Music is the medium through which one can express his thoughts and feelings. It is the sum total of the experiences and emotions that are not bound by time, community, or rationality. It is the universal language of the pious souls of all times and places.The three fold arts of music, namely vocal music, instrumental music, and dance, have varied from time to time and space to space according to the aesthetic taste and likings of the people.

Auroville Energy Products (AEP) was founded in 1996 by Carsten Michelsen.It specialises in solar energy products, such as solar lamps, solar charge controllers, and inverters, to provide a complete solution for solar home systems, wind energy systems (design, supply, and election of wind-diesel hybrid systems), as well as micro-hydro systems. The product development concentrates particularly on the problem of energy storage in autonomous electricity supply systems. The goal is to increase efficiency and reliability and lower costs through intelligent production, storage, and consumption of energy.

Music is the medium through which one can express his thoughts and feelings. It is the sum total of the experiences and emotions that are not bound by time, community, or rationality. It is the universal language of the pious souls of all times and places. The threefold arts of music, namely vocal music, instrumental music, and dance, have varied from time to time and space to space according to the aesthetic tastes and likings of the people.

All true arts are expressive, but they are diverse. Music is, without contradiction, the most penetrating, profound, and intimate art. There is a marvellous relationship between sound and the soul, both physically and morally. It feels like the soul is an echo where sound takes on new power. Music pays for the immense power that has been given to it; it awakens the sentiment of the infinite because it is vague, obscure, and indefinite in its effects. It is insufficient merely to listen to music in terms of the separate moments in which it exists. One must be able to relate what one hears at any given moment to what has just happened before and what is about to come afterward.

Luggage design as an industrial project with ‘VIP luggage’ is a project chosen to reconstruct all design learning that happened at IDC and recollect it through direct implementation in industry. This is a six-month project that started in June 2007.

The Indian toy industry is facing a very great challenge from the flood of cheap and high-tech toys in the Indian market from Chinese manufacturers. Along with these, there are multinationals like ‘Funskool’ and ‘Barbie’, etc., who can afford to market their products to woo growing child consumers. There is a sudden awareness in the Indian toy industry to take advantage of ‘design strategies’ to beat these competitions.

To arrive at these design strategies, the Indian children in all their variety have to be studied and insights gathered, with respect not only to what kind of toys or games suit their needs but also as to what are the new emerging markets and what are their potentials. But dealing with children can be a real challenge, especially with the lack of comprehensive data available about Indian children’s choices and behaviors. Add to this the diversity of the markets, right from the rural to the metropolitan, and the relative socio-economic cultures the children belong to, and what we get is a very complex situation with no point of reference to start from. Thus, the idea of a broad, comprehensive study across the socio-economic spectrum was formulated as a response to the above-mentioned needs.

The need of the industry presently is to think about new ventures of development for the women segment of society. This is taken as the aim of the project: to analyse the possibilities of exploration. With engineering being the prime focus of the industry, very few form variants are made, which in today’s context needs emphasis since the final decision of buying a vehicle depends more on the visceral effects than on functional factors. Taking the visceral qualities of the vehicle alone as the main challenge, the existing trend in vehicles is studied. The styling part of the vehicle is taken for form exploration, for which a vehicle that is more common and used by various age groups in the ladies segment is searched for styling. The choice of vehicle is narrowed down to the TVS Scooty, which is chosen for its low power, less weight, and simpler features.

In many cultures, the eyes are said to be a window to the mind or even to the human soul. In this project, no such claims would be made, but an attempt is made to find the relationship between the mental image in a designer's mind and his eye movements. The role of visualisation and mental imagery during the early creative phase in design problem solving has already been established in previous papers (U. A. Athavankar, Singh A., Hiremath M). However, in these experiments, the subjects were blindfolded and asked to solve the design problem. They were restricted from sketching their ideas and, hence, had to rely on their mental imagery to develop ideas. The entire process appeared as if the designer was conceiving a shape in the mind's eye and kept modifying and shaping it throughout. In an experiment done on an industrial designer (U. A. Athavankar, 1997), where he had to design a casserole, it was observed that the subject used a large number of gestures to shape the object. This study was carried out to understand the role of gestures in imagery and in modelling 3D shapes using a hypothetical intelligent system.

