Ravishankar Design

  I just figured, Stakeholders as commonly used term vs holders of stake when used, can sound very different ! For a designer, when you are designing in or a system, you are looking at and conscious of the interfaces of the system enabling by design for every participant in adding value to the performance of the system, therefore Valueholders, the rewards are though stakes by default or incidental, that’s not the preoccupation of a designer, like Rao says, designers are Value creators. Ravi | from Notepad | Nov 2024

Your task and responsibility is creating and training young design minds who are, sensitive, passionate, subjective & objective, free thinking, lateral in thought, yet middle path in approach of meaningfulness, contextual awareness in time space & surroundings, concern towards needs and action, make easy the things, comfortable in complexity and ambiguity, see the whole and parts, examine & capture, highly skilled, draw & sketch, make & demonstrate, conceive ideas, conceptualisers & visualisers in any media of expression, who take creative leaps & challenge, romance with beauty & form,…. By Design. This is your challenge and work towards realising such Products of Design Professionals for more informed and sustainable futures and not chase the default futures!     Ravishankar VS | Notepad | 14 Nov 2024  

Work of of Shubi, Sourabh & Vasudev, MDes Univeral Design 2016 Batch, National Institute of Design Bangalore, of the course titled UD Thinking taken by VS Ravishankar.  

Why cant product forms be a little off, this way! Why must they be perfect archetypically so! I like this Offness. Maker of this Akshay, Designer at NIDJ said it was lack of skill to manage a square in the proto, I said to him, no, its that tweak to the square that make it interesting...:) I have been thinking lately on this preoccupation of designers for perfection in achieving a set familiar geometry and proportions in products and forms. Being a 'little' Experimental, Exaggerating, Expressive, with a freewillness in Sculpting a form will make the Studio more exciting I feel and make the product loved for its not so perfectness. Tweak, its going to Fun:)

Car horns should be of multiple character/ sound note/ response specific depending on the context and space while driving. When in traffic, the horn to play only inside the car/s which are in front and others around need not hear. When there are elderly around walking or crossing or  a person on cycle going to work or a push cart daily earner negotiating traffic in front  it may play notes which are different/suitable. It’s not dignified  then to honk in usual manner and therefore the sound notes need to be designed such. If there are kids halter-skelter, horn character such, be designed.

It is a common sight in upcountry and the urban waysides one finds artefacts constructed by someone… in use. It’s fascinating to see the simplicity of thought, purpose of use and the ingenuity of putting together materials or parts in a creative noviceness. Pure Joy for the designer in me. This object I found off the highway in Kaziranga which I call a humble construct to sit on. Its form, proportion, use of material and sizing and the engineering of structure is a language of design in itself, not to be critiqued in an academic way but appreciated for the spontaneity towards purpose in the unknown designer’s intrinsic aesthetic sensibilities and sense of pride :) Write up was published in the blog From the Frugal to the Ornate, of the book, Stories of the Seats of India by Sarita Sundar

                                                                                                                                              Sketch by: Soumitro Datta Yes I am a digital version of the machine. You give me intelligence which you believe is intelligence and I shall be and behave the same which I have been doing past decade. Now it’s time I know as to who decides my intelligence setting and for what purpose; having set that, who decides my requirement for a purpose which seems Any!! Whoever it is, Do not abuse or misuse me. I desire and seek responsible m...