PORTFOLIO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
VIVEK MAJUMDAR INDUSTRIAL DESIGN | PRODUCT DESIGN | FURNITURE DESIGN | DESIGN THINKING
EDUCATION
Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology (M.Des in Industrial Design) 2017 - 2019 Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering) 2012- 2016
EXPERIENCE
Craftizen Foundation Product Designer 2019 Metafur Furniture and Lighting Designer (intern) 2018 Balcozy Product Designer and Developer 2017 Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals LTD. Intern in the Maintenance Dept. 2015 International Combustion Intern in the Industrial Design Dept. 2014
SKILLS
Adobe Photoshop In-design Lightroom CAD and prototyping Sketchbook Fusion 360 Keyshot7 Auto-CAD 2015 Solidworks 2012 SketchUp8
DESIGN THINKING & RESE
EARCH
UPCYCLING MILK PACKETS India generates around 60 million tonnes of waste containing organic, dry and biochemical waste with an annual growth rate of 4%. Those materials for the most part of it has been going to dump yards for a long period of time and is still going to dump yards. These values are just limited to household levels. Industrial waste is at a totally different level. In India, annually, about 960 million tonnes of solid waste is being generated as by products. These by-products are usually generated during mining waste, agriculture waste, industrial waste and various other waste. I wanted to create something, which can help reduce the amount of waste being generated and not add on to it. Why upcycling and why not recycling? Recycling usually requires a lot of energy to breakdown the material and then convert it into a new product where as in upcycling, the materials are not broken down and waste material is used as it is to create a new product. Also, even if the product you buy say that it can be recycled, there is no guarantee that the product will be recycled as soon as you throw the product. It can stay as a waste material for long periods of time before it is recycled. I have taken one such material which is highly recycleable but is not recycled as there are hardly a few places having a proper facility or machinery to recycle the milk packets. In this project, I have tried to understand the system surronding the milk packets and tried to intevene in a manner that there is less waste generated and moreover there is livelihood generated out of it.
MIND MAP
In the current system of milk packets, the milk is generated in the dairy farms and transported to the collection centre. From there, the milk is processed and packaged and is sent to the different distribution centres. From the centres, it goes to the customers and after using the milk packets, the plastic milk packets are thown and then it goes to waste. From the waste, if it gets collected, it is collected as mixed waste as there is not much demand for milk packets in Bengaluru. If the milk packet gets collected, it is send to a waste milk packet seller and from there it goes to various places and companies. If the milk packet is not collected properly and it ends up in the mixed waste, then it reaches the landfill and is burnt. This is a big problem as considering just the single layered plastic in the dry waste, 57% of it is just milk packets and other plastic packets which is related to dairy prodicts (curd, buttermlk, flavoured milk, etc). Based on the research, I did different experiment to know more about the material and then started developing a surface which can be used to make a product.
After developing the surface through various means like sticking tetrapaks on the milk packets or making a surface out of tetrapaks and using mik packets as the water proof material behind it, crocheting milk packet threads, making a rope out of milk packets and high quality plastic and weaving a surface out of it, using a sealing machine on three layers containing milk packets and high quality plastic sandwiched between the milk packets. After all the experimentation, I decided to go with the sealing machine, as it not only increases the strenth of the milk packets but a lot but also because it takes very little time to make the surface. Based no all the surface development, I designed a few products.
After the ideation, I decided up on two different products that can be made using the sealing surfaces; laptop sleeve and lunch bag.
I wanted to design a lunch bag which a little different from the usual lunch bags. this one opens up to become a mat and two coasters.
FOOD CARTS A food cart is a mobile kitchen that is set up on the street to facilitate the sale and marketing of street food to people from the local pedestrian traffic. In the 21st century, innovations have included modular designed carts made with stainless steel, fibre reinforced plastic and aluminium. In India, in almost every other street there is a food cart selling varieties of food. Even though it is a very popular way of eating and selling the food, there are many problems that can be noticed in a food cart. Before finding the problems in a food cart, all the factors that goes around food cart was noted down which was initial brainstorming.
INITIAL BRAINSTORMING
VENDOR OBSERVATION
To understand more about food cart functioning, hygiene and mentality of the people, interviews were conducted according to the design brief in mind. These were the key insights that came out in front. 1. Cleanliness and price of the food is directly proportional for people. 2.Some carts did better than others because of its demography. 3.Places where the service is quick, hygiene is usually neglected. They clean everything at the end of day. 4.If the workforce is more, the pace of the work also increases. 5.In all the places, where interview/ observations happened, they used just one cloth to clean everything. 6.Permanent shed or a permanent shade and seating areas attracts more customers. 7.Sometimes the vendor forget how much they have to give 8.They give money with the same hands they handled the food and spices with. TOP 3 PROBLEMS 1. How to inculcate a habit of hygienic transaction of money from vendors to customers? 2. How to make customers and vendors practice hygienic and proper waste disposal? 3. How to make vendors keep the cooking and serving stations clean?