Ticket Design is a multidisciplinary design group offering a cohesive and seamless approach to product design and development, with industrial design as the core offering. It is a privately held firm based in Pune, founded by graduates from the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad in 2000. Their services include: product design, application development, design adaptations to match market feedback, system design, applied ergonomics and interface design, product accessories, retail display packaging, technical illustrations, POP packages, and product graphics.

The Indian Railways have a fairly large number of AC chaircar coaches plying on many inter-city routes all over India, particularly in the northern and western sectors. Most of these journeys are short-term, ranging from 3 hours (Mumbai-SSurat Shatabdi route) to a maximum 9 hours (Mumbai-Goa Jan Shatabdi route). The Indian Railways faces stiff competition from Budget Airlines with discounted APEX airfares, faster time travel, and added comfort and service. Most travelling business professionals prefer air travel for the very reason that more comfortable and time-saving journeys are viable on most flights connecting important destinations. Hence, the need to enrich the experience of travelling by the AC Chair Car was identified and developed by the design team.

The Indian Railways have a fairly large number of AC chaircar coaches plying on many inter-city routes all over India, particularly in the northern and western sectors. Most of these journeys are short-term, ranging from 3 hours (Mumbai-SSurat Shatabdi route) to a maximum 9 hours (Mumbai-Goa Jan Shatabdi route). The Indian Railways faces stiff competition from Budget Airlines with discounted APEX airfares, faster time travel, and added comfort and service. Most travelling business professionals prefer air travel for the very reason that more comfortable and time-saving journeys are viable on most flights connecting important destinations. Hence, the need to enrich the experience of travelling by the AC Chair Car was identified and developed by the design team.

The project aims at designing a two-wheeler that addresses the duty requirements of traffic police and also enhances the identity of the department and the person using it. During my visit to the southern region of Mumbai, as a causal observation, I noted that the two-wheelers used by the traffic police department lacked the functional and identity requirements. This observation and my interest in two-wheelers led me to take up this as a final design project. The Mumbai metropolitan region is one of the largest and fastest-growing regions in India. The vehicular traffic in this city has been constantly rising. This leads to the need for a better traffic control system. Mumbai’s concern regarding traffic control dates back to 1924, when the traffic department was created by the administration. From then on, the department has been in constant effort to improve the efficiency of our electronic equipment and vehicles.

The project is a record of my personal journey. Questions, answers, more questions... My beliefs and my worldview... Never before have they taken such a beating as they have in the past year. Krishnamurti reconfirmed some of my beliefs and introduced me to a more objective way of looking at things, which is light years away from my fanciful subjective way of thinking, where I am the centre of my universe and the entire cosmos revolves around me. Happiness, pleasure, fear, social Darwinism, problem-solving, transformation, and the meaning of life are the few topics that have been discussed in my own distinctive subjective manner.

This project aims at the micro-traders involved in the sale of agricultural produce in rural areas and proposes a solution based on a mobile phone platform that would assist them in their trading activities. The focus is on a group of people acting as aggregators called Hundekaris who aggregate the produce from different farmers and facilitate the selling of the produce in market yards through agents called Adatyas. However, this is only one of the many ways in which agricultural produce is sold. This project proposes a robust process that may be applied in other scenarios as well, and it is also possible to extend this concept to other microtrading operations after suitable customisation. This project suggests two solutions: first, an application that can run on existing mobile phone platforms, and second, a different hardware specifically designed for micro-trading operations.

