Nid portfolio

N.I.D. PORTFOLIO

Name- Kshitij Kum Roll No- 050919

PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THE PORTFOLIO The portfolio that I am presenting to you just not only shows my artwork, creativity or talents. Rather, I’ve tried to show my ideology, or my thinking and have incorporated the work that satisfies to my thinking.

Now, I really don’t know what designing is all about. Some says that it’s just a extension of art, for others it’s an art that solves a practical purpose. Some say that it should have some aesthetics, or creativity, other’s may say that a brilliant idea makes a good design.

Personally, For me, “design is an extension of anthropology. After all, we all design for ourselves. But it should also comply with the nature’s laws i.e. it should be eco-friendly.

A humble tribute to the gods…..

Who were the first designers, who designed this beautiful universe, Who designed you, me and every one of us……….

TRIDEV

CONCEPT The concept behind the design was to depict the Vedic gods, who are known as Trimurti. These gods, according to Vedic scripture, are responsible for the creation, sustenance and end of this universe. • Design The color of the gods is according to the Vedic description. Brahma was shown in red color, Vishnu in purple/blue and Shiv in white, and later in green color( due to halahal vish).

The names of the god is written in Devanagari script, in remembrance to the ancient Vedic culture.

The doodle (upon mask) incorporates coiling structure . The structure depicts the word MAYA or illusion. According to scholars, the world so created is actually an illusion, and one must strive in his life to clear this illusion.

Since Shiva was more inclined towards Vishnu, the direction of doodle (on his face) is towards Vishnu. •

SELF PORTRAIT “THINKING LIKE VINCI”

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The work is inspired by Leonardo’s work. In his diary, Leonardo depicted various complex machinery and illustrated human anatomy with great details.

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Perhaps, because of his great understanding of both science and human body, he was able to devise some of the greatest design, which were ahead of his time.

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In this, I’ve tried to shown myself as a person who has a technical mindset. I’ve tried to visualize myself as a person who sees the world in a detailed way. The right side of the artwork depicts ear pinna. The left side shows scale and proportion.

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In this, I’ve tried to show myself as a person who wish to understand both technicalities and minute details around myself, important features to excel in designing.

…….At the beginning of a public teaching, a lama will do prostration to the throne on which he will teach due to its symbolism, or to an image of the Buddha behind that throne, then students will do prostrations to the lama after he is seated……..

‌..derivation of the word Gond is uncertain. According to some, it may have come from khonda which means hill. General Cunningham, an ethnologist, speculated that it may come from Gauda, another name for eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bengal.

The northwestern portion of Rajasthan is generally sandy and dry. Most of this region is covered by the Thar Desert which extends into adjoining portions of Pakistan. The Aravalli Range does not intercept the moisture-giving southwest monsoon winds off the Arabian Sea,

‌..belief is that kathakali is emerged from "Krishnanattam", the dance drama on the life and activities of Lord Krishna created by Sri Manavedan Raja, the Zamorin of Calicut ‌.

“In those days, instead of buying the idols from the market at Kumortuli, families invited the kumor or artisan home to stay as a house guest weeks before the Puja, during which time he sculpted the idol. The idol at our Puja was known for its magnificent size. It used to be over 10 feet tall.

Every morning as the kumor started his work, we children gathered around him and gaped in awe as he gradually turned a fistful of straw and a huge mass of clay into a perfectly formed, larger-than-life figure……”

Along with other indigenous Andamanese peoples, they have inhabited the islands for at least several thousand years, and most likely a great deal longer. The Andaman Islands have been known to outsiders since antiquity; however, until quite recent times they were infrequently visited, and such contacts were predominantly sporadic and temporary.

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The idea of creating the set of artworks was to show the diversity of culture, ethnicity and region in the best possible way.

The set of six drawings can be used as pages for a calendar, where each page depicts two months.

