Industrial Design: Furniture and Interior 2019

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PORTFOLIO ABHISHEK GAUR I N D U S T R I A L D E S I G N E R SPECIALISING: FURNITURE & INTERIOR

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This booklet and its contents are design and presented by Abhishek Gaur for personal works as well as for external clients/organisation. No parts of the publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic digital, mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without written permission from Abhishek Gaur

Being a design student for the last three years has given me experience and learning in the various direction which makes me curious to know more.

My portfolio presents some design projects that have been carefully curated to give you an idea towards my design understanding and the approach which I have gained in my education program.

All illustration in this documents is copyright © 2018 by author/orgnisation.

Student document publication means for private circulation only. all right reserve copyright © 2018

I see things in a hyperbola rather than linearity.

Venturing untaken paths; connecting the dots is creativity. I have realized, attention to details is the key to insight. We observe and mimic: these are my ‘fork n knife’; and nature is my plate.

Abhishek Gaur 4th year Industrial design Furniture and Interior Under-graduation program National institute of design

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Conventional notions of Design, in my opinion have a materialistic approach.

At the heart of good Design, is the need to understand the human psyche. other then this,i’m very active sports person with high spirit.

Why you should consider me: Apart from designing, I’m very flexible and open. quick learner and love to take part in activities enthusiastically and activily.

Good at managing and coordinating.

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SKILLS CAD & PROTOTYPE AUTOCAD 2018 RHINOCEROS 5 SKETCHUP 3DS MAX KEY-SHOT 7 SKETCHBOOK PRO

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INTERNSHIP World Skills Regional 2018-19 (Cabinet Making) Edida Elle Decor India 2018 Finalist (Product Design- Split Acrylic Chair)

INARA LLP (Parent company: Kshitij Interiors) - March-Sept 2019 Head Designer; 80+ Design concepts, 30+ Manufactured. Conceptualisa and developer. 3D Visualisation, Handling vendors and Clients, Market S Collecting data and Strategy Design.

Durbeen design works Pvt Ltd (May-June 2017): Design team: Conceptu design and developer. Worked on hammer game, PUC device, biometri Icehockey board game.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP INDESIGN ILLUSTRATOR AFTER EFFECTS

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

WORKSHOP HANDTOOLS LASERCUT, CNC, CENTRE LATHE SCALE-MODEL PROTOTYPING RAPID FOAM MODELLING, RAPID PROTOTYPING

Horlicks Whiz Kids Winner 2012: One of the asia’s biggest comptition.

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EXPERIENCE

Winner marathons (14 km- 2013, 5 km-2017, 8 km- 2018) Bhatia shield for selfless service 2012-13: working for RMS organisation for five years.

Winner Shitoriyo Nipoon Karate National Level, chennai 2011 Troop commander of Navy Wing (NCC) 2010-11

Aashta interior design (Dec-jan 2017): Graphics team; Exterior of Qwich residential projects.

EXHIBITION

Treasures of India 2016 Carpets Exhibition: Exhbition design team: diffe f rom India,hand knotted to machine made.

Swatch shakti 2017 (Central government): Core design team; f rom conc execution INSTALLATION

Sabarmati festival 2018 (State government): From conceptualisation to days festival; design such way that can be installed in one night.

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IMPORT RATES GROWING AT 50-60 % EVERY YEAR.

India was the largest furniture importer in the world, with a 19% share in the furniture imports worldwide.

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Culture And Tradition Are Inherent in Us, Moving Towards Modernisation, Keeping the Indian-ness And Value This project is focused on the Perspective of Indian-ness and its value. Research on the thought process and reasoning behind those designs. This will not focus on a particular culture, tradition, region or religion of any kind but, provide the feel as a whole. The project focuses on the aesthetics and physical attributes of Indian products, with the consideration of their psychology and perspective.

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As per the survey, people are more concerned about material and design over price.

65% of the people are highly concerned about their interiors and more than 30% have a moderate approach over their interiors. Surprisingly, more than 75% of the people are concerned about the type of furniture in their home decor.

Most of them like to have simple and classic furniture and some prefer customized furniture for their interiors.

CONCERN ABOUT INTERIOR COMBINATION OF MATERIAL CONTEMPORARY DESIGN WOOD FURNITURE

Indians always keep value for money and have concerns about ‘kitna chalega’, i.e durability of the product. More than 80% of them are not willing to change their furniture till 5 years. People often get connected to furnitures over a period of time, which ends up staying as an ancestors memory for decades.