This project looks at children and tries to understand the difficulties faced by children in understanding the concept of area. Children find it rather difficult to appreciate the concept of area and its implications in real life, even after two years of being introduced to the concept. Children who are exposed to all kinds of virtual stimulations through television, the Internet, and computer games seem to be disconnected from the real world. Their knowledge base is a collection of facts dished out by these sources. These children find school and subjects like mathematics and science insipid and inconsequential due to the absence of powerful stimuli. The project aims to wean children away from their virtual world, introduce them to the real world, and make it of immediate consequence to them by making it a hands-on activity with elements of fun and playfulness.

This paper explores the way designers use body movements to support mental imagery while solving design problems. Given the task of designing a handout place for students on campus, this paper will identify and compare the unique strategies by which the architect developed the design using his body as a crutch to take visuo-spatial decisions when blindfolded and prevent them from using their usual thinking tools like sketching. This experiment is an attempt to reveal the invention of design issues and requirements using body movements, which have relevance to mental imagery.

The need for arrives at various kinds of scenarios. In different scenarios, the patient is transferred from one surface to the stretcher or to the hospital bed, and vice versa. The initial transfer of patients, which is done by lifting, causes a lot of injury to the patient. In the case of a spinal injury, utter care should be taken to transfer the patient; otherwise, it may damage the spinal cord, which might become a lifetime injury. Inside the hospital, patients have to be transferred laterally to various department beds for constant monitoring and checkups. So there must be some transfer of aids for the ease and safety of the patient.

There is a lot of demand for CNG fuel. This project aims at designing a CNG fuel dispenser for improved user convenience. The current CNG dispenser will be taken as a reference, and a user study will be conducted. The current CNG dispenser has to be designed with a new interface. So far, no attention in this direction has been given to the CNG dispenser. Today, there are a lot of advances in technologies in automobile design, and this is not reflected in the CNG dispenser.

The intent of the study is to understand the creative forces behind the minds of creative people. My deep interest in visual art, especially painting, led me to take up 'an artist' for this project. The works of Sadhana Raddi have fascinated me ever since I met her during one of her exhibitions at Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, last year. This project is a good platform to learn about and understand the approach of Sadhana Raddi in the creative realm. For ease of study, the research will be divided into three parts, which will cover various aspects of the projects. The work will happen simultaneously in all three domains, but to make it more comprehensible, I will explain them in three parts. The first part will cover the study of Indian and Western art history. It will also include studying the various art movements and artwork of different contemporary artists across the globe. Studying the diverse schools of thought that sprouted in the West and their influences on the post-independence Indian art scene will also be interesting. This part of the study will essentially accustom me to the art world and will give me an overall perspective of the art scene in India and the West.

In the second part, I will be meeting Sadhana Raddi. A series of conversations with her will be recorded and transcribed. Watching her at work in her studio will also reveal many aspects of her creativity. Meeting her over a period of time and talking about her work, her thought process, and her idea of creativity The third and final part will comprise viewing the artwork of Sadhana Raddi in relation to the study of art history done in the first part. It will essentially contain my impressions of her work. Viewing Sadhana Raddi in the spectrum of the art world will be the focus of this part. Understanding the creative aspects that are unique to her, her style, and her approach towards art will be seen in relation to happenings in the art world. A brief note about the background of an artist will explain her achievements. Sadhana Raddi is educated and lives in Mumbai. Her studio is located in Chandivali, Mumbai. She has been working and exhibiting since 1999.

This project focuses on designing information systems for people with low literacy and limited information-seeking skills. The study highlights how such users often struggle with complex text, prefer visually distinct cues like sponsored links, and tend to satisfice by accepting minimal information as “good enough.” To address this, the design adopts an inverted pyramid structure, providing answers upfront, and introduces a problem-oriented navigation system that connects related information across silos. The methodology involved understanding information architecture, using card sorting to derive meaningful groupings, and conducting experiments to analyze user behaviour, ultimately aiming to create more accessible and user-friendly digital experiences.

