We believe creative minds can lead towards affirmative change in society through stimulating, experiential and innovative learning methodologies.
Founder/ Director
An artist, entrepreneur and a passionate philanthropist, ‘Desh’ has spent an arduous 41 years in the realm of Advertising and Media. In 1998, he eventually started his own advertising agency with four like minded partners and in 2007, went on to partner with WPP VMLYR Group.
‘The Classic Partnership, (TCP)’ went on to become an extremely successful and renowned boutique creative thought shop- One that was high sought after by emerging talent as a training & play ground of creativity in the region. An accomplished and multiple award winning CCO and a popular one at that, Desh is exceedingly passionate about giving back to the industry that shaped him as well as engaging communities to create opportunity.
As the original brain and founder of Colors Art Institute, his vision is to empower emerging talent and bring the best quality creative training into areas that need them the most.
MD/ Head of Institute
Entrepreneur. Leader. Mentor. Nirmal has led prestigious advertising agencies across three countries in the capacity of Creative head and COO.
Nirmal has been a multiple award winner, a jury member in international award shows and a lecturer at Cairo University. Some of the best creative talent in the region has blossomed under his mentorship.
Advisor/ Welfare
An articulate thinker and a detailed designer with an experience panning
18 years in the GCC and India, Neha is a purist by heart and avant-garde by choice.
Having trained at some of the best design and brand building playgrounds in the region, Neha is assertive of her ideas and passionate about her philosophies and comes from
a strong transformative strategic design thinking. She brings on board her strength in sound research, brand strategy and the ability to take a calculated risk.
Admin/ Outreach
With over 15 years in sales and marketing across various industries, devoted to fostering business growth and understanding consumer psychology. Her diverse career equips her with a profound understanding of product and service-based businesses, making her adept in business dynamics.
Natasa contributed as a business coach for women entrepreneurs through
a UK-based foundation and is a passionate sustainability advocate.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Sir Isaac Newton
If deserving talent does not find the right mentorship, whose loss is it, really - the individual's or the industry's?
If the future of the world of design must be bright, we must, as educators, play our role in it. That's why we focus on bringing the right mentorship to learners, in the form of a team of mentors, who are from the industry. These are the masters who have the experience and the wisdom.
We design our education in a way that we bring the industry into the classroom. Literally. So that our learners can step out ready to take on and lead the real world of creativity and design; not just build a career. They take with them the confidence and the skill to look at the advancement of technology as a tool and combine that with their own creative and stylistic techniques. So that the larger world of design and technology advances together in harmony.
Eventually, the world of design will get richer when each of our learners steps out with the experience and knowledge that they have gained with us.
As professionals - and not just academicians, we owe that much to our learners and to the industry.
