Shashwath Santosh is a designer based in New York. Sometimes, he works with a small team of artists, designers, filmmakers, developers, writers and dreamers to bring the magic of Google’s frontier AI research to everyday lives of people.

Other times, he makes experimental machines. 

Personal Work Featured on:

Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, MIT Press 2025

Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
Dezeen, London
Yanko Design, New York
MOLD Magazine, New York
Creative Applications Network, Berlin
Hackster.io, San Francisco
UAAD Magazine, New York
Coeval Magazine, Milan
Homegrown Voices, Delhi
The New Indian Express, Kochi

Commercial Work Featured on:

Cannes Lions Grand Prix, AI Craft / Digital Craft
Wood Pencil, D&AD Awards
The Verge
Wired
BBC
CNBC
Tech Crunch
CNET
Bloomberg
Hard Fork Podcast
The New York Times
Business Insider

Talks:

Designer Talk — Google I/O Builder Stage, California, 2026
Designer Talk — Google Villa Cannes Lions, France, 2026
Creative Workshop — Google Villa Cannes Lions, France, 2026


Designer Talk  — University of Maryland, Maryland, 2024
Panelist  — Google Labs, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2024
Designer Talk  — Google Creative Lab, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 2024

Guest Crit — Studio of Allan Wexler, Parsons School of Design, New York, 2023
Interview  — The Innovation Crisis, The Near Future Laboratory Podcast, 2023
Panelist  — Unleashing the Power of AI, The New School, New York, 2023

Designer Talk — Radical Design Futures, Zee Studios, Mumbai, 2022