The project aims at designing a knock-down bar stool in full bamboo for KONBAC in Kudal, Maharashtra. In today's world, globalisation has opened up access to customers all over the world. To ensure the success of the products in distant markets, it is important that they are easy to transport and are light in weight. This could help reduce the transport cost. The depletion of natural resources and its side effects have been a cause for great concern. Environmentalists have stressed the use of renewable resources. Green design is looked upon as a solution, and work in this field requires an hour. Bamboo is the fastest-growing biomass on earth. It is endowed with an exclusive and unique look. If the richness of bamboo is enhanced in furniture, it will cater to a niche market. Well-designed and finished bamboo furniture is being positioned as a premium range of furniture in the international market. If ease of transport is achieved by transporting in a knocked-down state, it will prove to be an important development for the bamboo furniture market. The existing bamboo furniture manufactured at KONBAC does not have this feature. This poses difficulty in transport and increases the end cost to the customer substantially. This also creates limitations on business expansion.

Lifestyle accessories are not new to Indian culture. With a rich heritage of textiles and crafts, people have been using customised accessories for various occasions. But repositioning this craft in today’s modern and post-modern world is a challenge. Also, it is important to give new meaning and value to the craft in order to keep our rich tradition alive. One such tradition prevalent in India is bamboo craft. It is highly evolved in Northeastern states like Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, etc. This project aims at designing a handbag in bamboo for ladies to be used at parties, weddings, and other social functions. My previous project was related to bamboo furniture design, wherein I could explore the possibilities of using full bamboo. The current project gave me an opportunity to explore many other facets of bamboo. Even though the present market is full of a wide variety of bags, many customer expectations are left unaddressed. This project tries to address this gap to ensure the success of the product.

Math is perceived as boring and difficult by most children. This impression starts forming in the primary school days and becomes difficult to overcome in the later stages of schooling. There is a need to make mathematics a fun experience akin to playing. Thus, ‘Teaching mathematics through play’ was taken up as a topic to understand the alternate and interesting ways in which the subject of mathematics can be taught to primary school children. If we observe children closely, their play involves the same set of activities being done over and over again, which helps one ‘play’ better, but without getting tired or bored. Learning involves a similar situation where problems are solved over and over again to be able to'solve’ better. With this similarity existing in both activities, why can’t learning mathematics become more fun? more interesting? This led me to investigate what can be done to make learning mathematics an enjoyable experience and what I can contribute as a designer.

Elephant Design is a multidisciplinary office that started in 1989 as a five-member team of graduates from NID. Since then, it has grown many times over. The firm believes that contemporary design requires a strong convergence of various disciplines. The team includes strategists, creative people, and specialists from numerous fields. The key team members are brand consultants, communication consultants, project managers,industrial product designers, architects, interior designers, model makers, etc. Elephant Design is over 15 years old and has grown rapidly; it consciously remains a young team. Young at heart and in mind and body. Energetic, ever curious, open, strongly driven, and high on energy.

Products can serve as symbols of an upwardly mobile rise in lifestyle. The contemporary user is more design-literate and has more disposable income. The atmosphere for design is created by repeated interplay not only between the designer and the production techniques but also between the object itself and the constants of popular culture and a market place. People seek products that are exclusively designed and of impeccable quality. A profound sense of individualism and risk-taking is pervading our society and is mirrored in its products. Designer tableware from Magppie, Art'dinox, etc. has started to be appreciated by the general consumer. This is a result of its availability in the lifestyle malls that have come up in every corner in an urban scenario. Tableware in combination with two materials is a new intervention. The aim of the project was to explore the uncanny appeal it holds. The project was not just about designing a lifestyle product but also about how a utilitarian product can be modulated to be presented as a lifestyle one.

When we go into a lighting store, all that is seen is glass and steel lamps. Rarely is a bamboo or cane lamp spotted in the store. People who want to buy a bamboo or cane lamp generally get them made by a craftsman or ask the interior designer to get them for them. Ironically, the only permanent market one could buy bamboo craft products from are the exhibitions held in urban areas from time to time. The existing bamboo lamps are either not of very good quality or have little variation in design. Thus, this project was initiated.

Bionics (also known as biomimetics, biognosis, biomimicry, or bionical creativity engineering) is the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. It is a multi-disciplinary subject involving a wide diversity of other domains like electronics, informatics, medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and many others. This discipline has already shown the way to a number of innovations and improvements in space engineering. Often, the study of bionics emphasises the imitation of a biological structure rather than just the implementation of its function. For example, in computer science, cybernetics tries to model actual organic structures that make humans intelligent, while artificial intelligence tries to model intelligent functions regardless of the particular way they can be achieved. The conscious copying of examples and mechanisms from natural organisms and ecologies is a form of applied case-based reasoning, treating nature itself as a database of solutions that already work. Proponents argue that the selective pressure placed on all natural life forms minimises and removes failures. Although almost all engineering could be said to be a form of biomimicry, the modern origins of this field are usually attributed to Buckminster Fuller and its later codification as a field of study to Janine Benyus.

As a student of industrial design, I am trying to learn and understand all the aspects of the design field. An internship is a small exposure to industrial work experience where many more things happen other than theory or practical, which were thought in the curriculum. I have looked for a small consulting design firm in which every field of design is dealt with. Desmania is one of those design firms that has already secured its name as one of the top design firms in India. The profile of Desmania gives much more elaborate details about their services.

Desmania was established in 1992 as a multi-disciplinary design firm. It has evolved into a one-stop shop for creative solutions, offering professional design services that are profitable to clients. Desmania has combined experience in product, graphics, and packaging to offer a full complement of design services. In the process, they have become more versatile, mature, and ambitious. The clients’ list now boasts market leaders and MNCs such as Whirlpool, LG, Reckitt Benckiser, GSK, Yamaha, OTIS, Eureka Forbes, Hero Cycles, Usha International, etc.

There are a lot of things that nobody taught us, but we know them, and most of them we learned while playing with the things around us. A child can find joy and excitement in discovering things. Play is an essential activity in a child's daily activities, contributing in a manner similar to health and development. For a child, a plaything can be anything from a simple stick or a stone to complex play objects. Playthings are indirect teachers for kids, which implant knowledge in a playful mode. Hence, the right kind of toys has direct implications for the overall development of the child.

Playing is an excellent and unique means of improving the child’s perceptual, manipulative, and conceptualising abilities while he is having fun. Although the importance of concrete experience in the learning process has long been recognised by educational psychologists, children are rarely given the opportunity to learn through play and manipulation. Our educational system is too bookish, promoting routine learning of facts and methods rather than encouraging learning of facts from experience.

A lifestyle is the way a person (or group) lives. This includes patterns of social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual’s attitudes, values, or worldview. Having a specific “lifestyle” can be described as patterns of behaviour based on alternatives given and how easy it is to make this choice over others given. A lifestyle product embodies the values and aspirations of a group or culture. A lifestyle product speaks to the core identity of its customer. Individuals each have their own sense of self, based on their background. Door locks and their handles are a life-style product that is the main line of defence that most people use to protect their valuables. The main reason we use locks everywhere is that they provide us with a sense of security. If we consider the door as the main protector, which is the partition of two different spaces, then a lock will be its weapon or accessory to support the door. The door is the main interface, which will speak about the room inside and what kind of lifestyle it has, and the lock handle is no exception. It has to go with the door form and aesthetics. Lock handle is the interactive zone, where people push or pull the door. The main interaction is with our palm, which senses the material, its form, feels the comfort, etc. There are many designers who have tried to give their best to provide the above-listed elements and have become successful. My project is one more attempt to enhance those parameters.

