Thank you, Participants for your overwhelming response and support. Submissions for Helix Books & Awards RISE Series 2022-23 are now closed!
Helix Books & Awards by INKBOUND Publishing Studio is an initiative launched in response to the new normal of the world, and to showcase the spirit of Indian designers! A unique award program thus evolved; which had to be more exciting, more challenging and more inclusive than anything ever done before.
Helix is a Celebration of Your Creative DNA! This flagship project of Inkbound Publishing Studio aims to honor design and detail, innovation and inclusivity, style and sustainability. A unique process of participation leads to selection of the finest projects in a series of Books.
There are 3 Proposed Book Titles - one may choose any one, or two, or all, for participation! Awards will emerge from the Projects/Designers shortlisted for the Books, by the Jury.
Helix Books & Awards took shape on December 25th 2021; the first season commencing with the RISE Series. Early Bird participation starts on 31st January 2022, will be open till 10th March 2022; Basic participation open till 10th May 2022 and Extended participation open till 10th June 2022.
The RISE Series of Helix Books & Awards celebrates creativity in interior design; with the core values of Responsibility, Innovation, Sustainability, and Exploration.
Participation in Helix Books & Awards RISE Series 2022-23 is open to the designer fraternity in India. Books will be sold through online selling channels, and distributed globally.
Helix Books & Awards by INKBOUND Publishing Studio is an initiative by architect-author Roopa Sabnis Pinge, launched in response to the new normal of the world, and to showcase the spirit of Indian designers! A unique award program thus evolved; which had to be more exciting, more challenging and more inclusive than anything ever done before.
Helix will be virtual in spirit! The entry process, jury selection, and promotional content will always be in an online, digital format. But the timeless appeal of books asserted itself in the darkest hours of the pandemic! Shopping might have gone online with new gusto; but globally, there was a re-shift in the tendency to find comfort in books! Good, old-fashioned printed stuff! Paperbacks and hardbound classics both got down from the bookshelves and globally re-entered the immediate consciousness…
In the fields of art, architecture and design too, the show must go on! There may be a mandatory paradigm shift in normal; but it is time to embrace the ‘new normal’ and march on. The positive way to look at this imposed change is to see the opportunity it brings along; a chance to change things for the better – for everyone!
It is with this belief that Helix Books & Awards was conceived and created!
Certainly not another chip off the block and yet following the ‘new normal’ the award process will be 100% virtual! So here we are – offering designers an opportunity to get published, as well as win awards!
Why Helix? The helix is the structural form of the human DNA. Helix Books + Awards aims to ‘Celebrate Your Creative DNA’!
Participation in Helix Books & Awards is open to the designer fraternity in India; and for the first cycle, it will be restricted to Indian designers. But the books will be sold through our publishing partners all over the world! And that makes it an excellent opportunity for Indian designers to display their work on a global level!