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Major Project I: Personal Adornment Guided by: Shimul Mehta Vyas Esther Brinkmann Submitted by: Nazuk Keshan LAD PG 11

Brief: To design an item of personal adornment (Bag).

The bag should be an extension of the Jewellery range designed in Mini Project -I, following the same design sensitivity and language.

Inspiration and research starting point would be looking at how Indians carry things, this will be used for form derivation. Define persona (user) of the prduct.

CLASSIQUE’

Below: Classique’ ; range of Jewllery designed in Mini project I

Mood Board

Visual Language

User Persona

Playful

Sophisticated

Avant-Garde

Unconventional

Fluid

Experimental

Understated

Spontaneous

Refined

Confident

Preity Zinta; celebrity persona

Sketches of people carrying things

Initial Sketches for Bag

Sketches for mock-ups

Mock-ups

Paper Mock-ups

Fabric Mock-ups

Final sketches

Things to carryphone money cards keys cosmetics

Evening Bag

Bag making process

Tracing Drawing of Bag onto thermocol for a mock up

Filing thermocol mock up refining the form

Thermocol mock ups, scaled down and to scale

Preparing MDF for a mould

MDF block for making the mould

Tracing of drawing for a replication

Chiseling out the voulme

Filing MDF mould

Sanding with a sand paper for refining the form

Creating a gap on mould

Vaccum forming in acrylic

Pouring water to cool

Taking out the formed acrylic and mould out of the machine

Taking the MDF mould out of the formed acrylic

Formed acrylic safely out of the mould

Cutting extra material from the formed acrylic

Cutting portions required out of the formed acrylic

Cut portions of acrylic to be used in the bag

Sanding to make the acrylic parts uniform

Soaking felt fabric for forming into water

Stretching soaked felt over the MDF mould

Nailing stretched felt onto the mould

Applying a layer of adhesive when the fabric is dry

Nailing the top fabric (grey felt) over the adhesive and wetting it from the top

Removing the nails with a plier

Removing the formed felt form the mould, both layers together

Drilling holes on the acrylic to be used for the upper portion

laser cut handles/bangles

Fixing Acrylic pipe to upper part of the bag

Buffing away scratches

Cutting pattern and fabric

Stitching Formed felt along with the felt base

Separating the two layers of felt with a cutter to enable stitching

Hand stitching felt and acryliv together

Hand stitching complete of one side of the bag

Sanding the push button for opening mechanism

Fixing the opening/closing mechanism

Stitching the other part of the acrylic to complete the bag

Fixing the handles/bangles inserted in the pipe