Portfolio | 2017 Abhinav Kulkarni. 23 y/o Transportation Design
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EXPERIENCE : Abhinav Kulkarni +91-9701891206 abno2266@gmail.com
EDUCATION :
Transportation design Undergraduate- diploma -(2011-2017) MIT Institute of Design (Pune, India) +2-( High School)(2009 -2010) FIIT-JEE (Hyderabad) Bhavan’s Sri RamaKrishna Vidyalaya (BSRKV) (2003-2009) Secunderabad
BIO : Date of birth : 20th November 1993 Languages : English(fluent), Hindi, Kannada ,Telugu
National Cadet Corps ( A-cirtificate )(2007) State level school science fair (model making ) (runner up) (2008) exchange program : Strate Ecole de Design mobilité design (2015) classroom project with: Renault Design,Paris ( Renault kangoo project)
INTERNSHIP : Design Intern IDE AutoWorks July 2016 – December 2016 (6 months)Gurgaon, India Summer Intern DesmaniA Design Pvt. Ltd. July 2014 – August 2014 (2 months)south Delhi
SKILL SET: manual skill set: Research Design Thinking Sketching Marker Rendering Tape drawing Photography 3D print process Sanding Prototyping Airbrush
digital skill set: Digital Sketching(Cintiq) Autodesk alias Autodesk 3ds max Autodesk Netfabb ZBrush Key short Autodesk fusion 360 Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Ultimate Cura
INTERESTS : Philosophy, Psychology, Solo-Travel, Graphic Novels, humanitarian Journalism, and landscape photography, Jazz,drums &cajon and harmonica Hobby 3D printing scale model,and Air brush painting INFLUENTIAL AUTHORS : Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus Jiddu Krishnamurti Carl Jung
SOUND & MUSIC : Chet baker Grateful dead Bob Dylan BB king 2
My process :
Research : why ? What ? How ?
collective output for quality results. Team work : Keen Listener. Logical reasoning. Public Speaking. Entertainer.
Area of expertise : Automotive Graphics. Infographics. Presentations. Ideation & sketching. Corporate profiling.
Skill-set to conceptualize : Adobe Photoshop Adobe illustrator Adobe In-design autodesk Alias Autodesk 3dsmax Autodesk Fusion Autodesk netfabb pixlogic Zbrush 3d printing air brush sketching
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Index
Scale model 1:18
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Internship
Experience
Classroom Collaboration
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Diploma Thesis
Interior concept Inspired from Scandinavian design.
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Miscellaneous work
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Scale model 1:18
A Land rovers defender is just more than a offroad commuter, Its is a tool for human exploration. This 3d printing exercise pays tribute to this Incredible machine.
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Internship Experience
A design studio based in Gurgaon-India that offer design services to
the Automotive Industry (OEMs and After-Market). Founded in August 2013 by two automotive designers, IDE has worked on a range of projects including OEM special editions, vehicle graphics/liveries, full car wraps, corporate vehicle branding, auto expo show cars,etc.
It intends to offer unique and innovative design solutions coupled with professional service standard work closely with clients to fully understand their needs and conceptualise designs accordingly.
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Production Graphic livery for Sonalika tractors.
Special edition livery for Hyundai i10 grand (Production ) 9
Photography & Documentation Wire frame for social media: The aim was to have a Standard format to enhance IDE Autoworks for Social media websites.
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Vision for smart city 2030 Symbiosis of Architecture and Transportation
Guidance: Nicolas Proust, Design Project Manager, TATA design studio, Pune 11
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final design :
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final design :
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design attempt to bring a visual change on Indian roads, a concept Taxi which has an exterior Influenced by the iconic Indian auto rickshaw and Hindustan ambassador (1958 Morris oxford ) A tribute to the Indian Taxi. The concept interior gives passengers, their own space, giving an individual experience. But, Exterior features helps Passengers Communicate with its Environment. Henceforth ,Duality outside with individuality inside.
Guidance: Himanshu Bhardwaj & Ankit Prashar, Designers, IDE Autoworks, Gurgaon 22
the problem:
What are we missing ?
Empathy to identify ourselves
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Against
Understanding users :
Average users need for personal space remain the same. Despite their indifference of social and materialistic choices with each other. The aim of this thesis is to serve all users, serve its Purpose at an individual level. To conceptualize a space that will help user for a easy and peaceful commute.
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Empathy and Contemporary interpretations
Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be Expressive? I think it’s my role as an artist to bring to expression, it’s not my role to be expressive. I’ve got nothing particular to say, I don’t have any message to give anyone. But it is my role to bring to expression, let’s say, to define means that allow Phenomenological and other Perceptions which one might use, one might work with, and then move towards a poetic existence.
Anish Kapoor on emptiness
-Anish Kapoor
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When an occupant choses to travel in a taxi, He
personal space
finds the only the seat he sits on. Once he is seated that is his bubble and doesn’t Want any external attention , he can be with his mind,
peace of mind.
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package Communication with traffic
Communication with Blind spots
Communication with passengers.
the communication touch dial controls interactive display on the exterior
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Individual zone separate occupants with their own spaces, giving them freedom to interact with other along with space for themselves as Individuals.
cocooned. personal space. 28
Interactive touch dial for visual communicate with the outside world
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Interaction through simplicity
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exterior:
taxi exterior
interior
Duality
indiviDuality 30
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final design :
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Click to view full research https://www.behance.net/gallery/53532585/Lagom-a-philosophy-for-automotive-interiors
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Miscellaneous works :
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photography:
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Thank you ! https://www.behance.net/abno26 https://www.instagram.com/abhinav_abno
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