Showing posts with label Thought n Impact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thought n Impact. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Bookshelf with an Attitude!


By Priyanka Vikash
Photography: Kabilan S & Amit Khanna.; courtesy AKDA

Bookshelf - Exhibition Design by Amit Khanna Design Associates (AKDA)
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IAnD discovers how imagination meets sustainability in simple design re-use giving rise to an innovative exhibition design component; courtesy Amit Khanna Design Associates, New Delhi.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Interiors & Budgets - How much is too much?



By Pari Syal      
Emran Haashmi's living room
 Courtesy: Ar. Parag Pandya
Like a bottomless pit, there is basically no limit to how much one can spend to fulfill one’s quotient of comfort and aesthetics. IAnD attempts to seek an answer...

Friday, March 22, 2013

Designing for Pets


By Anuradha K. R
Photography: courtesy the designers

Paul Hendrikx's Studio Mango's pet product - Pet Planter
Pet Planter
Pets have always been a pampered lot; and products designed especially for pets – birds, dogs, cats, horses... are finding takers like never before...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

India – Design Bound!

By Savitha Hira
Photography: Courtesy IDF 2013

IDF 2013 Mumbai- session in progress
India Design Forum 2013 Mumbai
With the India Design Forum 2013 summing up the design scenario in India as largely aware and progressive, does the overall picture necessitate the intervention of more such interactive platforms that can make design come of age?

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Design Agenda - India


By Savitha Hira

Design in India
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‘Design’ is progressively the watchword for India. Where have we, as a growing-design-awareness-nation reached? How close are we to our global counterparts? Or is the road ahead still full of stumbling blocks?

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Gurgaon: Shock & Awe


By Marina Correa
Photography: Courtesy the architects


Workshop in process at Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai
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The soon-to-conclude Architectural exhibition Gurgaon Glossaries at the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, has over the last fortnight stood ground as a serious stratum for discussions on urban developmental issues via its in-depth illustrative study of satellite city Gurgaon…

Friday, March 1, 2013

Of Cobwebs & Crossings


By Jigna Padhiar

A massive, compelling cobweb besieging the front facade of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
Sketch Image of Untitled, (Cobweb/ Crossings)

Reena Kallat’s public art installation at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai weaves powerful stories of the metropolis in the fragile form of a cobweb.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Art Films


By Marina Correa

The Kala Ghoda Festival 2013, Mumbai, Art Films, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, The Times of India, 1985 Tenor, Guernica by Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907, Graffiti Art by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat - The Film

Works of art are explicitly made for the purpose of simulating one’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs… through the senses interpreted on the basis of images or objects. Perhaps, a prime reason why films on art are made in the very first place…

Friday, January 18, 2013

Mumbai 2050: An Origami Vision


By Pari Syal
Photography: courtesy Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Origami Vision - Mumbai 2050

The critical collaboration of Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum and BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai has hypothecated the adage, ‘Inculcate it in the child’, by engaging young impressionable minds with urban issues through art and craft.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Wanted, a Confluence: Management & Design Thinking

By Udit Chaudhuri            


From steel production to food distribution, evolution in industry has noted a corresponding evolution of scientific management - analysis, planning, control, budgeting and staffing applied to a host of processes.  But where and when does strategic design thought step in?

Friday, December 28, 2012

Hardware, Software, Painware

By Udit Chaudhuri


It happens again and again. A smart product enters the market. Technology makes it smaller, cheaper, and multifunctional. The product bloats until you don’t know what to call it. And it dies, reborn in its oldest avatar. But does industry learn? 

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The Baluchari Brouhaha

By SavithaHira
Photography: Courtesy Agnimitra Paul

Baluchari Kurti

Design is known to reinvent itself. Patterns, textures, colours, forms, the overall look and feel – whether fabric or interior, at some time or other goes through a revisit process, where contemporizing becomes imminent.  The latest in the offing are talks about reinventing the renowned Bengal signature of Baluchari.

Friday, December 7, 2012

Art & Spirituality – The Handwriting Connect


By Pari Syal
Photography: Courtesy Jyoti Naoki Eri

Calligraphy by Irshad Farooqi, Delhi, India

Based on the principle that the art of handwriting or Calligraphy is akin to spiritual practice in daily life, the exhibition Ek Sutra celebrates the coming together of calligraphic art forms from different cultural backgrounds, showcasing both, traditional and contemporary works.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Asymmetric brick arches, anyone?


IAnD Exclusive

By Savitha Hira
Illustrations: SRDA

Use of asymmetric arches and lopsided vaults in elevation.

IAnD and Mumbai-based Ar. Samira Rathod open to debate an exploration of design – the asymmetrical brick arch and its feasibility factors…

Friday, October 19, 2012

Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture


Text & Photography: Ar. Yatin Pandya


Attempting to understand the roots of ‘timelessness’ as a universal quality in architecture, Ar. Yatin Pandya excerpts the essence from his internationally acclaimed book of the same title, where he examines notions of time, space and existence in the Indian context; the research providing inroads to a universal footprint...

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Indian Architecture Awards 2012


By Pari Syal
Photography: courtesy the architects


Felicitations seem the order of the day world over. Celebrating architecture, we bring you the annual architecture awards by Indian Institute of Architects – by the Architects, for the Architects…

Friday, October 5, 2012

Tradition vs. Technology


By Ar. Nikhil Juvekar


Ar. Nikhil Juvekar urges you – the fellow professional and the common man – to look closely beneath and through the layers that ensconce design thought and execution, and gear up for some effective action…

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Time & Space


Ezine Special

Text & Illustrations: Ar. K. R. Jaisim


There have been a zillion sunrises and yet each one is as astounding as the one before and after. It is not the material content or the structural fantasies that make great spaces. It is something more…

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

E-Toilet

By Pari Syal
Photography: Courtesy Eram Scientific


E-Toilet christened “Delight” is India’s technological answer to public sanitation ensuring cleanliness, sustainability and efficient maintenance.

Friday, July 20, 2012

A New Revolution?


IAnD Exclusive


By Radhika
Photography: Courtesy Clark House Initiative & World Wide Web

Painting by A. A. Raiba

Artist's Resale Right being practiced in UK and France should also be introduced in India, urges an ongoing exhibition in Mumbai titled AA Raiba: Droit de Suite/Artist's Resale Rights

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