KAHOLIE A. REVII N D U S T R I A L A R T S A N D D E S I G N P R A C T I C E S

A BIT ABOUT ME

I am an Industrial and Product designer with a professional Bachelors in Design (B. Des.) degree in Industrial Arts & Design Practices from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, one of India’s leading design schools.

I have undertaken a year of client-facing design assignments as part of my final year at Srishti. My thesis pro-ject involved the redesign of an existing product line of solar PV streetlights for SEL¬CO Foundation, signifi-cantly reducing life cycle costs and embodied energy, improving functional efficiency and meeting BIS lighting standards. An earlier consumer product design assignment for Tupperware involved the design of cream sepa-ration and milk storage containers in industrial plastic based on detailed research on Indian kitchen practices.

My main body of internship and student work spans industrial, product and furniture design; with a strong emphasis on design research and analysis, communication design and product photography; documentation and writing; software use and sound design. I have a very deep personal interest in biomimicry and innovative design.

Overtime, I have developed functional skills in working with metal, industrial plastics, glass, acrylic, fibreglass, wood, bamboo and other composites; textiles and fabric; paper and paper mache, clay and terra cotta in indus-trial and SME units; artisan and college workshops and at the KAARU and Prakrit design studios.

I have good social and organisational skills, having helped manage a number of design processes. I have a well-rounded set of artistic skills ranging from art, photography and sound design to music and theatre. I am skilled in oral and written communication, creative writing and ideation, I read alot of books and have travelled in India, Europe, North and South America and Africa.

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SELCO: Innovative LED Streetlights (2016) 1Tupperware Brands: Industrial design (2015) 5Srishti: Recycled Aluminium & Laser Etching (2016) 7Srishti: Sand casting (2014) 8SELCO: Slip casting Terracotta (2016) 9Srishti: Terracotta (2016) 10Prakrit: Furniture (2015) 11Srishti: Simple Furniture (2014) 13Srishti: Paper Furniture (2014) 14KAARU: Furniture (2013) 15Prakrit: Japanese Garden (2015) 16Srishti: Biophillia (2014) 18Srishti: Technical drawing (2012-14) 20Photography (2014-2016) 22

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The Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO) a for-profit social enterprise based in Bangalore has played a key role in improving living standards of poor households in rural India especially in Karnata-ka through its solar energy based innovation. SELCO Foundation envisions a socially sustainable soci-ety and seeks to create avenues for asset building; enhancement in quality of life and wealth creation that will uplift deprived sections of society through sustainable development solutions.My final B. Des. thesis project was to improve SELCO’s current range of PV-powered LED streetlights.

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SELCO: Innovative LED Streetlights (2016)

The Life cycle cost of SELCO PV LED streetlights is 2.6 times their initial cost, primarily because of the high cost and limited life of the batteries and elec-tronics. Further investment in increasing the elec-tronics life could deliver considerable savings.Improvements in the design of SELCO poles and fixtures could help reduce life cycle costs.

The life cycle cost ratios of the designed options are roughly the same as they are dominated by the battery, electronics and PV panel costs and will not be impacted by design.

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The life cycle cost (over 25 years) of current SELCO street lights is 2.6 times the initial cost, primarily be-cause of the limited life of the batteries and the high cost of the electronics.

A detailed analysis of the SELCO PV streetlights found that they could be improved to meet Indian standards by altering the pole height, redesigning the luminaire to improve material use and weight, improving the pole and fixture design and the electronics service life.

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A special timer circuit was designed to switch off part of the LED’s during the night hours when the need for the high intensity lighting is low. This also increased the LED service life by alternating LED rows. This innovation helped to increasing LED luminaire life from 11-12 years to 15-16 years. Overall a 20 % reduction in initial costs was enabled through innovative design.

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Tupperware Brands: Industrial design (2015)

Tupperware is a global consumer goods brand with a world-class reputation for its industrial design. I worked on a Tupperware funded industrial design project called “Everything Milk” . The brief was to design products that could improve the quality of milk use and storage in Indian households that use milk on a daily basis. My modular lid designs for milk storage vessels reduced the cooling time for hot milk, reduce the risk of spoiling and helped store boiled milk faster and with greater ease.

