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Redesign of a Moped Fascia (Group Project); at the Transportation Design workshop conducted by Prof. Nicola Crea Transportation Design of Politecnico Di Milano, Bovisa, Milano Italy. Client Company: Dado Motors, Italy. The Project brief was to redesign the Fascia of their existing Moped Model. Works were carried out on a real moped supplied by the client company. Brainstorming and working hard as a team, we came up with design solution; a detachable trolley bag in front of the moped as per the product placement and market needs.



Living Kitchen: Group project done at the ‘Design driven innovation in furniture sector’ workshop by Prof. Francesco Zurlo. Furniture Design Client Company: VALCUCCINE, Italy. Project brief was to design a kitchen living space with Indian values applied and integrated into an Italian context. The process involved understanding Italian Consumers and their lifestyle and competitor companies. Each student team acted like a design firm with their own logo and ideology. Our design solution was a Flexible Kitchen called “Accordion” which dynamically changed the living space around the furniture with it’s bellow like joints and movable end tables.



eJOUX: an electronic jewellery - a bluetooth display device into which we can download our jewellery designs! An innovative concept I proposed at the end of the Jewellery design workshop conducted by Prof. Alba Cappellieri at Politecnico di Milano, Bovisa, Milano Italy.



Group Project executed as part of the Microsoft Design Expo 2007 around the theme “Health and wellness” to showcase Microsoft Design Expo’07, Seattle USA exceptional design thinking about the future of computing and interactions. ‘Smokedote’ - a gaming environment to stimulate BPO employees mentally, physically and to help them interact with others better and to avoid smoking during their break times. Process involved Brainstorming, User interactions, mock up models, iterations and finally the Prototype. This Project was presented at the MSR Design expo 2007 held in the Microsoft Campus, Seattle, Washington, USA.



Malayalam Language font design specifically for On-Screen Reading. Glyphs were designed and Hand-hinted for legibility on computer screens and low resolution displays. This Project is the outcome of an inner urge that formed as a result of my intense web usage; while contributing to Malayalam Wikipedia, reading Malayalam news papers on-screen and writing Malayalam Blogs.



1. Type design: English typeface designed in a workshop in Type design by Prof. Mahendra Patel
2. Various Calligraphic Explorations
3. Expressive Typography: Existing typefaces chosen and rearranged to create powerful expressions.



This project explored the digital medium to come up with a comprehensive design solution to generate digital-magazines for the new era. The project started with understanding magazines and its characteristics with which it becomes a magazine. A digital magazine was designed to showcase animations by students from all over the world which can be published over the internet in the name www.motionova.com. Animation was chosen as a design focus since it deals with a lot of dynamic content which can actually make use of the digital technology and can never fit into a static medium like print. As a magazine for the whole world to experience, a non textual - language independent interface was experimented. Moreover, a new visual expression was developed in which the entire screen becomes a dynamic space which transforms itself to the various elements.



Redesign of an 8th standard School Textbook. Communication Design Emphasis on Content Structuring, Information design, Information graphics and Communication Theories. The chapter was redesigned completely including rewriting the content and creating new illustrations and infographics.
1. Existing Pages 2. Redesigned Pages



1. Information Design: Design of a center Spread about Cricket coach Bob Woolmer’s death. Information Design / Content Structuring The assignment included collecting news data, assigning hierarchy, creating page layouts, infographics and the final output.

2. Content structuring: Redesigning the structure of a news. This work was about reading and rearranging a jumbled up news text so that it conveys the message in the best way possible for the reader to grasp the news. Assignment focussed on communication design; Hierarchy of importance, redundancy, interest factor etc.



Yearbook designed to showcase the works of students of IDC, IIT Bombay. This book was published as a part of the Design Degree Show 2008, Themed Degree 44 Apart from the design of the book, the responsibility included Coordination of the Publication department. I would like to thank all the students who worked in the Publication Team.



College Magazine designed for Govt. Engineering College Thrissur, 2006
A great experience for me in terms of Design including Layout, Graphics, Typography, Photography, Illustrations etc.



1. Brochure designed for Technofest,05 Brochure Design An interesting booklet to feature the different events and information.

2. Brochure for Energy Systems Department, IIT Bombay. Brochure designed to be sent along with the JEE booklet to Announce the New Courses offered by the institute. This design was successful in grabbing the attention of the JEE applicants.



A family of Alien Characters created with Banana-Characteristics. Done as a part of academic assignment.
Characters were drawn and rendered in Adobe Flash using Wacom Graphic tablet.



1. Cover Design for a ‘DC books’ publication “Kozhutha Kaalakkutty” - a collection of plays by TM. Abraham
2. Cover design for a Malayalam Literature magazine named “Kaleidoscope”
3. Cover design for the Urban Design study report done by the 2001-06 batch of School of Architecture, Thrissur.



