Chander Shekhar Email & Phone Number

1984- till date: Established SHADE as Founder CEO, a design enterprise in 1984 and one of the largest print production facility for an NRI, where I operated as the Chief Designer and presently work as consultant. Been consultant to many establishments while working on diverse range of products and services for domestic and international clients including UNO, British Council, US AID, Norway and German embassies, Tupperware, Coca Cola, NDTV, LaSalle, Oxfam, Citibank, Usha, Philip Morris, Whirlpool...

Gurgaon

Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Sonipat, Haryana

Set up in collaboration with Cardiff university, U.K., a modern environment with generous studios and library required me to initially set up the graphic and product design faculties.

New Delhi

From designing the corporate identity programmes for the group and their various channels to executing design and print production for all the bureaus worldwide.

New Delhi

Conducted workshops on design introduction, photography and pioneering the industrial/ product design programme.

1983-84 : UNICEF, India. Commissioned under Special Contract with Raymond Jansen for Water andSanitation Section (WESS) for the design of Hand pump, its installation and creation of the manual INDIA MARK II.Special commission: Univac Sperry USA collaboration with Operation Research Group (ORG), the Sarabhai Group. Designed their line of computers complete with industrial design and product graphics; established in-house project support section for advertising and design.

Served as full-time design consultant to UNICEF (Transport & Equipment Maintenance Section (TEMS)) during which responsibilities included development of India's first DRIVERS MANUAL for Unicef provided vehicles across India. Participated in the development of the first Indian diesel jeep (Pugeot engine - Mahindra collaboration) with Carl Gustav Forsmark which was tested in the Himalayan Car rally and recognized as a category amongst imported racing cars!

Worked as Chief Creative Designer with UNICEF (PSC-Project Support CommunicationsSection) at their South East Asia Regional Headquarters. Created Manuals, Flip charts, illustrations and photo posters for all Unicef projects of the India office.

Full Diploma 5 1/2 Years, Design And Visual Communications, General

Activities and Societies: Did masters in printing technology, simultaneous diploma in automotive engineering, the only one in the history.

Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities

Activities and Societies: Best artist of the year, swimming champion, Unesco poster competition award winner (all awards), music.