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

Friday, March 21, 2014

Electronic Sticky Notes

By Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy the designers

“dataSTICKIES”  winner of red dot design concept award 2013
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Every new innovation in the field of technology brings us closer to a futuristic world, ruled by precision, simplicity and clarity. “dataSTICKIESTM” is one such innovation.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Interactive Footwear

By Marina Correa
Photography: Courtesy Ducere Technologies

Lechal Shoes by  Krispian Lawrence and Anirudh Sharma
Bluetooth-enabled footwear

Developed by two young Indian techies Krispian Lawrence and Anirudh Sharma, Lechal, is the world’s first interactive haptic footwear that began as an innovation for the visually impaired but is applicable to everyone…

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

To a Greener Mumbai!

By Pari Syal
Illustrations: Courtesy the architects

Ar. Abraham John ‘Bombay Greenway Project'
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Ar. Abraham John proposes a truly 21st century Mumbai city in terms of green space and connectivity, with the ‘Bombay Greenway Project’ - an infrastructure project that will harvest a green corridor over the city’s existing 166 km. stretch of railway lines…

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Water Benches for Mumbai



By Pari Syal
Photography: Courtesy MARS Architects

Water Benches in Mumbai by MARS Architects
Water Bench

A seat for four is also a storage tank for 500 litres of water – will the Water Bench help ease the water woes of Mumbai? Find out in a discussion with the architect at Studio X…

Friday, May 31, 2013

Homologation – a must in international design


By Udit Chaudhuri

Homologation – a must in international design
Courtesy: brailler.com


Time was, when you hired five tailors to stitch wacky smocks; made spicy pickles in your garage; or got costume jewellery, lamp shades etc., made from local craftsmen - and applied the good offices of an uncle or buddy in the West to get you a tidy profit in Dollars! This is no longer the story, what with an ever-widening circle of concerns in the global design scenario…

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...
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