By Tanishka Kachru
Photography: Courtesy
NID
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| Projects by NID Young Designers 2013 |
The
2013 graduating batch of young designers from National Institute of Design,
Ahmedabad, are yet another bunch of design enthusiasts teeming with works and
ideas that show a maturity and sensitivity that one will hopefully power a
design enabled India into the 21st century.
From
imagining solutions for future global challenges, to solving challenges that
India faces today, these young designers carry NID’s legacy into the
professional world armed with the basics of design and a sound knowledge base
that permeates almost everything beyond design, equipping them to think and
design holistically.
IAnD
brings you a mere peek into the design fare from 300-odd students and invites
you check out the deep fragmentation of inputs that build design thought in
tandem with societal requirements and ethos. Who knows, some of these may
actually go on to work wonders in the new dawn.
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| Traveling Museum |
Exhibition Design
Student: Farzan Dalal
Purpose: To create a travelling exhibition for
display in various public and semi-public spaces in Gujarat. To replace the
inertness and monumental aspect usually associated with museums, and by lively
engagement of local youth.
Project: Two exhibitions, ‘The Stone’ and ‘Undressing’ analyze human conditioning as a social imperative in today’s scenario of violent societies. While the latter is a reactive installation, its primary objective is to help people ‘undress’ their inhibitions, hatred, prejudices and reticence. This interactive street-art installation is intended as a dialogue space, where people voice their opinions and exchange thoughts.
Project: Two exhibitions, ‘The Stone’ and ‘Undressing’ analyze human conditioning as a social imperative in today’s scenario of violent societies. While the latter is a reactive installation, its primary objective is to help people ‘undress’ their inhibitions, hatred, prejudices and reticence. This interactive street-art installation is intended as a dialogue space, where people voice their opinions and exchange thoughts.
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Purpose: To minimize severe health consequences
that arise from open defecation.
Project: A whopping 626 million Indians
defecate in the open. This campaign seeks to make people lose their inhibitions
regarding open defecation, make it socially acceptable to talk about it and mobilize
the urban youth towards contributing to this cause through donations or
volunteering.
Branding for the campaign has taken shape in the form of a poop-shaped logo. A toilet map app with which people can find public toilets and rate them is developed, with a strategic intent to increase awareness in people about the sorry state of affairs in public sanitation. A Facebook page that welcomes user contribution and encourages members to have debates is another positive step in this direction.
Branding for the campaign has taken shape in the form of a poop-shaped logo. A toilet map app with which people can find public toilets and rate them is developed, with a strategic intent to increase awareness in people about the sorry state of affairs in public sanitation. A Facebook page that welcomes user contribution and encourages members to have debates is another positive step in this direction.
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| Yakshagana Narratives |
Photography
Design
Student: Abhishek Ganeshgudi
Purpose:
Creating Narratives on
Yakshagana, a traditional theatre form that combines
dance, music, dialogue, costume, make-up and stage techniques in a unique
style.
Project: involves creating a pictorial
representation of various study materials and existing traditional art forms,
which offer a scope to create a new medium of communication. A mural is made to
portray a visual narrative by utilizing design patterns of ornamentations
related to the Yakshagana. The entire project is based on several
interpretations of the works of celebrated scholars from the fields of theatre,
photography, painting and literature.
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| Better Business through Design Intervention |
Ceramic & Glass Design
Student: Pallavi Chandra
Purpose: To take the company’s existing product
to a new level of improvement through design intervention.
Project: After analyzing current market trends
and existing studio infrastructure, it was decided to work on a range of
pendant lights of varying sizes to add to the clients’ portfolio. Inspiration is
drawn from various sources like flowers, spinning tops, Islamic architecture
and Indian temples to create glass lamps made with the Lathe blowing technique.
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| Infant Warmer |
Product
Design
Student: Charandeep Singh Kapoor
Purpose: To identify the key challenges in
neonatal care in health care facilities and reduce infant mortality rate in developing countries.
Project: A premature infant after birth needs to
be kept thermo-neutral at 37 degree Celsius. But in developing countries access
to an infant warmer is limited by geographical distances and cost.
The designed capsule is a portable infant warming device, which can be transported easily to facilities in remote areas. It uses convection heating for infant warming and shields the infant from the adverse effects of the surrounding environment. In this way it provides quality healthcare and ensures a healthy recovery for every premature infant.
The designed capsule is a portable infant warming device, which can be transported easily to facilities in remote areas. It uses convection heating for infant warming and shields the infant from the adverse effects of the surrounding environment. In this way it provides quality healthcare and ensures a healthy recovery for every premature infant.
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| Ferrocement garden furniture |
Furniture
& interior Design
Student: AditiAgarwal
Purpose: Given the durability,
cost-effectiveness, low maintenance and flexibility of the material, the
project aimed to make a public park bench in ferrocement.
Project: An effective two-way communication
with the workers, exchanging suggestions and getting feedback from them led to
an effective prototyping process, wherein latent flaws were corrected to make
for a smoother process and a better product. The end product was made using a
single mould for storage efficiency, easy stacking and transportation. Besides
having an aesthetic appeal, the ergonomic form allows comfortable seating and
reclining positions.
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| Textile Art |
Textile Design
Student: Shradha Chaudhary
Purpose: To develop textile-art wall
decorations and installations for various personal spaces at the clients’
house.
Project: Laying emphasis on the methodology of
an open-ended approach, while focusing essentially on the aesthetics of the
design, explorations were made on a cosmic theme based on the contemporary
meaning and purpose of Jainism in an increasingly material world. A deeper
understanding into the needs, psyche, religious and cultural background of the
client provided valuable leads for developing the installations. Various
elements of Gujarati architecture and culture, spiritual principles of Jainism,
soothing representations of water and earth have been incorporated into the
artworks, which are now translated into textile installations.
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| Projection Mapping |
New Media Design
Student: Suvani Suri
Purpose: To explore the technology of Spatial
Augmented Reality (SAR) more commonly known as Projection Mapping
Project: is an experiential installation that
tells the tale of modern music and its evolution as a direct response to
advances in sound technology and playback media. Through an immersive
audio-visual experience, it fuses the style of traditional murals and
environmental graphics with experimental video and audio manipulation
techniques. Once embedded with tangible interactions, the wall becomes a living
and breathing space that narrates a tale in an engaging manner.
The writer, Tanishka Kachru is a faculty member of Communication Design and coordinator of Exhibition Design at NID, Ahmedabad.
The writer, Tanishka Kachru is a faculty member of Communication Design and coordinator of Exhibition Design at NID, Ahmedabad.
To view all student projects, visit http://youngdesigners.nid.edu/
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