The drawings shall be arranged as follow:Jan-Feb- Buddhist lamas (winter) Mar-Apr- Gond tribal (spring) May-Jun- Rajasthani Portrait (summer) Jul-Aug- Kathakali (monsoon) Sep-Oct- Devi (autumn) Nov-Dec- Jarawa tribal (early winter)

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The drawings also shows the region wise division of the country, which is as follows:Buddhist lamas (North) Gond tribal (Centre) Rajasthani Portrait (West) Kathakali (South) Devi (East) Jarawa tribal (Islands) The medium of the artwork is pencil colors.

The calendar to be designed, should have multipurpose design. I designed my calender, as a table piece, used in offices.

The calender-cum-table piece has a digital clock, pen stand and some storage, for keeping some utility item.

It shall be made from wood The calender pages would be de-attachable. The month section shall be tearable, and the art work can be used as postcard.

The calender would also be user-interactive. Upon scanning the picture with a software, using appropriate application, the picture will lead us to a documentary made upon he subject. For others, a url id would be given, where anybody can see them, and may go to that particular link, to know more about the subject

Cover of the calender

Project Puppet

INDIAN PUPPETRY Puppetry, which is a real challenge to the imagination and the creative ability of the individual, is one of the most ancient forms of entertainment.

Besides entertainment, puppetry serves as an applied art, conveying meaningful messages. Of all art forms, it is probably the least restricted in form, design, colour and movement. It is also the least expensive of all animated visual art forms. • Puppetry, in, India :The early puppet shows in India dealt mostly with histories of great kings, princes and heroes and also political satire in rural areas. Religious portrayals in puppetry developed in South India with shadow puppet performances of stories from Ramayana and Mahabharata. Even today, especially in Kerala, shadow puppet is a temple ritual performed every year during a temple festival for a specified duration. With the progress and development of civilization, the mysticism connected with traditional puppetry slowly started to fade which was replaced with an element of entertainment. Slowly, this art form emerged from the precincts of the temple and villages to reach out to the outside world performing on various social and contemporary themes in Indian towns and cities. •

Kathputli is a string puppet theatre, native to Rajasthan, India, and is the most popular form of Indian puppetry. Being a stringmarionette, it is controlled by a single string that passes from the top of the puppet over the puppeteers.

Kathputli, in making‌.

(Photograph) 2013

Keychain/Wall hanging concept Used medium-paper Intended medium- plastic, wood

Togalu Gombeyaata translates to a play of leather dolls in the native language of Kannada.

It is a form of shadow puppetry.

Togalu Gombeyaata (Pencil Artwork) 2014

Self Designed Puppet Material used- Transparency, Glass sheet Doesn’t need leather, easily visible with less light Colors are more bright and visible, than traditional leather puppet

For more information, visit https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=h7u6N-cSWtY

War Horse (Play) 2012

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In this section, I’ve tried to explore the subject in variety of ways and medium. After studying them all, I tried to develop a new concept of puppetry.

In this concept, I tried to add all the good features of all the previous examples (depicted earlier).

From leather puppets, I tried to incorporate the mechanism, through which puppet moves (concept of string) From the kathputli, I used 3 d structure of body From the war horse puppet, I took the inspiration to design a complex -yet easy to use machinery.

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The puppet is very light weighted (should weigh from 12 kg).

Easy to use (for body mechanism, it copies the puppeteer’s movement; for head, a control unit is given on each arm.)

The puppet should be easily repairable by the puppeteer himself, or could be mended by cycle-repairer.

The puppet has many features which can be adjusted according to character being played. Thus, it doesn’t needs the actor to do some sort of makeup The puppet is used best for one- two actor’s play.

The puppet imitates most expressions, thus making it real- life like.

BBODY AND NECK

AUTOMATON

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The word "automation" is the latinization of the automaton, (neuter) "acting of one’s own will". This word was first used by Homer to describe automatic door opening, or automatic movement of wheeled tripods. It is more often used to describe non-electronic moving machines, especially those that have been made to resemble human or animal actions, such as the jacks on old public striking clocks, or the cuckoo and any other animated figures on a cuckoo clock.