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Tupperware Brands: Industrial Design (2015)

Tupperware gave me a holistic understanding of advanced industrial design processes from ex-tensive consumer research, ideation, client in-teraction, travel to state-of-the-art production facilities, prototyping and testing, assembly and packaging.

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Srishti: Recycled Aluminium & Laser Etching (2016)

This material exploration project used recycled aluminium to make long-life and highly aes-thetic LED lamps. Laser etching on acrylic sheet helps combine traditional craft with the precision of advanced industrial materials and manufac-turing processes.

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A brass wall-mounted mirror frame was sand cast and sandpapered to enable the use of a geomet-ric design with metal sand casting with an aes-thetic and functional appearance.

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SELCO’s brief for LED streetlights included minimising embodied energy by redesigning solar street-lights by substituting metal and other non-biodegradable products with by using craft-based ma-terial like terracotta. This slip casting was enabled using Plaster of Paris moulds to create different shapes, styles and thicknesses. The experiment was a failure as the life cycle cost of the terracotta lights was much higher than that of aluminium casting, because of breakages and burn-out of LEDs due to overheating.

SELCO: Slip casting Terracotta (2016)

Terracotta street light: slip-casting process

Terracotta street light: charge regulator

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I learnt the basics of terracotta production and using a potter’s wheel at Narayanapuram, a potter’s village in Bangalore.

Srishti: Terracotta (2016)

Terracotta products are not only aesthetic, but provide employment to traditional artisans and con-sume less energy and hence contribute less to global warming than conventional industrial products.

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Prakrit: Furniture (2015)

My second internship in Auroville was with the well-known Danish designer and mathematician Torkil Dantzer at Prakrit studio. I worked through the summer of 2015, designing and making furniture for liv-ing and dining rooms and the bedroom in a factory that employed 20 workers.

The primary material that we used was seasoned ‘sustainable’ timber that was from trees that were up-rooted during a cyclone that hit Auroville.

Samplesrakrit

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Prakrit: Furniture (2015)

The Auroville experience taught me to respect and understand various types of wood in their simplest and purest form, drawing out their natural patterns, texture and grain.

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This easy chair is big enough to seat two people, who can enjoy their leisure time together. The arms and incline of the two-seater make it easy to slip to the back and relax.

Simplicity of execution as well as aesthetics is the hall-mark of this design that uses a standard steel sections, board, foam and textiles to enable low-cost design.

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This paper furniture explored the use of used newsprint as a substitute for wood sections using close to 200 sheets of recycled newspaper to make up standard sections. Jointing was undertaken without glue.Each of th paper roll consist of 180 - 200 sheets of recycled newspaper.

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KAARU: Furniture (2013)

My first Srishti internship, in the summer of 2013 was in KAARU with one of India’s leading crafts-based designers, Sanjib Chatterjee This experience gave me a sense of the range of options that product and industrial designers can explore from furniture, industrial products to interior and spatial design.

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Prakrit: Japanese Garden (2015)

I helped design and execute a Japanese sand gar-den for Upasana community in Auroville. It was a new experience to make a Zen-like garden of rock and sand and rock, with no plants in it.

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A wooden rake is used to draw waves and calming patterns on the sand like a Zen garden. This is a soothing and important meditative prac-tice in Japan.

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Srishti: Biophillia (2014)

This client wall installation draws its inspiration from nature’s meanders: how water in nature creates flow, organic textures and patterns along with cool-er environments.

The ornamental wall is a combination of organic shapes such as boulders and running channels of water that create a serene composition.

The designed textures mimic the flow of the water like a river bed, across a vertical wall.

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The Biophillia installation was designed in 11 x 16 ft. modules that could be installed in different ways, depending on the nature of recipient space. The detail shows small cavities in the larger surfaces that slow the flow of water, keeping it close to the inner surface

Srishti: Biophillia (2014)Why Is It A Modular Structure?The same unit can be installed in diffrent ways.

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Learning how to produce isometric as well as orthographic drawings can be challenging in the begin-ning. Yet, so much depends on the capability to use free hand sketching that can then be translated into digital forms using computer software.

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Photography (2014-2016)

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