SYSTEM
M MAP
INITIAL IDEATIONS
FINAL ITERATIONS
WALKER This project is based on designing a walking stick which not only helps balance but also helps in climbing the stairs. Amongst all the problem faced by people with walkers, I worked and tried addressing two problems, i.e., climbing the stairs and portability of the walker.The walker has two different mechanisms, one where the whole walker folds in to a small square which increases the portability and another mechanism in which the legs of the walker has spring loaded mechanism which can be controlled from the handle of the walker so when the person is walking with the walker, climbing stairs wont be a problem as the front of the walker can go up and down according to the person climbing or decending the stairs.
PROBLEMS 1. The medical equipments available in the market are of very high cost and not everyone can afford it. Interestingly, most of them can be manufactured cheaply. 2. Nearly 5 women die in India every hour from complications developed during child birth 17% of such deaths globally. One of the reason behind this is, doctors and nurses forget to maintain hygiene because of which infections occur which further causes death. 3. Accessibility of good health services or devices. Accessibility Availability of good health services within reasonable reach of those who need them. Economic accessibility – is a measure of people’s ability to pay for services without financial hardship. It takes into account not only the prices of the health services but also indirect and opportunity cost. Why is access to healthcare important? Timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes. It requires three steps 1. Gaining entry into health care system 2. Accessing a location where needed health services are provided 3. Finding a health care provider whom the patient trusts and can communicate with Access to healthcare impacts one’s overall physical, social and mental status and quality of life. The process went from choosing healthcare as an area of interest. From there, with research it went to choosing the stakeholder. I was confused between newly born babies or babies in general, mothers or who have just become mothers and old people. I wanted to design more for old people as I have a certain amount of experience in that matter and they do need a lot more care. Life becomes difficult in old ages. These are some of the problems usually faced by old people 1. Mobility problems. there are problems to move around especially out of the door or house. 2. They are not able to see properly in the dark 3. Their muscles weaken, joints weaken, have pain and different diseases. In fact, this is one of the common problems that they face because of which they fall down. 4. At this age when they fall, many there are chances of they breaking the bones. And compared to younger people, their bones break more easily than the younger people and heal less quickly. Hence, taking these into consideration, I decided I will re-design a mobility aid that will help them to do some of the daily task which takes them effort with a little bit more ease than before. Researching about the problems that old people face. 1. Ability to move around. mobility problems 2. They can’t see in the dark. 3. Their hand grip keeps on weakening 4. Difficulty in getting out of bed 5. Muscle weakness, joint problems, pain and various diseases 6. They fall
Now, researching on the problems they face with walkers. 1. Can’t climb stairs properly 2. Can’t see in the dark 3. Their walker takes a huge space in the room and while travelling There are a few. There are more. Based on these insights, I have tried to intervene in three of these points.
INTERVENTION POINTS 1. How can the walker help to climb stairs? 2. How it can be made compact 3. How can the aged people exercise their grip while walking?
IDEA
ATION
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
PAPER TRAY This was a personal project taking inspiration from MUJI products. This is designed for design firms having problems in keeping large sheeets of paper. Usually in design firms, they roll big sheets and keep them. When they open it again, the pages tend to curl back again. I figured that the part below the table is not used. Hence, I thought of using that space. This table will be hanged from the table with a clip that runs along the table and holds the table below the workspace. This way the pages will also remain flat.
MOOD BOARD
FLOOR LAMP
I wanted to make a floor lamp which provides ambient lighting and mixes two different materials together. This floor lamp is made using a mild steel pipe and the shades are made by using macrame technique on jute. I have taken inspiration from bamboo’s flexibility and how it bends when there is just one.
AIR PURIFIER Predicting an Indian household in the year 2050, I had to design either a product, a furniture or a system for the Indian household. My research led me in to believing that the pollution will increase tremendously and also people will work from home more than they do that in present times. I then decided to make something that can reduce the amount of pollution our own homes. A product that can be used as a statement piece too and is also a functional product. I was first looking into air purifieres that are now available and found them to be very box like. I decided to get inspired from something that you will get in all the states of India and something which brings back memories. Hence, I took my inspiration from Indian perfume bottles.
