Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

• PSOD is one of the emerging design institutions of this country that focuses on futuristic design directions. Being a young yet promising design institution, PSOD will require hand holding in many aspects. However, the institution already has a very good faculty team and very supportive management, headed by the dynamic chancellor sir.

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Aug 2005 – Present · 20 yrs 7 mos

• Kaustav SenGupta is an academician with more than 2 decades of experience in Youth Marketing, Color analysis, Fashion Trend analysis and Social design. at NIFT and mentoring students across India. He is also mentoring international students on Indian socio-psychology, youth culture, trend direction etc. Under his guidance many alumni have successfully started their start up ventures in fashion and product design, brand management, creative research and visual merchandising. He is in the ad-hoc advisory board of University of Goa and PSG Tech College to share expert opinion on student psychology, fashion, design and collaborative youth networking

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · India

• I have founded (honorary) the Color Association of India, the first ever national color body to bring in all the color enthusiasts in one platform to network, discuss, share insights and collaborate. Join the association here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13935129/

Mar 2018 – Present · 8 yrs · Greater Chennai Area

• In a colourful and pluralist country like India, color psychology is also wide and varied depending on the cultural synthesis, climate, ethnography, origin, demography and socio-political scenarios. Nippon Color Vision is the first ever zonal color forecast and Youth color forecast in India. No other company ever published a well-researched and detailed indigenous color forecast which celebrates the zonal and youth color-tendencies of this very nation.
• Keeping the very essence of this pluralistic and culturally vibrant country, Nippon Paint color forecasting process started in March 2018 through 6 focus group discussions, round tables and color-mapping workshops with 114 participants (influencers, industry experts, peer leaders, social catalysts and color-thinkers) from across India. The immersive focus groups were guided with the color-image-emotion association model and Dr. Kaustav SenGupta’s copyright system of Color-consciousness apart from other tools and systems. All the events were coordinated, curated and anchored by Dr. SenGupta (color expert, futurist, youth insights expert, color system developer with more than 2 decades of experience) and his able team from NIFT in presence of Nippon’s core team. Over a year, Dr. SenGupta and a team of visual analysts & designers from NIFT, Chennai worked relentlessly to map the key mega mind-sets to develop the first ‘impressions’ for the mega-color direction. The same was further refined and re-aligned to emerge as the first ever zonal color direction for Indian subcontinent.
• Nippon Color Vision forecast is free-to-access and explorative in nature. It is also well segmented so that the designers, architects, design students and design enthusiasts can refer the stories for their color explorations and designing.

Oct 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 5 mos · Chennai

• Prof. SenGupta is an honorary creative adviser for the Department of Handicraft, Govt. of TamilNadu and it's stores (Pumpuhar) as Think Tank. The Think Tank team is an integral part of guiding the craft sector of the state for creative vision and realistic implication.

Jul 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 8 mos · Greater Coimbatore Area

• Professor SenGupta is the Expert Member for the Board of Studies at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

Mar 2014 – Present · 12 yrs · Goa, India

• Professor SenGupta is the Honorary Advisor on Board & Subject Expert at Goa University, Goa, India. The university invited him to be part of advisory board in the year 2014.

May 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai

• Titan Industries organizes the ‘Paradox Panel’, a discussion forum designed to research, debate and develop insights into India’s 21-35 year-old communities – the so-called ‘millennial’ generation. Prof. SenGupta is the youth expert panelist in the forum. To mark Titan Industries’ 25th anniversary, the Paradox Panel will be exploring the implications of the Millennial Paradox on India’s youth in terms of their consumer behaviour, family and relationships, professional lives and careers, and leisure. Throughout the year, these insights will be published in subsequent Titan Industries’ Millennial Paradox Quarterlies.

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Professor SenGupta Founded InkLink Trust along with Ms. Shaswati Sen. InkLink Trust is a Non-Govornmental Charitable trust which works with underprivileged children and young adults to impart them free education through various workshops and skill development events. Thus, the trust empowers the underprivileged children and young adults to get social inclusion and be confident to go ahead in life. the trust adopts destitute homes, orphanages, rehabilitation centres to reach out the needy. InkLink work with multidisciplinary exprets across the creative sectors and young volunteers from most of the cities across India. in past 2.5 years InkLink has conducted 29 creative workshops and imparted creative education to 1072 underprivileged and differently able children in India.

Mar 2000 – Present · 26 yrs · India

• The first ever Indian youth trend research initiative : a not for profit organically growing initiative INgene with more than 1000 trendspotters all over India

Feb 2000 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Calcutta, Indore, Mumbai, Chennai

• He was responsible for B2B business development, creative innovation, product management and business networking with the key Spanish & German clients of TIL, Calcutta. He has successfully increased the business of TIL unit to 32% in leather products (goods, garments and lifestyle products). He was also responsible to develop the nascent domestic retail market for TIL in India. Under his guidance, the TIL Calcutta team successfully ventured in Japan market and initiated business in Leather gloves. His research along with the R&D team has conceptualized a thermos-sensitive indicator infused glove for industrial use.

May 1995 – Mar 1997 · 1 yr 10 mos · Calcutta

• Conceptualization, brainstorming, story board development, creative team management, concept realization, B2B networking