Department of Design, IIT Kanpur was run as an Interdisciplinary design programme (MDes and PhD) for the past 20 years. The department aims to encourage creativity, innovation, craftsmanship, and personal expression leading to the evolution of products and services in engineering design and visual communications. A number of projects interspersed during the program provide opportunities for creating products and services to meet social, environmental and business needs. Our department plans to collaborate with international design schools as well.