“by design” chronicles a lifetime of design, distilled through projects about learning, questioning, and transforming practice and design education. Across six decades, each project in this book emerges as a site of inquiry: where a simple shift in an alarm clock redefined usability, where observing everyday routines led to reimagining public systems like milk booths, where constraints of materials and manufacturing shaped form, and where failures were not hidden, but repurposed into new directions.

This book contains product design, exhibition design, urban interventions and educational frameworks. The work reveals a consistent philosophy: design as a way of thinking - rooted in context, refined through experience, and guided by purpose to create meaningful social impact.