CAROUSEL: packaging
duration: 10 days
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The company Carousel was founded in 2013, the idea behind Carousel was simple; to create a beautiful space in the form of an art cafe with cozy interiors, warm lights, freshly brewed coffee and happy people. A place where pretty home decor products would come to life.
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Carousel had just partnered with its first retail outlet-partner , Qirq Station, to start selling their products. They were looking for an effective packaging solution that would be budget friendly, stand out and could quickly be brought into production.
CAROUSEL: packaging
duration: 10 days
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The company Carousel was founded in 2013, the idea behind Carousel was simple; to create a beautiful space in the form of an art cafe with cozy interiors, warm lights, freshly brewed coffee and happy people. A place where pretty home decor products would come to life.
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Carousel had just partnered with its first retail outlet-partner , Qirq Station, to start selling their products. They were looking for an effective packaging solution that would be budget friendly, stand out and could quickly be brought into production.
Time And BodyMind Bender: Illustration
Duration: 10 days
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In collaboration with the masters students of Illinois Institute of Technology (Foundation Design) we worked on a conceptual research project that needed to be illustrated and visualised.
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The role required to understand the research requirements and points to be highlighted and showcased.
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This project imagines a future world where the capitalist-ableist culture absorbed by its desire towards control, precision, and productivity develops hyper precise bionic timekeeping aids that reshape all life form. ‘Timebends’ are manifested by bodymind benders called Zingibers, providing rebel Pico-oids shelter from the oppressive regime of time.
Crip time (n)
“Crip Time requires reimagining our notions
of what can and should happen in time, or
recognizing how expectations of ‘how long
things take’ are based on very particular minds
and bodies...Rather than bend disabled
bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time
bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and
minds.”
—Alison Kafer, ‘Feminist, Queer, Crip’
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Crip time (v)
“Disability and illness have the power to
extract us from linear, progressive time
with its normative life stages and cast us
into a wormhole of backward and forward
acceleration, jerky stops and starts, tedious
intervals and abrupt endings.”
—Ellen Samuels, ‘Six Ways of Looking at
Crip Time’
Food for thought
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What are the common assumptions about time and timekeeping that are enforced on us in our daily lives?
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How might we crip time in our day to day life? Or is that an effort in futility?
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How do clocks and other tools change perception of time?
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What relation does speed have to time?
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What relation does space, place and culture have to time?
