Archives: Projects
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MechaMates
‘MechaMates’ is an ecosystem for kids aged 8-12 to create their own robotic pets and immerse in a world of play, storytelling & learning. Through the process of engaging with the immersive challenges, the kids are required to construct, evolve & program their pets (through block-based coding interfaces) to complete the challenges thereby learning fundamentals…
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Avishkaar
Building a $2 million annual STEM toys business and an edtech tech app with 100,000+ users! What is Avishkaar? Avishkaar is an end-to-end platform for kids to learn and teachers to teach next-gen technology skills like robotics, coding, electronics, IoT, game design & app development. Their platform includes a set of DIY kits, a range…
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Green Ripples
Try it Now! https://mimicproject.com/code/013d3f30-def0-7614-d7e7-41b3cebb8619 Demo Video
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Sunrise / Sunset
Try it Now! https://mimicproject.com/code/9480ec1d-cc1c-d35a-17c3-eff3b917055d Demo Video
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Come to Mama
Play Now! https://mimicproject.com/code/0b52d5bb-b628-0668-ce0a-0b679ffe79d4 Demo Video
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For The Greater Good
Description ‘For the Greater Good’ is a phygital game that aims to teach collaboration to its players. It is a multiplayer game with a single character on screen whose aim is to collect at least 4 out of 5 goals displayed on the screen. The catch is that each of these 5 goals map to…
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Morph It!
Description ‘Morph It!’ is an educational digital game to teach its players about colors and shapes. Each time two shapes get combined the color and form of the shapes gets morphed into a new shape having a new color. Players are supposed to combine different shapes and achieve as many goal shapes as possible within…
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Driving the Next Billion Sales in India (3/3)
In case you haven’t had a chance to check part 1 and part 2 of this article, just a quick recap. I recently completed my semester long pre-thesis project at college under the guidance of my project guide Riyaz Sheikh. It was quite a long and challenging journey with ample learnings at various stages. Apart from learnings…
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Driving the Next Billion Sales in India (2/3)
In case you haven’t had a chance to check part 1 of this article, just a quick recap. I recently completed my semester long pre-thesis project at college under the guidance of my project guide Riyaz Sheikh. It was quite a long and challenging journey with ample learnings at various stages. Apart from learnings about the…
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Driving the Next Billion Sales in India (1/3)
I recently completed my semester long pre-thesis project at college under the guidance of my project guide Riyaz Sheikh. It was quite a long and challenging journey with ample learnings at various stages. Apart from learnings about the domain there have been loads of learnings about the process and my practice as well. Project Brief…
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Guinness World Record for The Largest Dice Mosaic
Abstract This was possibly one of the most ambitious and challenging self-initiated projects of my life. The completion of it cost me countless resources, numerous college credits, sweat, tears and blood (quite literally) and roughly two years of my life. In January of 2017, we set on a mission to break the Guinness World Record…
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TE.A.CH
This was done as a college project during a course about learning visual design for screens. The brief was to design an online education portal. I chose to work on the BlackBoard portal that our college uses presently, as a base to build the new design on. Current Portal’s UX/UI Analysis 1. Incoherent navigation 2.…
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Rockit Home
‘RockIt Home’ is a communication platform for tenants and property owners. The project was to design the UI for the mobile app (both an android and iOS version) based on the feature list that the client provided. User tasks and flows : Screen Mock-ups :
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RSVRtech
RSVR Technologies, a seasoned Angel Investor, is dedicated to empowering startups with transformative technology solutions. With our extensive expertise in both technology and investing, we understand the unique challenges faced by founders. By tailoring our support to your team’s specific needs, we provide the tools, guidance, and resources to turn your vision into a thriving…
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Rent-A-Cycle
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AutoCAD, 3DSMax, Keyshot
The following is the outcome of a two week course I undertook in Design Communication through AutoCAD, 3DSMax and Keyshot. We were taught about the industrial 3D modelling pipeline – making 2D plans in AutoCAD, transferring those files in 3DSMax to make 3D models and finally import the model file into Keyshot to obtain High…
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The Future of a Second-Hand Bookstore
This project was the result of my end of fifth semester examination charette at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, while pursuing my undergraduate degree in Design. Through this charette, we were prompted look at the rise in machine intervention at workplaces by picking up a specific workplace and observing the changing patterns…
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Freedom Park
This project was the outcome of a public space design course called ‘Narrating Spaces’. As part of the course, we were expected to plan an exhibition space within a chosen site in the city of Bengaluru. I chose Freedom Park as my site. The park has a serious issue of visibility – the large bounding…
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Packaging Design
The following is a series of packaging design projects I did – either as college projects or personal initiatives or some client work. ‘Coca-Cola’ themed water bottle design These designs were my submission to a packaging design contest on desall.com. The brief was to design a bottle for athletes taking inspiration from the coca-cola branding.…
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Project Fireflies
The below assignment was the culmination project as part of a fundamentals architectural drafting course I took. Our aim was to pick up a structure from the numerous structures present in ‘Fireflies’, which is a cultural center a little outside of Bangalore, and furnish a set of measured drawings for the said structure. Below are…
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Basics of Architectural Drafting
I undertook a course called ‘Communicating Spaces’ that aimed to teach some fundamentals of architectural drafting. Some of the topics that were covere were – fundamentals of line quality, Orthographic projections, isometric drawings, floor plan, sectional drawings, elevational drawings and presentation drawing. Below are some of the assignments attempted for each of these learning areas.…
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HealthPlus
HealthPlus is an EMS that helps clinics/hospitals maintain patient records. I designed the onboarding screens for a new user for thei mobile/web app. The color palette used : Mobile App Screens : Web Portal Screen :
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Srishti Live 2017
A team of three people, including me, was responsible for designing and developing the official website our college’s grand interim event ‘Srishti Live’. Below are some screenshots from the website :
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Glee
