Form Studies Assignment: A study in combining the design philosophies of an International and a Domestic designer and reimagining an office product.
Office Product: Desktop Stapler.
Timeline: 3 days.
Philippe Starck is a French designer known for his innovative and unconventional approach to design. He has created a diverse range of products, including furniture, lighting, kitchen appliances, and even hotels and yachts.
Sandeep Sangaru is an Indian industrial designer who specializes in furniture and product design. He is known for his unique design style that blends traditional Indian craftsmanship with contemporary aesthetics.
The ideation involved a slow and steady evolution from a current design to a combination of the design philosophies of Starck and Sangaru combined.
Product colour exploration:
To match with the aesthetics of the deep ocean surfaces, colours chosen from the spectrum of colours of coral reefs.
Designed by: Athul Vinayak under the guidance of Prof. Shanu Sharma at SPA Bhopal, 2022
Learnings from this project involved gaining a deeper understanding of design languages and analyzing how the combination of
form, aesthetic and design philosophies of two individual designers can come to the outcome of a project.