Rotational moulding is one of the most versatile plastic manufacturing methods, much enhanced by the range of specialist polyethylene and polypropylene materials available. Rotational moulding has the creativity, the productivity, the quality, the simplicity, and the professional standards that are required in product design and production. Simple in concept, rotational moulding is considered by those in the industry to be as much an art as a science in view of the importance of human judgement in the quality of the finished product.

Tata Elxsi is a public limited company promoted by Tata Industries Limited and Tata Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Singapore. 40% of the equity is held by the Tatas and the remaining 60% by the public. The company began in 1989 with its corporate office in Bangalore and has consistently registered an annual growth rate of 40% in the last four years. The entire process starts with the client submitting a product brief in which he states all his design intents. Then, on the basis of all the metaphors given, a simple and elegant design solution is found, going through a series of stages of idea sketching, concept development, and concept refinement. The concepts are then refined in software like Photoshop and 3D modelling software whenever there is doubt. Also, while making these concept refinements, great care is taken for the choice of materials used and also the cost and time involved in the process of manufacturing these products.

This project basically deals with the problems of people with cerebral palsy while using the existing computer workstation. This project includes the design of an ergonomic workstation, which will help people with cerebral palsy work on computers efficiently. A proper design approach was followed, which included determining different ergonomic-related issues like body dimensions, biomechanics, behaviour, safety, etc. of the users with reference to the neuro-muscular difficulties and applying those observations in designing a computer workstation for the CP. The later part of the project also describes different concepts that were evolved for these individuals along with the final concept.

Cars are generally categorised on the basis of their engine power and their overall dimensions. For most consumers, choosing a car has as much to do with its design as with its performance and driving capacity. This project is concentrated only on the exterior styling of the sedan, and it will be a pure styling project.

Every region of India has unique ways of expressing their culture through various forms of art, which also reflect their beliefs and rituals. This study includes a basic analysis of one such traditional art form, the floor art of Rangoli. The scope of the project includes understanding the patterns that are created using various methodologies, which also have variations with respect to the region. The variety of patterns and forms of decorations are dependent on types of function or purpose, occasions, various artefacts, and environments. In this particular study, one is trying to analyse the visual elements, motifs, and principles of creation that reflect various influences from region to region. To restrict the domain of the project, the criteria of study have been limited to mainly those related to region or place, occasions or events, and environments or artefacts. The execution of this work includes identification of patterns, motifs,motifs and iconography; documentation of the different styles of decoration and various methodologies; analysis of the diverse kinds of Rangoli from many regions; representation of decoration created by using various elements of design; and making the report and presentation of the entire study. It also includes the process of investigation by talking to people and finding out the process of creating the decoration. The study is to facilitate the creation of a new style of patterns and decoration with respect to the essence of its origin, to represent the basic graphical elements, and to create various applications for reusing these decorative elements.

The business of fast food delivery is increasing as people are ordering food to their places rather than going directly to them. One more reason is to get food ready without disturbing their busy schedule. The system in this whole delivery business includes members of fast food restaurants like managers, cooks, and delivery men and waiters. The project is focusing mainly on understanding the entire system and how vehicles used for delivery purposes affect the business. And so the study includes the user (the deliveryman)and his interactions with the vehicle. The solutions relate to the problems he faces during the delivery process and try to make it more efficient. One is also trying to look at the manufacturing aspect of the vehicle, and so by trying to make the vehicle more universal for various kinds of delivery purposes, it increases the scope of mass production as the number of users increases, and so one can design a vehicle that is economical so that more people can use it.

Transportation within the huge malls and supermarkets is one of the areas that has not been addressed. Specifically, the case studies that are done here are examples of the same. There are no specific devices designed for the transportation of the people who visit the mall. The aim of the project is to address all those issues related to public transportation within the mall with respect to the environment within the mall. And design an electrical vehicle to be used in the super malls. There are electrical vehicles designed for short-distance transportation. In hospitals, campuses, industries,industries ,resorts and super malls, one is trying to analyse the existing vehicles for various uses. Providing the best services to customers has become a main priority for any super mall.

