AOD Grad School

Join us in a much awaited applauding to the incredible class of 2023 of change makers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who graduated from ! We’ve curated their inspiring journeys through the years of the MA programs as we’ve watched them grow. From Design Innovation to Design Management and Entrepreneurship, they're the future of creativity and entrepreneurship. Stay tuned as we share their journeys. Join us as we build this community to inspire, innovate ,create & share what design can do!

Everyone knows that sustainable products are good for the environment.

The bitter truth is that not every customer buys them. So how do we get customers to adopt sustainable products?

Did you know that Consumers mainly pick products based on two drivers?

Those two being
🚀HOW DOES IT MAKE ME FEEL?
💚HOW DO I THINK IT MAKES OTHER PEOPLE FEEL?

To launch more sustainable products, we need to focus on this golden combination.

Products that nail both convenience and reputation show how powerful this combination can be, and how insignificant price becomes at that point.

Let us know what you think..

Source: Board of innovation

To keep you stimulated in your downtime, we've hand-picked our most thought-provoking podcasts that focus on innovation. 🎧

In Kathmandu, Nepal, UNESCAP organized a 'Training of Women Entrepreneurs on Expanding Businesses Through E-commerce and Digital Marketing' for women entrepreneurs from South and South-West Asia. 🌏

This training focused on providing hands-on and practical training to women entrepreneurs on:

• An overview of e-commerce and digital marketing

• Create an online account on an e-commerce portal and upload product information, images, and so on.

• Create e-commerce platform business profiles, and

• Use digital marketing to promote their company.

is one of the selected women entrepreneurs who attended the training in person, and AODGS is proud of her. 🙌

Calling all entrepreneurs & innovators! 📣

At this time of economic crisis, it is the responsibility of us entrepreneurs to build the economy of Sri Lanka. ✊🏽

It’s time that the youth of this country find innovative and sustainable solutions to the issues at hand. We need fresh solutions, and every idea counts!

AOD Start-up school supports Creative Entrepreneurs & Innovators, and we'd love to hear from you, so DM us to be a part of the new movement. Let us hear how you can contribute to build our beautiful island.It’s time that the youth of this country find innovative and sustainable solutions to the issues at hand.

Let’s get cracking. We don’t have a lot of time on hand.✨

Sri Lanka needs you!🇱🇰

After 3 months of research and preparation with the mentor at AOD start-up school, AOD grad school students presented their pitch decks to , founder of

Many social enterprises are sprouting through start-up school. We are eager to see what happens next, as we await pre-seed rounds.✌️🤞

35% of failed startups cited a lack of market need as a reason they failed. (Source: CB Insights)

Successful founders weigh in on the issues you need to think about and the ones everyone forgets to when you're getting ready to launch. 🚀

This article contains advice from entrepreneurs who have dealt with it all before, in ten categories that are most crucial to VCs and are usually required in venture firm pitch decks. 🙌

Read the link in bio for the full article and save for later. 👍🏼

AOD grad school’s fresh fashion talent, Natharlea Liyanage , represented Sri Lanka at the Cracow Fashion Week 2022, in Poland, last week. 🙌

Her brand Natharlea took the stage with a luxury collection of knits, crochet and sustainable leather.

Her passion is to empower the Sri Lankan handcraft industry by taking ethical manufacturing techniques in traditional craft to the international market.🧶


She uses recycled yarn from old clothes and it is hand knitted and hand crocheted in collaboration with KALARO. ♻️


In her own words,✨

"It was an incredible opportunity to showcase my talent on an international fashion runway, and the overall experience of meeting and learning from other young designers from all over the world was exhilarating." ✨

Walking into a brand new week and dreading the Monday blues? 😩

Installing some structure and routine can really help to stay sane during these trying times. Here are a few things that could be helpful.🙌


So what are you trying this week?

Hear it from Sir Richard Branson! Life is a learning experience.✏️👓

Stay open to learning and unlearning every day.
Each experience takes us closer to our purpose. ✨

Insta Take over ALERT!! 🚨

We got in the house, taking us through a day in her life including her visits to

An interior designer working for local and international architecture, Social entrepreneur, and interior designer, who is also a MA student at needed a break to freshen up her mind, to be inspired for the . Let’s see how it turns out to be.

Insha has developed many artisanal products, sold them to the international market, providing financial sustainability to underserved communities using her design skills.🙏🏽

She’s passionate about design, sustainability, and human behavior manipulation with the application of design.

Sounds interesting?
Join her on 19th March to hear, see, and be inspired!

✨Always be good, do good and empathize. No matter how difficult it may be everything will always work out for the best - Insha Fahim

How many chewed gums have you seen in public spaces?

It is estimated that as little as 10% of chewing gum is disposed of correctly, which means that in the UK alone, local councils have to spend £60 million a year cleaning up the other 90%. 🤯

Rather than having this plastic go to waste, design students and hoped to give it a second life as skateboard wheels with a trial project in the city of Nantes, France, where the two are studying at the L'École de Design Nantes Atlantique. 🛹

And once it is worn out, the chewing gum wheel can once again be ground up and melted to create a new wheel, forming a closed-loop system.

How awesome is that? Your thrown away gum is not garbage anymore!