Interaction & Experience Design
InfoTrax® FlexCloud Developer Portal
Involved in research and design of InfoTrax’s new FlexCloud platform, which is Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) software that helps customers to manage and dispatch commissions for their direct sales. Winner of Muse Creative Awards 2021 (Gold, Silver), Vega Design Awards 2021 (Centauri)
Members: Suryansh Srivastava, Akshay Katkade, Sourav Mukherjee, Kadambari Sahu
Project ‘Expo’-Ring
Multi-touch based interactive prototype for on-site, modular light installation designed for collaborative interaction and data collection in physical exhibition spaces.
Team members: Sarwesh Shah, Srinivas Harivanam
Sponsor: Pavilions & Interiors Pvt. Ltd.
Mute Art Collective
Series of animations, generative art and motion graphic videos composed daily. Independent work inspired from works of other designers, artists and tutorials from Daniel Shiffman’s Coding Train.
Platform: p5.js, Processing, OpenFrameworks
Project ‘Haze’
An ephemeral work that changes in appearance according to the qualities of the sunlight and the wind, the site-specific installation produces a continual outpouring of swirling mist that dissolves the boundaries and outlines of the objects it encounters.
Mentors: Dr Jignesh Khakhar, Suvani Suri
Trails of Yakshagana
Solo digital art project commissioned by BIAL (Bangalore International Airport Limited) Art Programme themed around Navarasa. Artwork to be installed at arrival corridor of T2, Kempegowda International Airport.
Team Members: Sarwesh Shah
Gait Analysis: Tutored identification
Gait identification as a sub-project under 'Gestures'. Follow the github page to know the latest changes in the program.
Mentor: Jignesh Khakhar, Suvani Suri
Platform: OpenCV, Python
Fabric of Truth
Interactive installation based on projection mapping and Kinect depth sensing. Gesture triggered animations. The installations questions the notion of truth both in its ultimate as well as contemporary form.
Members:
Sarwesh Shah, Bhargav Padiyar
Project Aurora
A low-budget ongoing series of immersive video projections. The project explores the dynamics of water as a screen, its interaction with projected light and peoples activities around it.
Exhibited as an iteration of Design Project III.
Mentors: Dr Jignesh Khakhar, Suvani Suri
Academic Research and Ideation
Narratives of a Place - Bridging the Future + Past
As part of the International Open Elective, developed a fictional crime narrative based on found objects collected near Nehru Bridge in Ahmedabad.
Mentors: Prof Michael Longford, Prof David Gelb
Team: Prabhat Raju, Tejas Dhamne, Shrineh Namdeo, Sarwesh Shah
Kinetic Sculpture: Week 1
Course overview and explorations in Week 1 of module Kinetic Sculpture
Mentor: Prof Ranjit Konkar
Team: Sarwesh Shah, Shafali Jain
Pacman-modified
3 hours of programming led to the following game. Basic movements, game objects creation and destroy, integration of sound, etc acheived.
Mentor: Nandeep Mali, Jignesh Khakhar
Platform: Processing
Kinetic Sculpture: Week 2
Course exploration of second week of Kinetic Sculpture. Replication of Anne-Lily's Conductor-Composer.
Mentor: Prof Ranjit Konkar, Vivekananda sir
Team: Sarwesh Shah, Shafali Jain
Camera, Motion and Code: Explorations
Interactive explorations that leverage the power of camera and P5.js library to mimic the style of post-Impressionist and Futurist painting in canvas. Currently based on the work on Giacomo Balla.
Platform: Processing, p5.js
Rube Goldberg Mechanism
A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately complex contraption in which a series of devices that perform simple tasks are linked together to produce a domino effect in which activating one device triggers the next device in the sequence.
Medium: Paper
Kinetic Sculpture: Idea generation and readings
Readings and idea generation process of Kinetic Sculpture. Explored concepts behind motion blur, futurism, fragmentation and zoetrope. Finally made some programming interfaces.
Mentor: Dr Jignesh Khakhar, Vivekananda sir
Special Thanks: Prof Rishi Singhal, Rohitash Singh
Projection Mapping Workshop
2 day workshop in the basic of Projection Mapping and subsequent explorations with Adobe After Effects and Illustrator.
Project partners: Raonak Lakra, Adithya Devaramane
Mentor: Bhargav Padiyar
2-wheeler parking in NID Gandhinagar campus
1st semester course, involved learning of formal design process from observation to ideation. Mentored by Juhi Pandey.
Project partners: Ananya Biswas, Suminder Singh, Raonak Lakra, Ashish Dubey, Sarwesh Shah, Suruchi Soren
Minor experiments and explorations
BITSian Life: A photography project
Campus life at BITS Pilani is different from other Indian colleges. This project tried at capture the various moods I experienced here in a duration of 4 years.
Project partner:
Vishal Chundawat
3D Printing: Cuboidal Chess piece
First hand interaction with Autodesk Fusion 360, Print Studio. Modelled chess pieces with a self-constraint of putting no curves. Hope you like it!
Software:
Autodesk Fusion 360, Print Studio
Some sketches made by me in my new notebook. These are drawing which I have made after a gap of nearly 6 years from sketching.
Medium:
Black 2B leads, color pencils
Childhood Sketches
Some of my favorite pencil sketches of childhood when I took drawing classes.
Medium:
Black 4B lead pencils, A4/A3 paper
Camera vs Pencil, the Duality project
As a part of my college's cultural fest, Oasis, these photos were presented along with others in the photography club exhibition.
Credits:
Illustration: Rohit Pamnani
Editing: Shwetabh Sameer, Prabhat Gupta
Ethnography: Field Sketches 1.0
Sketches made on the field while interacting with a local group of Muslim labours over a duration of 10 days. The sketches are of the members, their workshop and their relatives who visit them regularly.
Medium:
Paper, black pen
V for Vendetta - Pencil sketch
One of my favourite movie character from the intensely engaging movie, V for Vendetta. The dialogues and plot of movie make it a remarkable movie to add to your watchlist.
Medium:
Black 2B leads, color pencils
Ink drip effect
Inspired by the sketching of Kerby Rosanes, i tried to make the illustration of Deadpool on my Moleskine.
Medium:
Pencil colours and black marker pen.
Kinetic sculpture: Explorations
Line drawing made to depict motion and forms via lines for first semester Kinetic sculpture project.
Medium:
Black paper, white ink
Project ‘Bhukhasur’
Week long anti food-waste marketing campaign run in the NID campus as a part of course SLA III.
Project partners: Nitin Sharma, Parth Dhond, Raonak Lakra, Ananya Biswas, Sarwesh Shah