Two glasses are connected in such a fashion through a rotating mechanism that if you rotate one, other will move too and each time the table will have a new design.
These geometrical composition extend functionality and add aesthetics to space.
This motion table is designed by Indian (globe trotting) designer Abhinav Dapke.
If nature starts manufacturing products what kind of goods she would line out.
She would see everything with green eyes?
When the sun runs away she would light up this lamp!
Provide you with this shopping cart.
It might be raining, it might be hot so; says she, take care!
All the spoilers should be scared away!
And she would not forget to nurture herself!
(images courtesy Go Green nursery pvt ltd’s booklet.)
The students of Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Mumbai has developed these two very user friendly sample products mainly for special people.
Sound album-SvAna for visually challenged
Jellow-a happiness device for cerebral palsy affected child
a communication gadget
SvAna is a hand-held device by which the visually challenged can record, organize, edit and share memories. It has digital recording, bluetooth and memory card.
SvAna is Sanskrit for sonorous sound.
This product is developed by student’s team of Rashmin Raj, Ravi Krishna and Visvanath K.
Jellow facilitates nonverbal interaction on the basis of six basic emotions. The form of the jellow has soft and cuddly feel that elicits emotional responses based on touch.
Jellow is an attempt to bridge the gap in communication between those affected by cerebral palsy and those not.
The basis of the product is an Emotional Language Protocol (elp).
Students core team of Anchal Kumar, Samraat Sardesai, Peter Joseph, Antara Hazarika and Preeti Thakkar has worked diligently to develop this product.
(Edit: The Jellow is still in conceptual form and in a year’s time it will be produced.)
Simplest peacock-mor (in Hindi mor means peacock)
It is a remote part of India, a small village where this little girl lives. She wakes up early and helps her mother in daily chores. By the time she reaches school she is physically tired quite a bit. But her eyes always glisten as she wants to explore every little-big thing on this earth and beyond.
Teacher’s pet she is invited to take over the class for a while. Her heart never refusing to stop jumping yet with outward calm she draws this mor (peacock), thinks teacher is going to give her very good today. She slowly begins to tell a story…
There was a kingdom with a huge garden. A pretty rajkumari (princess) lived there with her mor (peacock) friends. She was very good in studies and wanted to conquer the world with her knowledge. She wanted to study more and more and more than her parents or people of her side of the world would like to allow………
designflute thinks this drawing is mother of all peacock drawings.
(image courtesy ‘guess what I am doing!’ book published by National Book trust, India)
When we stored water that too we did in style. Style is incorrect. Splendour or magnificence is the right word for it.
We stored water in stepwells. Stepwells (bawdi or baoli or vav) are in essence wells in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps.
Stepwells are most certainly one of India’s most unique, but little-known, contributions to architecture.
Stepwells were most common in western India, especially in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
stepwell- Adalaj, Gujarat
stepwell-Adalaj-Gujarat
Stepwells were built deep into the earth about 5 to6 storeys in height. These wells were designed to bring people & god and water & life together. These wells meant to entice everyone to leave their abode for a cool drink of water and retreat.These were for dependable, year-round groundwater.
Stepwell-Bundi, Rajasthan
Stepwell carvings
stepwell-Pushkarni,Vijayanagara-Karnataka
Rani ki vav, Patan, Gujarat
The vavs or baolis (stepwells) consisted of two parts, a vertical shaft from which water was drawn and the surrounding it were the inclined subterranean passageways, chambers and steps, which provided access to the well. The galleries and chambers surrounding these wells were carved generously, which became cool retreats during summers.
Walls of stepwells were lined with blocks of stone, without mortar, and created stairs leading up to the water.
While appreciating the carvings let us not forget the science and engineering skills behind these. So many pillars and lintels are made to support the five or seven storeys and that too everything under the surface of the earth.
Stepwells have also withstood the earthquakes in the range of 7.6 on the Richter scale – the large flat stones joined superbly are hard to move.
These were rainwater harvesting methods of that period.
(An immensely practical idea, the stepwell lost out with the advent of British Raj, who were extremely unhappy with the quality of hygiene that existed in these wells, they installed pipes and pumps.)
Stepwell-Imambara and Adalaj
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0 pollution
0 water effluence
0 solid waste and
0 gas emission
Claims Mumbai based Ecolinkindia (Deluxe Recycling-India-pvt ltd).
Out of recyclable tetra packages they make ecoboards and Products.
All products are self recyclable.
So it comes to a full circle. ( 0+0+0+0= o)
