International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year (IYDEY) Award 2007
Balkrishna Mahajan has been shortlisted among top five for International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year (IYDEY) Award 2007 from India. IYDEY Award has been instituted by British Council. It showcases successful and promising design entrepreneurs from select countries across the world and presents them with the opportunity to network with each other, familiarise themselves with the UK design sector, showcase their work at 100% Design and win the IYDEY Award.

The award, in its third year, seeks to identify and nurture the next generation of leaders in the Indian design sector by linking them with the UK at a key stage in their development.
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We were all impressed by the breadth of your knowledge and the critical research process in which you engage when developing a product; the work is clearly conceptually intelligent. You are obviously very persuasive in taking clients in new, design-led directions and can clearly demonstrate the contribution that design is making to the corporate bottom-line” Alice Cicolini British Council India’s Head of Arts and leads on the Knowledge Economy programme