1. Logo designed for the Tenth Techfest of IIT Bombay in 2007.
2. Logo design for MoodIndigo 2007 of IIT Bombay.
3. Logo for TRICKS, the Robotic Challenge by The Robotic Institute, Mumbai.
4. Logo for School of Architecture, Thrissur.
5. Mast head for a Leading Malayalam Health Magazine.



1. Poster designed for Techfest 2007, IIT Bombay.
2. Posters designed for a Music Band in Cochin called “Turns Red”.
3. Poster designed for Mood Indigo 2006, IIT Bombay. (Mascot sketch by Varun Deori) 



1. Backdrop design for a panel debate as a part of Techfest’07 aired in CNBC TV18, India.
The debate was about IITians going abroad for work and the Indian brain drain.

2. Backdrop designed for the Robowars as a part of the Techfest’07 IIT Bombay.



A few from the various greeting cards designed for various occasions.
All of them were designed for personal use; to be gifted to my friends.



A few from the various Designs done for T-Shirt Graphics.
It was quite interesting to work within the technical constraints of a low cost T-shirt printing,
like the number of colors, minimum line thickness, printing hierarchy of colors etc.



Works done during my Bachelors Degree in Architecture. Architectural Design
1. International Airport, Bangalore; Fifth year thesis Project. The form of the building was evolved such as it expresses the dynamic character of a transit station.
2. Model of the Urban Design project, “Revitalization of Thrissur town -urban core”
3. Model of Five star hotel and management institute project.



1. Landscape design and hand renderings.
2. Three dimensional Hand-Renderings of a church.

As a part of my architectural curriculum, I had always been into presentations and illustrations a lot.
Works Presented here are some of them; done in water color, pencil, pen on paper.



1. Stage backdrop design for Technofest’05. Event Ambience

2. Campus decoration with a cheaper lighting device designed and constructed with sticks and waste paper.
Designing these was a part of my duty as the “Stage and Campus design committee Convenor”

3. Entrance gate designed for a Technical Expo organized for the public and students by
the Department of Civil Engineering in the Urban Core of Thrissur.
The cost effective yet colorful design was able to pull much more crowd than expected.



School Campus beautification project: The detachable wall mounts were designed such that it bears two canvas boards, one with quotable quotes from internationally renowned architects and the other with and illustration for it. The material selection was such that it is cost effective and easy to be constructed by the student volunteers. Cora sheets, wooden reapers and painted PVC pipes were used for construction.



A toy for kids to play around with their inherent character of curiosity!
It’s a ball-like toy which can be opened again and again, endlessly, each time to reveal a new color and texture until the first layer is repeated.



Websites designed and developed (some) for various institutions and for myself.
The work out put varies from photoshop layout images to flash prototypes to HTML websites.



Project done during the Emotional Design module of the Interaction design workshop at IDC. Our design was targeted at elderly people who would like to communicate and interact with their loved ones and among each other. Our design output was a communication device which caters to the users’ emotional needs at all the three (visceral, behavioural and reflective) levels.



This 5min shortfilm called “It’s a Lottery” was the product of a vacation play when me and some of my friends decided to make a movie for fun. A great experience in terms of leading a one man army, doing direction, camera, editing, dubbing etc. This film tells the story of a guy who loses his lottery ticket, which had won the first prize.



This 2.13min short film called “Pazh (waste)” expresses the daily routine of a common college boy, by capturing the feet of different people in a sequence of activities. This film was awarded the third prize in the “Director’s Special” - state wide shortfilm contest conducted by the Department of Chemical Engineering. GEC Thrissur.



1min 48sec short. Video and Rotoscopic animation combined.
Tells the story of a young boy who’s mind starts wandering all around in a dream world when he is compelled to read boring academics.



The idea of this class assignment was to create frames as if they are the scenes from a movie and which explain the story visually.
Done as a part of the Film and Video Class.



As a hobby and as part of my curriculum, I had always been into sketching. I think this gives us a deeper realization of the people and culture in detail.
I really enjoyed waiting at the bus stop for long and those long train journeys to my native place which brought me close to the people and culture and kept me occupied.



I had always been interested in Fine Arts, be it Sculpturing, Painting, Drawing or anything else. Shown here are some of my works done at various times including some of the prize winning entries at some state level competitions.



Kid with an enchanting smile at ‘Nathadwara’,
Rajasthan Old man near ‘Kanjurmarg’ Railway station, Mumbai.
My friend and photographer Arko with some street kids in Mumbai.



Studio Flash-Photography,. Objects.
Studio Flash-Photography, Portrait.



My Grandmother’s elder sister at her own garden, Kerala.



One among the interesting faces I found on the streets of Milano, Italy.
Two happy faces outside the GUCCI fashion show- Milano, Italy.



My friend Divya inside an old building’s courtyard in Recanati, Italy.
Soldiers during a drill outside the Arc de Triomphe -Paris, France.



Three friends at Gorai Beach, Mumbai.
The serene beauty of out great nation - Gorai Beach, Mumbai.



Lella and Massimo Vignelli after going through my portfolio: