My Design Portfolio

Naina Shenoy | Furniture & Interior Design | Diploma semester | National Institute of Design

PORTFOLIONaina Shenoy|Furniture and Interior Design|2012


Naina ShenoyAge - 22 yearsPhone +91 9980389450 | +91 9726959904Email - [email protected] of Furniture and Interior DesignNational Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

PERMANENT ADDRESS PRESENT ADDRESS206, Ibrose Apartments, C- HostelOff M.G.Road, Kodialbail National Institute of DesignMangalore - 575003 Paldi, AhmedabadKarnataka, India Gujarat, India

EDUCATION• CurrentlypursuingGraduateDiplomaProgrammeinDesigninthefieldofFurni-

ture and Interior design -Diploma Semester, National Institute of Design.• 2008 Department of Pre-University College, Commerce, St. Aloysius college , Man-

galore• 2006 karnataka secondary education examination board SSLC, St. Ann’s high

school, Mangalore

ACHIEVEMENTSKarnaraka swimming association-state junior aquatic championship 2002 - 50 metre freestyle - 3rd place- 4*100 medley relay - 2rd place- 4*100 medley freestyle relay - 3rd placeKarnataka pre-university district level - 50 metre freestyle - 1st place- 100 metre freestle - 1st placeInter school gazal singing competition (2005-06) 1st placeInter school patriotic singing competition 2nd placekalasangam 2005 western vocal group - 1st place, western vocal solo - 2nd place

WORK EXPERIENCESangaru Design Objects - Design Intern to create Bamboo kids furnture for Mr. Sandeep Sangaru”s Collec-tion - Truss Me, Bamboo furniture for Bamboo Cabanas. (April-May 2011)

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCYAutoCAD | Rhino | VRay | Keyshot | Adobe InDesign | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Corel Draw

MATERIAL EXPERIENCEWood - teakwood, rosewood, rubberwood, chill pine | Bamboo | MDF | PoP Metal - Aluminium, GI pipe, Mild Steel pipes and rods, MS perforated sheetsPlastic - PP sheets, FRP | Ceramic - terracota, stonewareCoir Board, Corian Dupont.

WORKSHOPS-Coir board workshop held by the Coir Board of India and Outreach Programme of NID-Bamboo workshop - Outreach Programme NID-DrapeD,aworkshopconductedbyfashiondesignerAnujSharma•IdeastoObjects,workshopconductedby Gad Charny, Professor of Industrial Design at Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

EXTRACURRICULER-event volunteer for RGB(college fest)-co-ordinator from industrial design for Monsoon Fiesta 2010(intra college festival)-participated in dance and throwball for Monsoon Fiesta(inside college fest)-participated and won in group dance competition for CHAOS, IIM Ahmedabad (inter college fest)

INTERESTS AND HABITSvisualising products in space, sustainability,conceptualisingcrafts,reading, dancing, swimming, tennis, mu-sic, singing, cooking etc.

All the products and projects in my portfolio are made during my graduation course of Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD) in Furniture and Interior Design, at the National Institute of Design - India.


An excercise to use as many various kinds of joints with

wood and metal.This was to explore and learn

wooden joineries that are typically used.

-A Stool- the first piece of

furniture

miter tongue joint

half lap splice with dowel

finger joint

forked tenon mortise jointmetal screwed to wood

heavy foam with felt upholstery


Theme - Designing of public furinture.

I went to the extent of mak-ing a shade. This shade is particularly for a market

square in India where vehi-cles are allowed to park. So

basically these shades are for people to park by and hang

out under them.This was a model to custom a particular market square in Ahmedabad where all kinds

of people would come to meet up with friends or fam-ily and hang out for a couple of hours. With their vehicles parked alongside they would

stand or lean against and have lunch, dinner etc.

Simple Furniture Design

The spot I chose specifically was a parking lot and also a place where people would spend a couple of hours hanging out. The lot is surrounded by mostly snack joints, eateries and ice cream parlours along with co-thes stores, shoe stores etc.. so during the noons and from late evening to night people of all ages come there and park themselves in the centre.A- so since it is sunny during the day the place looked like it was in need of a shadeB- shades could allow people to come together below the shade since there werent too many trees around.C- strategically placing of the shade will also help in regulating parking of both cars and bikes

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A mock up model was made to understand the sun direction and the shadows it would create during the lenght of the day.

Rendered 3D model placed in the scenario of a market square.

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Inclusve desks for main-stream classrooms that cater

to the blind and the VI (visu-ally impaired students).

The purpose of these desks are to improve the classroom

conduct of the blind and visualy impaired students.

Design for Special Needs

This inclusive desk is also provided with a plug point to allow the con-necting of the tape recorders. Tape recorders are used by the VI and the blind to record their lectures so that they can compose their notes.

The table top has two colours on either sides - green and red. Each colour has its own tex-ture.

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Inclusve desks for main-stream classrooms that cater

to the blind and the VI (visu-ally impaired students).

The purpose of these desks are to improve the classroom

conduct of the blind and visualy impaired students.

Design for Special Needs

Advantages - A:The dimensions of the desks are determined to be easily used by a wheelchair ridden student and is also provided with a leg rest. B: The front bamaboo board works as a backrest for the student sitting in the front and also protects the blind from walking into the behind of the desk.

The two colours red and green are chosen so they are not confused by the VI. The two textures are to help the completely blind identify the desktop. The purpose of the two colours/textures is so that the student would know their space limits in the classroom. Hence this helps them to arrange themselves better at their desk. This concept can be ex-plored to have two to five desks attached to form one big desk.

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Mechsanisms to form, stuc-tural stability to material

strenght. These are the pa-rameters while one designs a

folding furniture.Mantischair is a deck/ porch chair. This folding chair that allows portablility can also be carried to the beach, garden,

parks etc.The purpose being the

above, its proportions and dimensions are determined

accordingly.

Folding Furniture

Parallelogram is a simple goemetric form that can be folded neatly. Hence the starting point to my chair was a parallelogram.

Parallelogram worked into the mecha-nism for a folding chair. How could the chair open and close in one go ?

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parks etc.For the purpose being stated-


accordingly.

Folding Furniture

Here are two explora-tions for my mecha-nism. The mechanism involes 5 pivots and a slide. The positioning of the slide is crucial to ensure the mechanism is smooth and sturdy.

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parks etc.For the purpose being stated-


accordingly.

Folding Furniture

Material used - rubber wood, MS plate and MS pipe for the hardware.

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Coir boards were newly in-troduced to us by the coir

board of India. We were to come up with a furniture piece in a two day work-

shop. A fellow student and I worked on this bench.

Coir Board Workshop

The proposed idea was a bedroom bench. A bench that could go against the wall vertically op-posite the bed or against the foot of the bed etc.The lower shelf is for books that one can keep for late night reading.The properties of the coir board let us use only certain joints unlike wood.

Workshop brief - bedroom furniture

This a complete knock down bench and it is so because coir boards are very heavy and trans-porting them would be a trouble however big or small the furniture is.


Study of materials and the building of structures using the materials is the main ob-

jective here.

Structures

A triangle being the most stable shape and structure that exists, this is a chair that is constructed by the method of triangulation of metal rods.Also it is tried using as less of rods as possible.


Study of materials and the building of structures using the materials is the main ob-

jective here.

Structures

A triangle being the most stable shape and structure that exists, this is a see-saw contructed using metal pipes only.


The main objective of this course is taking inspiration

from nature. It could be animals, plants , the human body etc..Inspiration from

not just the physical form but also its properties and char-

acteristics.

Nature and Form

Comparing the sea horse to a hearing aid, I per-ceived the hearing aid to be the closest to how a sea horse behaves with its habits and physical fea-tures :

A - a sea horse is a very tiny creature almost 2D while looking at it. It is visible only from its side profile - The hearing aid is also a small object that has to fit just right behind ones ear whose form is also almost 2D since its depth is very littleB - The prehensile monkey tail of the seahorse always curls and holds onto the seaweed and other under water sea plants, planktons, rocks etc anchoring itself. This lets them to withstand from the strong water current - The case of hearing aid sits curled behind the ear firmly.C -They have an amazing ability to camouflage with their immediate surroundings. This helps them in hiding from their predators and undis-turbed. -They are preferred to camouflage with the ear.D -Their armour like body protects the few or-gans that they have mainly the spine that extends till the tip of their tail. -Case of the hearing aid contains the amplify-ing system.

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acteristics.

Nature and Form

volume control

button battery slot

toggle switch

on/off switch

material used - 3 sheets of acrylic of 5mm each.proposed material - silicone, beacause it could be softer to touch, can have a texture that would help it be grasped well by hand and the colour of the hearing aid could be matched with the col-our of the skin of the user (using the camouflaging char-acteristics of the seahorse). Silicone can have any shade of colour given to it using pigments.

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acteristics.

Nature and Form

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Systems Design ProjectThe subject chosen for my

systems project was to under-stand the urban nomadism which is slowly getting to be

a phase of life of people from the urban region and the

country.

