3rd Review ( 9th September)
The points brought up in my third review are as follows:
- For the appliqué samples that I have worked on, how is the cutting going to happen while prototyping. (It needs to be very precise and neat)
- About the workshop that I had with DPS children, it was not the children’s age, but my approach towards the workshop that was the problem.
- I should try having the workshop with children from a school where they are allowed to think freely and are encouraged about art.
- For the ‘adventure’ series, I must think about my target audience. What is their perception of adventure? How is it different from my own?
- Think about activities that we had in foundation studies. How can they help in coming up with ideas for workshops with children for the ‘adventure’ series.
- Have several short sessions of interaction with children instead of one long one.
- Look at books on ‘teaching aid’ and ‘teachers’ resources’
- Have workshops with a smaller group of children, maybe 4-5 instead of a big bunch of them
- Think about skipping the ‘adventure’ theme completely and concentrating more on the prototyping details for the ‘nature’ theme.
- Get involved in the prototyping in terms of selection of the fabric, the embroidery stitches, etc.
- For the carpets, think about how the designs are going to be printed on felt. How does it work?
- For the blinds, discuss the alternatives for vertical blinds, come up with more ideas.
- The prints on the carpets should be non-directional
- Work on making a set of prints with the footprint style motifs.
2nd Review ( 2nd August)
The points brought up in my second review are as follows:
- Explore different styles of drawing/illustration for the motifs. Try something that is very different from the style I have worked with.
- Try different color ways
- Have a drawing workshop with children that belong to the target age-group. Let their imagination come up with drawings that I can use as my inspiration. E.g.: Aminals
- Collaborative art - get children to paint their own furnishings?
- Think of different ways of printing (apart from traditional screen printing)
- For motifs try out things like paw-prints of animals, leaves, flowers.
- Discuss quantities, cost of production
- Go to the material vendors and check what is available. Bring back samples
- What is the maximum size that you can print using screens? Go to the printers and find out about the limitations.
- Can I add border pattis to the bed covers? Try different textures/colors for those
- Think about options for day sheet and night sheet. Come up with different colors/textures/motif sizes for the two.
- Time plan
Things to look up:
1st Review ( 8th July)
The points brought up in my first review are as follows:
- Too much emphasis on ‘sustainability’ in the proposal. Is it really necessary?
- In India, there is very little choice in terms of ‘Indian’ visual language for children
- The age that I will be designing for is a very important phase that the child goes through, and I should look at designing something that makes the child love it.
- The aim should be long term: e.g. making the generation become eco-friendly.
- Explore Indian stories
- Study child psychology
- What is it about a mother’s lap, hugging a toy while sleeping?
- Soft furniture? How about taking inspiration from the ‘jhula’ (made from a saree, hung in the room for the baby to sleep)
- Today, among Indian children, there is a resistance to Indian visual language, and attraction towards the western. Can that be broken? How?
- Panchtantra vs Disney? Worth looking at!
- Consider customization of the products such that the child gets to interact with it and is involved in making it in some way, so that he feels he has done something and thus has a sense of belonging for it.
- Look at ‘interaction’
- Trying to foster love for nature at a young age
- Re-structure the proposal in terms of all the above
- A detailed timeline for the next few days
Things to look up:
- Anupama Narayan’s diploma project documentation
- Studio satva – whitefield
- Ranthambore project
