In Memory of Delicious Food!!
Each person has a delicious memory for food. So, during quarantine, while missing these foods, I used watercolours and stedlers to create miniature paintings of desserts and food and describe it in a quote I felt. #Major Missing cafe and restaurant food!!! Author: Drashti Soni, Semester-IV, B. Des. Fashion Design, Unitedworld Institute of Design (UID) […]
Virtual Reality Platform for Education | Rumii
Virtual Reality, in simplest of terms, is creating simulated 3D environments with the application of computer technology. A virtual reality or VR user will experience a world beyond just viewing a screen. She or he would be placed within an immersive 3 dimensional simulation of an environment wherein she or he can interact with not […]
Whose Design is it Anyway?
In 1937-38 Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen Beetle. Adolf Hitler approved it and is even said to have drawn some sketches for it. Though Beetle was a name it gathered later, ‘Volkswagen’ meant ‘people’s car’ in German. A cost effective, no nonsense car that was truly socialist in being affordable to the common man. It […]
Moulding the Budding Designers
When proportion, movement and circulation become usual parlance for a student of Interior Design, anthropometry comes into play. Different spaces have diverse requirement in deference, to the activity they cater to. This concept of ‘Anthropometry vs. Activity was thrown to the budding interior designers of the batch 2019-24. Students were supposed to do a case […]
The Creative Practice of Spatial Misuse
“For a long time, my chief interest had to do with cities in general, and the extent to which an entire city could be transformed by an act of creative misuse…I was interested in how people with a particular intent could take over certain parts of the city with an action that could transform the […]
Importance of Freehand Sketching: Connection between the Mind, the Hand and the Paper
With digitization taking over raw skills and paperwork, there has been a rise in software produced artwork over simply hand drawn ones. This has led to a rapid increase in students depending on digital resources for basic idea developments and a considerable decrease in use of soft skills like sketching to express themselves. Thus, it […]
‘DIY’ –Individual Teaching Strategy
By attending many meetings and workshops at my daughter’s school, I got inspired toward the teaching field and thought it would be great working with students. I still remember my first day at UID in October 2014. Through the six years of my teaching tenure, my confidence and experience have refined; from dealing firstly, with […]
That Rare and Refreshing Thing Called Goodness
Some places and some foods have a lot of baggage attached to them. A particular food joint in Delhi fills me with nostalgia about all our trips to Delhi that would be incomplete without their lassi and chole bhature. A few years ago, I had to go to Delhi for work, for a day. The office was close […]
The Colourful Multiverse of Synesthesia
To start with a new abstract paradigm of design hull is questioning the benevolence of all the desired factors that make it work. Those key crackers that significantly site out with their characters, to mark the new beginning of human cerebrum mutation, that charge the domains of the brain and its symptoms of Synesthesia. An […]
MASKS are must!
Wherever you go in this lockdown, masks seem to be the key element of fashion, and the following are two observations I had which are unrelated to one another but bind the common desire of human kind to cover their face. Can fashion change culture? This has been a constant debate in the world, where […]