A lost generation of traditional photo albums started fading away with the gone days of reel cameras. When a family holiday trip was scrunched in just 30 pictures. Now is the era of digital cameras and phones where one takes thousands of pictures on an overwhelming day. How does one keep those memories intact and…
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MTtown
MTtown is an illustrated story exploring the themes of space and belonging. Our protagonist is a amnesiac man, lost in an imaginary world baring presence of just material objects/things/places and totally void of human beings, trying to recall his identity. The key idea behind the story was to see if one can find his identity…
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Kitchenwear
A friend of mine, Yashvi Vasundhara, asked me to help her with some indoor photography and the look book layout designs for her kitchen-wear apron line. She wanted a bright, well lit, feel good ambience to the photo along with a mellow-pastel color palette. So did the setup design accordingly and used multi-lighting technique to shoot…
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Instashop
The following was my design proposal for redesigning the homepage of the website firstcopy.co.in. I began with undergoing a UI/UX analysis of their current homepage; redid their color palette and logo; and then based on the insights gained from the UI/UX analysis (in tandem with some proposed additions to their feature set) – redesigned their…
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E-Grocery App
Aim Develop an e-grocery platform system and run pilot validation studies for the same concept. Approach Target Users Urban Middle-class individuals, in the age of 18-40 years, who aren’t familiar with shopping and cooking, but are willing to learn. Needs Evaluation Using the UX framework -Meaning, Value, Pleasure and Engagement to evaluate existing E-grocery platform…
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3D Character Modelling
This is my learning outcome from a five week long course I attended in my fourth semester in Srishti. The course was structured to make us experience the detailed industrial 3D character modelling pipeline, from modelling to sculpting to clothing to hair and finally to painting. Softwares used : Autodesk Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Marvelous…
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UNI – AI Travel Assistant
This project was done during a course about interaction design. The idea was to study the emergence of chatbots and other voice based AI services and come up with innovative applications for it. I decided on applying it in the travel domain. Below is the link to the detailed concept and documentation for my idea.…
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Furniture Joineries & Fixtures
This was a five week course I undertook in the second cycle of the third semester of my undergraduate design studies here at Srishti. Our primary objective was to learn existing wood joints and as a final performance of understanding, come up with an original three member joint of our own. We also briefly looked…
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Calligraphy
I undertook a two-week workshop in Calligraphy as part of my college course. And as a performance of understanding of the skills that I took on, I made a wedding invite with a ‘How I Met Your Mother’ theme. Below, is the course documentation and some other stuff I did during these two weeks. PDF…
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Branding Portfolio
These are some branding projects I undertook freelancing part time for some clients. Link to a high quality pdf version : brandingportfolio_comp, Dhaani – Food Corporation Fan Labour – An online portal hosting fan fictions : Spectre – Clothing and Apparel Line : CC Foods – Food Corporation
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Avishkaar Box
I was approached by Avishkaar Box – an Edtech company – to build an about video for them. The following was the brief they provided Client Brief Content of the creative – About Avishkaar is a video that talks about the impact that Avishkaar has been able to make in the society.Primarily it talks how…
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BrailleBoard
Designing and developing a computer keyboard for the visually impaired In a course on accessibility and universal design during my undergrad – I got to re-imagine computer keyboards for the blind. The existing design had braille characters printed on existing keys – were non intuitive and relied heavily on the typists muscle memory and accuracy.…
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Generate while you Segregate
Brief Explore the relationship between Kere (Water Tank/ Lakes) and the communities surrounding them. Understand the changing nature of this relationship owing to rapid urbanization and the impact of this in disturbing the inherent harmonious ecological balance that existed between the lake, the people, the flora and fauna. Task Create an activity (an interactive installation,…
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Botanical and Biological Illustrations
I attempted a fine art course in the even semester of my first year. Our course was about studying the art style of botanical and biological illustrations, both via the means of close specimen observation and references from images, using the water color medium. And then studying Surrealism as an art movement and attempting surrealist…
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3D Modelling
This was the work done during a two week skill oriented workshop in September 2015. Below is a set of test models we sculpted to get a hang of the tools. After a week of learning the various tools, we were given a full week to create an entire scene as a final submission.
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Their Part of the Land
This was quite possibly one of my most daunting projects through the first year of my undergraduate design studies at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru. It was done during my Performance of Understanding for the first semester in a period of two weeks. Abstract of the Course (By facilitator – Arvind Venkatadri)…
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हरी पतंग के किनारों से
A poem about a monkey with a twist ending. This was my performance of understanding for our ‘Space and Place’ course (at Srishti undergrad year 1), which expected us to generate a deeper understanding for our surroundings. Abstract of the course (by the facilitator – Anupama Arun) : This course is designed to take the…
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What I’ve done?!
I started my journey at Srishti (Institute of Art, Design and Technology) aspiring to become an animator, and as luck would have it, my very first course was with a 3D animator. So most of our worked revolved around motion graphics. Our final project of this 5 week course was to come up with a…
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Adab-e-Bhangra
This project was a part of my form-making course (at Srishti undergrad year 1) targeted at taking inspirations from something (an art form or a dance form) and then drawing that inspiration as the guiding principle for another project (compositions or products, anything). We started by researching the different aspects (colors, shapes, patterns, etc) of a chosen…
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Self-Portrait
This was my first project as part of a mark making course in college. We were required to make a full scale self-portrait of any preffered medium. It took me about 25-30 hours ( spread across a span of 10 days ) to complete this and it’s mostly done using soft pastel and charcoal (…
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Digital Illustration Portfolio
Character Design : Pencil Shading : Scene/ Perspective Drawing Comic Strips : Human Anatomy : Storyboarding :
Nitish Chopra 