New segment of Product in Mysore Rosewood Inlay - By Vikas Singh- Product designer

Craft Based Design Project

Mysore Rosewood Inlay-2018

Vikas Kumar Singh AD 7 2015-19 Bd/15/389

Acknowledgment I would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the my institute for providing this opportunity where I can do something novelty in our craft. The project has been funded by Ministry of Textile acknowledge my faculty Mrs. Shipra Roy for guiding me in design process throughout the module, her exploration ideas and suggestion led me to create something unique.

I would also thank to Mr. Anoush and Mr. Hari for being there with whole group in Mysore arranging everything for us.

I am thankful to Mr. Mohan sir and his sons. The artisan Miss. Tasmia and Mr. Maamu from Mysore who has shaped my design into craft piece.

CONTENT 1. Introduction to Project 2.Concepts Explorations 3. Product making process 4.Photoshoot

Introduction

The modern-day practices have seen the birth of designers who have set the wheel in motion for crafts by integrating them in their practices. The use and applications of craft have found in the commercial market are varied like the objectives of integrating them.

This has shown a way to the participatory design process, where craft and design amalgamate, and designers and craftspeople work together on a common platform to create and produce something.

A conscious effort of collaborating the two segments together, craft and design, in this sense can be seen as an emerging approach to design.

Artisan Awareness Workshop 2018: NIFT has organized a craft cluster initiative with Handi craft Development Commissioner to come up with array of different and novelty product ideas inculcating famous Mysore rosewood inlay craft.

Ideiallises and make the final prototype of products, which may bring a new horizontal the craft to go ahead and come up with new products from what has becoming from tradition. Students were asked to brainstorm and research and come up with varies number of products using craft. They were taken to Mysore for 5 days and get the samples done in there with the help of 19 artisans.

The products should be noval and new to market that has to be achieved in this Module.

Luxury by craft-Switch woods Introduction : Craft has always been part prophecy and part fantasy. It is also a prediction because the increasing concern about the future of our planet, about the possibilities we have to inhabit a greener world, to be more autonomous and in control of life and the human impact on nature is shaping craft revival. As several crafts from all over the world Mysore Rosewood inlay is on of them which need a taste of modernism. Crafts has been practiced from centuries and decades in a same way and techniques with a little deviation but the content and the product as still somehow constant. For the revival of craft there is need of a thoughts in terms of art, design and technology to rejuvenate the crafts and make it more useful in todays modern worlds.

Project Brief: To bring novelty in the traditional Mysore Rosewood inlay craft. {New could be thought, material or process.}

The brain storming chart on novelty, collection of products, the inner plate of switchboard, Available wooden switchboards.

Concepts for the noval products

Available wooden switchboards

Concept 1 : There would be designed and pattern inlayed on the outer frames of a modular switchboard box. The patterns would be matching to the interior design of the room it can also be customise. The designs would be inlayed with different colours of wood. The inner housing of the box would be same only the upper frame would be made up of rosewood.

Concept 2 : Some area in our rooms have switchboards which needs to be shown even in dark for example bedside socket switch, washroom lights boards. So the switch board upper plates would be inlayed with some vinyl sheets that will glow in dark.

Concept 3 : Spikes guards are the most important object in our house but it is never been emphasis, it can also be designed to match the switchboard installed in your home and the interior of your house. Same pattern would one inlays that was inlayed on the rosewood inlayed switchboard.

User Market Board:

These switchboards have an opportunity in the new upcoming homes, hotels, cafe, restaurants. Till now if a person is planning to design his house and want to give wooden theme, for example wooden floorings, wooden textured wall, wooden furnitures than there is a gap in switchboards, as modern modular switch boards are available in plastic, glass, and metals but not in wood.

Traditional hotels, palaces, cafe etc will new the market for this kind of switchboards.

Using rosewood has also one more advantage that it is hard and durable to more extant.

Materilas required

Glow in the : This glow in the dark vinyl sheets have bee used in the bedroom and bathroom range

The available PVC printed rosewood ROMA wall switch boards, so taken this for dimensions

Patterns used for inlaying

Process

Tasmiya (artisan) working on switchborads

Keeping for dry after applying fevicol

The Raw collection switchboards

Pattern Collection Switch board in living hall

Unfinished edges in the Raw collection

The Pattern Collection Switchboard

Glow in the dark collection, the little bulb sign will glow in dark

Carefully selected natural colored wood for inlay

The Glow in the dark collection comes with a simple Symbol beneath the switchboard that is embedded with phosphorus vinyl sheets they glows in the dark.

This range would be suitable for a\spaces where we approach to the switchboard in night like bathroom, toilet or a bed side in the bedroom.

The collection includes of three segments, where the raw collection can be used in hotels, bars, restaurants or in the garden area to give a raw natural look on the boards also.

It will match up with environment and will enhance the beauty of the wall.

The second pattern collection is customised switchboard where the motif or the design inlayed on it can be found repeatedly in the interior of any space so that it will merge with environment. The colours choosen should be intresting and minimal approach is takern while putting the motifs on the boards.

Craft Cluster 2018