Shashwath Santosh is a designer based in New York. Currently at Google Creative Lab.


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Google Deepmind Project Astra

Part of the special projects team that launched Project Astra, Google’s first realtime multimodal model as seen in launch demo Vision for the future of AI assistants

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Storytelling, Prototyping, Design Futures




Google Deepmind Gemini

Part of the special projects team that launched Gemini, Google’s flagship multimodal AI model. Co-directed and starred in the main launch demo Hands On With Gemini.

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Storytelling, Prototyping, Design Futures 




Portable Black Cat Radar


If only there were a machine that could show you all the black cats in your vicinity, so you could avoid crossing their paths and protect your luck.


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Machines, Design Research



 Desires of My Microwave


Worked with engineers and creative technologists to turn my microwave into all the machines it may want to be. I began by turning it into a calculator.

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Object Design, Multi-disciplinary Collaboration






Open Source Salt Battery



This battery is designed with found objects, trash, scrap metal and powered by salt. It can charge your phone too. 



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Object Design, Research, World Building




Futures for Times Square


Manhattan’s geographic diversity has given rise to genetically distinct varieties of rats. A brutal turf war between the uptown and downtown rats unfolds at Times Square.


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Design Futures, Research, World Building




Turnip Architecture for Deer


Turnips are machined to create a tetrahedral joinery system which are attached to standardized lengths of wooden twigs to create play structures for wild deer.  


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Design Futures, Research, World Building





Climate Controlled Picnic Basket for Dosa



The machine is designed to be handled by 2 people, to be taken into restaurants, and receive their orders for a dimensioned dosa with care.



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Object Design,  Research, World Building





Quantum Brownies


Worked with IBM engineers & scientists to make brownie recipes with their quantum computers. Proposed applications for this tech to IBM team in New York.



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Design Futures, Research, World Building




Seating Device Collection


An archive of designed objects and smaller works brought into the world by Shashwath Santosh in collaboration with Krithi Nalla.



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Object Design, Critical Thinking




Industrial Designer @ Doris Dev


A market-oriented design agency in Brooklyn, where I worked with clients in the consumer products industry.




User Experience Design, Industrial Design