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Designer Downtime What is the best way to use your forced free time? For designers downtime is more important than working time and most of us do recognize this. In fact, we spend time planning our downtime. The downtime is not called 'recharging your batteries' for no reason. Though the currnet downtime is not usual, since it is a forced one, it needs some extra thoughts.
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1. Don't be a Shaheed: Since we are all in the same boat, it makes no sense to keep repeating how the situation is creating problems for you. Understand that the current situation will result in bad economic, business and personal issues for all. Everyone has to be focused on their own issues. Use the down time to spread some light, actively help your community. 2. Shut everything: If that's the only choice, so be it. Spend time at home, with family. Catch up on your sleep (designers never have enough of that), movies, TV serials, games, whatever you have. And if you read...read. Don't think of work for some time. Let this be your detox from the responsibility of changing the world.
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3. Don't panic: Easier said than done. If you are a freelancer or running your own studio, this time is surely going to hit you financially. Speak to the family, clients, vendors and also your team. Try rearranging payments, get recoveries (even at discounts), let go of expensive ambitions for the time being. Work on your situation. Rearrange timelines of deliveries.
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4. Use the time to build some ideas: Rethink your life and your work. Rearrange how you would do certain things. You could also use this time to build future project proposals for your customers. Do sketches, mind maps and rearrange your data. Engage in online research about the new collaborations and projects that you should undertake. 5. Blog, write and video record: We designers don't document our great ideas. Use this time to write or speak into your video phone. Categorize and document your ideas. Put them in formats that can be presented or shared. Let me know how you used your forced vacation. Sudhir
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ARCHITECTURE
Disney Davis’ architectural practice is based on the principle of enhancing the bare beauty of materials
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Whether it’s the more wearable prêt line or eccentric couture collections, Amit Aggarwal’s designs are strikingly innovative
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Glorified carpenter is how furniture designer Aditya Somway describes himself but it’s obvious that he wouldn’t dream of being anything else!
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Gauri Agrawal’s Skilled Samaritan Foundation helps women with traditional charpoy-weaving skills to create functional but beautiful products out of waste
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DESIGN AWARD 2020
IF CANCELS AWARDS CEREMONY AND EXHIBITION IN BERLIN DUE TO CORONAVIRUS HANNOVER, 16 MARCH 2020
The iF awards ceremony and exhibition, which should have taken place for the first time in Berlin as a part of the Berlin Design Week on 4 May 2020, will not happen. The situation regarding the spread of the coronavirus is still unpredictable and unforeseeable around the world. In addition, the German Chancellor has called for the cancellation of all major events in Germany. The organizers of the Berlin Design Week, have therefore also had to cancel their event. "It was incredibly difficult for us to make this decision, but a pandemic of this magnitude and the health and safety issues involved, must, of course, take priority," explains Ralph Wiegmann, CEO iF International Forum Design GmbH in Hannover/Germany. The 75 gold award winners will receive their iF sculptures personally through the iF representatives worldwide. Preparations for the iF design award night in May 2021 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin are already underway. For further information and image material, please contact: Annegret Wulf-Pippig Press Officer iF International Forum Design GmbH Bahnhofstrasse 8 30159 Hannover phone +49.511.54224-218 annegret.wulf-pippig@ifdesign.de
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JEWELRY
Srishti Arora uses intricate Indian embroidery to make jewelry that immediately draws the eye
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What drew you to creating accessories that are a wearable expression of traditional Indian embroideries? SA: Usually people think of an accessory as a decorative item that contributes to the wearer’s outfit and style. It is often used to complete the look. However, I believe that
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Sponsored by ValueLabs, Lopez Design recently conducted event that was aimed at making India a DesignFirst holistic economy
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'Who Are We?' (2011), pen on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm
Sri Lankan artist, Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah tells how deeply his work reflects his country’s troubled past
How did your tryst with art begin? PP: I was born in Batticaloa in Sri Lanka to an artistically-minded family who first understood art as a form of entertainment. I grew up seeing a lot of dead bodies in the streets and I responded to those experiences through my art. As I grew older, my approach to art shifted to reflect the violent society in which I grew up, as a means to psychologically analyze the pain that I, and those in my community, have faced. I always drew trauma and violence in some form, but I didn’t know why until I started studying Art & Design at the University of Jaffna. There I began to experiment with the content of my artwork, which helped me understand why I was drawing these images. I was lucky to have been taught by wonderful teachers like artist and historian Dr. T. Sanathanan, and Mr. P. Ahilan who is also an art historian and poet. The program introduced me to the wider network of artists from South Asia, which in turn allowed me to exhibit my work in the region through a residency in the Maldives in 2013 and in Colombo with the Asia Art Archive the same year. Since 2018, I have been working as a Lecturer at the Department of Visual & Technological Arts, Eastern University, Batticaloa. 60 DESIGNINDIA #116
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