Urban Nomadism

Design Opportunities realised for this scenario was - To promote fast and easy travelling. Hence the following two products are developed accordingly.

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Concept A: The bed package which comes with a chair and a table. The three peices are fitted onto each other and can easily be rolled out. This package can easily be carried till the truck with all your other bags.





country.

Urban Nomadism

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Advantages : It can be packed and rolled by one person. A student or a single bachelor can buy these basic furniture in one go.

Materials used - hard plastic, plastic castors, aluminium pipe, plastic rubber locks, heavy woven cloth for the chair.





country.

Urban Nomadism

Design Opportunities realised for this scenario was - To promote fast and easy travelling. Hence the following two products are developed accordingly.

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Concept B: What if you could carry your clothes and oth-er things in your furniture when you are shifting. The bed suitcase is a bed that can turn into your biggest suitcase for your books, utensils etc.





country.

Urban Nomadism

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Advantages : A single person can carry the bed and take it to another place, saves one from buying cartons and packing material, easy to move the 4 parts of the mattress instead of one big one, promotes carrying of optimal quantity while being a nomad.

Materials used - hard plastic, plastic castors, aluminium pipe, plastic rubber locks, heavy woven cloth for the chair.


Poh - In the ‘Tulu’ dialect means ‘go’.

Floating LightPoH

This lighting is inpired from the Indian lamp - The Deepstambh or The Light Tower. The Deep-stambhs are found outside tem-ples in the south-west coast re-gion especially Goa and Ankola.

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Floating LightPoH

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The ‘PoH’ was made for the Indian festival of lights - Diwali. People decorate their surroundings with all kinds of lights. And ‘PoH’ is a floating light to decorate ponds, lakes etc during this festival.

Materials used - I picked up existing plastic ware to make this lighing. Plastic spoons and plastic spice box are the main components to this lighting. Other parts used are - two way switch, LED orange lights and double A batteries.

Poh - In the ‘Tulu’ dialect means ‘go’.


Classroom ProjectThis was an interior project

where I had to hypothetically redo the interiors of a com-mercial photography studio.

Interior ProjectThe space I studied consisted of the managers office, the main desk where the customers are dealt with and the editing room. The studio is situated in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

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My inspiration for the space if photo framing and cubes. The space was to have optimum spac usage considering the insane amount of employees the space accomodated.


Classroom ProjectThis was an interior project

where I had to hypothetically redo the interiors of a com-mercial photography studio.

Interior ProjectThe studio is a Gujarati family owned chain of photography business. The colours used are taken from the logo and branding that pre-existed.

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concept - Develop a form for a commercial store.

Networking of the geomet-rical is the brief to develop

the form.

Form Playing Geometry

The brief wanted us to develop the forms for a store. I picked a shoe store. Hence this form can be altered in size and arrangements that can cater to various uses of display, counter and seating.

Form contructed using rapid proto-typing. The form is 1.5 inches tall.


The name really says it all -Using easily available waste

to fast ideated products

From Ideas to Objects

Portable and disposable emergency candles

whale play with rubber tubes

recycling to new containers

featherlite paper weight festive lighting shell


Taking any object and giving renders of different kinds of materials for a different feel of the product. Here I have taken a woman’s razor and given it different textures.

Mediums used - colour pen-cils, white and black gell pens , pencils and water colours.

Hand Renders

pumis stone is the stone that is used to scrub the body to remove muck that gets collected on the skin. Thus given the use of the razor it could also be used to scrub.

some of the textures tried out are rexine, pumis stone, leather, plastic etc..


concept sketching for light-ing and look. It was a two

day workshop that asked us to figure what lighting goes

where according to the space and room.

Interior Workshop(lighting)

a lounge at a private residence or a lounge at a re-sort that can be rentedThe idea was to have a room right below an aquari-um, with the aquarium open to the sky.


Transformation of shapes is what this assignment is all

about. Here specifically is the use of shapes of letters.

Space, Form and Structure

Transforming an N to an S.

Transforming an S to a serpent


Draping was a workshop to understand briefly the hu-

man body and how to drape around it. Here we went wild in folding, pinning and fall of

the cloth.

Open elective-Drape

Use of waste to make a dress - cigarette boxes of different kinds were fitted together and then pinned onto the body to get the above result.


This was a group session to photograph a miniature set

of a hospital room.

Studio Photography

The photographs are to show the room at different times of the day. The above photo-graphs are showing early moring when sunrise, afternoon when the sun is directly above and after sunset with the lights swtched on.


Camera - Nikon D60

Photography


THANK YOUNaina Shenoy

Contact: [email protected]

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