Landor is a leader in strategic brand consultancy and design. We help clients create agile brands that thrive in today’s dynamic and disruptive marketplace. Our work enables top global brands to stand for something while never standing still.
Landor started operations in India in 2008, with its first office in Mumbai. From Anita Dongre to the Taj Group, Brandix to Mahindra, Landor Mumbai has been helping globally competitive Indian and Sri Lankan companies to build their brands at home and overseas. Today, Landor Mumbai is one of the fastest growing offices in the South East Asia and Pacific region.
Landor’s capabilities include strategy and positioning, identity and design, brand architecture, innovation, naming and verbal branding, research and analytics, environments and experience, engagement and activation, and digital and social media.
Our outstanding work has gained us recognition in the industry and garnered us numerous prestigious awards. We recently won two Blue Elephants at the Kyoorius Design Awards, a Graphis Silver and an Award of Excellence from Communication Arts.
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Lulu Raghavan is the Managing Director of Landor Mumbai and has been at Landor for the past 16 years. She has worked at Landor’s San Francisco, New York and London offices before establishing the Mumbai office and has vast experience in different international markets. Lulu is a renowned industry commentator and thought leader. She anchored Bloomberg UTV’s Beyond Logo show and is a sought-after speaker and moderator at brand-focused conferences. Lulu was named one of India’s 50 most influential women in media, marketing and advertising in 2015 by IMPACT Magazine.
Kurnal Rawat is the Creative Director at Landor Mumbai. A firm believer in intelligent design, Kurnal has over 17 years of experience in creating exciting and impactful design solutions for brands across categories. He is responsible for steering the creative team to deliver agile and inspired design solutions. Equally proficient with the print and digital mediums, Kurnal has successfully worked across a wide portfolio of industries – Aviation, Banking, Consumer Goods, Exhibitions & Events, Fashion & Lifestyle, Hospitality, Sports and Government initiatives. Kurnal has also been a proud recipient of many prestigious honors including Designomics, Creative Abby and others.
Manukrishna Nair is a Client Director at Landor Mumbai, responsible for driving key client relationships and partnering with them closely through the branding program. He is passionate about unlocking greater value for businesses using design as a strategic tool. Trained in design management, he is also skilled in design thinking and innovation processes, ensuring the efficient translation of strategic objectives into effective solutions. Prior to joining Landor, Manu was a co-founder at Sapta, an award winning design studio that he ran for over eight years. Prior to this he was a senior design manager at Idiom, one of the larger multi-disciplinary design firms in India. Manu has combined business and creative thinking methods to delivering differentiated experiences across a broad spectrum of industries ranging from retail and media to financial services and consumer goods.
Ronita Mukerjee is a Client Director at Landor Mumbai. She is the driving force behind some of the great work Landor does, especially for consumer goods. She leads and guides many aspiring branding professionals under her. Previously, Ronita was an Associate Principal Consultant at Shining Consulting founded by Shombit Sengupta. In this role she worked as a primary market researcher across India-rural heartland to metro cities that gave her a tremendous understanding of consumer dynamics across categories such as IT, FMCG, automobiles, retail & fashion.
Hiren Dedhia is the Design Director at Landor Mumbai. He has over 9 years of experience in brand design and has worked on various brands within hospitality, retail and lifestyle, art & design, event branding. Prior to joining Landor, Hiren was working with JWT Design Mumbai & Grandmother India Design Pvt Ltd. He has done a graduate level program in Graphic Design and Typography from Portfolio Centre Atlanta Georgia, and BFA in Applied Arts from Sir JJ Institute of Applied Arts Mumbai. Hiren is most passionate about visual storytelling, which exposes the seemingly ordinary that possesses an interesting and surprising extra ordinariness.