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Ahmedabad Design fest Introduction The city of Ahmedabad witnessed its biggest design fest hosted by a renowned university called Gujarat Law Society Institute of Design. It was conducted on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd December of 2018. Ahmedabad Design fest is a platform for students where they display their hidden talents and their creativity .The planning began from early September by the faculty advisors, event planners and students of GLSID. The fest was filled with various game and food stalls, performances by famous artists and crazy stand-ups by well-known comedians. The fest was scheduled from 10:30 am to 9:00 pm. All the participants were geared up for various types of performances .The event was kicked off by lightning the lamp (a tradition in India to make a good start ). The lamp was lighten by Prof. Sudhir Nanvati ,Honourable Trustee of GLS and Dr Anil Sinha, Dean of GLS Institute of Design. Ahmedabad Design Fest was aiming to get 3500 visitors each day but it attracted more than 5000 visitors each day .The fest had a goal to get more and more person to person interaction so the team planned various activities involving flash mob, street plays which brought the team and the visitors closer. Ahmedabad Design fest was also associated with various public and private institutions like Ahmedabad Police ,Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad Book Club and India Film Project. The fest constituted of a panel which included famous people like Sudhir Mehta, Dr D Udaya Miniti Shah who scheduled the performances in Ahmedabad Design Fest. Also, they chose the best and attractive stalls which made the show look splendid and extremely impressive. The tickets selling process started from mid november. the students started associating with various famous organisations like SBR social, Paytm ,Uber and Dmart. The organisers were providing free tickets to customers by challenging them in games like Heads up and A minute to win it.As always the students took the responsibility of the whole event and as usual they did everything in a whole innovative way. Fundings The company had various sponsors and famous brands like Kingfisher ,Paytm ,Het Graphics and Ticket Insider Inc. Kingfisher also announced its New beverage on the occasion of ahmedabad Design fest Social Media Since Ahmedabad Design fest it hosted for the 3 rd time. the social media accounts were continued. Ahmedabad Design fest has accounts on Indstagram with over 2800 followers and facebook with over 2000+likes	.

Innovations Since the main motive of ADF was to showcase hidden talents of the students, hence there were many creative and lovely ideas presented by the students. The key highlight of the fest was a giant turtle made completely out of old newspaper and recycled plastic and was showcased at the main entry. The alumni of GLS University were also called to share a few words on their journey in GLS University and their futures. There were some students from previous batches who had become successful entrepreneurs and were called to attend workshops and share their success stories. Some of the various entrepreneurs called were – Ankit Vyas,CEO- Oizom, Saumiran Pandya Co-founder –Gaatha, Deepak Pareek CEO &Founder MyCrop. The fest also hosted a ramp walk which had a slogan “Witness a Fashion show like never before”, in which the models wore clothes made from various recycled material and wastage produced by human beings which was an idea to motivate the people to create a new trend and start wearing clothes from recycled material and save the environment. Celeb Attraction Ahmedabad Design Fest were very well acquainted with marketing skills .The team had invited various local and international artists like Rahul Subramanian, a nationwide recognized stand up comedian, Niraj Shah, a member associated with Indian Institute of Interior Designers , Rishi Raj, official host for ADF is an celebrity anchor a television host and AK Singh , Police Commissioner Ahmedabad and various famous musical bands like Meghdhanush Prem Joshua and Band, Sanjay Solanki , founder of Ladoo Foundation, and many more artist from various fields like Designing, Medical , Entrepreneurship and Social Activities. Competitions Ahmedabad Design Fest claimed to held Asia’s biggest film making competition and the biggest film making workshop and many more competitions relating to contemporary sets of furniture ,traditions, classical dancers and ramp walks Motive Ahmedabad Design Fest was not only a dream for the Anil Sinha, Dean of GLSID but it was the dream of those thousands of students from GLS university who aims for making people aware of the existence of Design in their surroundings and within them. The ADF team were carefully selected by the most experienced panel, they screened a large number of students before selecting the best for the fest. “I used to enter my college at 9 in the morning and used to leave it in the midnight, the enthusiasm and the excitement would make me stay motivated and make me feel charged for the work relating to the fest” said by Riya Mehta, Team Leader –ADF. In the end Ahmedabad Design Fest was a great hit with various artists and students attempting to showcase their hidden talents to a wonderful audience who enjoyed the festival completely and also were inspired by new and innovative work done by the team and the performers. The Ahmedabad Design Fest was not only aimed for a target set audience as irrespective of their age every person was welcomed by the team. ADF and GLS Institute of Design has also joined hands with a NGO called Laddoo Foundation and the students have volunteered to teach the underprivileged students various aspects of art and also learn something new from them. Ahmedabad Design fest was a remarkable festival organised by the students of GLS Institute of Design and was supported by the board members, staff members, ground team and each and every person who was associated with the fest to make the fest momentous. The fest turned out to be huge hit because of various domestic and international sponsors, guidance by Ahmedabad Police and splendid performances by various skilful artists.