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There are many examples of automata in Greek Mythology: Hephaestus created automata for his workshop; Talos was an artificial man of bronze; Daedalus used quicksilver to install voice in his moving statues; King Alkinous of the Phaiakians employed gold and silver watchdogs; the Caucasian artificial eagle tortured Prometheus.

The automata in the Hellenistic world were intended as toys, religious idols, or tools for demonstrating basic scientific principles, including those built by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria (sometimes known as Heron). When his writings on hydraulics, pneumatics, and mechanics were translated into Latin in the 16th century, Hero’s readers initiated reconstruction of his machines, which included siphons, a fire engine, a water-organ, the aeolipile, and a programmable cart.

An example of it is His automaton horse.

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The magic horse of Heron (Horse decapitated and drinking) It was an amazing arrangement of a horse and a herdsman that showed (by the presenter of the automaton) to cut with a knife through the neck of the horse and simultaneously this automatically continued drinking water from the cup which he held in his hand. And it urinated as well.

It consisted of a most ingenious rotating wheel that ensured the stability of the horse's head at the complete cutting off of the neck and a complicated mechanism of toothed bars and toothed sectors that separated and reconnected the telescopic pipe of the horse automatically during the severance. With the manually-operated rotation of the herdsman (opposite to that of the horse) the water from the upper container of the base of the automaton emptied into the container below causing the required vacuum in the incorporated drinking pipe of the horse and consequently the continuous drinking from the cup of water, and urination.

The device was apparently made to show power of god i.e., even after decapitating, the horse continued to drink water.

SOURCES: "Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica, (78)“ For more information, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGcARDJWUZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmQE2qpYB8

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Water pumping mechanism

Head decapitating mechanism

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Taking inspiration from the ancient design, I tried to develop a concept of an automaton.

We all know, that cow has been a symbol of motherhood and purity, from centuries. The Hindus consider the cow as the holiest, and in many parts they are worshipped fervently.

In our ancient scriptures, cow-urine has been considered the purest of all substances, almost equivalent to Ganga. So, in some regions, people drink cow urine as prasad.

The automaton of the cow shall recreate the effect of urination, and the water can then be consumed by any devotee, without having any uneasy feelings.

The devise will incorporate both basic science and religious symbolism.

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In this concept, the head is not decapitated (as it shall go against the religious sentiment).

Also instead of herdsmen, the neck is used as lever, for creating vacuum (here, neck is lowered-just like water hand pump).

Since the water offered in the temples may not be drinkable, but the automaton has a basic filtration unit, which shall remove the dirt/mud particles from water. The idea of filtration also makes the point more valid that the cow urine is pure, at least symbolically.

There is also an inlet, where one can add flavoring agent, sweeteners, tulsi etc to the water.

As the device has no electrical machinery, the maintenance is very low. Can be easily installable at temples.

The automaton can be seen as a piece of design, magic, technology, or art, but the main concept is that it tries to represent an ideology symbolically, using religious notions and technology.

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My personal favorite seasons are – spring, monsoon and autumn. You see, the maximum activities in nature can be best viewed in these three seasons. So much things are happens at the same time, that one may get to learn some crucial morals about our life. These three season are itself a form of Trimurti, as depicted earlier- the spring equates to Brahma, who gave us life. The monsoon depicts the Vishnu, who sustains the world, and when end is near, autumn- Shiva arrives.

Considering the above fact, I tried to design a damaroo, according to my favorite seasons.

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The rim is covered with colorful doodle, depicting spring.

The two faces of the damroo depicts monsoon. On the faces, I’ve illustrated a peacock and raining cloudssymbols of monsoon.

The handle has been coated with dull brown, green and yellow dots, which denotes broken twigs, fallen leavesdepicting autumn.

Spring season

Season 3 Autumn season

Monsoon season

STARRY NIGHT-THROUGH HER EYES……

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Starry Night (Dutch: De sterrennacht) is a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh.

Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view outside of his sanatorium room window at Saint-Rémy-deProvence (located in southern France) at night,

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Using his painting, and a photograph of my friend, I combined them to give a new interpretation of his masterwork.

The artwork produced can be used as a design for ceramic tile.

Medium used-oil pastel.

World through her eyes

Art work

Medium used-color pencils Dated- January, 2014 (live sketch)

In pursuit of hope

Medium used- (mixed media) Dated- 2012

The artwork depicts a silhouette of a Sadhu, who has been so lost in his Mediation, that he has lost even his Identity (and symbolically. The face Is not there)

Can be used as design for bag, for Any company dealing with religious Object or Ayurveda.

While mediating‌‌

Medium used- watercolor) Dated- June, 2014

The artwork shows Devi In abstract.

Divine shapes - I

Medium used- soft pastel) Dated- June, 2014

The artwork shows lordkrishna

Divine shapes - II

Medium used- soft pastel) Dated- 2011

The artwork was created at a competition, which was later selected to be used a invitation card by Delhi laughter club. http: //laughteryogaclub. org/index.html

Laughter is the only medicine

Sculpture Medium used-Putty clay

(Can be used as an idea for exhibition) (#museum design)

Photographs

WORK THAT INSPIRES ME • 1. DISPOSABLE • •

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MUG

April 30, 2009 “When I was a student,” Paul Sandip recalls, “I had to travel by trains.

And because of our large population here in India, you normally don’t get reserved-ticket service. In fact, you normally have to travel sitting in the aisles.

“So lots of travelers, like me, had observed this pressing need of people who use the public toilets in these trains. We Indians prefer to use water to wash ourselves, instead of using toilet paper. But there was no product that was catering to this need. So people would carry maybe empty water bottles or teacups, something like that.”

Water, Sandip clarifies, is supplied on the trains, with taps in each public lavatory. But without containers, it’s useless to travelers.

“I investigated more into the matter,” Sandip says, “and I found that yes, indeed, the trains did have toilet mugs. But most of them were stolen. So even though the railway had given toilet mugs, they were not there because of this vandalism.”

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“So I started thinking, why not have a product a person could buy inexpensively on a platform? Something nice and portable. It needed to be foldable because you’re traveling and you don’t have much space. It also had to be something you could throw away. You wouldn’t want to use it again because it would be very dirty. So you wanted something you would throw off the train.”

“But then, you had to think, when you say you’re going to throw it off — a very huge concern arises because you have to ask if this product is going to harm the environment or not. A lot of people would want to use this, and it might create a lot of nuisance.”

“That’s when I started exploring materials and came across a particular type of paper which had both the strength to withstand 1.2 liters of water, but which could also be glued with organic glue, and thirdly, that it would disintegrate after some point in time. I needed to connect these three different ideas of hygiene, portability and ecofriendliness.

“The place I come from is an ancient part of India,” the Kolkata region of portable in West Bengal, known to some by its anglicized name, Calcutta. “And there, we have a type of paper for vendors to use in selling food. After you use it, you can just throw it away. And those packages are made from recycled newspapers.”

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Using this paper as his starting point, Sandip has test-marketed his Disposable Mug with the state railway’s cooperation on one of its longest lines. What the railway authority has asked is that private vendors make Sandip’s mugs available on the train platforms. Sandip’s effort now is to find sponsors who will pay for the paper and glue in exchange for advertisements printed on the mugs. To move to this next phase, Sandip has a business partner, a brother of his wife.

“My brother-in-law has been thinking on how this can be manufactured,” Sandip says. “Because this product is needed all over the country — and that means logistics could be a huge problem. So the idea is to have it manufactured by the people who live in slums by the train lines. They live in unemployment and poverty, and this would give them something to sell. It creates the product all over the country. We just need the funding for purchasing the raw materials.”