FOR IN DEPTH RESEARCH AND DETAILS

Indian Design Indian Furniture Industry 2015-16 And Analysis & Outlook 108-2023 Millennials And Their Home Design Habits Traditional And Metropolitan Primary and Secondary Research Personas and User Study Market Study Design Trend

e art elements that bind with the values of rds? Converting art and craft to basic and orating them into a new design language.

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India is a land of spiritual and traditional practices according to region, religion, culture or beliefs. People believe in simple and high living.

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A centre for the living traditions of art, folk, performing arts and architecture of India. Our lifestyle was purely based on nature, thermal comfort, natural lighting, practical use of local materials and other aspects of good design, traditional lifestyle was logical and eco-friendly for example, cow dunk is used as fuel to clean mud homes and as fertilizer. It starts with nature and ends with nature, this maintains the eco-system.

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There were some important decisions to be taken for further exploration and incorporation. Contrast is seen in design through defferent use of materials, colour and finishes. There are many combinations of material have been seen.Craft is very triky point for this project because, the company interests don’t lie in the carving of the wood etc.They want to be minimal. To add the craft, weaving was incorporated as one important aspect to trigger the sense of touch.

The idea was to incorporate story telling through my furniture because this is intriguing aspect of art and craft in India. Even belifes are conveyed through story telling.

Two elements that add aesthetic beauty is its ‘raw nature’ and the sense of touch.

Ornamentations cue regional diversity through it’s aesthetic stories, as also convey social heirarchies.

Hence ornamentation, their meanings can convey the stories intended.

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In India, the most important factor is the

ORNAMENTATION From sculpture to painting of any decoration, from lord Shiva to his Nandi, from King to Saint, there are some ornamentation used to highlight or to show their importance.

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International Design Values People prefer to buy things which are important to them, be it intangible or not. All international design languages have similar characteristics.

Firstly, emphasising on a set of attributes that are necessary to its identity and function. In other words, they follow essentialism, where designs are kept minimal. These design elements would change according to the region or target audience.

The second approach is ‘simplicity’. This term refers to the minimising and refining the complex forms and processes. Simplicity has multiple benefits which can produce an elegant design with functional necessity. Nominal usage of the materials or ease in manufacturing would cut down the cost and time for mass production.

This would compliment the value of affordability by the reduced price of the furniture.

Additionally, the aesthetics. This makes the design look attractive and suitable for living standards. Aesthetics play an important role in a furniture with respect to the proportions amongst its design, shape/form and cmf (colour, material & finish).

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DIRECTIONS TOUCH OF CRAFT

Cane Rattan work in India is characterized by comfort, durability and aesthetic appeal. The idea is to introduce handwoven technique - natural in its appearance, timehonoured and distinctive

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Ornamentation at its best can be characterized by adding metal in combination with different material. This highlights an interesting design element , ie, contrast, onto a furniture.

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The idea is to amalgamate the ancient handmade technique along with contemporary style aesthetics.

Weaving lends to a modern and offbeat look to the design while the brass inlay bring in ornamentated vibe.

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Spliting a pipe vertically along it’s length is a risky approach to structure. To challenge this notion, inspired by a split banana; Split Acryclic chair was created; by splitting the pipe and creating a experimental structure. It is a sustainable piece, using minimum material efficiently to provide the strength.

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The focus: We see pipe structure everywhere, did we tried splitting it? Created with the concept of using a single pipe, the Split Acrylic chair, is a joint-free structure. It begins with a single pipe; splits to unite the front and back legs, and unites at the end.

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AGILITY Provide the sense of the space and make your interior more light. The blue ambience provides fresh feel with energy and also make you calm and relaxed.

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PROCESS This piece of furniture collapse single one-line form. Idea came while thinking of a form that can take minimum space, a line, Inspired by analog watch. All joinery and locking is placed on the central pipe.

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The focus: An innovative furniture which collapses to a single line form on folding. To save space and store with ease. It uses a self-developed experimental mechanism for collapsing.

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PROCEEDING Choosing a character from the Kashmiri folk story of ‘Sophia’s wish’ and studied her persona and define her routine. The furniture was designed for Sophia as the client.

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The focus: Develope furniture that Inspired from the traditional folk stories of Kashmir, India (1950) for modern use.

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PRODUCTION DETAILS This tv unit designed to be modular and minimal. The idea was to design minimal tv unit that would be functionally flexible and also depict modern classic look. By making the tv unit modular, they could scale up or down to accommodate the need at hand.

