Alok Bhandarkar Portfolio

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Alok Bhandarkar Portfolio

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Alok Bhandarkar

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Green ThumbGarden Management and Care System

Green Thumb User Identification

Ellie

Average Garden time:

30 min. per day, with 1- 11/2 on the weekends.

Verbal Complaint:

Plant growth unpredictable.

Aphid infestation after early rainfall.

Dogs getting in veg. patch.

Observed Obstacle:

Underestimated drastically the time required to set

up and maintain garden.

Watering plants indiscriminately.

Care required in the selection of plants and

watering scheduling is not feasible for most people.

Adam

Average Garden time:

30 min. every other day, Manual labor on weekends

Verbal Complaint:

Soaker hose is imprecise.

Plants dying for not discernible reason.

Observed Obstacle:

Two timers are used.

Using legacy equipment because he doesn’t really

want to upgrade everything.

Laying more hoses is costly in money and time.

Wants to build a better system but lacks the time

and money to make one.

Roei

Average Garden time:

30 min. every other day, 1-2 hours on weekends

plus time spent on side projects.

Verbal Complaint:

Timer always resets it self.

Digging lines is difficult.

Observed Obstacle:

Spliced wires to run multiple solenoids on one

timing channel.

Killed plenty of plants by not watering.

Other plants died for no reason.

Bought plants for no reason.

Green Thumb User Scenario

Planning Control Build

Trouble ShootMaintainDecadence

–– Purchases the Starter pack. Has a vague idea of how to use it.

–– Uses NFC to quickly connect to the devices.–– App walks the user through the whole process.

–– Uses the camera to ID the various plants in the yard.

–– User photographs a plant or plant tag in app, saving the care data. To transfer to a Scion device, the user “bumps” their phone to it.

–– Plants with some planning, but impulse and availability drive most decisions

–– Wants to have a nicer garden, without killing too many plants.

–– Plants Root device–– Lays out hose for Scion devices, when applicable. Plants Scion devices.

–– This group of devices assumes that the user is aware of the features of their phone, as well as some home-based technology. If these technologies are absent the product will be severely gimped.

–– Basic watering functions are taken care of.–– pH balance is also monitored.–– When nitrogen sensors come to market, those too.

–– The user will have to make sure to check notifications on phone, or problems could arise

–– Because this user is not as anticipative as the Pre-planner, the device may be in bad shape, enough to be rendered useless. Reuse or recycle program should be in place

–– Alternatively, the user could encounter the app first, use that to inform his purchase of plants. I feel that this scenario exposes the user to a subpar experience.

–– To simplify the process, an augmented reality application could be used, integrating the bluetooth of the Scion device and the camera function. The camera will tell the scion device how far away from the target plants it is.

Green Thumb Application “Works like” Scenarios

Plant information screen just prior to

transmission.

Plant note taking ability, centered

around each plant.

Reading the plant tags like Google

Goggles, but with a plant-centric bent.

Application of facial recognition

technology to plant identification. Uses

EXIF data along with information from

the autofocus to determine distance,

then matches leaves and branch

structures to individual plants.

Green Thumb

A-Z Photo

Green Thumb

Plant Finder

Garden Status

Wrenthen

The fine dining fork, inspired by the senses.Silver plated Bronze

Wrenthen Project Brief and Inspiration

Create a fork to be used in fine dining situationsTask:

Visual Inspiration: Aural Inspiration:Lexical Inspiration:UNSWERVING, adj. - 1. Not veering or turning

aside: “a path . . . so straight and unswerving” (Mary

Wilkins Freeman).

2. Constant; steady: unswerving allegiance;

unswerving devotion.

“unswerving.” The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 12 May. 2008. <Dictionary.

com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unswerving>.

“Vita Nostra”Ennio MorriconeThe Mission Soundtrack

This source of inspiration, gave me a very clear

sense of directionality, for obvious reasons.Taking a cue from the ripples in the sand, an

undulating emotion was extracted.

Ennio Morricone’s experience scoring spaghetti

westerns shines in this track, leaving a sense of

wanderlust and non-directionality in its wake.

Wrenthen Ideation

With India ink on newsprint, I considered the in-

spiration sources and started painting. After several

pages, I considered the results, selecting a few I

thought were representative of the overall feel. One

stroke in particular stood out, and I used it to start

sketching.

Many pages were spent considering the flow of

the fork, several design directions were chosen and

carved out of foam.

Wrenthen Ideation and casting

Several concepts were chosen, then constructed.

Out of those, three concepts were selected and

expanded. After the final decision was made, a

silicone mold was constructed.

