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Deep Stambh Table

05/08/2010 DesignFlute Leave a comment

Designers: Sanjeev panjabi and Sangeeta Merchant @ Spasm Design

The design studio, Spasm Design architects operates from India and East Africa with a non-compromising attitude which says “do not theorize, do not promote a method or solution and do not think the process is any way similar in every project.”

Love this table with South India traditional brass lamps legs!

More to come of this firm’s work on DesignFlute!

* Deep Stambh means tower of light/lamp tower/lit pillar. Deep is a lamp and stambh is pillar in Sanskrit and Hindi.

Deep stambhs have architecture and history of its own. Generally erected or made near a temple with many levels for lamps.

(Still pc-less I am. So working @1/10 capacity by hijacking hubby’s laptop now and then!)

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Always In the Making!

23/07/2010 DesignFlute 1 Comment

A question mark born by DesignFlute

This is the most ancient self of me on this earth!

I look different now, changed. But one thing is constant – question. This is a question mark.

Who am i? I question myself constantly.

I wonder at the statement I always make in front of my kids and partner ‘don’t question me!’

Am I getting philosophical or just a little quirky?

At the moment I am motherboard-less!

But so what? Where is design? Hey! these are my designs, my digital art (first steps), DesignFlute art!

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Very Musical Shelf

21/07/2010 DesignFlute Leave a comment

Designer: Derrek Clarke+Sameer Narula+Lloyd W Huber@ Indigo

Indigo (Design & Engineering Associates) is an architectural firm based in Gurgaon, Haryana.

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The Rupee Symbol Designer

15/07/2010 DesignFlute 4 Comments

The Rupee Symbol Designer And His Green Children

Calligraphy by D Udaya Kumar

Do I like the Rupee Symbol? It is clean and simple. It feels like I already know the symbol. It seems yes it is the design! There could not have been any other design depicting rupee. (see my post)

I don’t think I have instantly fallen in love with the design but it is already etched in memory and I have started relating to it!

This is the rupee symbol designer’s greatest achievement and I was curious to know more about him. The first thing which caught my eye on his IDC website was his children – his green children (the image below) and I knew I had to do this post.

D Udaya Kumar, the rupee symbol designer is an architect, designer, typographer. Here is a glimpse of his typography, photography, paintings and posters.

Udaya Kumar (right) with a friend planting Bael tree

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Rupee Symbol Winner Is…

15/07/2010 DesignFlute 5 Comments

Rupee Symbol by D. Udaya Kumar

The Indian rupee gets its own unique symbol today .

The winner D Udaya Kumar‘s symbol is formed by the merger of the Devanagari ‘Ra’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ without the stem.

The media news says the symbol is based on the Tricolour and arithmetic equivalence. The white space between the two horizontal lines gives the impression of the national flag with the Ashok Chakra, the two bold parallel lines stand for ‘equals to’, representing balance in the economy, both within and with other economies of the world.

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Fold, Hide, Pull

14/07/2010 DesignFlute 6 Comments

Designer: Ochre

This extremely functional furniture design is by Bengaluru based architects Ochre.

Pull, fold, hide, turn and tuck away in its niche when not needed. What a space saving design!

It can be your dining table, your breakfast bench or your work space.

I was going to post about some amazing architectural work done by Ochre architects but I loved this simple space saving design so much that I am posting it first.

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