Today, in contemporary design, one can observe that non-linearity has taken hold, breaking away from Platonic and Euclidean ideals, where objects are not looked at as a whole and absolute but interconnected within a larger system. They derive their formal definitions, such as organic, amorphous, folds, and blobs, by taking analogies from nature and understanding modern sciences such as the theory of relativity, chaos, complexity, etc. On the other hand, there are contemporary designers whose core concern is to achieve systems that work efficiently and conserve resources and energy. These approaches seeking a higher ethical order and striving to work symbiotically with nature without damaging her tend to lose weight on their aesthetic dimension or artistic foci. An initial effort was carried out to collect data on the existing areas of bio-mimicry and how they have influenced man’s life in innumerable ways through different case studies. The five main areas of simulation, interpretation, integration, replication, and emulation were delved into with practical applications in the field of design. A brief overview of some of the research studies carried out at MIT also shed light on the applications of bionics, right from developing intelligent robots to creating artificial limbs for the physically challenged.

This project was done as part of the internship course, where the main intention was to learn the principles behind styling in automotives, manufacturing, and the construction process, with limitations in design owing to military warfare use. The aim of the project was to develop a mine-blast-proof design for an LMW, responding to the needs of soldiers for use in warfare.

The project aims at enhancing the comfort level of the passengers travelling by a second-class AC chaircar coach. Most of the budget airlines offer very affordable rates, connecting most of the major cities in India, and are providing stiff competition to the Indian Railways in this regard. With the extra comfort and luxury of flying for a slightly higher price, air travel has become more feasible in a developing country like India today. Hence, the need to enrich the experience of travelling by the AC Chair Car was identified and developed by the design team.

The two-wheeler segment being the backbone of the Indian automotive industry and having caught up with a huge population of Indian users on roads today, one identifies a need for constant development of existing models. The crowd is in constant search for something that is new and different. Even with automotives, the user is very conscious of styling trends, and every year, the two-wheeler industry has more models to offer. Scooty Pep was last styled in 2000, and a refresh design of the third degree was introduced in 2004, which included design intervention in colour panels and decals mainly, along with a few added features. With fashion changing and styling trends taking many leaps over the past seven years, Scooty Pep Plus demands a new style statement. Also, with the advent of competitor industries capturing the same user group, one has identified a possibility for a refreshed design. It is time that the vehicle strives to target a larger user group and also addresses an older age group consisting of working professionals and homemakers. These individuals are more mature and manage to balance their careers with household responsibilities, and the vehicle could help ease this situation.

While studying Sri Aurobindo's works, one important fact should be remembered: Sri Aurobindo's consciousness was in a constant state of development, and there was a radical change in his views, particularly after 1910. Sri Aurobindo's earliest writings were poems that he penned as a student in England. This literary interest continued during his thirteen-year stay at Baroda, where he wrote a number of poems and plays, and afterwards in Calcutta and Pondicherry. He first rose to national prominence as a writer for his editorials and articles in Bande Mataram, a Calcutta daily (1906 and 1908).

Mercantile & Industrial Development Company Limited (MIDCO Ltd.) Midco was incorporated in 1949 and has been in the business of manufacturing petroleum dispensing units since the early 1960s. Its head office is in Mumbai (Bombay) and it has production units in Mumbai (Bombay) as well as in the city of Ahmedabad. Midco's R&D is aimed at continuously adding value to its existing line of products as well as developing new components, products, and solutions for its customers. The R&D Department is based in Mumbai (Bombay) and shares work with premier Indian technology institutes and with foreign companies and agencies to ensure that it is always up-to-date in all areas of technology within the scope of its products.

