The Bus conductor - A innovative solution

Many of us travel in bus, but how many times we see the pain of the bus conductor. Collecting money in a crowded Indian city bus is tiring. Mr. Murli from Bangalore, had traveled in BMTC buses. He got his own opinion about the discomfort of BMTC bus conductors. He had also propose one possible solution. Please have a look.. comments are encouraged.

Design of Newspaper

In Ancient Rome, Acta Diurna, or government announcement bulletins, were made public by Julius Caesar. They were carved on stone or metal and posted in public places.

In China, early government-produced news sheets, called Tipao, circulated among court officials during the late Han dynasty (second and third centuries AD). Between 713 and 734, the Kaiyuan Za Bao ("Bulletin of the Court") of the Chinese Tang Dynasty published government news; it was handwritten on silk and read by government officials. In 1582 there was the first reference to privately published newssheets in Beijing, during the late Ming Dynasty. [Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper]

In 1556, the government of Venice first published the monthly Notizie scritte, which cost one gazetta. These avvisi were handwritten newsletters used to convey political, military, and economic news quickly and efficiently throughout Europe, and more specifically Italy, during the early modern era (1500-1700CE) — sharing some characteristics of newspapers though usually not considered as fully being ones.

The printing press, invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1447, ushered in the era of the modern newspaper. Manuscript newssheets were being circulated in German cities by the late 15th century. In the first half of the 17th century, newspapers began to appear as regular and frequent publications. The first modern newspapers were products of Western European countries like Germany (publishing Relation in 1605), France (Gazette in 1631), Belgium (Nieuwe Tijdingen in 1616) and England (the London Gazette, founded in 1665, is still published as a court journal). These periodicals consisted mainly of news items from Europe, and occasionally included information from America or Asia. [Ref: http://www.dayafterindia.com/may206/media.html]

The technological revolution of today is creating new challenges and opportunities for newspaper. Never before has so much information been so accessible to so many. Soon newspapers adapted to radio and television (TV). But TV’s omnipresence did not render the newspaper obsolete.

The basic advantages of news paper over radio and television is “it doesn’t run on electricity”. It’s portable, foldable and readable. Here is a futuristic design of modern news paper which will enhance the usability and readability of News through Paper medium.

Design: Mr. Arjun (M S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies)

Guide: Asst. Prof. Manas Mishra

Visualization using Catia : Contest

Visualization Contest Winner :

We have here 2009 Design Visualization winner and other entries

Packaging Design Platinum Pentaward 2008

Platinum OTHER MARKETS is awarded to Aekyung of Seoul for the Spark laundry detergent box. In the shape of a washing machine, this box speaks a universal language.
No need for further explanation to the consumer. He instantly understands the type of product and its use and furthermore he can see how much product is left in the box, making re-purchase easier. This package is multi-use as it can be filled again with a refill.
Best of the Category: Other markets
Brand: Spark
Entrant: Aekyung
Country: Korea
Website: http://www.aekyung.co.kr

Vegetable Cart Design

Vegetable delivery today is such a mundane and tedious task. Our project is aimed at creating a social impact and we have chosen “vegetable delivery using carts” as our scenario.Vendors face hordes of problems ranging from pushing the cart to keeping the vegetables fresh. Our endeavor is to take into consideration all these problems and solve most of these, if not all. In effect, we wish the vendors to have an enjoyable experience.

“Extreme” is a term often applied to product forms that stand outside the ones usually associated with other products of the same or of similar types. A designer may use form deliberately in order to make an ‘extreme’ statement- as with Starck’s juicer- but sometimes, however, a product that says on the market unchanged while the style of the rest of the product on the market moves on an extreme almost default.

Redesigning of vegetable cart is done by following the systematic way. First user study was done from users by directly approaching them in their working environment and absorbing their usage of existing vegetable carts, snaps were taken and problem they are facing in using carts are absorbed. Next to that direct interaction with user is done and more questions were asked to them and problem in existing usage of cart is listed. Problems which we got through customers are changed in to technical voice. By using QFD chart we gave priority to the features that has to be incorporated and using that product specification chart is prepared, in this chart specification of the features are made and keeping those specification in mind concept generation is made and final concept is selected using PUGH’s method. Detailing of final concept is done using software and final mock-up was done by fabrication process.

This project has been carried out in M S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies as a student group project.

Co-ordinator: Asst. Prof. Manas Mishra
Students: Chiranjeevi D.V, Murali K, Akhil R.C, Prareesh M.C, Pradeep Kumar N, Kiran M, Yathish Kumar

Apogee Chair

Image Ref.: http://www.wix.com/apogee/apogee

Apogee Chair - an incredible piece of work by an Israeli designer Miran Nudell.
A mark over the conventional chair, Apogee Chair developed in pine wood with polyurethane rubber at the link points maximizes flexibility of the chair and hence user comfort. As users generally don’t sit in one particular posture in a chair for long periods of time and move about a lot, the chair too assists in their movement.

For more details, visit: http://www.wix.com/apogee/apogee

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Canon 10D DSLR v2

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