Happy is inspired from the drawings of the children. The expressions of the character can be changed by rolling the eyes and mouth. Happy comes with a bag full of food. One the food is inside it grows

in height.

Design Project-1

Brief of the project: To design an unstructured toy which is inspired from the “Expressions“ of the children. The target age group is 5-8 years.

Inspirational sketches by children of age 5-8

Sketches for the concept

Research Process

Gear up for the exciting Vedic Wars...the only thing that can save you is Maths !! Beware of the aliens, they are problematic.You have the power of Vedic Sutras. Deal the danger Mathematically!

Design Project-2

Brief of the project:To design a game on the concept ofVedic Mathematics. The target age group is8-10 years.

Vedic Mathematics is an vancient system of Indian Mathematics which was rediscovered from the Vedas between 1911 and 1918 by Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji. It consists of a list of 16 basic sūtras, or aphorisms The calculation strategies provided by Vedic mathematics are said to be creative and useful.

Understanding the users group og age 8-10

User study for the concept

Research Process

User studyPoor calculation in class Do not consider calculations

as important

Math-phobia

Interested in learning new tricks

Math as fun

Interact amongst themselves to solve problems

Give challenges to each other

Calculator

Mobile

Vedic Mathematics cultivates an interest fornumbers and eliminates the math-phobiapresent in the students.

System Design

Brief of the project: To design the promotional items for the product where children are one of the mail consumers.

The organization studies for system design is a Non Governmental Organization, Gramshree.

The organization endeavours to raise the social status of women from disadvantaged backgrounds and artisans

through income generation activities.

My context was to add a new dimention to toys and games by making them a marketing tool. The inspiration comes from the“Happy meal”concept by McDonalds.

Children are the future customes and have indirect affect on the purchase made by parents. This is a challenging

area to work upon.

Other promotional items made for the NGO. Cool badges and key holders.

All of these products are the characters from

Panchatantra stories.

(Panchatantra is an inter-woven series of colourful fables, many of which involve animals exhibiting animal stereotypes. All the stories have moral values teaching the way of life.)

Research Process

Charts prepared for anysyses and opportunity mapping

Promotional products for the NGO. The main target these days are children as they influence the decision of the parents and also constitute the future customers.

Thecharacter and its story of moral values.

An exchange semester at Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und

Design Halle, GermanyApril-July 2012

Play space Design

The project is “Tempted by the lines..” One has to follow the lines from outside of the playground to a dark room, where the chase continues with a light over the head, make your out of the dark !!

Character DesignJitu Bhai, stationary shop owner

Character design was about studying a person, their physical and emotional attributes and lifestyle. Keywords were derieved and according to that 3D

clay models and sketches were made. The module is an important learning in creating

characters while designing games.

Red hair to show how extra energetic he is, while he jumps around his hair jumps with double speed!

Knows every thing before what we are going to ask for...Miser

Child Psychology

The course aims at understanding the stages of development in a child from birth through adolescence. The course deals not only with how children grow physically, but with their mental, emotional and social

development as well.

Various developmental stage theories are studied in the course, which later are used in the ideation and conceptualization of design projects and other classroom

projects. The theories include:

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive developmentErik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development

Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual DevelopmentKohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

Vygotsky: social constructivism and languageAbraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

and many more such theories are studies and visits were made to the NGOs working for the children with special needs and other schools to understand their methods of

teaching the children.

The game is based on the folk story of a farmer and his daughter who is a mice. He is a worried man looking for a suitable groom. Play experience makes the player

end the farmer’s hunt.

Digital Game

The farmers field from the game level.

The screenshots made manually initially. The characters from the game. Flowchart for the levels.

To redesign an existing game. The game chosen is Uno, card game.

The redesigned game is a learning game for 5-8 year old children to learn English

grammer in an interesting way.

Elements of Game

The redesigned game is also a card game, with more addtional cards unlike in Uno, 1 minute out card changes the game and makes it more exciting. The graphics of the cards are made according to the

moodboard for 5-8 year old.

Keywords taken from Uno:

Card gameChanges game play with situation cardsFor more than one playerExciting

Game maker is a software for making simple games, it used a bit of Java programming for creating actions. This software was

explored as a part of the course.

Digital Game on Game Maker software

Character Appu

The screenshot of the game.

The screenshot of the game.

Naruto, a shinobi from the hidden village of

leaf, Konoha

The course aims at understanding how to represent various material through colors. This helps in initial

representation of ideas with details.

Representation Technique

A product inspired from 10 Rupee coin. Keywords:Emboss,color,shape Representing light and shadow using color

Photography

Ahemdabad at night

Inspiration for the form Giraffe

Nature and Form

Brief of the project: To study a natural form, its attributes and functions.The final outcome is a static and dynamic representation of the

Static form

Inspiration for the form Giraffe

Nature and Form

Static form

The static form of Giraffe made in Rubber wood.

Inspiration for the form Giraffe

Nature and Form

Dynamic formFor the dynamic form of Giraffe a playful form using cam mechanism is made. The neck of Giraffe while moving has a similar movement like the cam mechanism given to the neck of

the dynamic form. This dynamic form is made in Rubber wood.

Depict you cityJabalpur, city of marbles and temples

Culture and Form

Model made using Plaster of Paris& Thermocole

Working with 3D modelling software, Alias.The 3D model is rendered in Keyshot software

Computer Techniques

The concept chair for the model in various views.

The concept model for tablet that moves in air and under water. The tablet has an intractive glass which shows the animals and their sounds that are under water or above in air. The visuals/sound change as the

tablet moves on the rails

Working with Soft Material

Material and Technology

Brief of the project: The project was to learn different stitching techniques and make explorations in term of material and forms.The final output was to study a natural form and represent it using the technique learned. My inspiration was Leamon.

Color palette for leamon

Final product: a cushion cum massager, inspired from the freshness of leamon!

Making leamon fibers in pixelated formLeamony CD cover

Exploring in Leather The brief was to explore braiding techniques in leather and make the products. The final products made were leather jewellery and braided belts.

Open Elective

Jewellery made in leather

Braided leather belts

mannequin wearing braided leather belt and jewellery

Craft DocumentationMarble sculpting of Jabalpur

The purpose of craft documentation is to study a particular craft, artisans, their lifestyle and environment. During the documentation learning the craftsmanship from the artisans was very useful.My craft documentation was over Jabalpuriya marble craft of Madhya Pradesh.

Tools used by artisans, artisan at work, their home, marble products

Internship at Mind edutainment pvt. ltd, a Delhi based company that mainly works on developing higher order thinking skills through games.

The brief given was to re-design an existing game and also design its 2 versions.To design a THOTS lab for the company which will be installed in all the school who are enrolled in Mind edutainment.

Grid Works is a Game by Think fun company. Mind edutainment uses this game for their thinking development. The game has token of different shape and each in three different color. There are clues given, infering from the clues, child has to place tokens in respective places.

Internshipat Mindedutainment Pvt. Ltd.

The game by Thinkfun New thinking variable added to increase the complexity

Desigining the seating for the teachers with

storage inside

The thinking classroom, proposed model to be installed at the schools

Other worksMadhubani style painting

My memory of the castle at Germany

With nature, its divine

Thankyou