Project Type: Industrial and Product Design
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
Nitish Chopra 