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Shruti Dandekar
Product Design (PG)
 Internship -
Design Directions Pvt. Ltd (duration 1 ½ months)

Diploma Project (Pursuing)

Forbes Marshall, Pune

Educational qualification-
Shruti D Dandekar B.E. (Electrical), PVG’s COET, Pune with higher second class (2006)

Post graduate student Product design projects -

(Product Design) Design for Special Needs - An Aid for Cerebral Palsy children.
Green Design- Reusing gunny bags for wine bottle bag.
Email- System Design- Garbage management for Pune city.
Shru.dan@gmail.com Packaging Design Project - Shevai packaging.
Simple Design Project - cooking oil dispensation
Contact No.- Display and Control Design- Sony Hi-Fi Music system.
+91 9822337676
020 24224426 Software knowledge -
Rhinoceros 4.0, Adobe photoshop, Solidworks 2006 (learning).

Areas of interest -
Consumer products, toy design, ecofriendly products.

Core skills -
Sketching, brainstorming, user survey & analysis, concept generation.

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 Design for special needs

Nature & forms

Green Design

System Design Analytical drawing

Packaging product design Colour
Technically Complex Design Product rendering
Simple product design Material explorations
Basic form studies
Design process Photography
Advanced form studies

Design projects | Representation Skills | Form Studies

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 Observation & Studying Cerebral Palsy Children MDF Model for Lego Blocks

Need- To design a device which will help in improving their motor skills
(hand & eye co-ordination, smooth control on hand movements, pick up & release control).

Lego Block Concept for Day to

Day Objects

2D Puzzle

Design for special needs | An aid to improve motor skills of Cerebral Palsy Children

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 Study Topic Motif Cubicle for Telemedicine office

Study of various parts Available eye capsules & changed form, packaging

•To study element in nature as geometry, structures, growth patterns,

textures & patterns.

•To understand relationship between form & function & develop into
Nature & forms | Purple Milkweed | 3D form – relevant product.

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Nature & forms | Purple Milkweed | Nature and Forms- Textures & Patterns

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 Wine- special gift!! Jute bags from market Mockup models for wine bottle bags

Final concept with Brand window Easy opening for bottle taking out Reusing for water bottle carry case

Green Design| Reusing gunny bags for packaging bag of Wine bottles

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 Actual Scenario in the City
System Design | Pune city’s Garbage Management
Design projects
PMC, NGO & Ragpickers’ Issues
• Decentralization of garbage collection & disposal
• System solution for building having 4 or more floors
• Centralized garbage chutes in the ducts for wet waste
• Wet waste decomposition at the source level itself
• Dry waste collection only by Rag Pickers
• Star system for Apartments as well as for Rag pickers
System Model
Interaction
Inter relation
Interdependence
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 Available form & packaging Form & concept change Mock up Packaging

Final packaging

Fall Check Stackable packaging boxes

Design process | Product packaging design | Shevai packaging|

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 Actual Bicycle Frame Form Changed Mock up Models

Final Frame (Rhino V –Ray Rendering) Final Frame (Rhino V –Ray Rendering)

Design process | Technically Complex Project| Appropriate Energy Conversion by Bicycle Frame

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 Spoon is used mostly for cooking oil dispensation but oil
dripping from the bottom part cant be controlled.

If the bottom is coated by nonstick material, being coeff. of

friction very less (0.1), oil will be dropped very fast.

Spoon with non stick Mock up models for better Trying a hand in Rhino Sketches to explain ergonomic grip
coating on the bottom grip software

We applied Design process principles in this

simple product design.

The project was an opportunity to design right

from the level of need identification till the
final prototype for the product.

Final concept being made with MDF & plastic In actual use!!!

Design process | Simple product Design | Cooking oil dispensation |

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 Confused Child (2 yrs old) Learning Stage (3-4 yrs)
Children Shoe Range

Similarity & symmetry principles used in shoe graphics

Solution for Left-Right confusion

Rainbow Smiley Kissing Tweeties

Design process | Ethnography of children – age group 2-5 | group project

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 Concept for medicine reminder

Need of medicine dispenser cum reminder for elderly people-

•Memory loss
•Difficulty in reading medicine names
Existing medicine
•Difficult to remember medicine schedule
containers
•Compulsory so boring procedure
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Advantages-
•To make the task easy
•To make them habitual about taking medicines on time
•To maintain their health in better condition
•To avoid dependency
•To reduce the stress & worries of their children, well wishers.
Rhino software- final concept
Concept features-
•Easier location & access of medicines because of the provided
slope in the compartment.
•More area to open the lid so to avoid the pinch grip.
•Centrally located alarm.
•Signage on the buttons.
•Black compartment - night time medicines
white compartment - day time medicines.
•Seven compartments for daily medicines
extra one for general medicines.
•Compact size & light in weight .
•Operation with either hand is possible.

Design process | Ergonomics | Think elderly – Medicine dispenser cum reminder | group project

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 Cut 2D forms stuck on paper relating form & space Radii manipulation of 2D forms & their 3D conversion

3D forms in Rhino software

One 2D form is selected and arranged in different manner to understand

form-space & their relationship. Also we put emotions into form
arrangements.

•To develop the importance of forms in space & their

Basic form study | 2D & 3D forms | structure, aesthetics.

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 3D Form Integration with Radii 2D Form Form Transformation
Manipulation Integration

3D Form Transformation

Form studies | 2D & 2D form transition | Sketching | MDF, PVC sheet , Thermocol

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 •To learn the most effective tool of communication & expression
Sketching | free hand sketching using pencil | •To improve line quality, hand skills, speed & control

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Analytical drawing | Perspective & Isometry |
Generating 3D volumes using grid technique of isometry
•To improve thinking process from imaginary things to realistic
objects.
•To help observation- conceptualization- visualization of design
concepts .

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 •To develop the sense of composition, perception & ideation.

Colour | Water colour & poster colours | •To understand the colour as a expressing & interacting medium .
Representation Skills
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 • Introduction to the village for study & observation.
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• To understand India’s history, culture, society & science in
connection to modern life.
Inter design studies | Village life |

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Product Renderings | with images/objects as reference | Medium- Colour pencils & dry pestles
Representation Skills
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Product Renderings | with images/objects as reference | Medium- Colour pencils & dry pestles
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 Exploration of paper- distortion of cube where I tried for maximum
volumetric expansion & elongation.

With corrugated sheets, sitting device is designed.

With using mount board & paper mache’ , 3D mask is created.

Wood turning on lathe & making wood flexible.

•To develop understanding of tools, equipment & machinery and

their limitations, besides, the basic principles of manufacturing
processes and their applications.
•To understand the basic technological and structural aspect of
Material explorations | Paper | Wood | development of 3D artifacts.

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 Scaled up model Actual product

Model selected to be made

Iron jack planar in Scale : 1.5 : 1

Material used
Wood, MDF, Aluminum sheet

Process-
•Selection of the product
•Measurements & technical hand drawings and
CAD drawings
• Followed by model making in workshop
•Finishing by painting with suitable shades

Learning-
•Precision & accuracy
•Detailing
•Experience in scaled models
•Materials & processes
•Working with combination of materials
•Different material exploration
•Painting of the product
Product model making | scaled up model of the product|

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Basic photography | Olympus digital camera FE200 | Locations- Pune and Himalayan valley

Representation Skills
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