Sandip and his brother-in-law, then, are working on finding advertiserunderwriters of the product, to get the paper and glue into the hands of the slum dwellers who will make and sell it.

“And you know,” Sandip says, “I normally deal with housewares and utensils as a designer. I have a small range of products, things housewives use at home. But for me, it’s not enough just to think about styling in design. You also want to put heart into it. That’s the real difference.”

Designed by: Sandip Paul, Noida, India.

Additional credits: Bhushan Bawankule; Indian Railway Authority.

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THE CHARMING BIRD WATCH IS AN AUTOMATON ON YOUR WRIST

By David Szondy August 20, 2013 The Charming Bird contains a tiny mechanical bird behind the crystal.

• The Swiss watchmaking firm Jaquet Droz has short-circuited the 18th and 21st centuries with the Charming Bird. It's a wristwatch that includes a tiny automaton bird inside the crystal, that sings and dances at the press of a button.

• The mechanical watch was introduced at the April 2013 Baselword fair in Basel, Switzerland to commemorate the 275th anniversary of Jaquet Droz, which was founded in 1738 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, who created three of the most advanced humanoid automatons of the 18th century.

• According to Jaquet Droz, the Charming Bird is the first singing bird automaton wristwatch ever made and the fourth step in the company’s revival of 18th century miniature painting, engraving, sculpture, automata technology, and miniaturization. The 47-mm 18-carat white gold case not only includes the painstakingly detailed bird, but also uses a background of a transparent sapphire to reveal the hand-wound, 29-jewel Jaquet Droz 610 movement, which runs for 40 hours at 21,600 vibrations per hour.

• Piston-driven bellows provide the singing, and the bird is finely detailed down to the eyes. It dances, opens and closes its beak, and flaps its wings as it sings. The dial is off-center above the blister containing the bird, and sports blue steel hands. The watch also includes an alligator leather strap with an 18-carat white gold folding clasp.

• The Charming Bird may be charming, but it’s not cheap at an asking price of US$500,000.

Production is limited to only 28 units.

• The video below shows the mechanism of the Charming Bird in action.

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Design and Development of Anti-molestation Jacket – An innovative, commercially viable and best research work done by NIFT students

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This project is done by Nishant Priya and Shahzad Ahmad, B.F. Tech students of NIFT, New Delhi. They had initiated this project with an objective to design and development of an anti-molestation jacket which would provide the wearer safety against unsolicited physical contacts and would ward off the molester by giving a mild electric shock.

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“The project has been successfully completed and college has applied for patent”, as said by Bhavna K. Verma, Center Co-coordinator, BFT, NIFT, New Delhi. Every year NIFT gives awards to the final year students after completion of their graduation project in three categories- Best project, Most Innovative Project and commercially most viable project. The duo received all the awards for the unique and innovative work. Their project work may bring a new product line in the ward robe which will safe girls and women from the attack of a molester.

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As mentioned by Nishant Priya and Shahzad Ahmad, their development will have following characteristics.

1.Jacket will give mild sock which is good enough to induce a molester loss of control.

2.Weight of the jacket is comparable to 12 ounce denim jacket.

3.Wiring circuit is detachable. Jacket can be washed.

4.The manufacturing cost of the jacket is less than INR 1500.00

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4. Slot • It is a dynamic furniture piece. The sofa system finds new value and diverse functionality by blending the sofa, coffee table, and ottoman. It utilizes the common constructional gaps found between the cushions of the sofa by converting them into tracks for which the table can slide in and out. When slotted, the table acts as a console. When freed, it acts as a coffee table. The magnetically retained sofa cushions always find and keep their optimal position either atop the table for an ottoman or below for a coffee table. Slot features traditional construction with textile upholstery and finished bent plywood.

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5.Nesting Cups The Nesting Cups are a set of cups that tessellate together to maximize the amount of used cupboard space while still being pleasing to the hand and eye.

And now, I end my presentation with the following quote,

We are what we think.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts, we make the world.

THANK YOU