural food knowledge accessible and appealing to future generations.
- Explore ways to facilitate shared eating experiences and build communities around traditional recipes and food practices, even in a highly digital environment.
Deliverables
- A brief writeup of your interface / experience concept and how it addresses the challenge.
- High-fidelity mockups of 3 key screens / interfaces / experience touch points which aptly communicate the concept & key features.
- Prototype of key interactions. (Optional)
What we are looking for
- Forward-thinking application of emerging technologies.
- Cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in design.
- Visual design skills for advanced UI concep.ts
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