One of the hazards of ageing is an increasingly failing health. On the whole, the health and stamina of an individual decline with age. This sometimes requires encouragement, which could be in the form of design suitability. Body degeneration is one of the most troubling parts that affects their dealing with every activity. Modern society is organised in a way that is suited to the majority population distribution. But reality is going to be different, as the elderly will comprise a greater proportion of the population some time from now. A fact is that, in many situations, cars are the easiest mode of travel for older people facing declining physical skills.

The project deals with providing an innovative solution for the mobile computer-aided learning bus. The objective is to make the learning experience a bit more comfortable and enjoyable. An observation was made to understand the entire process of e-learning by these children as well as their interaction with the bus. Different methods for user study and analysis were used, like video documentation and questionnaires regarding issues like ingress, egress, orientation of the workstation, ergonomic factors, etc. Due consideration was given to devising the solution according to the manufacturing constraints.

Today, in contemporary design, one can observe that non-linearity has taken hold, breaking away from Platonic and Euclidean ideals, where objects are not looked at as a whole and absolute but interconnected within a larger system. They derive their formal definitions, such as organic, amorphous, folds, and blobs, by taking analogies from nature and understanding modern sciences such as the theory of relativity, chaos, complexity, etc. On the other hand, there are contemporary designers whose core concern is to achieve systems that work efficiently and conserve resources and energy. These approaches seeking a higher ethical order and striving to work symbiotically with nature without damaging her tend to lose weight on their aesthetic dimension or artistic foci. An initial effort was carried out to collect data on the existing areas of bio-mimicry and how they have influenced man’s life in innumerable ways through different case studies. The five main areas of simulation, interpretation, integration, replication, and emulation were delved into with practical applications in the field of design. A brief overview of some of the research studies carried out at MIT also shed light on the applications of bionics, right from developing intelligent robots to creating artificial limbs for the physically challenged.

“Training in Pottery” is a P1 Product Design project by Vinatha Babyprakash, IIT Bombay (Batch 2005–2007), supervised by Shilpa Kanakiya. The work explores methods, tools, and pedagogy surrounding pottery instruction, aiming to develop structured training processes that enhance learners’ craft skills. Through hands-on experimentation and design reflection, the project bridges the gap between craft pedagogy and industrial design thinking, contributing to how traditional tactile skills can be taught in an informed, user-centric way.

The beach resonates in most of our memories as vast expanses of sand and moving water, as hot sun, as endless play being buffeted by the waves, as growing overtired and being carried to bed. It is a place quite different from everyday life because of its promise of freedom. The beach, as I see it, is so much like each one of us because of its possibility of wilderness that, like how it exists in each one of us, lies so subtle beneath its neatly groomed and guarded everyday identities. It is here that the individuals become so acutely aware of their bodies and of their bodies's own tides, passions, and anxieties. It is here that the body wins the struggle between nature and culture. My project envisages developing a space for every individual on the beach committed to their physical and emotional engagement on the beach. An ambivalence of pleasure and pain.

The two-wheeler segment being the backbone of the Indian automotive industry and having caught up with a huge population of Indian users on roads today, one identifies a need for constant development of existing models. The crowd is in constant search for something that is new and different. Even with automotives, the user is very conscious of styling trends, and every year, the two-wheeler industry has more models to offer. Scooty Pep was last styled in 2000, and a refresh design of the third degree was introduced in 2004, which included design intervention in colour panels and decals mainly, along with a few added features. With fashion changing and styling trends taking many leaps over the past seven years, Scooty Pep Plus demands a new style statement. Also, with the advent of competitor industries capturing the same user group, one has identified a possibility for a refreshed design.

This paper explores the way designers use body movements to support mental imagery while solving design problems. Given the task of designing a handout place for students on campus, this paper will identify and compare the unique strategies by which the architect developed the design using his body as a crutch to take visuo-spatial decisions when blindfolded and prevent them from using their usual thinking tools like sketching. This experiment is an attempt to reveal the invention of design issues and requirements using body movements, which have relevance to mental imagery.