My recent works for a client

Quite some time...

Yeah, its been quite some time since my last entry here. I've had a tough time balancing between my personal life and my work. Sometimes, I've ended up hurting people close to me and sometimes, I've not been able to live up to the promises I've made to them... duty calls! But I dont want to call designing as work or duty. It in fact has been fun otherwise. The learning, the explorations, the "WOW" moments, the gut feelings, the inspirations... every project I've worked on has only given me more opportunity to learn about and understand and overcome my own limitations. Sometimes there are moments when I feel that I am such an ignorant! lol... and sometimes its like, "Damn! I thought of this years ago!! Why didnt I work on it?!" ;D It is amazing when your realize that things you might have ideated some time back actually come out as products from somewhere else, designed by someone else! Many seem to conclude that innovatation is to seize the initiative to imagine something new and ensure that as many ideas and inspirations as possible are captured, before being brought to analysis, selection and development of future design projects. I guess, it is important that you not only excogitate ideas but it is also important to start working on them immediately. That way you save yourself from the embarrassing moments mentioned above.

Building a design team

Off-late we've been busy building our team at DSINE5 and have been very particular about who we choose to board with us on our journey. What we have realised over time is that it is important to pull back the view of design from a domain-specific process to one that fosters collaborative team-work of all those departments responsible for a project. Creativity, because of the abundance of knowledge n know-how that comes with such a team, will leap from an insulated perspective in such a scenario and redirect the product experience to scale newer heights. It requires many of the existing boundaries to be broken down and new, flexible ways to design to be reintroduced.

Designers and engineers need opportunities to experiment, explore, and even productively fail. This is a part of the learning curve of design creativity which triggers the enthusiasm towards delivering innovative products . It considers the product development in its entirety and helps focus on the end user’s sustained experience with that product and the design company itself.

Innovation in design is an amalgamation of engineering creativity and art. It is the result of a non-ending, stepwise advance in knowledge and know how. It comes from interaction with colleagues, both in the same company as well as others. The exhilarating ecstasy when you experience that unique “eureka!” moment is beyond compare when you hit upon an idea. It is that moment that you realize you have triggered the right combination of synapses firing your frontal lobe, and pursued the right “what if” questions all through!

We're on our way towards bringing this experience for our clients and building the right team thus becomes important for us.

Finally... after a very long break...

Ah! Finally after a very long time I've come back to my blog. Since the last blog there have been many things happening. I finally got paid for my freelance work from a client for whom I'd never offer my services again. My best friend's bro is now married and lots of my classmates from school n college have either got engaged or have tied the knots. After searching enough for a good design job in these recession times I got along with a long trusted friend to start our own design firm. Things have been pretty much busy since then. Lots of work, lots of activity, with lil time to spare. I'm lovin it! I hate it when I have to be idle doing nothing. It kills me. Well, now I dont have any complaints.

Its been a month and a half since we started Dsine5. We're still slowly setting up things. We dont have a website yet cause it is on its way. My juniors back at my design school are eager to intern with us primarily to witness how a brand new design start-up works, how it handles the different pressures monetarily as well as work wise, how we intend to grow and how we learn from our early mistakes. Fortunately, my friend is much more experienced in technology startups and their functioning - presently he owns a few along with his elder sibling. So its just the two of us who are presently involved in building the firm. I wish Dsine5 grows to achieve what we intend it to achieve in the times to come and grow to become a phenomenol design house, which is well respected and whose active participation in design activities is sought after.

Intro.duct.ion :P

Well, yeah.. will keep it simple n short. I'm Vishal Hemanth, an M.Des. graduate from Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. I graduated in July 2008, and presently work as a freelancer. My major project at CPDM, IISc, was to design and fabricate a Laparoscopic surgical tool with improved dexterity which was exhibited at the department's annual design show Ripples 2008.

Here I intend to discuss Art n Design and everything I can find that's related to it in some ways...