Showing posts with label IAnD Exclusive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IAnD Exclusive. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Entrepreneurial Empowerment through Design

IAnD Exclusive

Design Impact Special

By Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy NID


Entrepreneurial Empowerment through Design - Design Clinic Scheme
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Commemorating the initial success of the Design Clinic Scheme empowering MSMEs, 21 success stories of completed design projects in India have been launched as a Book, “Entrepreneurial Empowerment through Design”. 

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Braille Smart Phone

IAnD Exclusive 

Design Impact Special

Compiled by Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy World Wide Web

Braille Smart Phone by Sumit Dagar.
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Interaction designer, Sumit Dagar prototypes the world’s first Braille Smart Phone that can empower communication with the visually impaired.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Origami-based Paper Microscope

IAnD Exclusive 

Design Impact Special

By Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy Foldscope

Paper Microscope by Stanford Professor, Manu Prakash.
Paper Microscope - CAD design

Stanford Professor, Manu Prakash designs an ultra-low-cost paper microscope to aid disease diagnosis in developing regions…

Friday, May 16, 2014

Bubbles - Breathe Clean Air!

IAnD Exclusive

Design Impact Special

By Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy Orproject

Bubbles -controlling air pollution by Ar. Rajat Sodhi.
Sectional View

As air pollution worsens across many cities in India, New Delhi-based architect Rajat Sodhi and his teammates at Orproject propose a controlled-environment bio-dome concept to tackle the problem…

Thursday, May 15, 2014

The ‘Hangbag’ Carry Bag!

IAnD Exclusive

Design Impact Special

By Zoya
Photography: Courtesy the designers

Innovative Hangbag by Parin Sanghvi, Mohit Singhvi and Shruti Gupta of MIT Institute of Design, Pune
Innovative Hangbag

Did you know over one billion paper shopping bags are used every year and only one per cent end up in the recycle bin? Design students from MIT Pune have come up with an innovative solution that negates our environmental woes and reduces the recycling process too, to a large extent…

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Design for Social Change

IAnD Exclusive

Design Impact Special

By Prof. Anil Gupta

Prof. Anil Gupta's views on 'design for social change'.
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In an exclusive for India Art n Design ezine, Prof. Anil Gupta, as the Guest Editor of our Design Impact Special Edition starting today, addresses this pertinent issue that lies at the core of all design showbiz. If we need to use Design for Social Change, will designers engage with grassroots innovators?

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Design Impact - Special Edition

IAnD Exclusive

Design Impact Special

Dear Readers,


Guest Editor, Design Impact Special Edition - eminent Prof. Anil Gupta from IIM, Ahmedabad.
Prof. Anil Gupta

At India Art n Design ezine, it has been our constant effort to bring you projects, concepts, insights and breakthroughs in design per se. Starting May 14, 2014, we bring you a Special Edition called the "Design Impact Week"

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Highlight your Interiors

IAnD Exclusive

Pre-Diwali Special

By Saket Sethi
Photography: World Wide Web

Highlight your Interiors by Ar. Saket Sethi
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Be bold this festive season. Celebrate with a twist. Bring home a “talking piece” that will leave your friends open-mouthed; and raise your self-esteem several notches higher...

Monday, October 28, 2013

Warm and Glamorous

IAnD Exclusive

Pre-Diwali Special

By Marina Correa
Photography: Courtesy the architect

Bedroom for newly-married couple, by Ajay Sharma, principal architect, ADAPL
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Using smart features in camouflaging imperfections; extracting the best usage of space with built-in storage; doubling up functions and exploiting niches to distil maximum benefit – are some brilliant ideas employed in handling a tight volume and unconventional contours for a young couple’s cocoon in Assam…

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Festive Styling

IAnD Exclusive

Pre-Diwali Special

By Udita Chaturvedi
Photography: Courtesy Ashley Rebello & World Wide Web 

Styling Tips from Ashley Rebello
Celebrity Fashion Designer Ashley Rebello

What you wear on special occasions, such as festivals or family celebrations, is just as integral as the rituals and customs associated with the occasion itself… This festive season, Style Guru Ashley Rebello recommends…

This Diwali, Do-it-Yourself

IAnD Exclusive

Pre-Diwali Special

By Udita Chaturvedi
Photography: Courtesy The Wishing Chair

DIY for Diwali
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With Diwali just around the corner, we catch up with a home décor store to find out how you can brighten up your home this season in a most innovative, beautiful and easy DIY manner.

“Royalty in Simplicity”

IAnD Exclusive 

Pre-Diwali Special

By Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy the experts

Image: Courtesy Superb Wallpapers

It is celebration time. You want your home to sparkle, look different, a show-stopper of sorts.  IAnD spoke to some experts from across the country to bring you myriad ideas of how you can achieve ‘royalty in simplicity’ and make your home a beautiful place to celebrate happiness.  

Friday, October 25, 2013

Bridal Couture

IAnD Exclusive 

Pre-Diwali Special


By Team IAnD
Photography: courtesy the designer

Bridal Couture by celebrity fashion designer Ashley Rebello
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Every girl fervently desires to be the cynosure of all eyes on her wedding day. Celebrity fashion designer and stylist, Ashley Rebello tells us how he transforms the most ordinary looking Jane into Juliet...

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Style & Substance

IAnD Exclusive 

Pre-Diwali Special

By Marina Correa
Photography: Courtesy the architect

Style & Substance by Priyanka Pradeep, principal architect, PS Design
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“I would not exist if I wasn’t an architect,” is a dramatic statement that best describes Priyanka Pradeep, principal architect, PS Design. With design being intrinsic to her persona, she transforms ordinary spaces into plush environments through her keen sense of aesthetics and style...

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Interiors & Fashion – the overlap!

IAnD Exclusive

Pre-Diwali Special

By Savitha Hira
Photography: Courtesy the architect
  
Ar. Saket Sethi's & Fashion Designer Ashley Rebello's offices
Synergies! The entrance to Ar. Saket Sethi's office

This is the story of two successful professional synergies – that of an architect and a fashion designer...

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Pre-Diwali Special - an Overview

IAnD Exclusive

Pre-Diwali Special by Indiaartndesign
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With Diwali – the festival of lights just around the bend, there is a flurry about an annual spring clean routine, wads of shopping money to be splurged, warmth in interactions and a wait for that one big festive celebratory mood that pervades everything around us.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

India Pavilion at LDF13 – the first milestone

IAnD Exclusive

By Team IAnD


India Pavilion at LDF2013 by India Art n Design
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Anything new has its hiccups and halos. We bring you a low down on our very first international event – the India Pavilion at LDF2013, and solicit your best wishes in helping us take larger steps in this direction of fostering Indian art and design on the international platform…

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Emerging Indian Artists on the Horizon

IAnD Exclusive

By Pari Syal
Photography: Courtesy the artists

Friends of Pradarshak ,India pavilion at LDF13
Friends of Pradarshak, India Pavilion at LDF13 

Five Mumbai artists muster up their best foot forward for an international showing as part of the India Pavilion at Southbank Centre during the London Design Festival 2013…

Monday, September 23, 2013

Questioning the status quo

IAnD Exclusive

By Udita Chaturvedi
Photography: Courtesy Lalit Hira

Furniture designer Lalit Hira at India pavilion, LDF13
 Concepts of Folding  Chair  &  Footstool at Indian Pavilion  LDF13

With over three decades of practice, interior and furniture designer Lalit Hira has exploited his creative skills in accomplishing challenging and meaningful designs around the world.
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