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Portfolio for admissions to Master in Design programme. Landscape calendar format with 8 leaves and spine inspired from personal artwork,

The Imagine Tree – Know where you are from, but always try to reach ever higher

Self Moulded PVC Pipe finished in Silver Acrylic and decorative paper

ImagIne Tree

Original Artwork

Details of Spine

Pages and Wrapped Up

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Ideation Sketches

Morphology matrix

Photocopying outlet with fan on high speed

PaPerweIghT

Paper management device for photocopying outlets on campus. Uses the weight of the document to hold it down. Unobtrusive and simple device that is cheap and simple to use.

Inspired by fingers separating sheets

Finished in Styrene

Guide: Prof. P Yammiyavar

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Initial sketches to illustrate the idea

Rear view, Female and Male holds

Obtaining handprints using dough

Developed to extend the difference in bicycle structures all the way to the grips, Dough used to obtain sample handprints from which universal contours were approximated.

Rendered in copper to ease surface analysis

Guide: Prof. D Chakrabarti

gender SPecIfIc handleS

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Skeleton of the Logo

Potential colour combinations

Various iterations considered

Logo designed from two initials of our own names. Glyphs of the Arabic letters for ‘M‘ and ‘H’ used to reflect the arabic name.

Proportions set with use of Golden Ratio.

Guide: Prof. U Barua

logo

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Seal, printed on cap; Promos

Logo evolution

Kiosk and BottleVisual Identity workshop for hypothetical promotion of Indian Spices

Worked as part of a team developing a product for the luxury sector. Name, logo and ‘Seal of Quality’ designed for Indian Spices to be blended with other cuisines

Benchmarked against perfumes and cosmetics for the same market segment

Conducted by Prof. Iko Avital

SPIralIS

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Baked tiles laid in formation

Mood board

Close up, Cutting using templatesFountain concept developed under the theme of ‘Wet Ceramic’ in a workshop at DoD, where the spout of water chases people near the installation.

Tile pattern designed and fabricated as part of a team of three.

Conducted by Prof. Goutam Das (Shantiniketan)

ceramIcS

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Modelling in Plastacine

Snails as inspiration

Design developmentConcept designed to take care of tangled earphones. Inspired from a snail, hence the name.

Spiral form is touchy-feely and covex to sit in the hollow of the hand

Modelled in Plastacine

eScargoT

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Sketches

Using templates for accuracy

Finished first setForm Studies using Chess Pieces as subjects. First set developed to convey the movement of individual pieces while maintaining a familial resmeblance

Second set to be developed to bring out the character of the pieces

Modelled in Plaster

Guide: Prof. Avinash Shende

ShaTranj

Form development from plaster

maTerIalS worked wITh

Dough handle Plastacine 1:1 model Clay Tiles from templates Bamboo Monitor Frame

Polystyrene Gift Box

Paper Archemedian Solid

Hand Molded PVC pipe

SkeTcheS

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Shot with Nikon D3000 and Olympus FE-320

Location: Guwahati and Dubai

PhoTograPhy

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PhoTograPhy

Shot with Nikon D3000 and Olympus FE-320

Location: Abu Dhabi and Dubai

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PhoTograPhy

Shot with Nikon D3000

Location: Guwahati and Dubai

Mufaddal Shabbir HuseinDoD, IIT Guwahati