PROTO
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Materials used : clay, thermocol, acrylic paint
DODECAHEDRON LAMP This was a part of a personal project. I was trying to design a lamp shade using different materials. I wanted some new designs other than the designs available in the market. so I decided to use welded wire mesh as my final material. Before I made it with welded wire mesh, I started prototyping with paper and file card. Then after making the prototype, I finally made the shade in welded wire mesh.
GABION LAMP This project is inpired from Gabion wall. This project was done for a house. I made a flat pack out of welded wire mesh; made another cube inside for safely keeping the bulb and filled the space in between both the cubes with white stones and added light in between.
LOW SEATING In India, people sit on the ground to pray and do puja. Usually, something is kept on the ground while doing puja. The seat was designed originally for Puja purposes. This was a collaborative project where we had to re-design the low seat.
COLLABORATED WITH Nitin Saini | Tanima goyal | Megha Jain| Ananta Dutta| Mathew N.G
EXPANDING TABLE PROTOTYPE This is a project where I was making a model of a pre-existing expandable table. I wanted to explore materials to make the prototype. so i tried using different materials and ended up with using sun board. After making the basic structure, I used a sand paper to give the grains of the wood and then painted it with acrylic paint to give a wood colour.
LAPTOP
This portable table not only has a place to keep a laptop but also as a storage space. To make the table, I used rubber wood and MDF. The table top inclines at an angle and when the drawer is pulled out, it also works as a mouse pad.
TABLE
STATIONARY POUCH I wanted to explore the intricate nature of embroidery and different kinds of stiching patterns. I wanted to create a pouch for my stationary pens, pencils, etc.
JEANS POUCH I wanted to use different techniques to make a pouch that can be used to store everyday stationary effectively in a good quantity. The pouch is handmade and handcrafted. Also, I have tried different hand-stitching techniques.
This was a part of a personal project that I did. I wanted to design something which I can use for longer periods of time. The leather cover gives a very elegant look to the whole book.
LEATHERWORK The cover can be used by putting the first and the last page inside the flaps and then use it like normal notebook. The leather was first cut in rectangular pieces and then the pattern was made. After the pattern is made, I punched the leather and then sewed it.
PAPER PEN STANDS I wanted to work with used newspaper as a material to explore its possibility. After making the basic structure, I used texture white on it and tried to paint it as wooden strips.
JEANS WALLET Wallet is one of the necessities in our lives. Where ever we go, or when ever we go out we need to carry our wallet. This particular wallet is upcycled from a waste pair of jeans. The wallet is 100% handmade and hand stitched . The motive behind making a wallet was to make it compact.
CONCEPT DESIGN
ADDA TABLE The concept of the table is inspired from Japanese culture. ‘ADDA’ is a term when people sit together and talk. It is said people are most comfortable when they sit on the ground which allows the body to be fully relaxed. This table is made exactly for the same purpose. It encourages people to sit on the ground in their most relaxed position and have a nice long talk. This table is designed to be at the centre of the room, the main attraction. The table has an ambient light and provides appropriate light in the room.
THE Z-LAMP
SOLAR BRICK OVEN Bricks are ususally baked by making a dome of bricks which have to be baked with a fire in between. That produces a lot of pollution. This is a concept to provide an alternative for the existing design.
ALL IN ONE HAMMER I was seeing our family carpenter making furniture and he had two different hammers. One had a nail puller and the other one had two flat sides. So, while thinking on it, I had this idea of combing all sorts of different hammers as attachments at the bottom of the hammer.
The mechanism includes turn and release mechanism
CHANGABLE HEAD HAMMER One day I was using a hammer and the hammer was too big for the nail. I thought of this design then, that it would be simpler to have one handle and more hammer heads rather than having many hammers.
NAIL HOLDER Striking small nails with a hammer becomes difficult sometimes. I thought if the nails are stacked like bullets in a bullet clip, then hammering will be easier.
RENDERINGS
HONEY BOTTLE DESIGN
KITCHEN CABINET
INTERESTS
During a study trip in Hampi, I was getting first hand exposure to all the destruction and uprooting of the local market and the resettlement of them. Interviewing some of the local vendors and listening to their story, in Hampi, how they settled there and how the whole place slowly developed as visitors came to visit Hampi. My team and I interviewed some of the various stakeholders. Based on my encounter with the place and the people, I penned down a poem.
CONTACT
+91 9521047798 vivek0majumdar@gmail.com LIFEISSIMPLE (majumdarvivek)