Using the lost wax method, we created a ceramic

investment. It was then filled with bronze. The result

was then sanded down and polished

Wrenthen Final Model

The final concept was to have the top surface flow

to the bottom of the tines. Instead of having a lot of

visual weight, the fork floats off the table, ready to

be picked up.

Collaboratron

The student desk meant for sharingAlias model Created for a materials and processes class

Collaboratron Initial concepts

Injection Molding concept Rotomolding concept Mandrel Bent concept

Collaboratron Final Renders

Meet the Collaboratron, the bent tube and laminate

cooperative student desk.

Collaboratron Final Orthogonal Views

This flexible seating solution allows for two students

to work comfortably beside each other, or arrange

the desks in groups of 8 or 12.

Ranga Puja Press

Ads, Invitations and Brochure for a classical indian

dance performace

Ranga Puja PressSave the Date Email

Email Invitation

1/6th Page Ad for a biweekly magazineOdissi Ranga Puja

Mallika Bhandarkarby

Disciple of Guru Jyoti Rout

Cañada College Theater4200 Farm Hill Blvd.Redwood City, CA 94061

jyotikalamandir.org

September 19th, 20093:00PM

I was responsible for all the graphic design, as well

as some of the promotional photography. Any and

all close-up pictures were taken by me

Ranga Puja Press

Mailed Invitation

AppGnome LogoThe ideation and implementation of a logo for a

enterprise mobile application service.

AppGnomeFirst, to develop a apropos logo, one must

understand what the base meaning of the company

name, beginning with the dictionary definition.

Ideation

GNOME, noun: [1]

1. One of a species of legendary creatures, usually resembling small misshapen old men, said to live

in the depths of the earth and guard buried treasure

2. The statue of a gnome, esp in a garden

[1] : “Gnome.” Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. 03 Sep. 2010. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Gnome>.[2] : “Gnome.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 1 September 2010. Web. 1 Sept 2010.

“The chthonic spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding

mines and precious underground treasures....” “J. R. R. Tolkien, in the legendarium surrounding his Elves,

uses “Gnomes” as a name of the Noldor, the most gifted and technologically minded of his elvish races

... Tolkien’s English loan-translation of Quenya Noldor, “those with knowledge”....” [2]

Next, consult Wikipedia to gain additional, however

unreliable, understanding of associations and roots

of the name.

Google Image Search yields images of garden

gnomes (and images of the Travelosity “Roaming

Gnome”)...

... and various images of World of Warcraft Gnomes

AppGnome IdeationStarting with simple sketches, ideas were sketched

out. The client approved the final design direction.

AppGnome Given the choice of many different fonts and color

options....

Color and Font Selection

Final Design with fonts and colors chosen

AppGnome Inc.

Optamotive E-Rex

Styling, design, and implementation of doors and

rocker panels of a three-wheel, all-electric vehicle.

Optamotive Design Brief and IdeationInitially tasked with installing an aftermarket body-

kit (an Aero 3s fiberglass bodykit) on a modified

Campagna T-Rex (a task fraught with a myriad of

problems), the final design brief was to build the

doors, hinges, latches and rocker panels.

Shook Design was brought in to complete back

panels and other body modifications.

Requirements given stated that the doors must

be weather-proof and have latch releases on both

the inside and the outside of the doors. With this

requirement (the body-kit doors did not have pro-

visions for latching), and a quest for aerodynamic

efficency lead to smoother shapes on the doors.

OptamotiveDoor construction began with taking the included

doors and copying them. Taking the new positive,

a new negative was constructed, modified and

epoxyed on the original door. Bearclaw latches and

internal structure were epoxied in place. Doors

and rocker panels were matched up to rear body

constructed by Jim Shook of Shook Design.

Construction

Construction photos taken by David Erdelyi

OptamotivePre-paint, at the end of the build.

Exhibition at a sponsors event, photos taken by David Erdelyi

Fingathing Lamp

Music-inspired Desklamp

Create a desk lamp that is inspired by Fingathing’s “Walk in Space” Task:

Fingathing

“With the homage to the Star Wars cantina band on its cover, its unabashedly kitschy geek-chic concept, and its blend

of twitchy IDM, instrumental hip-hop, and gaudy sound effects, Fingathing and the Big Red Nebula Band seem born for

anime kids, suburban B-boys, and Adult Swim message boarders.” - Brian Howe of Pitchfork.com describing Fingathing

Fingathing

Fingathing

Sketches

Car Sketches

Pictures

Pictures

Pictures