Tv unit designed after the design and analysing of the interior space. keeping all concern in mind.

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Influenced by a diverse mix of dynasties since the pre-christian era.

Located centrally enroute to trade-paths, The interiors of the state of Andhra Pradesh are largely influenced by the multiple trade-cultures of the time.

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The focus: Andhra Pradesh’s culture, mood, material, ambience, colour and feeling. Observing the all basic elements of daily life that provide the actual sense of being Andhra.

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Experimenting with material: Cement is conventionally used. Can we try to go beyond its limits.

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LIGHT WIEGHT Thermacol balls

TEXTURE,SHAPE Texture sheet

STRUCTURE Thermacol

TOUCH Spounge

ROUND Lathing

SURFACE Corksheet

TEXTURE SHEET Natural fibre

SHAPE Cloths

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BOTTLE Thermacol

TUBE LAYERS Pipe

GRADIANT cement & white cemnt

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DESIGN FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING Alarmingly 91% of adult Australians feel stress in at least one important area of their lives. Almost 50% feel very stressed about one part of their life – Lifeline Australia.

Approximately 13.7 million working days are lost each year in the UK as a result of work-related illness at a cost of £28.3 billion per year – National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Fewer than 25% of those with depression world-wide have access to effective treatments.

– World Health Organization.

An estimated 442,000 individuals in Britain, who worked in 2007/08 believed that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill.

– Labour Force Survey.

Stress is a top health concern for U.S. teens between 9th and 12th grade, psychologists say that if they don’t learn healthy ways to manage that stress now, it could have serious long-term health implications.

– American Psychological Association.

80% of workers feel stress on the job and nearly half say they need help in learing how to manage stress.

And 42% say their co-workers need such help – American Institute of Stress

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‘if we don’t learn healthy ways to manage stress, it could have serious long term health implications’ – American Psychological Association.

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USER_1 Name: Ayush kr Occuption: Student Age: 19

USER_2 Name: Pushpendra Occuption: Proffesonal Age: 38

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USER_3 Name: Shakshi Occuption: Young Proffesonal Age: 27

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- Self-healing is most preferable but people do not have enough knowledge or guidance.

- Love indulging in hobbies and spending time with friends.

Mental peace is more important

- Feel lighter and calm. Have quality time to rest and feel fresh.

Experience goal v - Won’t have time to do things that can relieve them from stress

- Usually, people don’t have time every day to invest in a normal busy life.

- Make them feel lighter and renewed energy for daily routine.

- Something that can be implemented in daily life without investing extra time.

- The free mind can focus properly on a task with full concentration.

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USER_4 Name: Nitesh Occuption: Student (final year) Age: 22

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Exploring senario# 1:

Senario# 1: If people get into stress what will be possible

If people get into stress, what will be possible ways to handle.

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C R Senario#2: Create an evironment where people won’t take Y stress or stress releasing environment.

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• Acupressure and reflexology

Why acupressure and reflexology: This self-healing process that can be implemented in daily based working. Not much people are aware of it, so it seems quite interesting to know much more deeply about acupressure and reflexology.

Acupressure is an ancient healing art that entails using an object (generally the hands or arms) to stimulate specific key points on the body with the goal of relieving pain or discomfort. Pain and discomfort are considered to be signs of energy imbalance, which, if left in this state, will become illness and disease.

Reflexology is a system of healing based on balancing energy by stimulating areas in the feet and hands that relate to organs, glands, and parts of the body.

Reflexology is similar to acupressure in basic principle, but the two have some differences as well. They both correct imbalances in the energy force by focusing on specific areas of the body where they pinpoint (and treat) that imbalance. Although acupressure involves meridians and acupoints, reflexology relies on pathways called reflex zones, which contain reflex areas located on the hands and feet.

The posture of the backbone plays an important role, a pathway of our body, the most important posture that the body has to maintain. The main channel to flow energy in the body (acupressure).

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“Angle is perfect ,felt comfotable. Felt more pressure on the spine which makes me feel light and relaxing. Felt like floating because of the back curve that covered my torso and head support provided. Felt some flow in the body from bottom to upper body.”

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Hand and legs are more free then rest of the body. Acupressure points make the user aware of the body points which helps flow of ‘qi’ more towards that points.

Providing a surface that covers the whole body.

Giving support to the spine that rests in a neutral posture

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Acupressure points according to the user.

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‘‘we can’t change the future but we have the ability to shape it”

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